Collection Focus #4 // THE HILLS: An Artists' Gathering

This exhibition is a unique opportunity to peer into a slice of WA art history when artists of Darlington and surrounds became a part of a dynamic creative community and in doing so forged new directions in art making.

The Janet Holmes à Court Collection now holds over four thousand artworks, and, as with all art collections, it began with simply a few. As residents of Darlington, Janet & Robert Holmes à Court acquired three artworks from the 1968 Darlington Arts & Craft Exhibition. These artworks inaugurated the Collection and remain an important part of its identity through to today. The Hills: An Artists’ Gathering is an opportunity to see such artworks in the company of other artworks by artists significant to the history of Western Australian art, who lived and work in the hills.

ARTISTS

Hans Arkeveld, Mac Betts, Robert Birch, Sandra Black, Brian Blanchflower, Wim Boissevain, Douglas Chambers, Madeleine Clear,  Betsey Currie-Linton, Toni Donley, Stuart Elliott, Guy Grey Smith, Helen Grey Smith, George Haynes, Nigel Hewitt, Robert Juniper, Theo Koning, Bethamy Linton, Vaclav Macha, Brian McKay, Hal Missingham, Philippa O’Brien, Nalda Searles, Bernard Tandy, Howard Taylor, Michele Theunissen, Linda Van Der Merwe, Richard Woldendorp

For enquiries, sales, interviews, further information and images available for reproduction, contact Laetitia Wilson, P. +61 8 6217 2641 or email [email protected]

Image: Robert Juniper, Flood Creek, 1980. Copyright of the Artists Estate