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
Consuelo Cavaniglia, Untitled, 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.
Rebecca Baumann, Light Moment, 2019 (top) and exhibition opening images
Upcoming Exhibition
The Janet Holmes à Court Collection and the State Art Collection come together to present artistic responses to the Australian environment - from exquisite botanical illustrations and forested lands, through to expressions of the memory and tragedy of what has been and is continuing to be lost. The beauty of the botanical world is celebrated alongside the 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
Public Program
Sohan Ariel Hayes, Panoramic View of Albany (Kinjarling), The Place of Rain, 2019, 3 channel video projection (detail)
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
Jo Darvall and Shih Yun Yeo, All That Is, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 160 x 480 cm.
This wonderful expansive canvas is currently occupying the large wall at Holmes à Court Gallery @No.10 and brightening up the space on these wintery days. This painting was created during Jo Darvall's residency in Singapore (funded by the DCA) in the studio of Shih Yun Yeo and exhibited at the Australian High Commission in 2017.
“Finally, a tangible painterly connection between Singapore and Western Australia” - Curator/artist Mathew Ngui.
This work is for sale, please direct all enquiries to Exhibitions Manager Laetitia Wilson - Laetitia.Wilson@heytesbury.com.au
Exhibition Space Available!!
Check out this amazing space! We are currently taking applications for exhibitions and events.
If you are interested contact Exhibitions Manager Laetitia Wilson: Laetitia.Wilson@heytesbury.com.au
