Douglas St. Gooyaman | West Perth
Open: 11.00am - 5.00pm, Tuesday to Saturday
- current exhibition -
Andrew Nicholls, Portent #1, 2023
PORTENT
ANDREW NICHOLLS
with Ad Lib Collective, Wind Up Bird and Sarah Elson
Presented by the Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10 in association with the Perth Festival
Inspired by the artist’s experience of the 2023 Exmouth eclipse, Andrew Nicholls’exhibition, Portent, plays with the common understanding of eclipses as bad omens in diverse cultures throughout history. Video projections, large-scale wall murals and printed hangings, lighting and sound take over the gallery and see the space repeatedly morph from light to darkness and back again throughout the course of the day.
The exhibition comprises solo works by Andrew Nicholls and collaborations with Ad Lib Collective, Sarah Elson, Chad Peacock and Wind Up Bird.
Desmond Taylor and Helen Seiver, Standing Together, 2023
another way
Desmond Taylor and Helen Seiver
another way by Desmond Taylor and Helen Seiver combines stitched artwork, with installation, painting, photography, sculpture, natural materials and video, to deeply engage with a history that is shared and a tragedy that is being reconciled. For the past four years, Desmond Taylor and Helen Seiver have been working together on a profound artistic journey of forgiveness and healing. Together they have sat on country at Nullagine in the Pilbara. They have talked, performed rituals and created artwork. They have learnt from each other, leant on each other and gradually walked toward another way; a sensitive and perceptive way that breaks with the bonds of colonial determination. another way is the culmination of a unique collaboration and the coming together of distinct yet indelibly connected life experience.
OPENING
6pm, Friday 22nd March, 2024
DATES
March 23rd - May 18th, 2024
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
OPEN: 10.00am-5.00pm daily
- current exhibition -
Lindsay Harris, Intrusion #1, 2012, (detail)
DRYLANDS
Drylands considers changes to the Western Australian landscape of the Wheatbelt, Southern and Great Southern regions. It features painterly observations of the land following decades of deforestation, fire regimes, the impacts of climate change, increasing salinity and loss of biodiversity. The artworks picture receding islands of trees, canola fields in full bloom, dry, lone trees and empty scarred landscapes silently mourning the loss of bio and geo-diversity.
This exhibition includes artwork from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection and invited artists.
ARTISTS
Jo Darbyshire, Elizabeth Edmonds, Clare McFarlane, Lindsay Harris, Kate Turner, Tony Windberg
OPENING
11am, Sunday 28th January
DATES
January 28th - April 28th, 2024
For the catalogue and price list see our website here
Above - Jo Darbyshire, Tony Windberg, JanetHolmes à Court, Elizabeth Edmonds, Clare McFarlane and Laetitia Wilson, and Drylands - exhibition views
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
- upcoming exhibition -
Helen Eager, Ritual, 1988
Collection Focus // stillness
Focused on objects and interior spaces of everyday life, this exhibition invites the viewer to take a pause in moments of stillness. The selected artworks present still life painting, images of domestic items and indoor spaces. The exhibition explores ideas of interiority and home, delving into quieter, though no less powerful, moments of existence. Presented will be rarely or never seen artworks from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection.
OPENING
11am, Sunday 5th May
DATES
May 5th - August 25th, 2024
Holmes à Court Gallery @ No.10
- upcoming event -
Andrew Nicholls with Leigh Craft, Sigillum dei Aemeth (ritual space), 2023
Artist Talk
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Andrew Nicholls with Thea Rossen
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.
Performance of Portent (a ritual), 4th February, 2024, photo by Dan McBride
Collection News
We recently had a visit from the Governor and Mrs Dawson from government house (above) who were interested in viewing indigenous works in the collection. Below John Price Siddon also came to visit the gallery. This proved to be an excellent opportunity to reacquaint him with his works that we have in the collection - Small Fuel Drum and Diesel Drum. These pieces will soon be on loan for an upcoming exhibition at Form Gallery - Represent 2, opening March 7th.
Acquisitions
Stewart Scambler, Yandanyirra #1, 2023
Referencing Yandanyirra, the Fortescue River, these works are made of clay and materials sourced from WA land and then wood fired. Scambler embraces the unpredictable and so the surface finish is a combination of both chance and intention. These works were exhibited at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery in the exhibition Naked in the Land by Stewart Scambler. They have now found a place in the Janet Holmes à Court Collection.
