Current exhibitions
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 12-5pm
plus the following Sundays 1-4pm: 28 June, 5 & 26 July, 16 & 30 August
Nalda Searles - Drifting in My Own Land, Cathy Blanchflower and Audacity of Faith opening night, JCG, 2009
Nalda Searles - Drifting in My Own Land
19 June - 30 August 2009
The national tour of Nalda Searles - Drifting in My Own Land is supported and managed by ART ON THE MOVE.
The exhibition is supported by Visions Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of cultural material across Australia.
Nalda Searles has been practising her craft for nearly 30 years and is an innovator in the use of native fibres and found objects from the environment for the creation of fibre-textiles, sculptures and installations. This acclaimed Western Australian artist explores notions of identity in relation to the physical and social landscape through this comprehensive range of more than 21 works. Featured in this exhibition are works that utilise recycled clothing and textiles, hair, plant materials, meadow hay, found and salvaged objects combined with seemingly endless stitching.
Grass Skull 2, 2008, 120 x 220 x 160mm, common fodder, poly thread, photo: Eva Fernandez
Nalda Searles - Drifting in My Own Land, installation view, JCG, 2009
Grass Funnel, 2007, 310 x 380mm, common fodder, red wool blanket, cotton thread, photo: Eva Fernandez
Nalda Searles - Drifting in My Own Land, installation view, JCG, 2009
Kangaroo Couple, 1995-2008, White: 1730 mm x 560 mm x 390 mm, Brown: 1900 mm x 660 mm x 510 mm, wool dresses, plant dyed silk, xanthorrhoea spathes, silk strings, common fodder, cotton mannequins, photo: Eva Fernandez
Nalda Searles - Drifting in My Own Land, installation view, JCG, 2009
Nalda Searles - Drifting in My Own Land, installation view, JCG, 2009
Nalda Searles - Drifting in My Own Land, installation view, JCG, 2009
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Cathy Blanchflower
19 June - 30 August 2009
Cathy Blanchflower is increasingly recognised as one of Australia's most important painters, undertaking her work over the last 17 years with a determination and resilience that has strengthened her reputation in recent years. Since departing Perth in the mid 1990's, Blanchflower has lived and worked in both New York and Melbourne.
Presenting 25 works, dating from 1992 to the present, this exhibition is the first survey of paintings by Blanchflower ever seen in Australia, featuring many works that have never been shown in Perth before.
Lyrr, 2008, 122cm x 122cm, oil on canvas, Collection of the Artist, Courtesy of the Artist & Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
Cathy Blanchflower, installation view, JCG, 2009
Cathy Blanchflower, installation view, JCG, 2009
Cathy Blanchflower, Aster XI, 2004, 122 x 122cm, oil on canvas, Private Collection, Melbourne, Courtesy of the Artist & Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
Cathy Blanchflower, installation view, JCG, 2009
Cathy Blanchflower, installation view, JCG, 2009
Audacity of Faith
Anne Walmsley
19 June - 17 July 2009
A Guild on Show exhibition held in the Access Gallery
Through her artwork, Walmsley considers transitional phases triggered by grief, loss, faith and reflection. The works use architectural spaces, found materials and garments as metaphors for personal histories and states of becoming. Imagery of interior spaces are used to depict quiet reflection while the use of manipulated garments symbolise the 'wearing and shedding' of ways and beliefs.
Distressed Jeans (detail), 2009, jeans, paper, hanger, 106 x 38 x 9cm
Audacity of Faith, installation view, JCG - Access Gallery, 2009
Audacity of Faith, installation view, JCG - Access Gallery, 2009
She-oak, 2008, bathers, plaster, she-oak needles, clothes hanger, 83 x 41 x 5cm, installation view, JCG - Acces Gallery, 2009
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