Seven Forms exhibition brings new perspectives to Collie Art Gallery

A new exhibition opening in Collie on Saturday will showcase the impressions and impacts the town has had on seven emerging artists. The Seven Forms (Collie ’22) exhibition, featuring in their own printmaking, drawing, and shaping of clay, will be opened at a special event on July 23 from 2-4pm, and will remain at the Collie Art gallery until September 4. Curator of the exhibition, Janice Baker, will hold a talk alongside the participating artists are going to talk about the exhibits on Sunday at 11am. Ms Baker will lead an in-depth discussion about the curatorial process and how the artists created works inspired by Collie and the surrounding areas. Aware of being visitors to Collie and Noongar Country, the Perth-based artists reflected on landscapes as sites in a state of flux rather than as fixed and unchanging places. Through this lens, Seven Forms offers viewers an altered way of seeing familiar places and things. The artists create work inspired by Collie while bringing to the task their ability to produce material formations that connect industrial culture and the physical world. This is done in ways that resonate with concern at environmental disruption and optimism at opportunity for change.