The Holmes à Court Gallery is an
art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The long ...
in
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
. It has two locations—a gallery located in the original
Vasse Felix winery at
Cowaramup (near
Margaret River
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The river arises from a catchment ...
) and another in
West Perth. It is owned by
Janet Holmes à Court
Janet Holmes à Court, AC, HonFAHA, HonFAIB (born Janet Lee Ranford on 29 November 1943 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the Chairperson of one of Australia's largest private companies ...
.
Exhibits
The gallery displays works from the Holmes à Court Collection through a series of seasonal exhibitions. There is a sculpture garden extending into the grounds of the Vasse Felix winery, where sculptures by local artists are displayed in a garden setting.
[ In 2013, the gallery installed The Art of Sound exhibition in collaboration with the ]National Film and Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting, and providing access to a national c ...
.
History
The gallery was previously located in East Perth
East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth.
Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that eas ...
until it closed in October 2010.
Collection
The Holmes à Court family was interested in Australian art and commenced a collection in the early 1970s. The collection is now internationally renowned as it has over 5000 artworks, many of them being culturally significant works.
References
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Art museums and galleries in Western Australia
Cowaramup, Western Australia