Home & Away #2: The Coastline
Mount Lawley — A voyage by foot
Sunday 17.08.2014 (4pm – 7pm)

The event is free, but we kindly ask you to make a reservation by emailing eloise@westdenhaag.nl as space is limited to 20 people. Once making a reservation you will receive the address from where we will meet at 4pm.

Home & Away travels to Perth, Western Australia to host ‘Home & Away #2: The Coastline’ with contributions from poet and writer Professor John Kinsella, artist, writer, and curator Dr. Ric Spencer, and curator Gemma Weston. Each are invited to respond to the question of ‘natural borders’, and ways of negotiating and problematising notions of space from the broadness of geographic topographies to the intimacy of the local. Finally, led by Gemma Weston, we will go on a local aesthetic appreciation tour of Mount Lawley, where Weston will show us the ‘sites’ by torchlight, which will end with a drink at a bar nearby.

About the contributors:
Gemma Weston explores collaboration and divisions of labor and value in art through text, research and exhibitions. From 2011 - 2013 she was co-director of OK Gallery in Northbridge, Western Australia with Jamie Macchiusi and Andrew Varano, and was selected to participate in the Australia Council’s Emerging Curator program at the 2013 Venice Biennale. She is currently the Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at the University of Western Australia whilst maintaining an independent practice in curating, writing, and consultancy. She has contributed text to publications including Art & Australia, un Magazine, Artlink, and The West Australian Newspaper.

Prof. John Kinsella is the author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, criticism, plays, memoirs, and cross-genre texts. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, and Professor of Sustainability and Literature at Curtin University. His critical books include Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape and Lyricism; Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley; and Spatial Relations. His poetry includes Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems; Armour; and Jam Tree Gully. His fiction includes Post-Colonial: A Novel; In the Shade of the Shady Tree: stories of wheatbelt Australia; and Tide: Stories.

Dr. Ric Spencer is an artist and writer, who is currently Curator at Fremantle Arts Centre. From 2004-2010 he wrote art criticism for The West Australian newspaper and from 2000-2010 he lectured at Curtin University where he holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts and is currently Adjunct Professor. He has been involved in numerous art activities as a writer, artist and project manager, has exhibited in Australia, Asia, and the UK and had his work published in Australian, UK and American arts journals.

Home & Away and West Den Haag
Home & Away #2: The Coastline is hosted by Gemma Weston Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at the University of Western Australia. Home & Away is a thematic program series organised by Eloise Sweetman which travels from West Den Haag in The Netherlands to cities such as Perth, Western Australia and Sao Paulo, Brazil to think about what it is to be away, or stay at home, and how this impacts on both art production and consumption. The event is free, but we kindly ask you to make a reservation by emailing eloise@westdenhaag.nl as space is limited to 20 people. Once making a reservation you will receive the address from where we will meet at 4pm.
Kindly contact Eloise Sweetman — in Australia — at eloise@westdenhaag.nl or on 0410 934 925 for more information.