Exhibition

Artwork Image:
Max Ball

Counterpoint

Wednesday 3 – Saturday 20 November 2021

The artists in COUNTERPOINT have created works that emphasise, clarify and contextualise their practice by contrasting or juxtaposing different elements.

Event Details

Opening

Wednesday 3 November, 6 - 8pm

Date

Wednesday 3 – Saturday 20 November 2021

Location

Stala Contemporary

12 Cleaver Street, West Perth

Cost

Free Entry

Like a musician who combines different melodic lines to generate new relationships, these visual artists use their technical skills as metalsmiths to contrast one visual element with another. Encompassing a range of opportunities to juxtapose traditional ideas, materials and techniques with contemporary interpretations, inventions, and re-imaginings each artist has embraced the theme as a catalyst to re-energise their practice. Developed from a theme of contrariety in balance, each artist has created works that emphasise or clarify their intent by contrasting or juxtaposing different elements. Curated by Professor Ted Snell, from work by the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group WA, COUNTERPOINT groups their approaches into a dynamic exploration of contrapuntal experimentation.

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Selected Artworks

Tineke Van der Eecken, Watermelon Pendant, Tourmaline crystal slice and beads, gold filled wire, silver chain, 65 x 50 x 5mm, chain 55 cm, 2021. Photo by Yasmin Studio

Blandine Halle. The lucky country no. 1, copper, jarrah, balga tree sap, 23kt gold foil, dune spinifex, beached broken ceramic, 150 x 50 x 15mm

Katrina Virgona. Impossible pins series, wool and hair felted and stitched on to wire, 280 x 80 25mm, and 320 x 190 x 30mm, and 280 x 90 x 30mm, Photography Yasmin Studio

Sultana Shamshi, The Ceremonial neckpiece for the Zamorin of Calicut, lave beads, British, Dutch and Portuguese colonial coins, coral beads, silk, copper and sterling silver, 590 x 200 x 5mm, Photography Yasmin Studio

Barbara Cotter, Bone study: right metacarpal 2, natural size, Sterling silver, 75 x 15 x 11mm, Photography Yasmin Studio

Aaron Seymour, Nelumbo nucifera earrings, sterling silver, gold vermeil, lemon citrine, blue sapphires, 40 x 26 x 8mm, photography by Yasmin Studio

Artists

Kadri Alekand, Max Ball, Barbara Cotter, Annette Ellson, Blandine Halle, Hannah Jago, Louise Gore Langton, Bethamy Linton, Jill Parnell, Felicity Peters, Brenda Ridgewell, Aaron Seymour, Sultana Shamshi, Jacquie Sprogoe, Claire Townsend, Tineke Van der Eecken, Katrina Virgona, Robin Wells, Alister Yiap, Lynndy Young

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Event Details

Opening Night

Wednesday 3 November, 6 - 8pm

Date

Wednesday 3 – Saturday 20 November 2021

Location

Stala Contemporary

12 Cleaver Street, West Perth

Cost

Free Entry

Artists

Kadri Alekand, Max Ball, Barbara Cotter, Annette Ellson, Blandine Halle, Hannah Jago, Louise Gore Langton, Bethamy Linton, Jill Parnell, Felicity Peters, Brenda Ridgewell, Aaron Seymour, Sultana Shamshi, Jacquie Sprogoe, Claire Townsend, Tineke Van der Eecken, Katrina Virgona, Robin Wells, Alister Yiap, Lynndy Young

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