Holmes à Court Gallery

Poetry Reading | Ghosts of the Wheatbelt
2025-03-22 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Perth) | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
This event will feature the reading of a series of poems against the backdrop of the Drylands exhibition. The poems have been written in response to Ghosts of the Wheatbelt, a ghostly art installation featuring knitted wire trees by contemporary WA artist Tania Spencer. This installation has inspired the publication of a book of poems by Tania Spencer and the Poets @ The Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre. This book will be available for sale at the event.

Poems by: Norma Schwind, Amanda Spooner, Jennifer Catalano, Shelley Kissick, Maggie Van Putten.

To be read by: Maria Bonar, Kay Brand, William Reid, Michael Stevens, Mardi May, Rose van Sion, Shey Marque, Virginia O’Keefe.

light refreshments provided

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Image: Tania Spencer, Ghosts of the Wheatbelt, 2024-25, (detail)

Drylands Artist Talk #2
2025-03-01 14:00 - 15:30
Presented in association with Perth Festival, 2025

Join us to hear from Valdene Diprose and Molly Ryan. In an exciting collaboration these artists have used mycelium in the art making process.

This is an art project that builds on science, aesthetics, and lived experience. It celebrates fungi’s unique, often unseen, unrecognised presence and acknowledges its importance in the ongoing health of dryland environments.

Come along to find out more.

2pm | Saturday, 1 March 2025

refreshments provided

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Mandorla Art Award Artists Forum
2025-02-22 10:00 - 11:30
Join us for a stimulating conversation about Mandorla’s 2026 Art Award ThemeThis forum is aimed at anyone interested in entering thematic art awards and those curious about the 2026 Mandorla Theme. It is intended to think through artistic considerations behind creating an artwork for a thematic art award and to provide additional theological commentary on the 2026 theme. Our panelists will bring their diverse perspectives to discuss approaches to entering the next Mandorla Art Award.

What is Truth?“I was afraid, because I was naked: and I hid myself”–Genesis 3:10

Date: Saturday, 22 February 2025 | 10am (AWST)Location: Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10, Douglas St, Gooyaman West PerthOnline Streaming: Via Webinar RegistrationDuration: 1.5 hours (Including questions & discussion time)Tickets: $10

If you are joining us in person, tea and coffee will be provided at the gallery.

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Panelists:Dr Glenn Morrison – Associate Professor at Notre Dame University & published authorRoss Potter – 2024 Mandorla Finalist, Kamilaroi artist based in Walyalup FremantleDr Angela McCarthy – Mandorla Chair & TheologianErin Coates – Mandorla Curator & Selection Panel Facilitator

OPENING: Drift Woods | Elmari Steyn @ Vasse Felix
2025-01-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix, Cnr Tom Cullity Dr & Caves Rd, Cowaramup, WA, 6284, Australia
Drift Woods is a solo exhibition by Elmari Steyn featuring a considered selection of recent art works. Steyn’s unique-state etching prints take the viewer into a wandering, many-pathed narrative journey; into exquisitely detailed worlds of wonder, sadness and delight. Drawing on her background in Namibia, Steyn folds personal stories into the familiar subject matter of trees and boats, often pictured in unison. Trees and boats become places of mystery that compel the imagination. They hold memories and emotions. Tree houses and boat houses feature as evocative of the idea of home, as well as holding a sense of child-like wonder and playfulness. Throughout the works there is a frisson between transience and stasis, between putting down roots and taking to the skies or seas. Drift Woods, enables you to consider these states of stillness and movement as you enter and drift through entrancing realms of the imagination.

To be officially opened by JANET HOLMES à COURT AC

11.00 am | Sunday, 26 January 2025

Only light refreshments will be served during the formal opening in the Gallery.

