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After 23 years in Robertson Park, all studio artists and students are moving to
10 Farmer Street, NORTH PERTH. To reflect the move and to make it easy to find us, our name changes to Farmer Street Studio. New website at https://www.farmerstreetstudio.com ROBERTSON PARK Location The park is less than 2 km / 1.2 miles northwest from the middle of Perth city (GPO), Western Australia. The Robertson Park Artists Studio was on the city side of the park, in the middle of the open lawn, between the renovated house (opposite the Carr and Fitzgerald Streets corner) and the WA Veteran Tennis Club's tennis courts (in the northwest corner of the park). Indigenous Significance Robertson Park / Lake Henderson / Boo’joormeup / Boojoormeup has been, and still is, a gathering place for the Noongar People. Recent History Robertson Park is also part of a series of wetlands through the city which are both part of a walking tail and connected by an underground drain system. In 2021 the City of Vincent started a community consultation process as part of a process to reorganise / rejuvenate the park. Contact the City for an update. In 2004 the Town of Vincent spent $500,000 on improving the Park, with new trees, gardens, paths, lighting, public art, seating and a winter lake, which is in the southeast corner of the park. A Green Belt "W.E. Bold, City of Perth Town Clerk (1901-44) proposed a ‘green belt’ around the city. On his recommendation, from 1913, the City purchased and reclaimed the inner city market gardens for conversion to parks and reserves, including land for the future Robertson Park... Some of the land continued to be leased to Chinese market gardeners through into the late 1920s, and the stables and dwelling also remained for some years." source and recommended reading. WA Heritage records (start on p.5) Friends of Robertson Park website for more reading links Click for Google Map. 
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Random photos from the park, over the years.
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Robertson Park Artists Studio(in the middle of the lawn)
176 Fitzgerald St* West Perth WA 6005 AUSTRALIA (*no snail mail postal service to this address) After 23 years in Robertson Park, all studio artists and students moved to 10 Farmer Street, North Perth, and changed our name to Farmer Street Studio. New website: https://www.farmerstreetstudio.com Come visit! |
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