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Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10 and the
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
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Collection Focus / Indigenous Art - exhibition view, 2022
Collection Focus // Indigenous Art
Collection Focus // Indigenous Art comes to no.10 following a season at the Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix. New works have been added to the show, including three fibre works recently acquired from Maningrida, three works from Warmun and a historical work from Martu country.
ABOUT
Since the early 1980’s, Janet Holmes à Court has been an avid collector of the art of the First Nations people of Australia. 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 First Nations art acquired over the last five years, representing seven language groups and fourteen artists. The works are derived from such regions as the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (aka APY), Martu, Kimberley, Roebourne, Warburton, Irruntju, Noongar, Warmun 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
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. Gooyaman | West Perth.
OPEN: 11.00am-5.00pm, Tues-Sat
Collection Focus // Indigenous Art - exhibition views, 2022
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
Unique States, exhibition view
Unique States
ABOUT
Unique States considers different states and the many meanings of the idea of the ‘unique state’. It refers to a print making technique, to states of being, societal and environmental states and to our geographical state. The past three years have launched humanity into ‘unique states’ and Western Australia has become even more of a ‘unique state’ because of its position apart from the rest of Australia and the world. Unique States presents political and environmental realities, as much as flights of fancy, taking viewers through a variety of unique states via the medium of print.
ARTISTS
Susanna Castleden, Jo Darvall, Valdene Diprose, Clyde McGill, Harvey Mullen, Sue Starcken, Elmari Steyn, Perdita Phillips
DATES
May 8 - October 2, 2022
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
OPEN: 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
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Unique States - exhibition views
Upcoming exhibition
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10
John Prince Siddon, Diesel Drum (detail), 2015
Mangkaja 30 Years On
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Mangkaja 30 Years On commemorates and celebrates thirty years of art creation at the Mangkaja Arts Centre. Over this time, Mangkaja has creatively boomed becoming a vital part of the local community in Fitzroy Crossing. The artists have become widely known for their bold, loud and dynamic styles, experimenting with a range of media, expressive colours and free-flowing forms. The Mangkaja artists bring stories of country and First Nations cosmology alive, as well as mixing in ideas of social justice, displacement, environmentalism and the world beyond.
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DATES
August 19 - October 8, 2022
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. Gooyaman | West Perth.
OPEN: 11.00am-5.00pm, Tues-Sat
Acquisitions
Matthew McVeigh, The Sky Did Fall In, 2018 (left) and Stolen, 2018 (right)
Originally displayed in the 2018 Australiyaniality exhibition at the Holmes à Court Gallery, these works by Matthew McVeigh are a part of a larger series called Whiteout. They take copies of original Australiana propaganda posters advertising Australia and work into them, to reveal hidden histories, white-washing and imperialist ideologies.
Artist Focus : Caitlin Yardley
Caitlin Yardley, History Painting (Diana and Actaeon) (left) and History Painting (Diana and Callisto) (right), 2012
We are delighted to hear that an artist in the Janet Holmes à Court Collection, Caitlin Yardley, has won the prestigious Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. The paintings pictured are featured on the Foundation website here: https://www.pkf-imagecollection.org/artist/Caitlin_Yardley/
Caitlin writes: "The funds granted will support my ongoing project Wave Equation (still in development after so many years) with Iittala, Finland. This work brings together a glass design by Aino Aalto (Alvar Aalto's first wife) and Virginia Woolf via a number of connections between them that I've uncovered in my research over the past couple of years. I am now partnered with the Finnish Institute for the UK and we are currently in dialogue with the National Trust about temporarily siting the work at Woolf's former home Monks House, in Sussex. We are hoping to then exhibit the work alongside collection pieces and archive material at Towner Gallery, Eastbourne."
Other News
NAIDOC Week, City of Vincent
On the evening of the 9th July the City of Vincent held a NAIDOC celebration at the Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10. The evening came alive with music by Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse and others, a vibrant community canvas, bush foods and a projection artwork by Charmaine Cole.
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
