December This newsletter features the monthly events happening at the Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix and the Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Current Exhibition
Eva Fernandez, Raven Couple, 2018
enigmas of the outback
This exhibition presents similar responses to and perceptions of the Australian outback as an enigmatic, mysterious, spirited and haunted terrain. It explores the dark undercurrents that inform mythologies of the Australian landscape across contemporary indigenous and non-indigenous art works. The selection of photographic, paint and sculptural works reflect upon the way the outback triggers the imagination in unsettling ways. As a journey through spiritual and mythological stories of the land, it is at once darkly evocative and psychologically compelling.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Brook Andrew, Jane Burton, Rebecca Dagnall, Eva Fernandez, David Downs Jarinyanu, Nigel Hewitt, Janet Laurence, Rosslynd Piggott, Polixeni Papapetrou, Brad Rimmer, Jacqui Stockdale, Monique Tippet, Paul Uhlmann, Paddy Fordham Wainburranga, Toni Wilkinson.
DATES:
29th September 2019 - 9th February 2020
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
Gallery Hours: 10.00am - 5.00pm Daily
This darkly brooding raven captured by local photographer Toni Wilkinson (Wardong - the Watcher, 2019) is one of the few works for sale in enigmas of the outback. The price list of works for sale is available HERE
Upcoming Exhibition
FIBRE is an unwrapping, unrolling and unfolding of fibre and textile artworks from the Janet Holmes à Court collection together with works from local artists.
FIBRE features stitched, threaded, strung, rubbed, ripped, folded and pressed fibre textile art. From luminous to opaque, delicate to robust, the works speak of processes of material manipulation. They present ritualistic gestures of folding and the repetition of stitching, rubbing and patterning. The natural world is a deep source of inspiration and its richness and fragility is conveyed alongside ideas about mortality, intimacy and cultural belonging.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Lindsay Mpetyane Bird, Tingapa Davies, Mark Dustin, Olga Cironis,
Marjorie Coleman, Sujora Conrad, Carmela Corvaia, Angela Ferolla, Anisa Hirte, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Eveline Kotai, Holly Story, Kate Thompson, Anne Walmsley, Lesley Parker, John Parkes, Sue Poggioli, Susan Roux, Nalda Searles, Helen Seiver, Curtis Taylor, Debra West
DATES:
Summer Exhibition: 1st February – 14th March 2020
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. West Perth
OPEN 11.00am - 5.00pm, Tuesday to Saturday
Other News
Trevor Richards stands in front of his newly painted wall which echoes the saw tooth design of the semi-industrial West Perth precinct and adds a welcome splash of colour to the streetscape.
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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST OPEN AND WELCOME
Odd Roads to be Walking is a significant book featuring 156 women who shaped Australian art, including Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Two of Kngwarreye's art works from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection are featured in this book, one of which is the work below, Alhalkere Country, 1990. For more information on this book see: https://shop.nationaltrust.org.au/products/odd-roads-to-be-walking-156-women-who-shaped-australian-art
New Acquisition
Jane Martin, Balingup Forest Verandah, 2009 (detail)
This expansive oil painting of a sweeping veranda opening up to dense and luminous Balingup forest was recently purchased by the Janet Holmes à Court Collection as the first acquisition of an artwork by accomplished local painter Jane Martin.
Exhibition Space Available!!
Check out this amazing space! Our 2020 program is rapidly filling up but there are still a few spaces left and we are currently taking proposals for exhibitions and events.
If you are interested contact Exhibitions Manager Laetitia Wilson: Laetitia.Wilson@heytesbury.com.au
