**Join us for the Exhibition OPENING NIGHT for Feline Good. Howabout Body Shots? - Bruno Booth | A Matter of Making - Marianne Penberthy**

OPENING NIGHT: 6pm- 8pm, 5 July 2024

EXHIBITION DATES: 6 July - 1 September 2024

VENUE: Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, 24 Chapman Road, Geraldton, WA, 6530

Image credit: Bruno Booth, Jam Jam, 2021. Photography by Bo Wong

Image credit - Bruno Booth, Body Shots at Goolagatup Heathcote, 2022, Photography by Daniel James Grant

FELINE GOOD. HOWABOUT BODY SHOTS? - Bruno Booth

ABOUT
Feline Good. Howabout Body Shots? brings together two major works by Bruno Booth, offering insight
into the multidisciplinary practice of a significant Western Australian artist.

Body Shots is an audio visual installation presented on a custom-built sculptural frame. The screens
show candid views of the disabled body – juxtaposed with familiar landscapes and scenes. A foot that
looks like no other lies on a bed of green grass, a knobbly, scarred knee rests on a sandy beach gently
washed by the tide. These views link across screens, forming unusual, unapologetic bodies that float
in space. Each of the videos is nine minutes long, referencing the percentage of artists in Australia
who identify as disabled, compared to the 20% of the full Australian population.

This work, originally presented as a discrete exhibition at Goolugatup Heathcote in Melville, is paired
for tour with a series of day-glo coloured, tracksuit-wearing sculptural cats commissioned for the
Art Gallery of Western Australia’s 2021 survey of Western Australian artistic practice, The View From
Here. These bright and irreverent animal ambassadors are placed in unusual and surprising locations
throughout an exhibition space, aiming to gently re-orient the viewer’s physical and psychological
relationship to the gallery.

An ART ON THE touring exhibition.
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This project has been made possible through the Regional Exhibition Touring Boost managed by the
Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries, supported by Royalties for Regions
and delivered by ART ON THE MOVE.

Image credit: Marianne Penberthy, Vestige, 1996, mixed media, paper, rust and wire, photographed by Karl Monaghan

A MATTER OF MAKING

ABOUT
The process of making, seeking to gain insight through exploration with, and manipulation of material matter, is an inextricable aspect of who I am.
Following a process of making releases my mind to wander - revealing and connecting me to histories of place; it allows materials to say what I cannot.
This exhibition surveys works created from 1994 to the present – from Caloundra to the Midwest. Over this time, I have nurtured my practice of making as a form of restoration. Using textiles, paper, matter from the earth, and whatever came to hand, I have undertaken journeys to explore questions of isolation, colonization, and women’s work.

Image Credit Marianne Penberthy in her home, Photography by Elliot Brown (2)

MARIANNE PENBERTHY
Marianne’s art responds to, and with, the land on which she has dwelled since the early 1970s. These responses to the unique vegetation, remnants of habitation, mapping and language of the land find their way into permanent and temporary marks in her work.
Born in Queensland in 1948, she began her art practice in the early 1980s as a self-taught ceramicist and production thrower. She then formally trained at the Central West College of TAFE (now Central Regional TAFE) and Edith Cowan University, Perth, completing her Bachelor of Arts Visual Art in 1995.
Living in the Midwest of Western Australia Marianne continues to explore issues of significance to her, including the constraints imposed by altered visual perception resulting from hymominus hemianopia.

Please note that photographs and footage may be taken throughout this event. These will be used by the City for publicity and reporting in our publications, on our website and in social media.

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