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
FIBRE opened last week to a bustling crowd in the glowing evening light.
FIBRE is an unwrapping, unrolling and unfolding of fibre artworks from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection together with works from invited artists.
FIBRE features stitched, threaded, strung, rubbed, ripped, folded and pressed Fibre art. From luminous to opaque, delicate to robust, the works speak of processes of material manipulation and ritualistic gestures of repetitive stitching and rubbing. Everyday clothing is stitched and sculpted anew; blankets are stacked, stitched and printed upon, forms of nature are enveloped; objects are crafted of fibrous textures of bark and grasses; human hair is shaped and strung together and; native flora and fauna are pictured and sculpted of or on fibres, or have fibres running through the paper or canvas on which they are pictured. FEATURED ARTISTS:
Lindsay Mpetyane Bird, Tingapa Davies, Mark Dustin, Olga Cironis, Marjorie Coleman, Sujora Conrad, Carmela Corvaia, Angela Ferolla, Anisa Hirte, Jean Hoijo, 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
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10
Douglas St. West Perth
Gallery Hours: 11.00am - 5.00pm Tues - Sat
Exhibition opening
Craig McKeough has written an insightful review of FIBRE for SeeSaw magazine - read it here
Upcoming Exhibition
Lesley Meaney, Wildflower Shroud, 2019 (detail)
LESLEY MEANEY Becoming Australian
Presented anew for the Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix, Lesley Meaney | Becoming Australian is a sensorial experience of fiery sunburnt colours, deep earthy tones and splashes of green. The works evoke a sense of place and belonging, as a sustained, experimental and unique response to the Australian landscape. For Lesley Meaney, each new body of work is another journey, another discovery, another set of artistic challenges to resolve along the way towards becoming Australian.
This solo exhibition has works for sale, please see the price list here. It also features an ambitious book of Lesley Meaney's work, Lesley Meaney Becoming Australian an Artist's Journey. All proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to support a brighter future for children with brain cancer.
DATES: 17th February - 24th May 2020
OPENING 11am this Sunday 16th February
Following the formal opening, enjoy a light charcuterie-style long-table lunch at 12.30pm in the Gallery.
Other set menus and à la carte options are also available for the restaurant.
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
Gallery Hours: 10.00am - 5.00pm Daily
Public Program
FIBRE Art Talks
Join us within the surrounds of the FIBRE exhibition for a morning of talks from some of Western Australia’s foremost Fibre and Textile artists and thinkers offering us insights into their practice and the place of Fibre and Textile art today.
Speakers include: Olga Cironis, Susan Roux, Nalda Searles, Holly Story, Sue Stoney.
Merrick Belyea, who is part of our team at the Holmes à Court Gallery, has a solo exhibition opening at MAY SPACE in Sydney next month titled Anthropocene Landscape. The exhibition runs from the 11th to the 29th March and is focused on the curious human appetite for destruction. Environmental concerns are central to Merrick's recent paintings, which refer to a potential for devastation, pointing to a future of mechanical scarification of the landscape. Paring back the veneer of previously prepared paint layers reveals the detritus of process and the fragility of surface.
Mavis Ngallametta, Ikalath #9, 2013
This expansive work by Mavis Ngallametta has just left for Queensland to be part of a solo exhibition at QAGOMA -
MAVIS NGALLAMETTA
SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME
This exhibition will survey a decade of the artist's intricate and animated paintings, bringing together major works from her Pamp/Swamp, Kendall River, Wutan, Ikalath, Yalgamunken, intertidal estuary and powerful bushfire series for the first time. This will be a powerful aesthetic experience and great insight into life on Mavis Ngallametta’s country. See more information here
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
