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Helen Seiver, What are we doing/ Where are we going? Installation, 2021
Dwelling Rituals
ABOUT
As part of the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA 2021 -https://indianoceancrafttriennial.com), Dwelling Rituals focuses on home and the significance of the everyday. Small gestures, repeated actions, daily habits, the materials and objects of home each hold meanings significant to our being in the world. The artists explore the repetitiveness of housework for the sake of harmony; meditate on the dwelling rituals and traditions of past times; on the connection between home and the natural environment and how the home is affected by threats to its environment. Dwelling Rituals presents artworks from artists across the Southwest, Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions of Western Australia.
ARTISTS
Christine Gregory, Elisa Markes-Young, Helen Seiver, Tania Spencer, Cecile Williams
DATES
26th September, 2021 - 23rd January, 2022
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
Gallery Hours: 10.00am-5.00pm daily
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
Dwelling Rituals exhibition views, work by Elisa Markes-Young (top) Helen Seiver (bottom left) and Cecile Williams (bottom right).
Upcoming Exhibitions
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Anna Nazzari, Startled, 2021, photo Michelle Becker
Strangers on the Shore
ABOUT
As part of Perth Festival 2022, Strangers on the Shore responds to early cross cultural encounters on the Western Australian coastline between First Nations peoples and Macassan and Chinese traders and European shipwreck survivors. As a contemporary and historical exhibition, it brings together new works from established WA artists, in conversation with key works from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection and artefacts from the WA Maritime Museum archive.
The exhibition explores real/factual and imagined/fictional cross-cultural encounters and the making of myth and identity through coastal narratives of shipwreck, survival, coastal trade, social contact, indigenous knowledge of country and human endeavour.
ARTISTS
Kelsey Ashe and Sandra Harben, Johnny Bulun Bulun, Sandra Hill, Jo Darbyshire and Cherish Marrington, Laurel Nannup, Anna Nazzari, Lea Taylor and Michael Jalaru Torres.
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. Gooyaman | West Perth
OPEN: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
Michelle Lewis, Tjala Dreaming (Honey Ant), 2020
Collection Focus / Indigenous Art
Since the early 1980’s, Janet Holmes à Court has been an avid collector of the art of the First Nations people of Australia. That is, of artistic expression grounded in thousands of years of culture that resonates with the spirit of this country. Described as a “rich and sacred resource” the quality and number of indigenous Australian artworks in the Janet Holmes à Court collection is simply breathtaking.
Collection Focus : Indigenous Art marks the first of a series of annual exhibitions focusing on specific aspects of the Janet Holmes à Court Collection. This year’s focus is indigenous art acquired over the last five years, representing seven language groups and sixteen indigenous artists. The works are derived from such regions as the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (aka APY), Martu, Kimberley, Roebourne, Warburton, Irruntju and Yuendumu lands. The exhibition attests to an ongoing and wide-spanning interest in indigenous art as the pre-eminent contemporary art of Australia.
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
Gallery Hours: 10.00am-5.00pm daily
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
Events
Echoes and Songs is a collection of musical fragments by Perth-born composer, John Pax, who is nearing the end of his PhD in composition at Harvard University.
These fragments have been woven together into a single performance, where they effortlessly arise and dissolve like clouds drifting across a night sky.
Performed by some of Perth's finest musicians, this is a rare invitation into an interior world which is dark, vulnerable and gripping.
This performance will last approximately 50 minutes.
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. Gooyaman | West Perth
Other News
- Duets -
Held on Friday 10th December, DUETS was a fantastic evening of sumptuous music, delicious food and wine, accompanied by spectacular indigenous art from seven different communities. This event is the beginning of more to come at the Holmes à Court Gallery, stay tuned.
Acquisitions
Clare McFarlane, Shuddering Echo I and II, 2013-14
These works were acquired from the Gotham Gets Pickled exhibition. They feature Australian ringneck parrots in a state of permanent repose, against a classic William Morris patterned background. They demonstrate an approach to painting Clare McFarlane has championed for many years, combining an interest in decorative patterning, with Australian flora and fauna.
Other News
Exhibition and Event Space Available
The Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10 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
