Jo Darbyshire is currently working with the community of Lake Grace. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.

So everything is happening this weekend in Lake Grace: footy, rain, baby showers and tree planting - but amongst it all is Spaced artist Jo Darbyshire’s exhibition at the Lake Grace Regional Artspace.

For the opening of Rural Utopia/Radical Disappearance - a different kind of exhibition - Jo and the community have been investigating notions of what may constitute a utopia and where the act of disappearance fits in.

Grant Riley from Dumbleyung will be giving a Welcome to Country and a talk.

Exhibition opens: Saturday 18 June, 2 - 2.30PM.

Exhibition continues: Sunday 19 June, 1 - 5PM, and then everyday 10AM - 4PM until Sunday 3 July.

All welcome.

With thanks to community hosts Kerrie Argent, Tania Spencer and the Lake Grace Artists’ Group.

Jo Darbyshire (born 1961) is a fifth generation West Australian, and grew up in Lake Grace, in the West Australian wheatbelt. She currently works as an artist and social history curator in Fremantle, WA. Jo studied Fine Arts at Curtin University (1981), a Post-Graduate Diploma at Canberra School of Art, ACT (1991) and in 2003 completed a Master of Creative Arts in Cultural Heritage, at Curtin University, WA.

Photos by Greg Argent and paintings by Ned Crossley, Jayne Argent and Jo Darbyshire.

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