disPLACEment by Holly O'Meehan and Craig Duncan
- Exhibition dates: Wednesday 17 April to Sunday 5 May 2024
- Opening times: 10am - 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday
- Location: Rockingham Arts Centre, 11 Kent Street, Rockingham
- Room: Main gallery
- Cost: Free entry
Holly O’Meehan and Craig Duncan come together to explore the concept of ‘disPLACEment’ through their own individual practices.
Holly O’Meehan
Inspired by the unique endemic flora and O’Meehan’s personal experience of growing up in the landscapes of the South West and the Great Southern regions of Western Australia, ‘disPLACEment’ explores the world’s largest parasitic plant, the Nuytsis floribunda or commonly known as the Christmas tree, and the speculation that one day this plant will evolve into benefiting from its greatest parasitic competitor; humans.
Workshop: Organic Vase Building - Sunday 21 April, 1pm to 4pm. Cost is $30 per person, bookings essential. Find out more
Craig Duncan
Our world is connected through roads. Sprawling networks of tarmac and steel that wind through nature. As our worlds grow more intertwined the more displaced animals become. For many driving through our fractured forests, the bodies on the roadside are unseen, rotting away as an unimportant by-product of modernisation.
Duncan’s new body of work confronts the impacts on native animals killed along roadways throughout the South West. By sensitively depicting the animals in staged positions he compels to viewer to consider the impacts we are having on the environment.
Workshop: Animal Photography - Saturday 27 April, 12pm to 3pm. Cost is $10 per person, bookings essential. Find out more
Craig Duncan, Mourning, 2022, gloss photo paper, 150 x 100 cm. Image credit: courtesy of the artist