From 30 November, local artist Mollie Edgecombe will be in residence at MJAC exhibiting a range of artworks including portraiture, landscapes and signwriting created over a 60-year period.
DADAA Midland artists Harvey Arnephie-Cook, Emma Vedeniapine and Jasmine Meyer expand their ceramic practice under the guidance of ceramicist Val Barron. They are part of a collaborative clay project that connects into broader workshops being facilitated across the City of Swan through the Re-Connection: A Multigenerational Art Project through Community Voices project.
For the Best promises a new evolution in the highly anticipated and memorable community engagement programs Whiskey & Boots offer. Partnering with The Last Great Hunt and writer Jeffrey Jay Fowler, For the Best fuses community interviews, music and performance, seeking insight into why we sometimes lose contact with the people who were once closest to us.
An exploration of textural painting examining the relationship between immigration and assimilation within the Iranian diaspora. Yasamin Khadembashi’s project focusses on aspects of Persian culture, women's liberties, queerness, art, poetry, landscape and music, utilising the medium of impasto oil paints to mimic the texture of fabric, water, hair and a multitude of other materials.
Drawing on the participatory nature of informal inscription culture, Vahri McKenzie and Gemma Ben-Ary create a series of performance art experiments and woven fibre artworks in conversation with a graffiti site on the Helena River.
Johnny and Izy look at the interplay of language and identity for artists of the Asian diaspora in Australia, inviting artists to participate in forums and community arts projects as an exploratory tool to inform curatorial practice and projects.
The Veranda Studio turns into a hub of textile joy when ten of the stitched & bound artists open their arts practice to visitors. Dividing the residency in blocks of time will allow visitors to come back again and again to meet different artists, watch their techniques up close, learn a few tricks and contribute to community projects through stitch.
