About
The Raw Colour Art Exhibition at the Holmes a’ Court Gallery @ no.10 has been initiated and developed by Artist and Curator, Tania Fabris. The idea of creating an Exhibition of WA artists to support medical research science grew from a seed that germinated during conversations with Professor Arlene Chan, six years ago, when Professor Chan shared her vision of establishing a Breast Cancer Research Centre here in WA. Tania has since devoted herself to gathering assistance from Artists and Poets, organisations and businesses to support her vision for Raw Colour to raise funds for the new Breast Cancer Research Centre.
Raw Colour evolved from gratitude and draws upon Tania’s journey. Along the way we learn to find the words, the meanings and colours that give us strength, expresses and enrichens us.
Raw – words with raw meaning: rare, tender, sore, sensitive, enflamed, natural, visceral, brutal, harsh, inclement, bleak, chilly, bitter, primal, vivid, intense, basic.
Colour – arises with the light of dawn to affect, influence, incline. The array light, colours and love in our lives gives us strength, alter our world after darkness.
The narrative for the Exhibition – “Where Art meets Science – Restoration and Recovery, a celebration of Life”, spawned from Tania’s vision of how creativity and creative thinking assist recovery, restoration, and the renewal of life: life for our environment, life for our humanity, that contribute to the continuing contributions science makes.
Drawing upon the words of the 2013 winner of the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Royal Society of Arts), Walter Isaacson, who has written that:
“Art gives meaning to data science provides. Science can give us empirical facts and try to tie them together with theories, but it’s the humanists and artist who turn them into narratives with moral, emotional and spiritual meaning” - Walter Isaacson, Arts and Science Analyst, Author, Historian & Journalist
Recovery and restoration, just as the landscape returns after drought, fire, floods and as a nation revives and reforms after distress, there comes a series of returns as we seek to negotiate our fragile sensitivities and send forth shoots and manage the continuing slippage between surrender and renewal. Each wave brings a deeper understanding of our humanity, of our given strengths – given by culture, family, place. Returning to wellness, returning to mind, to meaning and language, we long to draw upon our compassionate humanity, revitalise our world, aware that the future depends upon us. Return to mind, the tender care of body, to strength to language and metaphor.
Celebration of life, the desire to show appreciation and return kindness, to care and take care of, to contribute to others for what we have received, contribute to future generations - a clearsighted vision, the chance of continuing the success or existence of others; to lessen suffering in the world.
Staging this Exhibition, Tania is seeking to enhance pleasure and inspire imagination among those who visit the exhibition, and contribute to those who today, and in the future, find themselves experiencing the raw intense uncertainties that come as they struggle to re-vision and re-make their lives and support their families.
GENEROSITY
The project has been made possible by the support of the Minderoo Foundation, the generosity of Janet Holmes a’ Court, Benara Nursery, Leeuwin Estate and Castledine and Castledine.