A RETROSPECTIVE 2008–2018 CONTENTS . 05 APPRECIATION . 06 FOREWORD . 07 OLGA CIRONIS bio . 09 2008 Cover Up . 14, 55 CAITLIN YARDLEY bio . 09 2009 Spill: The Insistent Body . 18 2008–2018: A RETROSPECTIVE A 2008–2018: CONTENTS PAUL CAPORN bio . 10 2010 Absence of Occupation is Not Rest . 22 TOM MÙLLER bio . 10 2011 Capital City . 26 EVA FERNANDEZ bio . 11 2012 182 Days . 30 HOLLY STORY bio . 11 2013 The Lower Lands . 34 MERRICK BELYEA bio . 12 2014 The Majestic . 38 ANDY QUILTY bio . 12 2015 HOON . .. 42 JON TARRY bio . 13 2016 RESTRAINT . 46 SANDRA HILL bio . 13 2017 Goolugadup – Kal-ya-gul ‘Place of children - always; ever; continually .’ . 50 AFTERWORD . 54 TILT retrospective 2018 on tilt reflection 05 TILT retrospective 2018 reflection on tilt FOREWORD 06 AUBREY RUSSELL 32O0’’2’’S115O48’’02’’E The City of Melville is extremely proud Approaching Kooyagoordup - to have Heathcote Cultural Precinct as Point Heathcote from either river part of the City’s story . This important or land one is reminded of its site brings together a significant significant position within the landscape . Situated between CITY OF MELVILLE MAYOR CITY MELVILLE OF historical narrative, a place that continues today to create memories and the Derbal Yerrigan - Swan and a vibrant arts and creative environment . Dyarlgarro - Canning rivers it occupies an elevated point on a Tilt is the perfect example of the headland overlooking what is close collision of these stories and their to an 180 degree view . Facing interpretation through art . The City Kings Park and sweeping toward of Melville, as the custodians of the Fremantle and the sea you can site and the drivers of its future, sees watch the rain coming in from these collaborations as the innovation the coast and moving across the and bold character that will continue landscape . It remains one of the to emerge from the City’s Heathcote most striking sites on the river and Museum and Gallery . The City will is imbued with an intense sense historical information surrounding this unique place by drawing on diverse artistic practice . continue to showcase, interpret and of place . build Heathcote Cultural Precinct as The program places innovative contemporary A strategic vantage-point from a significant cultural destination artists in an exceptional heritage setting, which to oversee the river and in Western Australia that is deeply inviting them to respond to the site and its adjoining lands; a noteworthy connected to its past . multilayered history using the buildings, example of the Derbarl Yerrigan1 grounds and collections of the Heathcote - Swan River’s original littoral We’d like to thank all the artists for Museum and Gallery as a point of departure . vegetation; an initiation place for sharing these important stories in young Noongar men; a prospective Throughout the research and development their own ways, for creating a new lens site for what is now Perth, capital of to the production stage, artists build which creates conversations and sparks Western Australia and a significant relationships with Heathcote’s communities, thinking . I’m privileged as the Mayor facility for the treatment of people from the city itself, to environmental, of the City of Melville to recognise 10 suffering from mental health2 historical, cultural and scientific groups . Often years of Tilt as an exhibition of Point issues . connections to broader philosophical, societal Heathcote/ Kooyagoordup . or historical concerns are brought out in the In 2018 Heathcote houses a artistic and curatorial process of investigation museum, gallery and cultural and response . facilities for the community . Initiated in 2008, the Tilt program Each residency cycle involves twelve to was developed as an opportunity eighteen months of research, development 2008 FOUNDER, TILT PROGRAM TILT FOUNDER, 2008 SOULA VOUYOUCALOS-VEYRADIER SOULA to reflect upon and redefine and production during which artist and 09 on tilt reflection 2018 retrospective TILT CAITLIN YARDLEY 2009 SPILL: THE INSISTENT BODY curator engage in a dialogue in which the By dislocating the traditional museum impressions, ideas, insights and sensitivities methodologies and using alternative modes of each artistic response are considered . This of engagement Tilt has contributed to creating comes together in an exhibition and connected new forms of encounter and exchange, and public programs, held annually, with the consequently, new social spaces . City of Melville acquiring an artwork from In collaboration with staff and community OLGA CIRONIS each residency . members, thinkers, activists and philosophers, 2008 COVER UP In framing the historical context of the the invited artists have been seminal in Kooyagoordup-Point Heathcote site the artists redefining the space and the