This newsletter features the monthly events happening at the Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix and the Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Current Exhibitions
Lesley Meaney, Exhibition view
Lesley Meaney | Becoming Australian | 50 Years
Last Days!
This 50-year survey presents the art of Lesley Meaney as a journey of becoming Australian. A kaleidoscopic visual feast of vibrant colour, pattern and texture unfolds through a variety and abundance of art works. With a spirit of enquiry, Meaney draws inspiration from the Australian bush, the heart of the forest and desert. Each of these places has come to define Meaney’s identity and sense of home. This is an evolving journey through painting, drawing, curious objects and stitched works, that speaks of impermanence, the details and forces of nature and their translation into becoming Australian.
This exhibition includes works from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection, works from private loans and a large number of glorious works for sale. PRICE LISTHERE
A book featuring the work of Lesley Meaney complements the exhibition - Lesley Meaney Becoming Australian an Artist's Journey, retailing for $100. All proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to support a brighter future for children with brain cancer.
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. West Perth, WA, 6005
T: (08) 6217 2640
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, 12.00-6.00 pm
Lesley Meaney, Tag - Mark of the Scribbly Gum Moth, 2005-13
Nigel Hewitt, Twisted Tarn, 2016
enigmas of the outback
This exhibition presents similar responses to and perceptions of the Australian outback as an enigmatic, mysterious, spirited and haunted terrain. It explores the dark undercurrents that inform mythologies of the Australian landscape across contemporary indigenous and non-indigenous art works. The selection of photographic, paint and sculptural works reflect upon the way the outback triggers the imagination in unsettling ways. As a journey through spiritual and mythological stories of the land, it is at once darkly evocative and psychologically compelling.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Brook Andrew, Jane Burton, Rebecca Dagnall, Eva Fernandez, David Downs Jarinyanu, Nigel Hewitt, Janet Laurence, Rosslynd Piggott, Polixeni Papapetrou, Brad Rimmer, Jacqui Stockdale, Monique Tippet, Paul Uhlmann, Paddy Fordham Wainburranga, Toni Wilkinson.
DATES: 29th September 2019 - 9th February 2020
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
Gallery Hours: 10.00am - 5.00pm Daily
Rebecca Dagnall, Paradise 6, 2009
This exquisite photograph by local photographer Rebecca Dagnall is one of the few works for sale in enigmas of the outback. The price list of works for sale is available HERE
Exhibitions by other Groups and Artists
Decompression
A group exhibition by the Robertson Park Artists Studio.
An Independent, self funded, non-profit art studio collectively run by artists
OPENING: 6-8pm, Friday November 22nd
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. West Perth
To be opened by City of Vincent Mayor Emma Cole with invited speaker Lee Kinsella (curator, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery) and music by well known Perth Chamber group Dolce Ensembles.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Graham Hay, Carol Rowling, Francis Dennis, Sarah Jane Marchant, Christopher McClelland and Bethany Linton.
DATES: 23rd November - 1st December 2019 Gallery Hours: 10.00am - 4.00pm Daily
Christopher McClelland, Indian Ocean Series #3, 2019
Public Programs
Lesley Meaney, Studio, 2019
Artist Talk : Lesley Meaney
This Saturday!!
In this talk, prolific local artist Lesley Meaney will offer an insight into her practice and the art works within the exhibition Lesley Meaney | Becoming Australian | 50 Years. Meaney’s work pulses with vibrant colour, showcases a variety of techniques and a diversity of media, from paint to stitched works and the use of found materials.
Meaney will explore how, from small scale to great expanse, she has come to terms with and embraced the idiosyncrasies of the Australia landscape, its unique light and particular flora and fauna.
Lesley Meaney with her new book on sale at the gallery, photograph Paul McGovern Contemporary Image Photography Pty Ldt
OPEN HOUSE PERTH
THIS WEEKEND - 16th and 17th November 2019
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no. 10
Douglas St. West Perth, WA, 6005
12.00 - 6.00 pm
The Holmes à Court Gallery is part of Open House Perth, a free, two-day festival that celebrates the best of architecture, design and the built environment in Perth and its surrounds. It gives visitors access to Perth’s best places and spaces.
For more information on participating destinations see: https://openhouseperth.com/#
Top: Robertson Park artists: Graham Hay, Carol Rowling, Frances Dennis, Christopher McClelland
Bottom left: Carol Rowling, Stratum 7, 2019
Bottom right: Bethamy Linton, Princess Parrot Icon, Rare and Vanishing Australian Bird Series, 2019
Artist Talks | Decompression
Robertson Park Artists Studio is one of the longest running Artists Run Initiatives in Western Australia. Its members include power tool-wielding landscape painter Carol Rowling; lyrical artist and teacher Christopher McClelland; painter, illustrator and art teacher Sarah Jane Marchant; fourth generation Silversmith Bethamy Linton, and paper clay expert, postgraduate student Graham Hay. These artistswill all speak about their work and invite discussion.
The afternoon will also include a performance by a contemporary dance troupe from WAAPA. WAAPA students' choreographer Isabel Wartmann, along with dancers Karlia Cook and Isabelle Collie have collaborated with Graham Hay over the last four months to interpret his artistic ideas and methods. The result is “Paper clay” - a short contemporary dance work that provokes speculation about the creative mind and processes.
This is an artist's book recently acquired from the Gallery East exhibition Between The Sheets: Artists' Books 2019, made by Queensland based artist Sue Pogglioli.
Sue writes:
Unmade bed, curtains, shadows,
Light falling
I draw.
I am a collector of tones and shadows.
With zinc plate, acid
Soft fabric folds
Become deep grooves in metal
Red ink, black create white lines
A two-sided image sliced into squares
Sewn them together,
Infinite configurations
Exhibition Space Available!!
Check out this amazing space! Our 2020 program is rapidly filling up but there are still a few spaces left and we are currently taking proposals for exhibitions and events.
If you are interested contact Exhibitions Manager Laetitia Wilson: Laetitia.Wilson@heytesbury.com.au
