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
Vasse Felix with Rebecca Baumann's Light Moment, 2019
Concrete E X P A N D E D 2 June - 22 September 2019
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Concrete E X P A N D E D officially opened on the 9th of June to a crowd bathed in the dusky pink light of Rebecca Baumann's window installation Light Moment.
Included are works from the Janet Holmes à Court collection, works from the Murdoch Collection, works from the Art Collective and local and interstate practicing artists, with some works available for purchase. See price list here.
About the Show: Concrete E X P A N D E D considers the affects of colour, design, pattern and shape through abstract non-objective art works. It takes part in a conversation about an ongoing artistic concern with Minimalist and Concrete Art in the new millennium. It playfully suggests an expansion of the Concrete Art genre that had a local explosion on the streets of Fremantle in the early 2000’s with the Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA).
Works from two artists who are part of the AC4CA - Helen Smith and Trevor Richards – are included in the show alongside works by artists who share an interest in geometric, non-objective, abstract art practice. Together with painting there are three-dimensional wall-works, actual concrete sculptures, light sculptures and ephemeral light works. Across different media and different generations these works coalesce and converse in philosophical questions of form, aesthetic experience and existence.
FEATURED ARTISTS: Rebecca Baumann, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Janenne Eaton, Robert Hunter, Brian McKay, Trevor Richards, Douglas Sheerer, Helen Smith, Trevor Vickers, Josh Webb.
Concrete E X P A N D E D, exhibition views, 2019
Upcoming Exhibition
The Botanical: Beauty and Peril opened on the 4th July to a bustling crowd, an insightful opening speech by Stephen Hopper, harp music played by contemporary harpist Catherine Ashley and a rich selection of works combined from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection and the State Art Collection.
Throughout this exhibition the beauty of the botanical world is celebrated alongside an acknowledgement of the sobering reality of its imperilment resulting from human action.
Principal Partner: EY
Spirits Partner: Archie Rose Distilling Co.
Art Gallery of WA 6 July - 4 November 2019
The Botanical: Beauty and Peril, exhibition views, 2019
Public Program
The Botanical: Beauty and Peril, installation view
The Botanical: Beauty and Peril is held alongside a blossoming program of events and activities. This includes a two day symposium across the Art Gallery of WA and the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery -
Framing Flora: Artists and the Science of Botany
Keynote speakers include Stephen Hopper AC, Professor of Biodiversity, UWA, Albany and Ann Elias, Associate Professor of History and Theory of Global Art, Department of Art History, University of Sydney.
Date and Time: Fri 19 July, 1-4pm | Art Gallery WA
Sat 20 July, 1-4pm, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
$10+bf AGWA Members, LWAG friends, Concession | $15+bf Public
This month Joshua Webb worked in the Holmes à Court Gallery on a new piece - Iceberg - for the Brookfield Winter Lights Festival 2019. Programmed by Josh McAuliffe, this piece pulses through a spectrum of colour combinations.
Check it out at: 108 St. Georges Terrace, 8am - 6pm daily, 3rd July - 1st Nov 2019
Joshua Webb artwork is also currently on show in Concrete E X P A N D E D at Vasse Felix.
Brett Whiteley, Yellow Nude, 1978
Whitely is a new opera production premiering at The Sydney Opera House. Some of Brett Whiteley’s works are digitally reproduced for the production, including this piece here, Yellow Nude, from the Janet Holmes à Court collection.
The opera opens on Monday July 15 and runs until July 30 with six performances across that period. For more details see:
