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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…
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In an exhibition of video and photography, Maria Fernanda Cardoso (Australia/Columbia) continues her curious observations of nature. In the same vein as her performance project Cardoso Flea Circus at Sydney Opera House, the artist once again employs insect specimens as her performers, this time investigating the use of camouflage and mimicry. Troupes of insects…
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Occupying the space between figuration and abstraction, Melbourne painter Moya McKenna fills her compositions with rural Gothic figures, animals, iconic landmarks and elements from nature, to create landscapes both familiar and disorienting. Sowing parts for uncertain meetings celebrates McKenna’s use of colour and texture, where syrupy browns and blues are thickly layered, giving the…
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Canadian artist Nathalie Daoust presents a series of delicately handcoloured photographs from the picturesque Alps. Frozen in Time is a record of the artist’s response to the landscape during a six month residency in Switzerland. Offset by the perfect whitewashed landscape, luminescent figures appear in awkward and unexpected places, creating a landscape that drifts…
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Maschi Fontana is Tom Muller and Jean-Thomas Vannotti.
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Distinguished Australian graphic designer, typographer and author Alistair Morrison followed his heart at the age of 72, to pursue love and painting when he moved to Fremantle in 1983. Known for his ground-breaking modernist design practice influenced by Bauhaus legend László Maholy-Nagy and best selling Let Stalk Strine series of humorous published works, PTO revealed…
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Fremantle Arts Centre presented a special exhibition, which told the story of Fremantle’s artists and their own personal collections. A sprawling meditation on the multiplicity of our creative minds, Home Open: Fremantle Artists and their Collections reflected the diversity and energy of our artists and their surroundings. Artists created environments that reflected who they are…
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James Dodd’s concern with graffiti culture took him on a uniquely Australian journey. During his residency, Dodd collected the text and marks that are handcarved into the Boab trees of our state’s north. The rich historical significance of the Boab trees and Dodd’s investigations into contemporary street art informed his residency and exhibition at Fremantle…
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Inspired by the humble bore, Perth artist Mark Parfitt celebrated the life supply of more than 80,000 suburban backyards in his exhibition, Dream Bore. When his own bore was made redundant, Parfitt sought an alternative use for this Western Australian icon. Assuming the self-reliant mindset of so many ‘can-do’ homeowners, Parfitt converted his home-made bore…
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Gold is the ultimate status symbol which resonates across history and all cultures. In this exhibition valuable gold fob watches and lavish candelabra sit alongside gloriously cheap nick-nacks from the Two Dollar Shop. Meticulously printed on hand-gilded paper, Scott bestows an elegance on the enduring and the disposable, the real and fake. The playful interchange…
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