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
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, 12-6pm
The Lesley Meaney exhibition was opened by Janet Holmes à Court, followed by a book launch by Mary Anne Paton and Lesley Meaney offering some personal insights into her works.
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 - 9th February
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA.
Gallery Hours: 10.00am - 5.00pm Daily
enigmas of the outback, exhibition view
The Botanical: Beauty and Peril at the Art Gallery of WA
Closing November 4th, The Botanical is in its last few weeks. Catch it while you can. This exhibition showcases a unique selection of works combined from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection and the State Art Collection. The beauty of the botanical world is celebrated alongside an acknowledgement of the sobering reality of its imperilment resulting from human action. This is a timely exhibition in light of recent uprisings about climate change and the debate concerning the declaration of climate emergency.
Principal Partner: EY
Spirits Partner: Archie Rose Distilling Co.
Art Gallery of WA 6 July - 4 November 2019
The Botanical: Beauty and Peril, exhibition view, 2019
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: Saturday 23rd Nov - Sunday 1st Dec Open daily 10.00am - 4.00pm
Christopher McClelland, Indian Ocean Series #3, 2019
Public Programs
John Gollings, Ariel King Lake - Black Saturday, 2009
DAY OF IDEAS
Saturday 9th November 2019
10am - 3.30pm
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas Street, West Perth WA 6005
Declaration of Climate Emergency, Australia?
Climate Emergency has been declared in jurisdictions across 19 countries. The school strike movement has taken the climate crisis as not a potential threat but a present reality. There is a groundswell of awareness concerning environmental catastrophes, ecological collapse, mass extinction and the imperilled future of life on earth.
While this is happening and there is a significant push to bring energy policy in line with scientific reality, capitalism and political powers are hindering systemic action towards viable outcomes. The 2019 Day of Ideas is about environmental crises, the declaration of climate emergency, the question of what it takes to rise to the existential challenge of climate change and what this would look like.
The selected speakers, comprised of scientists, academics and young people, will provide fresh insights, including climate change and mental health, climate change and migration/displacement and the impact of climate change on the marine environment. The audience will be invited to ask questions and engage in discussion. The purpose of this day is to allow for the raising and sharing of important ideas.
SPEAKERS : Chelsea Andrews, Climate activist and representative for the Australian Youth Climate Council.
"Pressure Cooker'
Dr Joëlle Gergis,(co-funded by Quantum Words Perth) Award-winning climate scientist and author of, Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University ‘Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia’
Professor Helen Berry, Professor of Climate Change and Mental Health at the University of Sydney. ‘Mind games: Our worrying struggle with climate change’?
Associate Professor David Hodgkinson, UWA Law School ‘Climate change displacement.’
Dr Thomas Wernberg, UWA Oceans Institute & School of Biological Sciences ‘Climate change, marine heatwaves and the future of the Great Southern Reef’
This event is held in conjunction with the Institute of Advanced Studies, UWA
Lesley Meaney, Memoir of a Shell Collection, 2009-12 (detail)
Artist Talk : Lesley Meaney
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.
Helen Seiver, Introducing the Wild West to Sydney 1, 2019
This work by Helen Seiver was recently acquired from the exhibition Wildflower State at Midland Junction Arts Centre. It reflects on the rich biodiversity of Banksia trees in Western Australia and their rapidly diminishing habitat. The colours of the cotton thread represent colour varieties seen across different species of Banksia.
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 applications for exhibitions and events.
If you are interested contact Exhibitions Manager Laetitia Wilson: Laetitia.Wilson@heytesbury.com.au
