Guy Benfield presents a chaotic frontier pottery shop in celebration of the suburban and bohemian aspirations of the 1970s. His elaborate installation incorporates vast pots – paper mâché and ceramic, works on paper and video – vulgar and informed by absurdist theatre.   Benfield immerses himself in the earthy textures and feel of the 70s,…

Apocalypse is an enduring theme that has permeated Western culture for millennia. While the end of the world as we know it is traditionally figured in religious terms, apocalypse is continually redefined in new contexts and continues to feature in the popular imagination.   Revelations presents the contemporary interpretations of six Western Australian artists with…

Well into the seventies, Fremantle remained the first port of call for most immigrants entering the country by sea. As a port city, the memory of Fremantle is forever etched in the minds of many a migrant, or ‘New Australian’. The narratives behind Lloyd Triestino begin with that experience. An intimate, nostalgic exhibition, Lloyd Triestino…

Vision exhibited a selection of prints and drawings from the City of Fremantle Art Collection which related to ideas and the expression of an ecstatic inspiration or epiphany. A feeling of realization, to illuminate a deeper understanding whether psychological or literal is an experience often associated with the process of art making. Visual artists attempting…

In an ambitious installation, Paul Uhlmann extended  his enquiries into the interconnectedness of all living things beyond the two-dimensional, and into the grounds of Fremantle Arts Centre. Visitors were able to enjoy his exhibition from the vantage point of the Centre’s upstairs verandah simultaneously looking into the gallery and looking out over the grounds. As…

Acclaimed Western Australian artist Tim Burns produced his artist’s book A Pedestrian Series of Postcards in 1976. It documents his guerrilla – style postcard project and subsequent print media response to his campaign to raise public opinion regarding the introduction of pedestrian crossings in Mildura, a regional City in northern Victoria. Burns’ relationship with Mildura began in…

Flying Over presents a selection of paintings and works on paper from the Collection representing alternative readings of landscape which embrace ideas about traversing and mapping connections to country.   Artists include Alexis Beckett, Domenico de Clario, Douglas Chambers, Elizabeth Nyumi, Susan Pickering, Arthur Russell and Helicopter Tjungurrayi.   Curator: André Lipscombe

Come Hither Noise presents a broad range of contemporary approaches to sound. Works were selected with a view to heightening listeners’ perception of the relationship between the aural, visual and spatial attributes of the works. The exhibition aimed to investigate how the artists had deployed not only the aural but also the visual elements of…

Inspired in part by Stevie Wonder’s album, Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (1979), this exhibition presented plant life in its many guises. Each artist speculated about the sinister side of plants in different ways. The exhibition was comprised of  botanical illustrations of wild triffid-like weeds as well as imagery that assigned personalities to…

In Everything is Everything Sami presents a series of works that in their use of materials (discarded household paint, pegboards, plywood), title or structure relate to known forms which have a connection with domestic space. The Painting Machine series (2003 – ongoing) in a continuation of the idea of functionality as the allusion to something…