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Collaborative work; dance, architecture and visual art.

Since 1993, through a mutual interest in the potentials of interactions between their disciplines, Walter Gomes (painter) and Greg Cowan (architect) developed collaborative projects involving drawing and painting. Drawings were selected for inclusion the Howlett Drawing Prize exhibition in 1994. The collaboration continued in 1995 with a proposal for a project involving a three dimensional work which would combine design, painting, sculpture, function, and architectural space. The project was endorsed and financially supported by the Western Australian Department for the Arts.

The continuing project was to further experiment and make innovative work which results from a concentrated period of collaboration. After previous collaborations which were more exploratory in regard to understanding each others' disciplines, the INTO project required specific issues and criteria to be resolved, as a result of the use of a limited selection of materials.

Now working in a workshop format with choreographer Jane Diamond and dancers, it is intended that the work in progress may provide stimulus to colleagues and the art and design community for seeing the value of collaboration across art forms.

Through the last couple of years, interest has been shown by members of the arts community, including Ted Snell from the School of Art at Curtin University, John Barrett-Lennard of the John Curtin Gallery, Gary Giles of Forbes and Fitzhardinge (Architects), Geoff Warn of Donaldson and Warn (Architects), Chris Crouch of Edith Cowan University, Fiona Kalaf, Art Curator of Wesfarmers Limited, Marco Marcon (critic), Julian Goddard of Goddard De Fiddes Gallery, and Paul Green-Armytage of Curtin University, and many others who have all visited the studio to critique the work.

Spiral Studio at the 418 Murray Street Perth is the site for progressive 'installation' of this experimental work, and it will be open to members of the public in the latter half of April , 1999.

Some experiments were conducted in November 1998 in the space Spiral Studios to evaluate- visually and photographically- a number of options of what the forms the work might take. Possibilities are being explored as to how the interface between the architecture/ object /costume, the dancer and the modes of operation of drawing and painting - all witnessed by an audience - will be designed.

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photographs of work in progress 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
a media release
flashback to July 1995

G. Cowan, J.Diamond and W. Gomes 21.12.98

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