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Dwelling Rituals exhibition view, 2021
Dwelling Rituals
The final day to view Dwelling Rituals is this coming Sunday. It makes a wonderful aesthetic accompaniment to a trip to the South West and there are still works on display available for purchase.
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) Tania Spencer (bottom left) and Helen Seiver (bottom right).
Upcoming Exhibitions
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10
Anna Nazzari, Startled, 2021, photo Michelle Becker
Strangers on the Shore
As part of Perth Festival 2022, WAM WARDANUP - Strangers on the Shore is an exhibition about cross-cultural encounters along the arc of Western Australian’s coastline. It follows narrative threads that run from the 1600’s onwards, looking at early encounters between First Nations peoples and Macassan and Chinese traders and European shipwreck survivors.
Invited artists respond to the WA Maritime Museum archival collection of the same name. This archive is ‘an electronic database containing all known European and Asian shipwrecks around Western Australia's coastline where survivors have had Indigenous social contact.’ Through interrogating this archive and the many stories of shipwreck, survival and cross-cultural encounter, the artists engage in a critique of colonialism, shine a light onto and question accepted histories, acknowledge truths and imagine other possibilities.
Accross a diversity of media, works of invited artists are placed in conversation with significant works from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection, Mossenson Gallery and artefacts from the Western Australian Maritime Museum.
This exhibition asks that we re-visit accepted histories and try to better understand shared moments of our collective past that propel myth and shape our sense of cultural identity.
ARTISTS
Kelsey Ashe with Sandra Harben, Johnny Bulun Bulun, Sandra Hill, Jo Darbyshire with Cherish Marrington and David Cherrin, Laurel Nannup, Anna Nazzari, Lea Taylor and Michael Jalaru Torres. With thanks to Mossenson Gallery for the loan of artwork and WA Maritime Museum for the loan of artefacts.
OPENING
6.00pm – 8.00pm | Saturday, 12th February 2022
To be officially opened by Janet Holmes à Court AC
With opening ceremony and welcome by Sandra Harben
For full enjoyment of this event proof of double vaccination is required for entry. Please note that this event may be subject to additional COVID restrictions.
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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
🎶🎵 TONIGHT 🎵🎶
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
A sneak peak of rehearsals in action for Echoes and Songs
The Water Concerto
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.
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. Gooyaman | West Perth
Acquisitions
Clyde McGill, The Speech, 2021
This work is a substantial ten meter monoprint by Clyde McGill acquired from his recent solo exhibition at Nyisztor Studio, also titled The Speech. The print details a political speech that rambles across the paper, fading in and out of abstraction and becoming entangled in other markings.
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
