Jo Darbyshire & Penny Coss: Ships that Pass

PS Art Space is a project space and experimental platform for contemporary art. Large in scale, the two-storey brick and iron building is rare as one of the most intact examples of its former use for the Fremantle Port as a major centre for trade and commerce. In responding to the site , ‘Ships that Pass’ is based on the poem written by H.W. Longfellow in 1874 reflecting on the idea of a sense of place.

Jo Darbyshire’s imagined relationship with the coast of Western Australia: local islands, ships in the Port and the traces of colonial life she observes in the material fabric of Fremantle. She aligns her work to that of the Surrealists and the attempt for a psychic directness that relates to experience and ‘inner vision’. Penny Coss imagines the landscape as a backdrop for cultural migration and the thresholds between the familiar and unfamiliar. She references geology, biology and the gravitational forces of water and engages in the idea of liminal spaces: places of transition between familiar and foreign terrain.

 

PSAS – PS Art Space
18 March to 1 April, 2017
Western Australia

Artist talk: Saturday 25 March, 1-2pm
RSVP Essential

 

Jo Darbyshire, Pinna (detail), 2016, oil on canvas, 300 x 180cm. Photograph: courtesy the artist
Penny Coss, Emigration, 2015, acrylic, canvas, paper mâché, dimensions variable. Photograph: courtesy the artist

 

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