relationships remind us of the present moment of the past; it has with its community; and in creating when we recreate the past we always do so narratives that speak about local and global in the present, rendering history in a state of concerns . perpetual flux . As with William Faulkner’s oft I would like to express my deepest quoted line from Requiem for a Nun (1950) appreciation to each of the artists whose Caitlin Yardley’s practice draws on ‘the past is never dead, it is not even past’ . insights, focus and creative input have crafted institutional research, documentary and Tilt artists have developed a series of this program and whose work provides a material abstraction as methodologies possibilities from existing stories and objects, distinct entry point into each iteration of to consider the archive and its relationship developing creative responses/threading new Tilt . Their engagement with the historical, to constructions of distance, influence narratives so that we can consider what was, environmental and social contexts of the place and narrative . Yardley (b . Ballarat,1984) what may have been, and what may has contributed to an active dialogue on currently lives and works in London . still become . context and situation . Olga Cironis is an award winning She completed an MFA at Goldsmiths, As the conduit, connector and conjurer between Providing a remarkable and considered multidisciplinary artist with a practice that University of London (2012) and an MA these different realms, artists contribute to support the City of Melville has embraced spans over 20 years, since graduating with Edith Cowan University (2007) . making the museum and gallery a place of the synergies inherent in artistic and historical with a Master of Visual Arts from SCA Recent exhibitions and screenings include; multiple identities and of transformation . We inquiry and has collected innovative stories University of Sydney (1996) . In her art Mobile Composition, Maison Louis Carre can look at the Tilt exhibition but the exhibition reflecting on a sense of place . practice Cironis is concerned with personal with Association Alvar Aalto, Paris (2017); has an uncanny way of looking back at us . Now reaching its tenth year it is stimulating and collective identity and what identity The Surface as Site: Exterior A, The program has participated in contemporary to see the bringing together of the various can mean in today’s cultural globalization . The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based approaches creating new, less predictable conversations and cultural connections from From a strong migrant feminist foundation, Research Platform (2017); The Legacy situations for both artists and audiences . this program . Cironis scrutinises ideas around belonging Complex, Nordic Art Association, and place by highlighting cultural and Stockholm (2016); Epic Narratives, Perth 1 Or Derbal Yaragan social norms . Her art practice is a poetic Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia 2 Point Heathcote was one of the landing and camp sites of Captain James Stirling during his exploration of the Swan River in 1827 . His intention was to assess the potential of the district for settlement . Point Heathcote was named after Midshipman G C. expression of the spiritual and physical (2015); Medium, Moana Project Space, Heathcote, said to have been the first European to land there . Following the decision to establish a colony of free settlers, Point spaces between bodies . Often inviting Perth (2015); One Way Return, Peter Von Heathcote was favourably considered as the site of the capital city in 1829 . However, Stirling explained to the Permanent Under Secretary for the Colonies, R W. Hay, he had chosen the Perth site as it was well timbered, had good water and better facilitated public participation and story sharing, Kant, London (2014); Tavern with Pendant communication between the capital and both agriculturalists on the Upper Swan and commercial interests at the port of Fremantle . The Heathcote Reception home where 'recoverable' patients could be separated from the senile, epileptic or mentally deficient, Cironis succeeds to seduce the public to A110, Sunday Reed, London (2014); Open and after treatment returned to the community, was in itself a new concept in treating the mentally ill . For several decades further explore, reflect and question their Cube, curated by Adriano Pedrosa for Heathcote has symbolised in the community's mind the treatment and rehabilitation of the mentally ill in this State . Heritage Council of WA, Interim Entry: Heathcote Hospital, 3289 own place in the world . White Cube, London (2013) . 11 on tilt reflection 2018 retrospective TILT PAUL CAPORN 2010 ABSENCE OF OCCUPATION TOM MÙLLER IS NOT REST 2011 CAPITAL CITY