To book for lunch separately, contact Vasse Felix : P. 9756 5050 or email restaurant@vassefelix.com.au

CANCELLED: Conversation with Richard Weller @ no.10
2024-12-07 11:00 - 12:00
**Due to unforseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.**

Join us for a scintillating conversation as Richard Weller delves into his recent series of paintings. These 48 artworks in The Human Condition were inspired by the role of the human in relation to the non-human in the sixth mass extinction. Each painting features an anima and provokes us to consider different situations and layered meanings connected to that animal.

11am | Saturday, 7 December 2024

light refreshments provided

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Image: Richard Weller, Owl, 2024

Conversation with Stuart Elliott @ no.10
2024-11-30 15:00 - 16:00
Gain unique insight into the art of Stuart Elliott as he discusses the meanings, theories, stories and ideas driving diasporae. This exhibition has evolved over the last two to five years and within it are contained many of the thoughts that have compelled Elliott throughout decades of art practice.

3-4pm | Saturday, 30 November 2024 @ no.10

light refreshments provided

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Image: Stuart Elliott, Boneyard AKA Endeavour, 2024

Cygnus Arioso // 40th Notes : Celebrating with Music, fundraising for Dreams
2024-11-10 15:30 - 18:00
Presented by Akiko Miyazawa

Akiko is turning 40!

For this special occasion, Akiko reflects on her life with music;

“Music, which has accompanied me ever since I started learning the violin at age 3. And the joyous world of chamber music, which has been my ever-present guide. So of course for my birthday I’m excited to tick off one more in my ongoing Beethoven String Quartet Project, details of which are outlined below. But I also want to celebrate how grateful I am for this life, for my parents who instilled this lifelong treasure, and for everything and everyone who has shaped who I am today. As you know, Cygnus Arioso is my outlet for this gratitude, my creation to pass this all on to the next generation. So by attending this concert, you’ll also be helping me fundraise for the Cygnus Arioso String Orchestra Summer Camp –it’s my no. 1 passion project and next year will be its fifth iteration. As you can imagine, putting together a large ensemble is an expensive and time-consuming project, so your attendance at this milestone event for me will be a great support.“

Date: Sunday, 10 November 2024

Time: 4pm – 6pm including interval with a complimentary glass of wine  (Doors open 3.30pm)

PRICE : $30 – $70 AUD + BF

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IOTA24 Exhibition Closing - Curator Panel
2024-10-19 11:00 - 12:00
Join Holmes à Court Gallery curator Laetitia Wilson, IOTA Co-curator and Co-founder Carola Akindele-Obe and artist and IOTA Co-founder Maggie Baxter as they discuss the coming together of IOTA24 and the theme of this year’s triennial – Codes in Parallel – within the exhibition on its final day.

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IMAGE: Maggie Baxter, Red-Act, 2024, courtesy and copyright of the artist

artist floor talk: Codes in Parallel // Sustain @ no.10
2024-08-24 14:00 - 16:00
Join the artists featured in Codes in Parallel // Sustain for a wandering floor talk through this dynamic exhibition of large-scale hanging textile artworks.

Find out more about their practice, techniques and the ideas driving their art.

Participating artists include: Maggie Baxter, Brinda Dudhat (Morii Design), Lisa Mori, Dias Prabu and Yim Yen Sum.

Where: Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10

refreshments provided

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Image: Yim Yen Sum, Threshold of Memoir, 2021, copyright of the artist

Cygnus Arioso Winter Gala 2024
2024-07-14 14:00 - 16:00
The Cygnus Arioso Winter Gala is a celebration of our extended musical family, bringing together our cherished musical collaborators for an afternoon of effervescent music-making. We hear two works of Mahler: first the Adagietto from his 5th symphony spotlighting harpist Will Nichols before we are joined by acclaimed mezzo-soprano Ashlyn Tymms for his sublime Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen. The Cygnus Arioso String Orchestra shines in an expanded version of Wolf’s Italian Serenade, before again adding harp for Schoenberg’s atmospheric and melodic Notturno. Bassist Oakley Paul stars alongside Cygnus Arioso director Akiko Miyazawa in Bottesini’s rollicking Gran Duo Concertante, and Boccherini’s 7th Cello Concerto showcases young sensation Isaac Davis. Perth-born trumpeter Fletcher Cox and WASO principal cor anglais Jonathan Ryan beguile in Copland’s Quiet City, before Fletcher reprises Lachlan Skipworth’s trumpet concerto Altiora Peto, promising an uplifting conclusion to this unmissable event.

