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Come Hither Noise presents a broad range of contemporary approaches to sound. Works were selected with a view to heightening listeners’ perception of the relationship between the aural, visual and spatial attributes of the works. The exhibition aimed to investigate how the artists had deployed not only the aural but also the visual elements of…
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In Everything is Everything Sami presents a series of works that in their use of materials (discarded household paint, pegboards, plywood), title or structure relate to known forms which have a connection with domestic space. The Painting Machine series (2003 – ongoing) in a continuation of the idea of functionality as the allusion to something…
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Inspired in part by Stevie Wonder’s album, Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (1979), this exhibition presented plant life in its many guises. Each artist speculated about the sinister side of plants in different ways. The exhibition was comprised of botanical illustrations of wild triffid-like weeds as well as imagery that assigned personalities to…
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Between the Sheets is an opportunity to take a leap into artists’ books drawn from the City’s collection by Holly Story, Kati Thamo and Karen Reys. Artists’ books function as books and as art objects, spanning the decorative to the conceptual.
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In this exhibition, Simon Pericich (VIC) portrayed his continued exploration of self-destructive excess. Creating a large-scale maze comprised of 47 darkly bedazzling sections of cyclone fencing, Pericich immersed the viewer in his own intensely worked post-apocalyptic world.
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Cuticle portrayed a cosmetic romance; a fleeting video that captured the labour of concealment and touching up, and the desire for concealment and getting touched up. The Cuticle video installation magnifies the secrets of a Perth nail salon and the confidences between nail technician and client. Tanya Visosevic (aka Madam TV, tanyavision, tanya V &…
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This exhibition featured artist books from the City of Fremantle’s Art Collection in an installation by Rebecca Baumann. Baumann’s practice has explored the role of happiness and celebration, as against anxiety and doubt, in the assessment of our lives. She worked with bookmaking, sculpture and installation to create spectacles for her audience to interact within.…
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French-born and Perth-based Christophe Canato brought his background in fashion and commercial photography to the task of capturing trophies from the wild. As an insect aficionado, this series expressed the intensity of the artist’s curiosity about them. His subjects, however, defied the flatness of the picture plane and appeared to be levitating above them. The…
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This exhibition aimed to change perceptions of landscape and country. It provided a fresh perspective on a theme that has always been at the forefront of the visual arts in Perth by acknowledging the resources-driven boom which the State experienced. The Yellow Vest Syndrome: recent west Australian art focused attention on a mindset that automatically…
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Adventurers have always looked to the stars to fix their location. Similarly the artists in Constellations are navigating the early years of their practice buoyed by a keen sense that they are contributing to each others’ progress. This exhibition profiles a circle of young Perth-based artists whose work and aspirations, while enjoying some proximity, are in…
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