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Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
Gallery Hours: 10.00am - 5.00pm
 

DATES

17th - 27th September 2020

Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10
Douglas St. West Perth

Featuring over 100 artists, including Juluwarlu Artists’ Group
 
Roebourne based Juluwarlu Artists’ Group (JAG) artists know the meaning of “Hanging by a Thread”. 

For 60,000 years, our Yindjibarndi old people knew waiting – our families ‘hanging by a thread’ through times of drought – waiting for the monsoon to bring life-giving rain – waiting for the ‘yurala’ to read the signs in the night sky, prepare for and drive our sacred rain ‘thalu’ ceremony to summon the rain. 
 
When JAG Artists Lorraine Coppin, Wendy Hubert, Judith Coppin,  Banyji Cheedy, Jane Cheedy, Lyn Cheedy, Gabbi Cheedy, Joelene O’Meara, Margaret Read and Sharona Walker began talking about what “Hanging by a Thread” means to us as Yindjibarndi women, we remarked that this is how so many of us Ngaarda women live our lives – hanging on by a thread, keeping our communities together through challenges – with never quite enough to spare to set aside for hard times. We laughed a lot, recalling all the ways our mothers and grandmothers made do, the stories they told of their childhoods and the ways Yindjibarndi women have always gathered what we needed on our country. To make this artwork we travelled about our country like we always have. We travelled with our children as we always do, and everywhere we talked about our ancestors making art, keeping culture alive, and keeping our language and memories alive. 
 
We determined to make a work that reflects the ways Aboriginal women have been sustained by and conserved country and families since our ‘Ngurra Nyunggamu’, (the creation time when the world was soft). We are making our stories with river gum, ghost gum, and paperbark, soft spinifex, river lilies, yalhirri grass, stitching and weaving them side by side. 

Exhibition enquires can be directed to: Pauline White:  paulinemwhite@yahoo.com.au
Ph. 0438 903 895

Jo Darbyshire, Love Potion, 2019

 

This major work by Western Australian artist Jo Dabyshire was recently acquired for the Janet Holmes à Court Collection. Jo describes this work as a mysterious painting, saying: "It just flowed out. I began by painting the idea of the river, the sea; water moving, and tried to give a sense of depth with very basic seaweed (giant kelp) shapes. When the water was complete the shapes began to make themselves known. For me these shapes (some often appearing in my work) symbolise bodies/ideas/vessels floating in water/life. We can't control water and we can't control death or love. The nine relates to the death of my father (in 2018), who often said he had nine lives. It's also a reference to the famous song, which is all about the desire for permission to 'let go and love.'"

Megan Kirwan-Ward, Reach, 2018
 

This gorgeous piece by Megan Kirwan-Ward is currently on display as part of her exhibition Stitchscape at the Art Collective until the 25th July. This work and two others were acquired for the Janet Holmes à Court Collection. It makes a fine addition to the collection as another expression of the diversity and significance of fibre and textile practices in contemporary Western Australian art.

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