Doors and Gallery Bar open 30 minutes prior to performancePerformance length approximately 120 minutes with interval

PRICE : $30 – $70 AUD + BF

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PROGRAM

Aaron Copland : Quiet City

Luigi Boccherini : Cello Concerto No. 7 in G Major, G. 480

Hugo Wolf : Italian Serenade in G Major WWXV/3

Arnold Schönberg : Notturno for Strings and Harp

= INTERVAL =

Giovanni Bottesini : Grand Duo Concertante for Violin and Double Bass

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, 4th Mov. Adagietto. Sehr langsam

Gustav Mahler : Rückert-Lieder ” Ich bin der Welt Abhanden gekommen”

Lachlan Skipworth : Trumpet Concerto “Altiora Peto”

Soloists

Ashlyn Tymms (Mezzo-Soprano)

Fletcher Cox (Trumpet)

Jonathan Ryan (Col Anglais)

Isaac Davis (Cello)

Oakley Paul (Double Bass)

Akiko Miyazawa (Violin)

CA Strings

Violin : Akiko Miyazawa, William Huxable, Karen Matoba, Yasmin Omran, Helena O’sullivan, Lisa Smith, Anika Collins

Viola : Erica Ketterer, Daniel Corvaia

Cello : Isaac Davis, Jeremy Garside, Miranda Murray-Yong

Double Bass : Oakley Paul, Jack Charles

ARTIST TALKS: Mandorla Art Award 2024
2024-06-15 13:30 - 15:00
Join us for an engaging series of free artist talks with some of our local Mandorla finalists. Facilitated by Erin Coates, these talks will give insights into the processes, techniques and ideas behind selected works in the 2024 Mandorla Art Award exhibition.

Sat, 1 June 2024 | 1:30-3pm : Olga Cironis, Sam Bloor, Tessa MacKay, Sarah Elson

Sat, 15 June 2024 | 1:30-3pm : Ross Potter, Camilla Loveridge, Sohan Ariel Hayes, Serena Parker

Tea & coffee provided. Please arrive at 1:15pm for a 1:30pm start.

Olga Cironis is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the murky undertones and impact that history and memory have on personal and shared identity. Her work is described as psychologically loaded with meaning, provoking and seducing the viewer to question our social and environmental connections. Olga’s artistic investigations are founded upon her Greek, Czech and Australian heritage. These aspects are used to engage people beyond the familiar.Sam Bloor’s background as a traditional signwriter informs his use of text provocations and large-scale public artworks. Blurring the line between his trade and artistic careers he intends to play with existing perceived notions of value and labour. Sam has exhibited in group and solo shows both nationally and internationally including, Totem In Tribute (2016) in Edinburgh, UK, the Fremantle Print Award (2016/18), Rotterdam Photo Festival (2019), NL, and was commissioned to produce a major public work as part of the 2022 Perth Festival program.Sarah Elson’s interest in traditional metalsmithing and its use in contemporary visual arts practice spans 30 + years. She has exhibited locally and internationally including solo exhibitions Anigozanthos (eudaimonia hybrid) at Galerie Düsseldorf 2007, phloem poetica at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art 2010 and Fasciation – expectations of growth, Art Collective, 2020. Her work is held in numerous collections including AGWA and the Janet Holmes à Court Collection. Sarah is a member of Art Collective WA.Sohan Ariel Hayes has achieved international acclaim for his large-scale multimedia installations, public projects and performance collaborations. His site-responsive process works with drawing, projection and archival materials to invoke particular places, collective voices and communities of labour. Sohan was one of the key artists involved in the spectacular Boorna Waanginy – The Trees Speak, shown as a part of Perth Festival in Kings Park over several seasons.Ross Potter is a Kamilaroi man living and working full time as an artist on Wudjuk Noongar Boodjar, Fremantle. He works with pencil and paper to produce highly detailed representations of his subjects. Through magnifying microscopic features, Ross brings the abstractions of reality to our attention, while telling compelling stories of everyday life. Well-known works include the life-size WHALE at High Tide 17 Fremantle Biennale on display at Boola Bardip WA Museum. Ross recently undertook an artist residency in Siglufjörður, Iceland.

