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Sat 6 May — Sun 23 Jul

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2023 Revealed Exhibition: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists

The 2023 Revealed Exhibition for new and emerging WA Aboriginal Artists, returns to celebrate the creativity, ambition, and diversity of contemporary Aboriginal Art practice here in Western Australia. The annual Revealed program – encompassing this exhibition as well as a special opening weekend celebration with Art Market (returning in-person for 2023!) and artist talks –…

Sat 4 Feb — Sun 23 Apr

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Other Horizons

Journeys under a shared sky, across vast seas, to the continent we now call Australia, some revealing the terror of slavery, others focussing in on early migration histories, are offered alongside cinematic depictions of contemporary First Nations ritual, spirituality and power in Other Horizons. Comprised of three independent artist projects, Other Horizons presents the work…

Sat 5 Nov — Sun 22 Jan

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STILL WATCHING | ANNA LOUISE RICHARDSON & ABDUL-RAHMAN ABDULLAH

A collaborative exhibition by Anna Louise Richardson and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah. Still Watching embodies different experiences and perceptions of mutual observation in the natural world. Embracing both the magical thinking of childhood and the pragmatism of raising a young family in a rural environment, Anna Louise Richardson and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah articulate a personal lore, voicing their…

Sat 5 Nov — Sun 22 Jan

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BACKTRACK | KATIE BRECKON

Katie Breckon is an Aotearoa-born artist, educator and remote community arts worker whose practice explores the transient and transformative notion of home and questions one’s place in the natural world. In Backtrack, Breckon explores expanded drawing and mark making practices through the lens of mapping personal and physical geographies. Having lived, worked and travelled on…

Sat 5 Nov — Sun 22 Jan

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A Gift and a Shadow | Sally Bower

A happy magpie dancing in a sprinkler, a ghost asking politely to be let in, finding a fortune in the street. A Gift and a Shadow are two sides of the same coin, the choice and consequence, the path followed and the road less travelled and the use of an object and all the uses…

Sat 5 Nov — Sun 22 Jan

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The RinDin Dai | TYROWN WAIGANA

Enter the world of the Hongels, an other-worldly species on their ceremonial day of the RinDin Dai, which marks the beginning of a Hongel year, and occurs every third rotation of their home planet. On this day, the Hongels’ creator Vord emerges from the ether where it takes its rest. In a special ritual, each…

Sat 13 Aug — Sun 23 Oct

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A Gentle Misinterpretation: Australian Artists and Chinoiserie

‘Chinoiserie’, the Western appropriation of Asian aesthetics, briefly represented the height of fashion for European aristocracy during the early eighteenth century, before falling out of favour and being variously characterised as effeminate, immoral and transgressive. Today the style remains something of a guilty pleasure, via its undeniable aesthetic charm, but intensely problematic and kitsch appropriation…

Sat 13 Aug — Sun 23 Oct

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Jila Kujarra: Two Snakes Dreaming

Jila Kujarra: Two Snakes Dreaming is an exciting cross-cultural collaboration between Warnman artist Desmond Taylor and Boorloo-based textiles practitioner Mariaan Pugh. Taylor and Pugh have worked together to transform Taylor’s Niminjarra paintings, usually seen on canvas or paper, into highly tactile textile works, animating the important Niminjarra Jukurrpa (Dreaming). “Niminjarra is the two brothers transforming into…

Sat 13 Aug — Sun 23 Oct

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Tania Ferrier: Pop Porn | City of Fremantle Art Collection

Tania Ferrier’s new exhibition Pop Porn is a reverent acknowledgement of women’s experiences and an investigation into the representation of women in popular pornography of the 1980s. This City of Fremantle Art Collection exhibition presents a series of Ferrier’s new print works and short animated videos alongside a survey of her internationally renowned Angry Underwear…

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.