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…

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…

Marian Drew’s photography and video explores relationships across time, domesticity, history and landscape. Every Living Thing subjects road kill to the close-up lens and painterly light – recontextualising Australian wildlife in the European tradition of still life.   Dres is Conveyor of Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane. The recipient of…

Hayden Fowler’s practice reflects upon the separation between humanity and nature at a time when the natural is becoming increasingly difficult to define. Fowler worked collaboratively with a tattoo artist to have a pair of extinct birds, the New Zealand Huia, etched into his torso. This photomedia and sound installation allows the spectator to watch…

Familiar aspects of everyday life in Perth are enigmatic when subject to the gaze of French photographer Christophe Bourguedieu. Bourguedieu exhibits regularly in France and Europe, most recently at Box Galerie, Brussels and Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon. His monographys, Le Cartographe (2007), Taviastia (2002), Eden (2004) and Les Passagers (2007) are published by Point…

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…