Official Opening, Unfolding: A Forager's Guide to Mapping

Dear friends,

You are cordially invited to join us for the Official Opening of Unfolding: A Forager's Guide to Mapping, an exhibition held at Ellenbrook Arts as part of the IOTA Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, 2024.

Featuring new work by Jayne Argent, Kerrie Argent, Pip Rundle, Julia Sutton, Pauline White, and making use of natural materials and found objects, the artists have created work that maps their places, and tells the stories of their connections to the land on which we live. The complement of foraged matter with found objects probes the uneasy relationship between nature and culture, and maps this ancient land with our contemporary lives, family, community, and sense of place. The work encompasses multi-disciplinary techniques including basketry, ceramics, fibre, textile, jewellery, metalsmithing and paper.

We welcome you to share this special occasion with us, and hear from our guest speaker, Dr. Laetitia Wilson.

Dr. Laetitia Wilson is a Perth-based arts writer, curator and art history lecturer with an interest in contemporary and media arts. Laetitia completed a PhD in Media Art theory in 2011 at the University of Western Australia. She worked at the University of WA 2004-2018, as lecturer and curator and as art critic for the West Australian Newspaper from 2012-2017. Laetitia has published broadly across the arts in local, national and international publications, she has curated for the Perth International Arts Festival, at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Success Arts Space, Moana Project Space and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Laetitia is currently the Exhibitions Manager/Curator at the Holmes a Court Gallery.

The exhibition runs from 13 July until 24 August.