Camilla Loveridge is a printmaker and has a particular passion for drawing. She has exhibited around Australia and overseas, has received awards for her work, and is represented in public and private collections. She was curator of the Mandorla Art Prize (2009-2012) and worked for the Art for Change Foundation in New Delhi (2016) as an international artist in residence. Camilla also studies part time as a PhD candidate in Creative Practice Research at Notre Dame University in Fremantle.Based in Walyalup Fremantle, Tessa MacKay’s paintings speak to the discipline of Hyperrealism. The works simultaneously embrace the medium of paint, and subtle but intentional instances of less-refined brushwork provides relief and reminds the viewer they are before an artwork made by human hands; an interpretation, not a reproduction. At a time when high resolution images are more ubiquitous and disposable than ever before, it is through the apparent labour and time involved that Tessa strives to facilitate the viewer’s connection with the subject matter embedded in her paint.Serena Parker holds degrees in Fine Arts and Education, and merges her passion for art and teaching in her professional practices. Notable for her poesis-inspired miniature pieces exhibited at Heathcoate Gallery in 2011, she explores the nexus of time, place, and representation. Majoring in painting, she delves into material culture, fascinated by the history and language of materials. Serena’s work reflects a profound interplay between past and present, inviting viewers to ponder human complexities.

General enquiries: info@mandorlaart.com | Phone: +61 407 089 224

Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10Douglas Street, Gooyaman | West PerthExhibition: 25 May – 15 JuneOpen: Tues – Sat, 11am – 5pm

Image: Ross Potter, Cold Water, pencil on paper, 130 x 110 cm

Artist Talk // Desmond Taylor + Helen Seiver
2024-04-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
Join us to hear from the artists Desmond Taylor and Helen Seiver as they share insights into their coming together in a process of sensitive and profound cross-cultural artistic collaboration. These artists have journeyed together, both physically on each other’s country and spiritually through ritual. Their joint exhibition, another way, is the culmination of the compassion and complexity of their journey toward healing.

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Image: Desmond Taylor and Helen Seiver, Sitting Together, 2022, copyright of the artists

ARTIST TALK // Andrew Nicholls with Thea Rossen
2024-02-24 14:00 - 15:00
Join us to hear from Andrew Nicholls and collaborator Thea Rossen from Ad Lib Collective, about their exhibition, Portent, as part of the 2024 Perth Festival themed Ngaangk (‘The Sun’).

This exhibition draws on eclipse lore to focus on how solar eclipses have been perceived as omens of pending disaster over time, in different places, cultures, beliefs and in mythology. Become immersed in a changing light and sound spectrum as Andrew takes us through the ideas behind the artwork in the show, and he and Thea discuss their cross-disciplinary collaboration, and interpreting the 2023 Exmouth Eclipse through music.

Link to RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/artist-talk-andrew-nicholls

images:

Andrew Nicholls with Leigh Craft, Sigillum dei Aemeth (ritual space), 2024, photograph by Sohan Ariel Hayes

Documentation of Portent (a ritual), Sunday 4th February 2024, photograph by Dan McBride

Portent (a ritual)
2024-02-04 20:00 - 21:15 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
PERFORMANCES: 4 February, 5.30pm & 8.00pm

This is a new musical work by Ad Lib Collective featuring Wind Up Bird, in collaboration with Andrew Nicholls.

