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Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10
Trevor Richards, Ground Plane, 2019
Concrete E X P A N D E D
This is the final week of Concrete E X P A N D E D. We are delighted to showcase a new addition to the exhibition and the Gallery, Ground Plane by Trevor Richards. (pictured above). Concrete E X P A N D E D harmonises with the architectural features of the gallery with works celebrating minimal abstraction. Classic abstract paintings are combined with light sculptures, acrylic works and concrete sculptures.
The exhibition is also viewable on our dedicated website:
Consuelo Cavaniglia, Jennifer Cochrane, Janenne Eaton, Robert Hunter, Brian McKay, Trevor Richards, Douglas Sheerer, Helen Smith, Trevor Vickers, Joshua Webb
DATES:
3rd July - 29th August 2020
Exhibition Closing
6 - 8pm | Friday 28th August 2020
RSVP Essential.Numbers attending are limited to 150 people because we remain in Stage 4 of Covid 19 response.
RSVP via Eventbrite early to avoid disappointment:
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. West Perth
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat, 11.00am-5.00pm
Joshua Webb, Altar 10, 2020
Marjorie Coleman | Lyrical Stitch
Marjorie Coleman, Leaf Litter, 2002
This major solo exhibition spans five decades to celebrate the creative life and prolific stitched art work of Western Australian artist Marjorie Coleman.
Stitching on cloth gives voice to Marjorie’s stories. Using contemporary stitch as an expressive medium Marjorie produces rich evocative pieces to represent her ideas and experiences, to tell a story of ongoing exploration, and concern for her local surroundings. She takes pleasure from working with cloth, drawing on a lifetime of intimate knowledge, to stitch for her own enlightenment. This exhibition marks the culmination of a series of exhibitions celebrating fibre, textile and stitched art.
DATES:
17th October - 28th November 2020
Exhibition Opening
6 - 8pm | Friday 16th October 2020
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Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. West Perth
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat, 11.00am-5.00pm
Melanie Maclou, Reminiscent Topography 183 (detail), 2020, photography Bo Wong
WAFTA 2020 Members’ Exhibition
The 2020 Members exhibition is a significant and ground breaking exhibition for the organisation. The decision to proceed through the Covid 19 epidemic was considered in depth. When choosing a title for the 2020 exhibition back in 2019, three main issues came to the fore as things that have gained importance ever since. These were: mental health; sustainability/the environment and; women’s work. The title, Hanging by a Thread, encompassed all of these and by continuing with the exhibition it allowed members to creatively record their experiences and respond to the time of lock down and isolation. The history of women’s crafts has been one of using textiles to record major events, for example the suffragette hankies and the early Union movement banners. Hanging by a Thread can be seen as a continuation of this history. Members have responded with such a wide range of diverse materials and techniques that this exhibition is shaping up to be a very memorable one with over 170 works included.
DATES:
17th - 27th September 2020
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10
Douglas St. West Perth
Exhibition enquires can be directed to Pauline White: exhibitions@wafta.com.au | ph.0438 903 893
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Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. West Perth
Open daily for this exhibition: 11.00am-5.00pm
Kate Weedon Jones, Ebb and Flow, 2020 (photographer Dan McCabe) and Annette Davis, A Moment in the Murchison, 2020 (photographer Annette Davis)
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
FIBREdown south is in its final month. There are four weeks left to enjoy the diverse artistic excellence of fibre and textile works in the beautiful surrounds of Margaret River.
FIBREpresents stitched, threaded, strung, rubbed, ripped, folded and pressed Fibre art. From silky and delicate, to course and robust, the works speak of material manipulation and ritualistic gestures of repetitive stitching and rubbing. Everyday clothing is cut, re-stitched and sculpted anew; forms of nature are enveloped in felt and fabric; human hair is shaped and strung together; paper is stitched into and; native flora and fauna are pictured and sculpted of, with and on fibres.
