13 March 2021, 2pm | Centre for Stories
Cool Change operates on the unceded sovereign lands of the Whadjuk Noongar Bibbulmun people. We recognise thousands of years of culture and custodianship in this region, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
Join us for a rose bouquet of good taste to hear artists Chiluba Young, Jade O’Sullivan and Andrew J Williams in conversation about their work for the exhibition the hands should have no peace, co-presented by Cool Change Contemporary and Perth Festival. Facilitated by Aisyah Aaqil Sumito.
This event is free, however, capacity is strictly limited, so please make sure to register a ticket.
About the exhibition
the hands should have no peace encapsulates the embodied procession of place, narrative and defiance, channelled through the variant practices of Pony, Leila Doneo Baptist, Claudia Nicholson, Jade O’Sullivan, Andrew J Williams and Chiluba Young.
Hands have a capacity to make and to touch, dangle fingers through a perpetually running creek, to be intimate, to love, to give and to take, to inflict great harm, to mitigate generational cycles of trauma, to heal. Hands are the restless always-moving, wiggling movers, changers and feelers. the hands should have no peace, and subsequently a rose bouquet of good taste, find their names from an excerpt from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s novel Sula, which describes how the mind, body and community express loss and grief.
A Perth Festival event supported by Visual Arts Program Partner Wesfarmers Arts.
About the speakers
Andrew grew up on Ngarluma country in the Pilbara region of Western Australia to migrant parents. His early life was moulded in an archipelagic state, and he sought to connect to the mainland after high school finished. After a decade of working in different music projects around Perth, a change of trajectory was pursued in North America. What started as a romantic inquest, turned into an unofficial mentorship in heritage restoration by master craftsmen in Vancouver, British Columbia. Working on several notable projects across the continent, including a restaurant by award-winning designer Joyce Wang, an appetite for design in construction had aggregated, and now Andrew has returned to Perth to gain qualifications venturing deeper in this field. This will be his first foray into expressing his passion for material in a less technical, more artistic application.
Chiluba is a Zambian photographer based in Boorloo (Perth) currently studying biomedical science at The University of Western Australia. She has exhibited her work at Perth Centre of Photography in 2020, Paper Mountain in 2020 for her first solo exhibition, and Blue Room Theatre in 2019. Young enjoys photographing black women, drawing inspiration from the subjects she photographs.
Jade is a Noongar artist based in Boorloo (Perth), she is also a mother who loves playing wheelchair basketball. She explores all art-forms in her practice, with a particular focus on painting and drawing. She has exhibited her work in Revealed 2019 (Fremantle Arts Centre), and Djookian NAIDOC week 2018 (Gallery Central) and NAIDOC week 2019.
Venue Accessibility
Centre for Stories has a ramp to the main entrance and a unisex bathroom which is wheelchair accessible (RH). The space is air conditioned and seating with backs will be provided. Please reach out to us, or leave a note in your registration if you have any access requirements that we can work to accomodate.