By Charlene Gatt
IT’S the exhibition celebrating West Footscray.
Local filmmaker, artist and writer Sarah Watt has captured the 3012 postcode in a solo exhibition of photographed drawings on canvas that will be shown at Post Industrial Design from next week.
The exhibition is also the official launch of her calendar, 3012/2012, which draws on images featured in the 3012 exhibition.
Ms Watt is an AFI award winning Australian filmmaker known for her movies Small Treasures, Look Both Ways and most recently, My Year Without Sex.
Unbeknown to many people, Ms Watt’s artistic career started with a strong focus on fine art, particularly painting and photography.
It was this love of photography that led to her interest in the moving image.
“Coming back to painting is like doing a full circle for me,” Ms Watt said.
“There is something personal and self-contained in the process, which I love. Films involve so many people and the project becomes almost an entity in itself.
“I enjoy the quietness of doing things on a smaller scale.”
Post Industrial Design owner Mary Long said she loved Ms Watt’s ability to make a deep connection to people through her suburban landscapes.
“I can walk past a spot 100 times and not really see it. When that same spot is reflected back to me in one of Sarah’s works, I am totally taken back,” she said.
“The image is true, but somehow altered. She manages to capture the spirit of a place. I am left thinking… how could I not see it that way before?”
The 3012 exhibition will run from 24 October to 13 November at Post Industrial Design, 638 Barkly St, West Footscray.
