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Sat 28 Apr — Sun 3 Jun

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Abe Dunovits & Tania Ferrier | Collide

Abe Dunovits and Tania Ferrier are Fremantle-based artists who enjoy solo and collaborative practices that encompass drawing, installation and live events. Gathering up memories, trinkets and images from their recent travels, Ferrier’s quirky drawings embed reproductions of 18th and 19th Century engravings in contemporary printed papers. Dunovits offers irreverent assemblages of found and recycled objects…

Sat 10 Mar — Sun 15 Apr

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ECHOES OF HOME | Memory and Mobility in recent Austral-Asian art

ECHOES OF HOME: Memory and Mobility in recent Austral-Asian art presents the work of 14 Australian artists, craftspeople and designers who have an Asian background. Incorporating historical and experimental approaches to media such as ceramics, textiles, paper, jewellery, sculpture and painting, the exhibition reveals these artists’ contribution to contemporary understandings of cross-cultural experience. The artists…

Sat 20 Jan — Sun 4 Mar

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Pantjiti Mary McLean | Paintings and Drawings

A suite of paintings and drawings, several never exhibited before, celebrating Pantjiti Mary McLean’s family history and culture. Drawn from different periods and selected in association with Nalda Searles, the exhibition will include drawing books from the artist’s collection.

Sat 20 Jan — Sun 4 Mar

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Karron Bridges | Walking with the Wongi

Karron Bridges’ photographs of life in Ninga Mia, north-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, capture the hardships of living in this community while reflecting the resilience of family relations. Karron Bridges acknowledges the friendship of Pantjiti Mary McLean and Dinny Smith and the support of Ninga Mia Village Aboriginal Corporation. Read Karron Bridges’ Walking With the Wongi artist…

Sat 9 Dec — Sun 14 Jan

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Justin Trendall | Wallal to Israelite Bay

Justin Trendall creates images that fuse pattern and diagram with visionary architecture. Employing printmaking technologies to explore the intersection of coastal and cultural space, the Western Australian coastline is used as a reference point to map an autobiographical landscape.

Sat 9 Dec — Sun 14 Jan

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Ichor

Ichor (n.): The ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods, but poisonous to mortals (Gk). Pip McManus continues her exploration of the archetypal rituals and iconography employed by all cultures as protection against evil or suffering, or as sacred engagement with the Divine. McManus’ archaic clay figures and vessel invoke the importance of…

Sat 9 Dec — Sun 14 Jan

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Peter (Sonny) Collins | Cosmic Soup

Peter Collins’ enjoyment of colour and interest in ideas about the workings of the universe are reflected in his acrylic and manipulated mixed paintings.

Sat 28 Oct — Sun 3 Dec

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Trudi Pollard | Earth Treasures

This exhibition presents the artists’ investigations into the natural dyes of Western Australia. Drawing on both Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge, Trudi Pollard’s coloured, stained and smudged textile pieces are accompanied by a collaborative work developed with the Pilbara communities of Cossack, Roeburne and Tom Price.

Sat 28 Oct — Sun 3 Dec

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Robyn Walton | One for sorrow, two for joy…

Robyn Walton’s paintings and drawings explore the ‘everyman’ ambiguities of blackbirds, ravens and crows. With good and bad fortune attached, Walton’s creatures give rise to reflections about parallels between animal and human existence.

Open the Acknowledgement of Country modal

Walyalup | Fremantle Arts Centre is situated at Walyalup on Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodjar.

Walyalup | Fremantle Arts Centre is situated at Walyalup on Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodjar. We acknowledge the Whadjuk people as the traditional owners and custodians of these lands and waterways and extend our respect to their Elders, past and present.

We offer our heartfelt gratitude to the Whadjuk community and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to care for Country and share their knowledge – this generosity and wisdom helps us to understand and navigate Country safely and respectfully.