Place-making. No longer a trend but a burgeoning industry, practised in countries all over the world. In Western Australia, any new development or re-purposing of space now involves a conversation about the human experience. What will attract people to a place? Encourage them to mingle, linger, or set up a home or a business? The way a place looks and feels influences how people behave—for good or ill—towards each other, to newcomers, and to the wider community. How do we make sure that we explore the best ways of achieving harmony and productivity in our neighbourhoods and cities? How best can creativity help us achieve that aim? How do we really make it happen?
How do we take creative placemaking from surface treatment to deeper transformation of our places and communities? Are we exploring the best ways of achieving harmony and productivity in our neighbourhoods and cities? How can creativity help us achieve that aim? To help Perth debate those questions, FORM welcomes two international place-making experts-in-residence, Tim Jones from Canada and Jason Roberts from the United States.
Tim and Jason are both highly experienced in the art, science and especially the action of making vibrant neighbourhoods. Tim, CEO of Artscape, coined the term ‘creative place-making’ and is in demand all over the world for his experience using the arts to transform cities and communities. Jason is the founder of the Oak Cliff Transit Authority, Dallas, and the original Better Block Project, an organisation which takes blighted blocks with vacant properties and transforms them with temporary pop-up businesses, bike lanes, seating and landscaping.
Creative Places : Curating Opportunity in Communities is the latest installment in our Speaker Series. You can also explore previous speaker events and conversations including our PUBLIC Symposium and PUBLIC 2016 publication.
Creative Places: A Breakfast with Tim Jones and Jason Roberts
Wednesday 21 June, 7 for 7.30-9am
$25 FORM Members; $40 General Admission
Over a light breakfast, hear two perspectives on how creativity shapes places and establishes the conditions for our communities to flourish. As leaders in the creative placemaking field, Tim Jones and Jason Roberts share their personal experiences on the dynamics of meaningful environments and how creativity shapes successful places.
The Goods Shed, Corner of Shenton Road and Claremont Crescent
Creative Place-Making: A Workshop with Tim Jones
Tuesday, 20 June 8.30am, full morning workshop exact times TBC.
$50 FORM Members; $65 General Admission
Explore the practicalities of creative place-making with one of the world’s leading creative cities experts. Learn why culture and creativity are so effective in raising quality of life in our cities, from street level forward, and how to nurture and sustain the conditions for these assets to thrive.
The Goods Shed, Corner of Shenton Road and Claremont Crescent
Actioning Creative Cities: A Deep Dive with Jason Roberts
Thursday 22 June, 10-11.30am $40 FORM Members; $55 General Admission.
How do you corral community energies, build collaborations, and break a project into actionable elements so you have rapid-fire implementation? Jason Roberts’s workshop shares the process which has taken Better Blocks from the level of successful local experiment to a national movement.
The Goods Shed, Corner of Shenton Road and Claremont Crescent.
The Place- Changing Challenge with Jason Roberts
Friday, 23 June 9am-12pm. $50 FORM Members; $65 General Admission
How can you change a place in 30 minutes? Take part in a rapid-prototyping process from human-centred design to assessing spaces, tackling change and putting it into action – fast!
The Goods Shed Corner of Shenton Road and Claremont Crescen & Offsite
Tim Jones and Jason Roberts are two people who have walked the walk in place-making. Tim coined the term ‘creative place-making’ and is in demand all over the world for his experience with using the arts to transform cities and communities. Jason is the founder of the Oak Cliff Transit Authority, Dallas, and the original Better Block Project, an organisation which takes blighted blocks with vacant properties and transforms them with temporary pop-up businesses, bike lanes, seating and landscaping.
The relationship between the power of nature and the energy of ritual traditions is explored in these potent artworks by Aboriginal artists living in remote Australia. Their vivid canvases evoke rain making rituals, ancestral narratives, the connection to stars and moon and how they feature in traditional land management practices. Exhibition opening Friday, 5th May, 6-8pm at The Goods Shed.
Is your child inquisitive, imaginative, persistent, disciplined and collaborative? These ‘good habits of mind’ are what FORM aims to encourage as part of our Creative Learning program: bespoke workshops for students of all
ages. In particular we look at the role of arts and culture in connecting people, community cohesiveness and giving people a sense of place and identity. We’re offering opportunities to explore the artworks of our exhibitons in ways which relate to the curriculum. Workshops are free but must be booked in advance. Please contact Lamis Sabra on learning@form.net.au for bookings, times and dates.
This exhibition explores the enigmatic qualities and materiality of white earth pigments in Aboriginal artwork from the Kimberley (WA), Arnhem Land (NT) and Tiwi Islands (NT) in paintings, and three dimensional works.
As a medium that is tied to tradition, white ochre or gapan also provides opportunity for abstraction, minimalism and experimentation. Artworks explore the interaction and connection between art, earth, culture and identity, as well as metaphysical and ancestral elements.
Sculptor and environmental artist Stuart Frost explores culture, myth and history in playful, ephemeral land art interventions. During a month long residency with FORM in Western Australia the British artist will turn his skill for crafting natural and forgotten objects into beautiful, paradoxical artworks, challenging perceptions and responding to our great southern continent in fresh, distinctive ways.
FORM is proud to present the eponymous, debut solo exhibition from Gloria. Born in Jigalong in 1975, Gloria is a Martu woman working out of Spinifex Hill Studios in South Hedland. Gloria is an acrylic painter within a powerful matriarchal tradition that emerged in the Western Desert in the early 2000s. Her loose brushwork and pastel palettes have drawn critical attention for their highly affecting presence, and these artworks announce Gloria as a truly exciting contemporary abstract artist.
Internationally acclaimed creative education expert Paul Collard returns to Perth for a month-long residency this March, working closely with Perth’s young people, and sharing his knowledge with their parents, carers and educators. Hear Collard speak in a special address at the Scribblers Program Launch on Thursday, 1st March at The Goods Shed.
An immersive art installation by Bruce Munro will illuminate the Avenue of Honour at Mt Clarence later this year, paying homage to the Anzacs with 13,000 shining spheres marking the last sight of home for 41,000 troops who departed from Albany for the Great War.
Tunisian Karim Jabbari is an abstract calligraphy and lightgraff artist whose work is inspired by antiquated Arabic scriptures.
Builded Remnants is an exhibition by Berndnaut Smilde capturing moments of revelation throughout Western Australia. Exhibiting at The Goods Shed until 17 September 2017, Builded Remnants presents the outcomes of a residency throughout the State’s Pilbara, South West and metropolitan regions by the internationally celebrated Dutch artist in 2016.