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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…
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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…
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A juried exhibition of prints and artists’ books in any print medium. Read the FACPA 2007 exhibition catalogue
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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The Diabolical Doctor Pancoast is a tale of sex and alchemy set in the Victorian era. Michelle Glaer’s video, combining animation and live action, invites the voyeur in all of us to join the Doctor, a hell-bent hedonist, on a magical journey to the underworld. Michelle Glaser is an artist, curator and writer who…
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Stuart Bailey is a Melbourne based artists and curator. He works in a variety of media with an emphasis on site-specific installation. Crafting self-esteem explores issues around the past uses of the building now occupied by the Fremantle Arts Centre. Channelling an art therapy class for troubled teens, Bailey has created a group of difficult…
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Undercurrent arises out of Jeremy Kirwan-Ward’s questioning of the paradox of ‘still movement’ in relation to natural phenomena. This installation of two vast paintings envelopes the viewer in light and reflects the artist’s encounter with sensations of water. Jeremy Kirwan-Ward is a painter engaging with the language of colour-field abstraction working in Fremantle. He has…
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