Coming out of a time of social isolation, this exhibition is about intimacy; it compels the sense of touch. It also invites us to consider the intricately crafted qualities of the natural world around us and the cultural significance of fibre and textiles as contemporary art.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Lindsay Mpetyane Bird, Tingapa Davies, Mark Dustin, Olga Cironis, Marjorie Coleman, Sujora Conrad, Carmela Corvaia, Angela Ferolla, Jean Hoijo, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Holly Story, Lesley Parker, John Parkes, Susan Roux, Nalda Searles, Helen Seiver, Curtis Taylor, Debra West
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA. Gallery Hours: 10.00am-5.00pm
Vasse Felix Cellar Door - Open for seated tastings 10am–5pm, daily. Bookings visit www.vassefelix.com.au or phone 9756 5000
Vasse Felix Restaurant - Open for lunch service, 12pm–3pm, Thursday–Monday (inclusive). Bookings visit www.vassefelix.com.au or phone 9756 5000
Susan Roux, Ink, 2018 (detail)
Ross Potter, History Raising, 2020 (work in progress)
Tracing the Swan follows the story of the settlement of the Swan River Colony with the swan as the central character in artworks about race, difference and the unexpected.
In a play between fiction and reality, the black swan is traced throughout the history of the colonisation of Western Australia up to the present day. From historical to contemporary artworks, the exhibition explores how WA was presented to potential settlers, how its landscape was impacted and has changed over time and how the swan stands as emblem of WA against this tide of changes in its real environment.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Deborah Bonar, Portia Bennett, Lance Tjyllyungoo Chadd, Frederick Clause, Jo Darbyshire, Valentine Delawarr, Eva Fernandez, Norman Hawkins, W.J. Huggins, Tony Jones, Johannes Keulemans, Yvonne Kickett, Bethamy Linton, Walter Meston, Alan Muller, Ron Nyistzor, Ross Potter, John Sands, Robert Seymour, Ernest Stocks, John Tallis, Rover Thomas, Charles Wittenoom.
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA. Gallery Hours: 10.00am-5.00pm
Vasse Felix Cellar Door - Open for seated tastings 10am–5pm, daily. Bookings visit www.vassefelix.com.au or phone 9756 5000
Vasse Felix Restaurant - Open for lunch service, 12p –3pm, Thursday–Monday (inclusive). Bookings visit www.vassefelix.com.au or phone 9756 5000
Artist in Residence
Sujora Conrad
Artist in Residence
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix 9th - 20th September 2020
In conjunction with the FIBRE exhibition, Western Australian artist Sujora Conrad will be our Artist in Residence at the Holmes à Court Gallery At Vasse Felix. Sujora will be working in the gallery space and the residency will culminate in an informal show-and-tell during the closing of the exhibition on Sunday 20th September at 11am. Sujora crafts intimate and poignant art works, closely working with natural materials, fibres and textiles.
Sujora Conrad, Not Cut and Dried (black), 2019 (detail)
Other News
Curtis Taylor, Scars, 2019 (detail)
This large scale painting by Perth based Martu artist Curtis Taylor is a significant recent addition to existing works by Taylor in the Janet Holmes à Court Collection. Taylor is an award winning Martu artist who works across installation, sculpture, painting and film. This work could equally refer to the scars on a body or cut into the land; the fiery red pierces through a matte charcoal background as a strong symbolic statement.
Julie Renita Woods, Minyma Kutjara - Special Story for Irrunytju, 2020
This recently acquired, expansive work by Julie Renita Woods pictures a story of two sisters on a difficult journey through Irruntju (Wingellina) - her mother’s country. The two women story is one of the most important women’s creation stories of the Western and Southern deserts and a special story for Irrunytju.
Exhibition and Event Space Available
The Holmes à Court Gallery is available for hire for bespoke events and exhibitions. On a monthly basis we assess applications.
If you have an exciting and ambitious project, we have a space. Get in touch with Exhibitions Manager Laetitia Wilson: Laetitia.Wilson@heytesbury.com.au
