Jo Darbyshire

Jo Darbyshire (WA) with Andrea Williams (WA)
Host Partner: Lake Grace Regional Artspace

Jo Darbyshire (b.1961) is a fifth generation West Australian living and working in Walyalup/Fremantle. Darbyshire’s abstract paintings often reference the social and environmental history of place and aim to suggest a poetic, sensory connection. She also has an interest in creating exhibitions that incorporate strategies from the visual arts and social history museums. In 2002 she worked with Nyoongar artist Andrea Williams on the Proclamation Day Arch at the WA Museum. In 2003 she cr eated the ground – breaking exhibition The Gay Museum , at the WA Museum. In 2019 she was invited to join the TILT programme at Heathcote Gallery and created the exhibition Tales of the Surreal, Stories from the Oral History Collection , Heathcote Hospital. Da rbyshire exhibits regularly with Art Collective WA and her artwork is held in all major public institutions in WA, and in private collections, nationally and internationally.

Andrea Williams (b.1971) is a Nyoongar artist born on Whadjuk country, with fam ily connections to Goreng, Menang, Wilman, Balladong, Mirning and Wudjari groups and English, Scottish and Dutch heritage. Andrea also has a background in documentary filmmaking and sound recording with the Film & Television Institute of WA. From 1994 – 2000 Andrea worked as a Production Assistant, Director of Photography and Sound Recordist on many films and videos including ‘Artists Up Front’ for Gary Lee in Darwin, ‘Buffalo Legends’, a documentary about the Buffalo Football Club in Darwin, ‘Ngango Battas M oorditcher’ (Sunshine, Living, Strength) a video about Claisebrook Cove, Archie Roach’s tour of Northam and York (1997), Sally Morgan’s Play ‘King Hit’ for Yirra Yarkin Aboriginal Theatre Company (1997), Wadumbah Aboriginal Dance Company’s promotional vide o, WA Museum’s ‘Katta Djinoong – The first peoples of WA’ exhibition, and ‘Taking the Children’ (WA’s Stolen Generations) for UWA and Murdoch University’s history departments, and with SBS Independent, Sydney.

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Jo Darbyshire
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Artist – Rural Utopias
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