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Artist and farmer Roderick Sprigg explores the nature of contemporary masculinity, an interest central to his interdisciplinary practice and informed by his farming life in Mukinbudin, Western Australia. In this installation of objects, drawings and photographs, Sprigg takes as his starting point the safety guards that farmers customarily remove from their machinery. Sprigg seeks…
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One of Several Centres arises out of the performative actions between the people who live, work and holiday within Alice Springs. Alex Kershaw’s practice instigates playful interventions which are intended to shift peoples’ routines and expectations surrounding the town. Sydney-based Kershaw works with video and photography to generate unexpected relationships between people and their terrain.…
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Curated by Kate Rhodes Designers: Simon Cooper Paula Dunlop Ess.Laboratory FORMALLYKNOWNAS Anthea van Kopplen MATERIALBYPRODUCT Project S!X Exhibitions Partners: Craft Victoria NETS Victoria Object
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Fremantle’s enduring role as home and favourite subject matter for artists is celebrated in an exhibition marking 50 years of the City of Fremantle Art Collection. The City’s Collection, comprising more than 1200 works, reflects the port town’s particular artistic heritage, making it one of the most significant municipal collections in the country. The exhibition…
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In the Groove presents a sample of the finest award winning etchings, drypoints, aquatints and engravings from across the collection including works by Yvonne Boag, Jock Clutterbuck, Barbie Kjar, Mary Moore and Susan Norrie.
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Annabel Dixon is concerned with the materials and vocabularies of collecting and looking. The acts of sorting, listing and arranging are central to her interpretation processes. This solo exhibition brings together a significant number of strands and components of her practice, offering an overview of Dixon’s nuanced observations of paper, pattern and category. Dixon…
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Bit Perfect brings together a selection of award-winning digital prints and artists’ books from the Fremantle Print Award archives. Specialising in digital photography and print technologies, the works evolve ideas about feminine identity and sensuality, while the books provide the viewer with an insight into the everyday artist’s journey.
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Jonathan Jones (Sydney and Sriwhana Spong (Auckland) juxtapose elements of light and darkness in the spaces of the Arts Centre deploying video, objects and different lighting technologies to invite a critique of site and history. Referencing their respective cultural backgrounds (Jones – Kamillaroi/wiradjuri and Spong – Balinese), their exhibition is the blending of worlds illuminated…
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Artist Lucas Ihlein has been commissioned by Fremantle Arts Centre to write a blog about his experience as a non-fan coming to know Bon through the eyes and ears of the fans, the tribute bands, the mad collectors, the obsessive fans, and the cultural studies professors. The Bon Scott Blog is updated regularly, get in…
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Fremantle Arts Centre is presenting the first curated exhibition of letters written by Bon. A prolific correspondent, the letters are characterised by candour, cheekiness and Bon’s bawdy sense of humour. They provide and unparalleled insight into his long years on the road and the way he created his lyrics. These very personal letters have been…
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