Shanti Gelmi Archives

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Take a trip down memory lane

16 August 2023

You’ll find plenty to spark memories of your own in Placemarks, an exhibition that sees artists explore far flung places from childhood, former homes and old haunts in the suburbs.

The paper folding in Natalie Blom's 'Similar but not quite (echoes in the void)' (2023) is a fitting nod to the multi-faceted nature of memory.

A piece of paper, printed with photographs of a young woman, is folded into a multifaceted, geometrical shape. Finding presence in absence

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Finding presence in absence

19 April 2023

Though bemused by its installation choices, Belinda Hermawan finds some thought-provoking art works in Tracing Absence, an exhibition that explores loss.

149. Louise Grimshaw, The Money Trap (detail), 2022, CMYK silkscreen printing on 42gsm Kozo paper, pine, spring wire, craft paper, acrylics, MDF, 8 x 18 x 2 cm each, full display dimensions variable. Photograph by Laura Sykes. An artwork made of mousetraps painted to look like bank notes. Print pioneers push the artform to new places

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Print pioneers push the artform to new places

14 July 2022

A new exhibition at Mundaring Arts Centre is shaking up the art of printmaking, and Jaimi Wright loves to see it.

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Gems in our own backyard

4 February 2022

This annual exhibition by ECU Galleries offers an unpretentious, environmentally savvy message, writes Jaimi Wright.

Shanti Gelmi, Absent Presence, 2020, Photographed by Eva Fernandez A detail from Shanti Gelmi's 'Absent/Presence'. Two large rock like shapes sit on a hot pink background. They are black, and debased with a pink pattern comprised of chains of zig-zags, that appear to be knitted together. Out of the shadows

Q&A

For many years Perth-born artist Shanti Gelmi chose to deny the significance of her Indian heritage, a defensive response to the racism she encountered as a child. Recognising that her cultural heritage shaped her nonetheless, she now wonders what other unquestioned or unseen influences leave their stamp on us.

Always was, always will be…

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Take a trip down memory lane

Finding presence in absence

Print pioneers push the artform to new places

Gems in our own backyard

Out of the shadows

Seesaw Magazine acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work and live, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.
Continue