This newsletter features the monthly events happening at the Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix and the Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Current Exhibitions
Janet Lawrence, The Lie in the Lens - Styx Forest (From the Crimes against the Landscape series), 2008
enigmas of the outback
FINAL WEEKS!
This is your last chance to catch this exhibition about 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 at Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
Gallery Hours: 10.00am - 5.00pm Daily
This exquisite photograph by local photographer Brad Rimmer is one of the few works for sale in enigmas of the outback. The price list of works for sale is available HERE
Upcoming Exhibitions
Helen Seiver, Introducing the Wild West to Sydney II, 2019 (detail)
FIBRE is an unwrapping, unrolling and unfolding of fibre 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 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
Carmela Corvaia, Horizon, 2015
This intricate work is part of the Janet Holmes à Court collection. It will be on show in FIBRE alongside works for sale from local and national artists.
Lesley Meaney, Tag - the Mark of the Scribbly Gum Moth, 2005-13
LESLEY MEANEY Becoming Australian
Presented anew for the Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix, Lesley Meaney | Becoming Australian is a culmination of five decades of the art work of Lesley Meaney.
This show unfolds as a sensorial experience of fiery sunburnt colours, glowing greens and deep earthy tones. 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 and 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 Sunday 16th February
Following the formal opening, enjoy a light charcuterie-style long-table lunch at 12.30pm in the Gallery.
Cost $40.00. RSVP essential for lunch only by 7th February 2020. As lunch numbers are limited, booking and advance payments to 9756 5050 or restaurant@vassefelix.com.au
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 Programs
FIBRE Art Talks
Saturday, 29th February 2019
10.00am – 12.00pm
STAY POSTED
Susan Roux, Valreep/ Stirrup-cup (detail of work in progress), 2020
Other News
Thank you to Lyn DiCiero for the feature article on the FIBRE exhibition in the current copy of the Artist's Chronicle. Read the full article, Fibre Affiliations,here
Hans Arkeveld, Transmigration 42, 1989
This substantial sculpture by Hans Akeveld will be exhibited as part of the Mundaring Arts Centre solo exhibition by Arkeveld, Homo Eclectic, curated by Robyn Taylor and opening Friday 7th February. Homo Eclectic covers over 50 years of a highly respected Western Australian artists and reveals Arkeveld's ongoing passion for the convergence of art and science and his deep concern for humanitarian issues.
The Re-Market pop-up indoor market scheduled for the 18th January is cancelled due to low stall-holder registration.
New Acquisition
Bethany Linton, Banksia Grandis Leaf Study on Paper, 2019
Exhibited late last year as part of the Robertson Studio Artists exhibition Decompression, this highly detailed work on paper by Bethamy Linton was acquired for the Janet Holmes à Court Collection. It makes a valuable addition to the wealth of works within the collection exploring the flora of Western Australia.
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