Throughout human history solar eclipses have been viewed as omens of pending disaster. Inspired by the 2023 total solar eclipse in Exmouth Western Australia, celebrated contemporary artist Andrew Nicholls has conceived a suite of visual art works speculating about the disaster that this particular eclipse may have been foretelling.

You are invited to join us at Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10 for the world premiere of a musical work commissioned by the artist from acclaimed contemporary classical ensembles Ad Lib Collective and Wind Up Bird. Mimicking the timing of the Exmouth eclipse, audiences will experience a sense of the drama and beauty of this extraordinary solar event, with its frenetic build-up of energy, and the uncanny awe of the ‘moment of totality’.

Part sonic performance experience and part-magickal ritual, Portent (a ritual) represents a unique collaboration of creative disciplines spanning the visual and performing arts.

Audiences are then invited to return to Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10 on Wednesday, 7 February for the official launch of the Portent exhibition, as part of the 2024 Perth Festival which features the recording of this live performance.

Ensemble

Ad Lib Collective: Thea Rossen (Percussion), Ashley Smith (Clarinets)

Wind Up Bird: James Ledger (Synths), Josiah Padmanabhan (Synths)

Lighting: Alex Spartalis GSD

Portent (a Ritual). Photographs by Dan McBride

DATE & TIMES : Sunday, 4 February 2024

Performance #1

5.30pm // doors and bar open – sound installation

6.00 – 6:45pm // performance

Performance #2

8.00pm // doors and bar open – sound installation

8.30pm – 9:15pm // performance

EVENT ENQUIRIES: Laetitia Wilson | +61 424 931 242 : laetitia.wilson@heytesbury.com.au

TICKETS : $35.00 concession; $40.00 full price + BF / performance

Terra
2024-01-20 19:30 - 20:20 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
PERFORMANCE DATES : 18, 19 & 20 JANUARY 2024

terra is a 50min dance work informed by the knowledge of current and impending ecological loss. An un-trackable choreographic momentum evokes the incremental movement of earth’s tectonic plates; the elemental power of the natural world pushed to its limits and the forces that create change.

Erupting from an imagination placed under pressure for decades, terra, invites us to feel what is happening to the earth, whilst creating something of awe and beauty. With each performance, a unique topographical sculptural residue remains, inviting the audience to continue their imaginative engagement with the work.

This piece emerged conceptually and choreographically from Alice’s experience of living in Victoria, through the pandemic, fires, flooding, threatening winds and an earthquake –disquiet was omnipresent. The resurgence of the natural world during the lockdowns, particularly in urban spaces, brought an acute awareness of human impact on our living world.

‘She moved with the kind of felt precision that could change the meaning of the space around her. She touched the floor and suddenly it was alive. The experience was pure and electrifying’ (Erik Jensen, Editor-in-chief, Schwartz Media, January 2022).

ABOUT ALICE CUMMINS

Alice Cummins is a multi-disciplinary artist, working in dance, film, performance and installation. Five decades exploring the nuanced intelligence of the moving body, interrogating and challenging its social and cultural narratives, have led to compositional refinement and the distillation of experience into physical performance where aesthetics, ethics and physiology collide. Her current performance projects reflect the entwinement of personal/artistic, colonial, and planetary histories.

EVENT ENQUIRIES: Laetitia Wilson | +61 424 931 242 : laetitia.wilson@heytesbury.com.au

START TIME : 7.30pm – duration 50min

TICKETS : $25-$35 + booking fee

http://www.alicecummins.com

Photo by Emma Fishwick, Alice Cummins in Terra Rehearsal, 2023, courtesy and copyright of the artist.

TEN // Official Opening & Artist Talks
2023-12-03 11:00 - 13:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix, Cnr Tom Cullity Dr & Caves Rd, Cowaramup, WA, 6284, Australia
Join us to celebrate a decade of the Art Collective WA as we tour the exhibition and gain insights into the practice and artwork or some of the artists in the Ten exhibition. This event also marks the official opening of the exhibition alongside the culmination of Angela Stewart’s residency.

