Fragility & Strength (expired event)

In Fragility and Strength, Janice Bathurst explores techniques of hand making textile works, photography, sculpture and recycled Jarrah to research her hometown of Yarloop, in the Shire of Harvey.

Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) Spectrum Project Space will host a solo art exhibition, Fragility & Strength by School of Arts and Humanities Master’s student Janice Bathurst.

This Master of Arts research project uses techniques of hand making textile artworks; photography and sculpture using recycled Jarrah. Bathurst’s research focuses on Yarloop, her hometown, in the southwest of Western Australia. She investigates the experience of belonging to this place, and the affect of that it has had on her personal identity.

Yarloop was almost destroyed by a devastating fire on 7 January 2016. Bathurst intends that her artworks communicate and acknowledge the massive impact of this event on herself and the wider township. Yarloop, prior to the 2016 bushfires still housed the remains of the biggest timber mill and workshops in the Southern Hemisphere. Bathurst says that she hopes people will take away from this exhibition a better awareness of the iconic Jarrah tree which is Indigenous to the South-West of Western Australia and an understanding of its place in the identity of the region.

Fragility & Strength will be officially opened by Dr. Nicola Kaye on Thursday, 18 October at 6:00pm. The exhibition is open to the public from Friday, 19 October to Thursday, 1 November in the Front Gallery at Spectrum Project Space, Mount Lawley Campus, Edith Cowan University. This exhibition will run concurrently with Caroline Kerr’s Artifacts of the Future in the Back Gallery.

Opening
Date: Thursday, 18 October

Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm
 

Venue: Spectrum Project Space, ECU Mount Lawley Campus, Building 3, Room 3.191
Open hours

Tuesday – Friday 10:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday 12:00 – 5:00pm