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…

Fremantle Arts Centre was proud to present the blockbuster touring exhibition PRIMAVERA 2010, from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. In this unique partnership, MCA’s annual survey of bright young artists was presented at Fremantle Arts Centre. PRIMAVERA 2010 marked the first time this exciting initiative has toured to Western Australia. PRIMAVERA 2010 was curated by Katie…

Benevolent Asylum follows the course of the historical relationship between asylums and rivers. Blending documentary and fiction, Benevolent Asylum examines the story of exile and confinement in Australia while questioning the asylum practices that continue today.   The films, photographs and archival material from local collections reveal a secret history of confinement in Australia. Benevolent…

Interdisciplinary collective Hold Your Horses (HYH) have created new video work to be shown on the big screen at FAC. Working with WA composer Tim Cunniffe the anticipated The Soloists (a case study) is a ‘choral’ adaptation of Freud’s famous case study ‘Dora’, in which Dora’s loss of voice is diagnosed as hysteria due to…

… The Artist has entered the building is an exhibition that shows work from artists in residence at FAC since 1974.   This exhibition shows the history of artistic practice at FAC drawing upon acquisitions and loans from artists who have participated in the Artist in Residence (AIR) program.   The AIR program, a core…

Kaye and Terry are Perth based interactive web artists who typically put audiences in their large scale digital projections.   …from a passenger list gives you the rare opportunity of seeing yourself in the artists’ work. For a truly displacing experience, become part of seafaring history, literally, as an immersive video work puts you in…

WA artist Eva Fernandez has attacked furniture to develop a series of exquisite, surreal and still photographs based on the symbolic power inherent in objects.   The images in (terra) australis incognita show couches and chairs pulled apart to various stages of destruction, some with fauna growing out of them. Seductive and witty, the photos…

In his first solo exhibition in WA, Benjamin Forster’s installation )( utilises objects, images, books and video to investigate contemporary systems of rationality, the storage of information and the tenuous connection to ‘meaning’ and ‘value’.   Forster (WA/ACT) won the non-acquisitive 2010 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing. Forster is a…

WA artist Patrick Doherty returns to FAC with an exhibition of painting, drawing on a range of influences from informal urban art to genre painting and biblical text. Doherty’s style weaves effortlessly between reality and fantasy, in this vibrant series of large-scale works. An amalgamation of personal and spiritual mythology, religious iconography and political figures,…

Video recently seen in Beijing   Jin Shan Kan Xuan Li Ming Li Yongbin Morgan Wong Wing-Fat Wang Qingsong Zhao Yao   The Knife’s Edge transforms the Main Gallery into a multi-channel screen space to present video work by seven of Beijing’s exciting contemporary artists. Turning inwards and away from broader socio-political commentary, these video…