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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
Marjorie Coleman | Lyrical Stitch
Marjorie Coleman, Leaf Litter, 2002 (detail)
This major solo exhibition spans five decades to celebrate the creative life and prolific stitched art work of Western Australian artist Marjorie Coleman.
Stitching on cloth gives voice to Marjorie’s stories. Using contemporary stitch as an expressive medium Marjorie produces rich evocative pieces to represent her ideas and experiences, to tell a story of ongoing exploration, and concern for her local surroundings. She takes pleasure from working with cloth, drawing on a lifetime of intimate knowledge, to stitch for her own enlightenment. This exhibition marks the culmination of a series of exhibitions celebrating fibre, textile and stitched art.
DATES:
17th October - 28th November 2020
Exhibition Opening
6 - 8pm | Friday 16th October 2020
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Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. West Perth
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat, 11.00am-5.00pm
Melanie Maclou, Reminiscent Topography 183 (detail), 2020, photography Bo Wong
WAFTA 2020 Members’ Exhibition
The 2020 Members exhibition is a significant and ground breaking exhibition for the organisation. Members have responded to the title of hanging by a thread with ideas about the pandemic, the environment and mental health. With a diverse range of materials and techniques and over 170 works on show, this exhibition is set to be an incredibly memorable one.
DATES:
17th - 2nd October 2020
Exhibition enquires can be directed to Pauline White: exhibitions@wafta.com.au | ph.0438 903 893
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Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Douglas St. West Perth Open daily for this exhibition: 11.00am-5.00pm
Carrie McDowell, Threaded Resilience (detail), 2020 photographer: Carrie McDowell and Lesley Parker, Fading Away (detail), 2020 photographer: Bo Wong
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
FIBRE is closing this weekend. Your last chance to catch it will be Sunday 20th September. Also on from the 12th -27th September is the Margaret River open studios, offering a wide selection of studios to visit. See: https://www.mrropenstudios.com.au
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.
FEATURED 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
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA. Gallery Hours: 10.00am-5.00pm
Vasse Felix Cellar Door - Open for seated tastings 10am–5pm, daily. Bookings visit www.vassefelix.com.au or phone 9756 5000
Vasse Felix Restaurant - Open for lunch service, 12pm–3pm, Thursday–Monday (inclusive). Bookings visit www.vassefelix.com.au or phone 9756 5000
Ross Potter, History Raising, 2020 (work in progress)
Tracing the Swan follows the story of the settlement of the Swan River Colony with the swan as the central character in artworks about race, difference and the unexpected.
In a play between fiction and reality, the black swan is traced throughout the history of the colonisation of Western Australia up to the present day. From historical to contemporary artworks, the exhibition explores how WA was presented to potential settlers, how its landscape was impacted and has changed over time and how the swan stands as emblem of WA against this tide of changes in its real environment.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Deborah Bonar, Portia Bennett, Lance Tjyllyungoo Chadd, Frederick Clause, Jo Darbyshire, Valentine Delawarr, Eva Fernandez, Norman Hawkins, W.J. Huggins, Tony Jones, Johannes Keulemans, Yvonne Kickett, Bethamy Linton, Walter Meston, Alan Muller, Ron Nyistzor, Ross Potter, John Sands, Robert Seymour, Ernest Stocks, John Tallis, Rover Thomas, Charles Wittenoom.
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix
Cnr Tom Cullity Drive and Caves Road
Cowaramup, WA. Gallery Hours: 10.00am-5.00pm
Vasse Felix Cellar Door - Open for seated tastings 10am–5pm, daily. Bookings visit www.vassefelix.com.au or phone 9756 5000
Vasse Felix Restaurant - Open for lunch service, 12p –3pm, Thursday–Monday (inclusive). Bookings visit www.vassefelix.com.au or phone 9756 5000
Artist in Residence
Sujora Conrad
Artist in Residence
Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix 9th - 20th September 2020
In conjunction with the FIBRE exhibition, Western Australian artist Sujora Conrad is in the midst of her residency at the Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix. Sujora is working in the gallery space and the residency will culminate in an informal show-and-tell during the closing of the exhibition on Sunday 20th September at 11am. Sujora crafts intimate and poignant art works, closely working with natural materials, fibres and textiles.
The Hanging by a Thread exhibition is open now and looking like a wondrous forest of pattern, texture, colour and diverse materials. To find out more about it see this article in the Artist's Chronicle: https://artistschronicle.com/2020/09/hanging-by-a-thread
Acquisitions
Clyde McGill, Dante's Cartography, 2020
This work was part of Clyde McGill's recent exhibition Indian Ocean Views at Nyisztor Gallery. This exhibition considered looking west and 'a seeing and knowing of our time, our place, and the politics and parallaxes of our home.' We are delighted to include this work in theJanet Holmes à Court Collection.
Exhibition and Event Space Available
The Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10 is available for hire for bespoke events and exhibitions. On a monthly basis we assess applications.
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
