Alfresco art to celebrate life

The intertidal zone surrounding Derby will again host MarshART, an extraordinary alfresco art exhibition and collaboration between DADAA and residents, as part of the 2011 Derby Boab Festival.

The MarshART project, established in 2007, incorporates a variety of art forms including sculpture, painting, performance, digital media, circus, community cultural development, music and dance.

MarshART is a celebration of the marshlands and seeks to engage the community, especially those with a disability or mental illness and the socially disadvantaged.

The landscape, so integral to life in Derby, will be interpreted in an artistic form.

DADAA executive director David Doyle and creative director Chris Williams, both based in Freemantle, travelled to Derby this week to liaise with West Kimberley regional arts and health project officer Justine Walsh on the project for this year’s exhibition.

“Performance artist Sara Nelson will be cycling around Derby town with a megaphone — engaging the community and working with them to create an audio feast during her four-week residency here,” Ms Walsh said. “Photographer Matt

Scurfield will work beside her to create a visual component of the work, which will come together to form an interactive outdoor installation.”

A live outdoor broadcast of components of the work by radio station 6DBY will help bring to life the Derby Drive in just one of the unique “listening zones”.

MarshART will take place on Saturday, July 16.

For information contact Justine Walsh on 0447 917 282.