20 Years at Turner Galleries

Gallery Director Helen Turner and Gallery Manager & Curator Allison Archer have been at the helm of Turner Galleries, one of the most important and innovative art galleries on the Perth contemporary art scene for the past 20 years.
While technically a 'commercial' gallery, Turner's exhibition programs were often more in line with contemporary art museums, presenting rigorous and conceptually challenging shows year after year for Perth art patrons to enjoy.
In November 2019, Helen regretfully announced the closure of Turner Galleries and we felt very strongly that its passing should not go unrecorded.
Both Helen and Allison graciously allowed us to film them as they tackled the monumental task of packing up the gallery, as well as setting aside time for filmed interviews. Allison's meticulous archiving of photographs over the span of those 20 years meant that there were plenty of images available for inclusion in this film.
Where there were none, we exercised artistic licence and made our own, animating drawings I did especially for this project.
Where possible, we have captioned photos, especially those of actual artworks used in this film. The photographers of the artworks are not captioned, as this information was not available to us at the time.
For detailed information about the artworks such as title, medium and size, the viewer will have to chase that up themselves. Some artist's information may still be accessible through Turner Galleries' website (www.turnergalleries.com.au/), and some artists have will have their own sites.
Here's a list of the artists captioned:
Jacqueline Ball, Philip Berry, Brian Blanchflower, Jeremy Blincoe, Marion Borgelt, Conrad Botes, Paul Caporn, Olga Cironis, Thea Costantino, Peter Dailey, Debra Dawes, Marian Drew, Stuart Elliott, Susan Flavell, Eva Fernandez, Nicholas Folland, Hui-jyu Forrester, Indra Geidans, Tarryn Gill,
Jillian Green, Lucas Grogan, Paul Hinchliffe, Cherry Hood, Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Harry Hummerston, Yoa Jui-Chung, Paul Kaptein, Theo Koning,
Carlier Makigawa, Clare McFarlane, Lia McKnight, Graham Miller, Anna Nazzari, Andrew Nicholls, Louise Paramor, Gregory Pryor, Garry Pumfrey,
Trevor Richards, Lisa Roet, Joan Ross, Mike Singe, Martin Smith, Valerie Sparks, Holly Story, Kati Thamo, Lisa Wolfgramm
Music:
Growing Pains by Scott Buckley (www.scottbuckley.com.au/)
Creative Commons 'Attribution 4.0 International' (CC BY 4.0) License.
Slow Motion by Bensound (www.bensound.com/)
Angel's Dream by Aakash Gandhi [Royalty Free Music] Creative Commons 'Attribution 3.0 Unported' CC By 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/) Music promoted by RoyaltyFreeMusic Nation. Watch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKvVgoGAhZd6otU Download: kzbin.info
Sleep Little Child & Lonely Fish by Sascha End (filmmusic.io/song/126-sleep-little-child) (filmmusic.io/song/4655-lonely-fish )
(License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

[@anna64520]

What a wonderful documentary of a wonderful gallery and two wonderful people!

[@KhaosKryptos]

Great production, as one of the many that enjoyed every exhibition held at turner galleries it's an immense loss to the community. Thank you for this lovely tribute and for the dedication to the arts in Perth by Helen & Allison!

[@zebrafactory]

Well done all round.

[@AidanDorrian-ji9cj]

All LOVE, Always Helen, just AMAZING, ... I have seen Heaven, and been to Hell, at the Church Gallery, ... and I have the limited edition cards to prove it after all these years ... Me and Ethan (the boy who eats bread!) REMEMBER Our first show ... "Still Lives and Dogs"! ... Just have do much fondness for you, and your dedicated work to promoting and choosing Art to show the Perth Public, x