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Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10 and the
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
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Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10
The Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10 is currently empty in readiness for roof restoration. The next time you visit the gallery it will be a more comfortable environment with shiny new insulation.
Following this, we are thrilled to announce that we will be re-installing Concrete E X P A N D E D. if you missed it the first time because of lock down, you will have a chance to catch it in July-August.
Concrete E X P A N D E D harmonises with the architectural features of the gallery with works celebrating minimal abstraction. Classic abstract paintings are combined with light sculptures, acrylic works and concrete sculptures.
The exhibition is also viewable on our dedicated website:
Consuelo Cavaniglia, Jennifer Cochrane, Janenne Eaton, Robert Hunter, Brian McKay, Trevor Richards, Douglas Sheerer, Helen Smith, Trevor Vickers, Joshua Webb
DATES: 3rd July - 29th August
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10
Douglas St. West Perth
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat, 11.00am-5.00pm
Exhibition views: Concrete E X P A N D E D, 2020
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
LESLEY MEANEY Becoming Australian
Lesley Meaney, Wildflower Shroud, 2019 (detail)
Lesley Meaney Becoming Australian at the Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix is currently closed but please have a look at the exhibition online This ambitious solo exhibition is a dynamic and considered response to the Australian bush. It is made manifest and resplendent through a generous and varied selection of works.
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
Gallery closed till further notice
Exhibition views - Lesley Meaney | Becoming Australian
Upcoming Exhibition
FIBREtravels South for an unwrapping, unrolling and unfolding of fibre and textile artworks from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection together with works from invited artists.
FIBREpresents stitched, threaded, strung, rubbed, ripped, folded and pressed Fibre art. From silky and delicate, to course and robust, the works speak of material manipulation and ritualistic gestures of repetitive stitching and rubbing. Everyday clothing is cut, re-stitched and sculpted anew; forms of nature are enveloped in felt and fabric; human hair is shaped and strung together; paper is stitched into and; native flora and fauna are pictured and sculpted of, with and on fibres.
Coming out of a time of social isolation, this exhibition is about intimacy; it compels the sense of touch. It also invites us to consider the intricately crafted qualities of the natural world around us and the cultural significance of fibre and textiles as contemporary art.
ARTISTS:
Lindsay Mpetyane Bird, Tingapa Davies, Mark Dustin, Olga Cironis, Marjorie Coleman, Sujora Conrad, Carmela Corvaia, Angela Ferolla, Jean Hoijo, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Holly Story, Lesley Parker, John Parkes, Susan Roux, Nalda Searles, Helen Seiver, Curtis Taylor, Debra West
DATES:
1st June - 20th September 2020
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
Gallery Hours: 10.00am - 5.00pm Daily (check Vasse Felix website to confirm opening hours - www.vassefelix.com.au)
Other News
Jo Darvall, Still Life Floating 1, 2015
We are extremely grateful to Jo Darvall for donating this piece to the Janet Holmes à Court Collection. The work is from the exhibition Paris Bled into the Ocean of 2015. The exhibition paid homage to and celebrated the career of the painter Kathleen O'Connor (1876 - 1968). We are thrilled to add it to the collection with two other works from the same exhibition.
Mark Dustin, Guadalcanal, 2019
This work was acquired for the collection from the recent and upcomingFIBRE exhibition. It was originally sourced from Dustin's Grandfather’s photographs, taken during the second world war and was a part of the American Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands. As Dustin states: "My Grandfather was stationed on a Japanese occupied island as a photographic reconnaissance spy, and was delivered to the island by the ship in this image, and given a very thin felt blanket to keep himself warm for months on end in his hidden dugout... my Grandfather was given a thinner blanket to survive with in Guadalcanal than the felt blankets he went on to wrap his coffins in, that he made later in life as a carpenter."
Thanks to Lyn DiCiero for including the Concrete E X P A N D E D exhibition on the front cover of the May/June Artist's Chronicle. Inside there is an article by Laetitia Wilson on Visual Art during Covid-19, read it here.
We have taken this quiet time to do a clean out. If you are interested in any past exhibition catalogues, come and grab a bundle next time you are in.
Exhibition and Event Space Available
The Janet Holmes à Court Gallery is available for hire for exhibitions and events. We assess applications monthly. 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
