You and a friend are invited to view

DECOMPRESSION

an exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary  
of the Robertson Park Artists Studios. 
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at the

Holmes à Court Gallery@No.10 Douglas Street, West Perth.

An exhibit of paintings, sculptures and  jewellery 

to be formally opening by Emma Cole, City of Vincent Mayor.
Keynote speaker:  Lee Kinsella, Special Projects Curator at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA.
Music by well-known Perth Chamber Group, Dolce Ensembles. 

Artist Talks and Performance  2 pm on Sunday 24 November.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 10am-4pm until Thursday December 5 (not open Mon & Tues)[updated 22/11/19) 


Artist Talks and dance performance  2 pm on Sunday 24 November.

RSVP: email or Facebook
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instagram: @robparkarts

details and media release

read or listen to some media coverage:

Maxxi Minaxi May, Robertson Park celebrates 20 years, Artbeat, M., RTR Radio,  22 November. 9:30-45am.

Artists come together, The Post, Subiaco, WA, 23 November, go to p.93
 

An Independent, self funded, non-profit Artist Run Initiative / Artist Run Space collectively run by all artists.

What the experts say ...

"Recent attitudes to art miss the point. Artists make art because they must. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, artists gotta to make art.  But how to go about it?  A good way is to work as a group in a cooperative studio. It helps pay the rent and sorts out all those petty inhibitions and pretensions quicker than you can say Moet and Chandon. ...." read more 

Dr David Bromfield 
Art Critic / Author / past Head of Visual Arts, ALVA, University of Western Australia
... One result of the huge social and economic changes within the arts has been to create a proliferation of artist driven initiatives. Sometimes artists, particularly 'emerging artists', group together from the same sense of need for a supportive philosophical environment as did the Impressionists, Dadaists, Expressionists or Heidelberg painters... read more
Prof. N. Weston
Artist / past Art Critic: WA Newspaper / past  Head of School of Art, Head of School, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University
... The space is open and social, and all the artists that I talked with spoke about how important working in such an open and social space was...  read more                                         
Dr Maria Miranda
Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Blogger on Artist Run Initives