Chen Nong has created a sumptuous fable photographing the residents of the villages leveled by the Three Gorges Dam construction, clad as ‘terracotta warriors’. The images are taken using a bellows-style camera. Chen Nong was born in Fujian Province, China. He has a background in ceramics and is a self-trained photographer and painter. His photographic…

An exhibition of paintings, prints and assemblage which draws from the popular genre of Still Life. Associated with the representation of ownership, consumption and domestic space, Still Life has also been used to scrutinise the transience of life. Artists represented include Ray Beattie, Kathleen O’Connor, Margaret Preston and Trevor Richards.

Vanila Netto creates photographic work triggered by found objects. A subtle reappraisal of their function, value and aesthetics is undertaken via a disarmingly simple process involving the reconfiguration of the readymade and the staged photograph. Vanila is drawn to the aesthetic edge and nobility of modest, underrated sources – rejected goods and non-celebrities.   Vanila…

Highlighting the ways in which fashion and contemporary art feed off each other, Skin to Skin seeks to extend our understanding of the relationship between fashion and issues of identity, consumption and beauty.   Skin to Skin fosters appreciation of fashion as holding meaning beyond the aesthetic or marketable object. It includes seamless garments grown…

Marina Troitsky presents a series of works based on displacement and memory in relation to the cyclical nature of existence. These fragments of object and image engender contemplation of the effect of transience on our lives, in both an environmental and a personal sense.   Marina, who lives in the South West has a German  and Russian…

Belinda Fox presents an ambitious wall and floor installation drawing on the imagery and protocols of childhood games to describe current political and cultural themes. The work utilises a combination of flocking, painting and printing on wood and paper.   Belinda, an artist who specialises in works on paper, was the winner of the 2007…

Mang Emo + Mag-himo Grand Piano Project is an ongoing project hosted by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Fremantle Arts Centre. The project explores the cross-cultural and cross-generational possibilities that emerge out of Alwin’s commemoration of his family’s piano manufacturing business, Javincello & Company. Alwin was born in Manila in 1964 and moved…

Ruth Parker’s woven installations of rusty bottle tops cast shadows that appear hard or soft depending on the viewer’s vantage point. In a certain light, her humble materials, which are sourced from bottle shop car parks and road sides, take on the grandeur of splendid, undulating metallic curtains. Ruth Parker lives in Fremantle, has exhibited…

Susan Flavell’s practice has recently shifted away from figures of animals into the human form. Her cardboard sculptures are heroic in scale but not in material. Flavell’s works have many similarities with drawing – the lines of construction, including the ‘mistakes’, the rubbing outs, the overdrawing – can be seen. Out of the physicality of…

Olga Cironis transforms everyday objects by covering or embalming them in fabric. Her protective attentions surround her chosen objects with a gentle melancholy. Cironis’ reiteration of covering and stitching slows down our response, inviting touch, and shifting the emphasis in the gallery from object to performance.   Fremantle-based Olga Cironis has exhibited widely in Western…