STILL WATCHING
A collaborative exhibition by Anna Louise Richardson and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah.
Still Watching embodies different experiences and perceptions of mutual observation in the natural world. Embracing both the magical thinking of childhood and the pragmatism of raising a young family in a rural environment, Anna Louise Richardson and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah articulate a personal lore, voicing their relationships with other creatures and the mythic qualities of the worlds we occupy.
Still Watching is a reflection of the artists’ shared experiences of vigilance within a domestic geography shadowed by the rituals of life and death, love and loss, memory and myth. Still Watching will immerse Fremantle Arts Centre’s main gallery in a darkly psychological landscape that posits the questions who is watching and who is being watched?
Watching was originally developed and realised by Anna Louise Richardson and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah through the commissions program at West Space, 2022, Both Watching and Still Watching have received meaningful support from Regional Arts WA through the Regional Artist Fellowship.
Curated by Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, with the artists.
Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, WA.
5 Nov 2022 - 23 Jan 2023.
Still Watching embodies different experiences and perceptions of mutual observation in the natural world. Embracing both the magical thinking of childhood and the pragmatism of raising a young family in a rural environment, Anna Louise Richardson and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah articulate a personal lore, voicing their relationships with other creatures and the mythic qualities of the worlds we occupy.
Still Watching is a reflection of the artists’ shared experiences of vigilance within a domestic geography shadowed by the rituals of life and death, love and loss, memory and myth. Still Watching will immerse Fremantle Arts Centre’s main gallery in a darkly psychological landscape that posits the questions who is watching and who is being watched?
Watching was originally developed and realised by Anna Louise Richardson and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah through the commissions program at West Space, 2022, Both Watching and Still Watching have received meaningful support from Regional Arts WA through the Regional Artist Fellowship.
Curated by Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, with the artists.
Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, WA.
5 Nov 2022 - 23 Jan 2023.