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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Fajr was an exhibition by WA artist Olga Cironis produced alongside members of Perth’s Afghan community, in response to a pair of rarely exhibited 19th Century Afghan prayer rugs, donated to the City of Fremantle Art Collection in 1990. Cironis, who undertook a six month residency at FAC, combined both installation and video work to acknowledge the…
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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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