ARTISTS

Alex Spremberg, Sarah Elson, Merrick Belyea, Angela Stewart, Paul Uhlmann, Jon Tarry, Jurek Wybraniec, Olga Cironis, Kevin Robertson, Michele Theunissen

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE // Angela Stewart
2023-11-14 00:00 - 2023-12-02 23:59 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix, Cnr Tom Cullity Dr & Caves Rd, Cowaramup, WA, 6284, Australia
Angela Stewart is a member of the ArtCollective WA and her work is currently on show in the exhibition TEN. She will be in residence in the Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix from the 14th November to the 2nd December (excluding the 23rd –28th November).

Stewart has been interested in portraiture for the last three decades. Her drawing, painting and paint/ed photography often make stylistic and thematic reference to the Italian Renaissance historical portraits and the transition of the fresco to easel painting. By studying the work of Sixteenth century Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola, Stewart became fascinated by the complexity and etiquette of painting by a woman of this age. Her desire was to roll back the veneer of the finished artwork and to imagine signs of hesitation and mistakes to unlace the becoming of a portrait. This notion of ‘artistic doubt’ has since had an influence on Stewart’s more recent oeuvre.

Over time, the rendering of her line and brushwork has dissolved to increasingly reveal materiality and process. With oval and circular frames, she examines traditional elements such as the cameo or motifs of flora and fauna in landscape and from costumes in portraits.

FFO Young Truckers
2023-11-03 19:00 - 21:30 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
Young opera stars of Freeze Frame Opera perform highlights of opera on the famous opera truck in the beautiful surrounds of the Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10

TICKETS : from $30 – $65 + BF

Go to :: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1043300

FLORA : Artists in the Gallery @ no.10
2023-10-12 11:00 - 14:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
We have the pleasure of welcoming Carolyn Murdoch and Jane Li to no.10. Both artists are in our current exhibition Flora: the Art and Science of the Plant.

They will be creating Botanical Art from 11am – 2pm :

Tuesday, 10th October

Wednesday, 11th October

Thursday, 12th October

You are most welcome to drop by and say hi, catch these artists in action and experience the exhibition before its last day on 14th October.

For further details contact Laetitia Wilson on: laetitia.wilson@heytesbury.com.au

Conditions of Growth
2023-09-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
A 50 minute work led by listening, Conditions of Growth is a new collaborative project presented by Ad Lib Collective. Working with light, generative animation, percussion, piano and the music of Ravel and Rossen the work holds the seeds of connection to the things that need nurturing. Small tendrils of sound, granular close-ups, and full body sound experiences offer us a space to consider what the conditions are that we need to quietly grow.

Conditions of Growth is created by percussionist/composer Thea Rossen and media artist Sohan Ariel Hayes.

Piano : Alex RaineriElectronics Design : Nick StarkProducer : Holly NormanLighting Design : Alex Spartalis GSDVideography : Andrew Clarke

Supported by the Minderoo Foundation with partnerships from Australian National Academy of Music, All Saints College, Wesley College and Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10.

7.30pm | Doors and bar open

8.00pm | Performance Duration : 50 minutes – no interval

8.50pm – 9.30pm | Bar open [cashless purchases only]

Idée Fixe Premier Brut | White & Red Wine | Orange Juice

TICKETS : $40 + BF | Go to : https://events.humanitix.com/conditions-of-growth

Book Launch : Secret Agent, Unsung Hero
2023-08-17 18:00 - 20:00
The Valour of Bruce Dowding

Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research to reveal, for the first time, his coming of age as a leader in escape and evasion during World War II. Dowding helped exfiltrate hundreds of Allied servicemen from occupied France and paid the ultimate price. He was beheaded by the Nazis just after his 29th birthday in 1943.

Murujuga Exhibition Tour
2023-08-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
Join exhibition curator Judith Hugo as she discusses the exhibition Murujuga: celebration of an ancient cultural landscape in the context of the battle to save Murujuga.

