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Projektet presented the notion of the immune system as a bio-artistic blueprint of personal and cultural changes. In a joint residency with SymbioticA, Amanda Newall and Ola Johansson conducted lab-based research along with applied performance work in local communities in the metropolitan Perth area. SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory at UWA dedicated to the research, learning,…
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Academy Award winner and favourite local son Shaun Tan came to FAC with a collection of never before seen large scale paintings, small oil sketches, drawings, preparatory video work and personal sketchbooks. For the first time Shaun Tan: Suburban Odyssey charts the journey of Shaun Tan’s work from carefully observed yet lyrical paintings of Perth’s suburbs to…
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City of Fremantle celebrated the opening of a new and dedicated Collection gallery in the newly refurbished North Wing. The Collection Gallery is a larger ground floor space directly adjacent to FAC’s new reception. Everything Old Is New Again presented recently donated early ‘en plein air’ paintings by Kathleen O’Connor alongside other iconic historical and contemporary works…
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Photo with the Artist is a site-specific performance combining the traditions of performance art and sculptural practice with side-show and street performance. Dressed in appropriate ‘artistic’ attire, Brown Council hit the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour to buck for money. Brown Council invite members of the public to have their photo taken with them and for…
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Side x Side presented artworks by students from Fremantle’s John Curtin College of the Arts, alongside those works from the City’s Collection that inspired them. John Curtin’s senior students responded to a previous exhibition Not Dead, a selection of still lives from the City’s Collection. Side x Side marked a milestone in a successful six…
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FotoFreo was a month long biennial festival of photography that showcased the work of Australian photographers alongside leading photographers from Asia, Europe and North America. The Portrait: Contemporary Indian Photography Group Exhibition There is an intimacy about portraits that speaks of individuals but yet they can encompass a larger view of India and Indians. –…
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This exhibition explored the relationship between globalisation and local identity with imaginative and stimulating works in sculpture, photography, painting, installation and multi-media. The culmination of a two-year cycle of residencies, this ground-breaking project involved 22 Australian and international artists spending time in 16 regional Western Australian communities to consider their social and physical environments. The…
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This exhibition presented the six shortlisted designs for a proposed new public artwork in Fremantle. In celebration of the experiences & contributions of women to Fremantle, the city funded the consultation and design process to redress the under-representation of women in the city’s public monuments and artworks.
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2011 marked the 20th anniversary and final year of the Mark Howlett Foundation (MHF), a subscriber-based philanthropic group which each year selected a mid-career artist to support. MHF20, the group’s final exhibition, showcased twelve of its participant artists with new work specially commissioned for the celebration. Curated by Andrew Gaynor, MHF20 included painting, sculpture and…
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Daniel Bourke (WA) and Clare Wohlnick (WA) launched the inaugural issue of Avant-Garden, an irregular journal published by their printing studio Benchpress. Concerned with representations of nature in contemporary art, Avant-Garden featured new Interviews, essays, articles and projects from ten Australian and international artists. Avant-Garden was displayed in a custom-designed reading room, alongside a lithographic…
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