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…

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…

Collaborative duo Pip & Pop transform everyday materials into a playground of desire and abundance. With a childlike optimism of wanting it all, this candy-coated paradise provides a looking glass in which to ponder the external world and reflect on the synchronistic dialogue that occurs between the two artists. From the first moment they met…

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…

A juried exhibition of prints and artists’ books in any print medium. Read the FACPA 2007 exhibition catalogue

Coinciding with the Fremantle Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing, Relief Method presents a diverse selection of prints from the City’s Collection. Relief printing is the oldest and most durable method of making prints, where the ink is transferred to a support by the raised parts of a prepared printing surface or block. Common…

Anthea Behm, Brent Grayburn, Soda_Jerk, Brendan Lee, David Mackenzie & Craig Bender, Todd  McMillan, Ms & Mr, Kate Murphy, Rachel Scott, Sam Smith, Peter Volich and Emma White   Projector is an internationally touring selection of works by Australian artists curated by Kate Murphy for FOUR Gallery, Dublin. Currently International Artists-in-Residence at the Fire Station…

Izabela Pluta was born in Warsaw, Poland, and migrated to Australia in 1987. She works in photomedia and installation, and is currently based in Sydney. Home(land) was produced during an Australia Council Studio Residency in Barcelona and investigates the conjuring of place through materiality. Izabela has described her work as ‘being somewhere else but not…

Marker ► brings together a circle of Perth-trained artists working with drawing to reveal the visually unapparent. At times extending beyond both the wall and convention, these artists explore mindscapes through narrative and the abstract. Curated by Jo Emmons.