Murujuga/the Dampier Archipelago, situated in WA’s Pilbara area, is both one of the world’s most important archaeological sites and a major sacred site for the Aboriginal custodians. Containing the largest group of prehistoric petroglyphs (rock engravings) found anywhere in the world, it also displays the only continuous record of humankind’s survival over c50,000 years in a dramatically changing environment. Awarded National Heritage listing in 2007, it has recently been nominated by the Australian government and Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation for UNESCO’s World Heritage listing. This is only the second Australian Aboriginal cultural landscape to date to attract such an award, after the Budj Bim fish trap complex in Western Victoria.

Refreshments provided.

Murujuga Artist Talks
2023-08-07 00:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
This event will feature insights into the exhibition by artists including; Clyde McGill, David and Janet Hummerston, Mel Dare, Angela Stewart, Jill Churnside, Lyn Ward, Susan Sheppard and Sue Swain.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Mandorla Art Award Theme Forum
2023-07-22 13:30 - 15:30 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
The Mandorla Art Award Theme Forum is a conversation aimed at artists to explore multiple viewpoints for the 2024 Mandorla Art Award that will be held in May next year. This event is aimed at artists and proves to be a great way to connect with other artists while gaining inspiration for your 2024 work to be submitted.The Theme for the 2024 Mandorla Art Award is: Refocus —Reference: “Let all that you do be done in love.” (NRSV) 1 Cor 16:14 Light refreshments provided.

Yamaji Calisto
2023-07-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
Dr Charmaine Papertalk Green and Aaron Carpene (FROLIC) proudly present the intercultural opera YAMAJI CALISTO.

You and your guest are cordially invited to a performance from workshops for the YAMAJI CALISTO project exploring the intersection of Yamaji performance and early Italian opera.

In collaboration with FROLIC and Yamaji Art.

The performance will last 60 minutes followed by light refreshments.

John Teschendorff : In Conversation
2023-06-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
John Teschendorff is an exceptional artist who has had a lifetime of commitment to the visual arts. His creations are respected world-wide as his career has spanned Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, the United Kingdom, Israel, South-East Asia and Europe.

Many of his experiences of travel and repeated visits to the same spaces have informed his artworks and permeated them with layers of material and conceptual depth. His works are often darkly abstract and conceptually rich; they are like cerebral maps, mindscapes, delineating places and events.

Surrounded by the last ten years of his artistic practice in his solo exhibition echoes of place, this event presents a unique opportunity to be in conversation with Teschendorff, to learn more about his abstract compositions, his making and thinking processes.

Light refreshments provided.

BOOK LAUNCH : The Big Teal by Simon Holmes à Court
2022-10-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
Please join us to celebrate the Perth launch of Simon Holmes à Court’s new book, The Big Teal, the latest in Monash University Publishing’s In the National Interest Series.

The author will be joined by Kate Chaney MP, the Independent Federal Member for Curtin, for a conversation about the book.

About the book‘We will not achieve net zero in the cafes, dinner parties and wine bars of our inner cities.’ Little infuriated the forgotten people of the twenty-first century — women and younger voters, especially — more than Scott Morrison’s deluge of disparagement on the issues that mattered to them. The May 2022 election marked the great re-engagement of those ignored and patronised for too long on climate, integrity and gender equity.

The electoral map has been dramatically redrawn. However, the triumph of the ‘teals’ was not entirely unexpected to those assisting their rise, such as Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court. As Australia entered its lost decade on climate action, he observed that conventional advocacy had become a case of diminishing returns, and that Cathy McGowan’s election as a community independent in 2013 provided a template for direct political engagement. The result was Climate 200, a crowdfunded outfit intended to provide the money and expertise to better match the major parties and turbocharge the grassroots movement emerging in thirty-plus electorates.

Despite a relentless and increasingly shrill campaign of vilification aimed at Holmes à Court and the candidates by the Liberals, assisted by their media mates, we saw the election of six new community independent MPs and one senator. It was a victory of facts over fear, priorities over prejudice. It was a blow to the unfit-for-purpose ‘majoritariat’, a rejection of the false binary choice between parties that no longer reflect the hopes and complexity of modern democratic Australia.

