Perth festival’s outgoing artistic director, Wendy Martin, reflects on the special sense of place that inspires artists in the world’s most remote capital
On a cold and grey winter morning in 2014, I sat in front of a video camera in an office in England being interviewed for the role of Perth festival artistic director. They asked me why I was interested in moving from London to work in the world’s most remote capital city.
I was attracted to the possibility of being under a vast blue sky, to the light, the landscape, the idea of living on the western edge of our continent, watching the sun set over the Indian Ocean, connecting with Indigenous culture. Australian storytelling has been dominated by our relationship to the landscape and the natural world. Growing up in Sydney, place names like Broome, Kalgoorlie and Ningaloo loomed large in my imagination; the writing of Tim Winton, the Triffids’ anthem Wide Open Road, Jimmy Chi’s Bran Nue Dae all deeply evoke Western Australia.
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