This powerful collection of political street posters from Black Cat/ Gato Negro – a collaborative of artists, anarchists and activists formed in New York in 1978 – still hums with the energy and passion of the protest movements that created them. A project by Bob Cooney, an original member of the collective, the exhibition gives…

St Kilda-based design studio Beyond the Pale create rock posters for some of the world’s biggest bands including The Rolling Stones, The Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys, Arctic Monkeys and Foo Fighters. This expansive exhibition put a focus on the intricacy, detail and rock ‘n’ roll decadence of these highly desirable posters and the talented…

A City of Fremantle Collection exhibition curated by Andre Lipscombe.

In this her first solo show, Tanya Lee took us on one of her adventures through “an ordinary life”. A parody of a picketed existence, Personal Space looked at walking a fine line between the idea of welcoming someone into your home while also fortifying against a vague and unidentified enemy. Lee’s practice is a combination of…

For emerging WA artist Jacob Ogden Smith, pottery is a cultural phenomenon that has traditionally explained much about the society it was made in. However, today pottery has been usurped as a purveyor of historical record in favour of mass media and potters have become less a central tenet of artefact making and more reclusive…

The Landscape of Being brought the much lauded work of Victorian painter Helen Maudsley to FAC for her first solo show in WA. One of Australia’s most respected artists, Maudsley has been painting for six decades and her unique psycho-aesthetic vision of the world has influenced many artists. Her work is concerned with the nature…

Drawing on natural phenomena and tricks of perception while engaging a keen sense of poetry, romance and adventure, NSW artist Michaela Gleave created the site-specific installation A Day is Longer Than a Year. The work, based on use of light “reflects on our shifting understanding of matter, time and space,” says Gleave. Her works are often fleeting and…

Take 12 was a series of short videos written and performed by young people inspired by twelve contemporary artworks from the City of Fremantle Art Collection. From 23 minds, came 12 profoundly different stories. These snappy, spoofy and slickly produced digital works were made in collaboration with a creative team lead by artist Poppy van Oorde…

Perth-born sculptor Michael Bullock returned to WA with sculpture triggered by a memory of the smell of sandalwood. Years ago the sculptor stood in a hot landscape in a wheatbelt town alongside a dead sandalwood tree which presented its unique, sweet perfumed smell, so redolent of the temples and markets of Asia. Sandalwood is indigenous…

In her first solo show in WA, Victorian artist Sally-Ann Rowland created work that uses cliché phrases and popular truisms collected in popular culture – self help books, social media, crime novels, sports commentaries and women’s magazines. Responding to advertising, merchandising and the marketplace, Rowland incorporated the phrases into calendars, tea towels, pencils and mugs…