Residency at Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation
Conversations With Artists: Katie West
This online talk is part of the EcoCreative Cluster 2022 Programme: Nurturing Creativity, Piece by Piece. Funded by Creative Scotland.
Date: Friday 25th November
Time: 12pm-1pm
Place: Zoom
Age: All ages
Cost: Free
Booking is essential for this event
Online artist talk
Courtesy the artist and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia
Photo: Bo Wong
Courtesy of the artist and Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation
Images: Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation
Courtesy the artist and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia
Photo: Pixel Poetry
Courtesy of the artist and TarraWarra Museum of Art
Photo: Andrew Curtis
Join us for the sixth episode in our new series of EcoCreatives ‘Conversations With Artists’. Every month for five months we will invite an artist/practitioner from a different part of the world to share their creative practice and exchange viewpoints in an informal online talk. All artists use locally sourced natural materials and natural dye techniques for their practice. By exchanging knowledge and experience, we aim to weave a wider network of practitioners and practices with our own community here on the West Coast.
In this free online artist talk, curator Naoko Mabon will be in conversation with Katie West, an artist and Yindjibarndi woman based in Noongar Ballardong country, working in installation, textiles and social practice.
The process and notion of naturally dyeing fabric underpin her practice – the rhythm of walking, gathering, bundling, boiling up water and infusing materials with plant matter. Using found and naturally dyed textiles, video, and sound, Katie creates installations, textile pieces, and happenings that invite attention to the ways we weave our stories, places, histories, and futures. Katie has presented solo exhibitions at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville and West Space, Melbourne for Next Wave Festival 2016, and participated in group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne and Shimmer, Rotterdam.
This session is held via Zoom. An invitation link will be shared via email ahead of the event with all registered attendees.
Conversations with Artists. Collection of textile art images by the artists.
EcoCreatives: Series 1 Playlist
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Project Funding
This project has kindly been supported by Creative Scotland.
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