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The Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award is Australia’s most prestigious, longest running print prize. Now in its 45th year, the FAC Print Award presents a diverse selection of prints and artist books from emerging, established and crossdisciplinary artists, offering a true picture of the state of contemporary Australian printmaking. Join us on opening night to…
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Object of the Game presents the 2018 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award-winning artist’s book Towla by Deanna Hitti, a Melbourne based artist with Lebanese heritage. Towla is a multipage two-colour book printed by the artist that sets out the rules of Backgammon phonetically in both Arabic and Latin alphabet. The Arabic text spell the instructions…
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Spanning music, fashion, design, writing and photography, Wilurarra Creative is an arts hub in the remote community of Mirlirrtjarra (Warburton) on the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, 900km north-west of Kalgoorlie. For the past 16 years Wilurarra Creative has supported Ngaanyatjarra young adults to explore and express personal and collective identity, capturing the songs, stories, styles, language, artwork…
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Presenting the best new and emerging Aboriginal artists from remote, regional and metro WA, Revealed 2021 will showcase artworks across painting, installation, textiles, photography, print media, video, jewellery, carving and sculpture. Hosting over 100 talented emerging Aboriginal artists, the galleries will brim with contemporary work, fresh from the studios of WA’s Aboriginal Art Centres and…
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A Forest of Hooks and Nails will now open 10am Thu 11 Feb, with an official opening event to follow 6:30pm Fri 19 Feb. Presented in association with Perth Festival Artists often work a range of side jobs to get by. Exhibition install is a prized side hustle, providing close contact with art and the industry,…
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Design is everywhere and we all make design decisions every day – what to wear, where we live, what we buy and how we get from A to B. DesignFreo: Object, Space, Place looks at Fremantle through the lens of design and draws attention to how design shapes our experiences as individuals and as a…
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Watch this space! is an exhibition of 15 screenprints drawn from the Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA) print folios published in 2004 and 2011. Each folio of prints displays a series of painted wall projects that span a decade of collaborative practice by AC4CA artists in Fremantle and Perth. Watch this space! includes a…
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Morphing figures, performing bodies and pop icons populate Bodywork, an exhibition that brings together mid-career Australian artists Amber Boardman (NSW), Tarryn Gill (WA) and Kaylene Whiskey (SA). Featuring soft sculpture, painting and video, Bodywork focuses on the body as a site for experimentation and self-expression, while exploring ideas connected to body modification, the cult of…
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Are You Having A Good Night? is Victorian-based artist Michelle Hamer’s first solo exhibition in WA. For years, Hamer has documented aggressive and patronising language aimed at women. In this new series of intricate hand-stitched works and drawings she continues her engagement with the threatening language many women face daily. Drawing on an archive of…
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Presence of Evidence presents award winning works from the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award spanning 25 years (1989 – 2015). In the absence of the FAC Print Award in 2020, Presence of Evidence brings together 8 remarkable prints and print series by female artists drawing upon ideas about identity, self-knowledge, motherhood and representation of culture and…
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