Fajr was an exhibition by WA artist Olga Cironis produced alongside members of Perth’s Afghan community, in response to a pair of rarely exhibited 19th Century Afghan prayer rugs, donated to the City of Fremantle Art Collection in 1990.  Cironis, who undertook a six month residency at FAC, combined both installation and video work to acknowledge the…

Maschi Fontana is Tom Muller and Jean-Thomas Vannotti.

In an exhibition of video and photography, Maria Fernanda Cardoso (Australia/Columbia) continues her curious observations of nature.   In the same vein as her performance project Cardoso Flea Circus at Sydney Opera House, the artist once again employs insect specimens as her performers, this time investigating the use of camouflage and mimicry. Troupes of insects…

Occupying the space between figuration and abstraction, Melbourne painter Moya McKenna fills her compositions with rural Gothic figures, animals, iconic landmarks and elements from nature, to create landscapes both familiar and disorienting.   Sowing parts for uncertain meetings celebrates McKenna’s use of colour and texture, where syrupy browns and blues are thickly layered, giving the…

Canadian artist Nathalie Daoust presents a series of delicately handcoloured photographs from the picturesque Alps. Frozen in Time is a record of the artist’s response to the landscape during a six month residency in Switzerland.   Offset by the perfect whitewashed landscape, luminescent figures appear in awkward and unexpected places, creating a landscape that drifts…

Distinguished Australian graphic designer, typographer and author Alistair Morrison followed his heart at the age of 72, to pursue love and painting when he moved to Fremantle in 1983. Known for his ground-breaking modernist design practice influenced by Bauhaus legend László Maholy-Nagy and best selling Let Stalk Strine series of humorous published works, PTO revealed…

Fremantle Arts Centre presented a special exhibition, which told the story of Fremantle’s artists and their own personal collections. A sprawling meditation on the multiplicity of our creative minds, Home Open: Fremantle Artists and their Collections reflected the diversity and energy of our artists and their surroundings. Artists created environments that reflected who they are…

James Dodd’s concern with graffiti culture took him on a uniquely Australian journey. During his residency, Dodd collected the text and marks that are handcarved into the Boab trees of our state’s north. The rich historical significance of the Boab trees and Dodd’s investigations into contemporary street art informed his residency and exhibition at Fremantle…

In what Möller has characterised as a ‘museum of fictional species’, strange, organic forms were withered and calcified, accentuating the alien qualities of nature. This exhibition was informed by her studies in theology and microbiology, Möller’s fantastical work was simultaneously bathed in an atmosphere of decline while predicting the emergence of new aberrant life. Vera…

Inspired by the humble bore, Perth artist Mark Parfitt celebrated the life supply of more than 80,000 suburban backyards in his exhibition, Dream Bore. When his own bore was made redundant, Parfitt sought an alternative use for this Western Australian icon. Assuming the self-reliant mindset of so many ‘can-do’ homeowners, Parfitt converted his home-made bore…