Mooro Boodjar, Joondalup foreshore (Burns Beach), on the 29th December 1696; the day in history when William Vlamingh’s three Dutch ships sailed past. Significantly, the ships appear only at the periphery of the artwork, privileging the pre-colonised view. The landscape is observed from onshore, where Nyungar people would have pondered the strange vision.

The eroding Tamala limestone shoreline platforms slowly, imperceptibly, change form, assaulted by wind and ocean currents…and time...moves on.

Dr. Kelsey Ashe is a Fremantle-based artist, writer and lecturer. Her practice-led studio research is based in printmaking and illustration, textiles and cloth, but traverses through photography, film and animation.

With an Hons (Art) MA (Art) and Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD Art), Ashe has exhibited nationally and internationally, including selection into the Katonah Museum of Art New York Juried International Biennale 2021, Indian Ocean Craft Triennial 2021, at the Sedona Arts Centre Arizona USA, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh UK, Site: Brooklyn Gallery New York USA, Barrett Art Centre New York USA, the WA Maritime Museum Fremantle AUS and the National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne AUS.

Kelsey Ashe has work held in the Janet Holmes a Court Art Collection WA, City of Fremantle Art Collection, Burnie Regional Gallery TAS, Circular Head Council Collection TAS and private Australian collections.