This is the story of how a team of inspired young tech-heads and older sages used their real and virtual-world experience to help a cluster of communities get the representation they wanted.

To pre-purchase your book ahead of Perth launch, click HERE via Boffins Books website and add a note in “Additional Instructions & Comments” box at checkout: “For collection at the launch on 14 October.

Cost: $19.95

Collection Focus | Indigenous Art
2022-06-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
After gracing the Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix, Collection Focus / Indigenous Art comes to no.10.
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. The collection has amassed to over one thousand indigenous artworks, ranging from barks, to silks, to wooden and woven sculptures, from traditional to contemporary art and from many different geographical regions.
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 fourteen indigenous artists. The works are derived from such regions as the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (aka APY), Martu, Kimberley, Roebourne, Warburton, Irruntju, Noongar, Kunibídji and Yuendumu lands. The exhibition attests to an ongoing and wide-spanning interest in collecting indigenous art as the pre-eminent contemporary art of Australia.
ARTISTS
Sandy Aileen, Jennifer Brown, Biddy Bunawarrie, Margaret Ganambarra, Elsie Napanangka Granites, Michelle Lewis, Queenie McKenzie, Natasha Nakamarra Oldfield, Matilda Oxtoby, Melissa Sandy, Lea Taylor, Nancy Karnu Taylor, Curtis Taylor, Tjunkaya Tapaya, Edwin Ward, Kaye Warrie, Julie Renita Woods, Lena Yarinkura

ARTIST TALK // Tony Jones in Conversation
2022-04-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
Enduring Memories from a life on the Swan River
Join Tony Jones in conversation with Janet Holmes à Court about the river, sailing, art and life. Tony draws on memories of growing up close to the river and continuing a connection with it throughout his adult life. This talk will offer insight into Tony’s remarkable exhibition and his life carefully balanced between the river and art.

The Water Concerto
2022-02-25 19:00 - 2022-02-26 21:00 | Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10, 10 Douglas St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
Both visually and sonically stunning, The Water Concerto by Tan Dun is an atmospheric evocation of the sounds of rural China, where the composer grew up. From the gentle rhythms of women washing laundry in the river to the excited splashes of children playing in the water, this is a piece that immerses audiences in the sounds of distant shores.
The soloist manipulates water through the use of instruments which have been specifically designed for this piece, and are accompanied by a small chamber ensemble of strings, clarinet and piano. Moments of the performance also respond to the surrounding Perth Festival exhibition, Strangers on the Shore, which explores the encounters between indigenous populations and European and Asian shipwreck survivors on the West Coast of Australia.
Performed and designed by Thea Rossen and Jared Yapp of the Ad Lib Collective in collaboration with the Holmes à Court Gallery, this performance is otherworldly, dramatic and captivating.
7pm : Door/Bar Opens – Wine sales available [NB. cashless purchases only]
8pm : Concert commencesBoth visually and sonically stunning, The Water Concerto by Tan Dun is an atmospheric evocation of the sounds of rural China, where the composer grew up. From the gentle rhythms of women washing laundry in the river to the excited splashes of children playing in the water, this is a piece that immerses audiences in the sounds of distant shores.
The soloist manipulates water through the use of instruments which have been specifically designed for this piece, and are accompanied by a small chamber ensemble of strings, clarinet and piano. Moments of the performance also respond to the surrounding Perth Festival exhibition, Strangers on the Shore, which explores the encounters between indigenous populations and European and Asian shipwreck survivors on the West Coast of Australia.
Performed and designed by Thea Rossen and Jared Yapp of the Ad Lib Collective in collaboration with the Holmes à Court Gallery, this performance is otherworldly, dramatic and captivating.
7pm : Door/Bar Opens – Wine sales available [NB. cashless purchases only]
8pm : Concert commences
