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Pamela Fenton | Latest Work
Influenced by a childhood in New Guinea and the jazz movement, Fenton describes her art making as an escapist’s playtime.
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Influenced by a childhood in New Guinea and the jazz movement, Fenton describes her art making as an escapist’s playtime.
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This installation examines the crossroads where art, fashion and sculpture intersect. The working methodologies of each artist are diverse; one uses cutting, dying and printing, the other building, drawing and weaving. When installed the works exert a tension: a structure so delicate as to seem in danger of collapse, illustrating the difference between physical and…
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These quilts are the result of a project led by artists Frances Larder, involving twelve Australian women, all of Dutch heritage. Their stories are told through the textile medium, revealing experiences of celebration and estrangement. The project began as a way of expressing a shared experience. Each carefully hand stitched patch narrates an individual journey…
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Six Western Australian artists of Dutch heritage present works which explore the ocean, the coast, floating and metaphors of migration in an exhibition curated by Nien Schwarz. Featuring inspiring coastal studies by photographer Richard Woldendorp, new digital prints by Rick Vermey, assemblages by Theo Koning, installation works by Aadje Bruce, with sculpture by Hans Arkeveld…
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This audiovisual installation, a collaboration between Munsie and Roberts, explore the relationships and interactions that comprise our life, through gesture. The work will use a variety of digital video footage to bring into focus the body as the primary vehicle for expression and meaning.
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This show of contemporary British portraiture explore the nature of collaboration. Laden with ambiguity and uncertainty, the portrait is perhaps the most complex area of artistic practice. Artists include Melanie Manchot, Anna Fox, Sara Haq, Emma Critchley, Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, Paul Jeff, Wiebke Leiste.
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Twelve of China’s leading contemporary photo artists in an outstanding exhibition as part of the 2006 FotoFreo Festival. View works by Shaoyinong and Muchen, Bai Yiluo, Miao Xiaochun, Zeng Li, Jiang Jian, Chang Qing, Qu Yan, Wu Gaozhong, Zhu Hao, Xu Yong, Zheng Nong and Shi Guorui.
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Motivated by the vulnerability of Western Australia’s forests, this work is based on the Ludlow Tuart Forest in Capel. Pritchard experiments with a variety of materials, creating works which emulate textures from nature. The textures materials are temporarily positioned in the forest and photographed. This juxtaposition creates a relationship which is both real and false,…
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Using chairs, doors, rooms and cups as icons of a collective, historical memory, this body of work examines individual memory and the significance of personal effects and familiar spaces in our lives, especially in times of suffering and deprivation. The prints and drawings are a metaphor for the human condition through haunting images of domestic…
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In a celebration of hope, Geraldton-based artist Leonie Bartlett’s first exhibition of paintings explore a journey that is a rediscovery of her connections. It’s a journey common to many Aboriginal people who have been disconnected from their families and homelands through the displacement of Aboriginal people.
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