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The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography
A biennial international festival of photography
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Hayden Fowler
Call of the Wild 5 April 11 May
Kathleen OConnor Gallery
Hayden Fowlers practice reflects upon the separation between humanity and nature at a time when the natural is becoming increasingly difficult to define. Fowler worked collaboratively with a tattoo artist to have a pair of extinct birds, the New Zealand Huia, etched into his torso. This photomedia and sound installation allows the spectator to watch the full and complex tattoo procedure unfold as the Huia is resurrected on Fowlers body.
Call of the Wild (iv) (detail), 2007, digital print mounted on di-bond, 80 x 80 cm, courtesy the artist and Gallery Barry Keldoulis, © the artist. Photograph: Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Chen Nong
San Xia 5 April 11 May
Hall Gallery
Chen Nong has created a sumptuous fable photographing the residents of the villages leveled by the Three Gorges Dam construction, clad as terracotta warriors. The images are taken using a bellows-style
camera. Chen Nong was born in Fujian Province, China. He has a background in ceramics and is a self-trained photographer and painter. His photographic career was established in 2005 after his
participation in the Rome Photography Festival.
From the series San Xia 2 (detail), 2006, hand coloured black and white prints, 1 x 1.2 m, courtesy and © the artist
Marian Drew
Every Living Thing 5 April 11 May
Main Gallery
Marian Drews photography and video explores relationships across time, domesticity, history and landscape. Every Living Thing subjects road kill to the close-up lens and painterly light recontextualising Australian wildlife in the European tradition of still life.
Drew is Convenor of Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane. The recipient of many awards and residencies, a monograph was published in 2006 by the Queensland Centre for Photography. In late 2007 she held a solo exhibition at Hous Projects, New York.
Bandicoot with Quince (detail), 2005, archival pigment on German etching paper, 112 x 134 cm, courtesy the artist and Robin Gibson Gallery, Hill Smith Gallery and Dianne Tanzer Gallery, © the artist
Christophe Bourguedieu
The Passengers 5 April 11 May
Gallery Three
Familiar aspects of everyday life in Perth are enigmatic when subject to the gaze of French photographer Christophe Bourguedieu. Bourguedieu exhibits regularly in France and Europe, most recently at Box Galerie, Brussels, and Musιe dArt Contemporain in Lyon. His monographs, Le Cartographe (2000), Tavastia (2002), Eden (2004) and Les Passagers (2007) are published by Point du Jour Editeur.
The Passengers has received support from Lyon-septembre de la photographie 2006 and Picto-Lyon
Catherine, Perth (detail), 2005, inkjet print, 76.5 x 113 cm, courtesy the artist and Box Galerie, © the artist
Skin to Skin: a dialogue between art and fashion
Justine McKnight, Spinning Girl, 2007, digital photograph courtesy and © the artist
2 February 30 March
Highlighting the ways in which fashion and contemporary art feed off each other, Skin to Skin seeks to extend our understanding of the relationship between fashion and issues of identity, consumption and beauty.
Skin to Skin fosters appreciation of fashion as holding meaning beyond the aesthetic or marketable object. It includes seamless garments grown from micro-organisms, work that plays off architectural and sculptural references, and a live performance that repositions the male body as the central subject.
Contributors: Georgina Cresswell, Elizabeth Delfs, Anne Farren, Angela Ferolla, Donna Franklin and Gary Cass, Davina Homer, Kirsten Hudson, Justine McKnight, Minaxi May, Megan Salmon, Louise Snook and the collective Poets of the Machine. Curated by Lia McKnight.
Supported by Designer Fashion Grants Program, Department of Culture and the Arts
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Opening Performance
Friday 1 February, 6.30pm
Free, RSVP essential, 08 9432 9555
or fac@fremantle.wa.gov.au
Panel Discussion
The Future of Fashion: What is possible? What is ethical? Where are we headed?
Saturday 16 February
3pm Discussion, 4.30pm Drinks
Panellists are exhibiting artists Kirsten Hudson, Vanila Netto and Minaxi May with Kate Rhodes, Curator, National Design Centre, Melbourne. Chair: Dr Christopher Crouch, Edith Cowan University.
Free, RSVP 08 9432 9555
or fac@fremantle.wa.gov.au
Associated Workshops
Donna Franklin and Gary Cass: Microbe Fermented Fashion
Wednesday 20 February, 6.30pm 9pm
Angela Ferolla, Draping Surfaces, Scaping Emotions
Wednesday 27 February, 6.30pm 9pm
Vanila Netto, Communication by Contact
Hogshead #5 (detail), 2007, digital print, 95 x 108 cm, courtesy of Arc One Gallery,
Melbourne and BREENSPACE, Sydney, and © the artist
Vanilla Netto Communication by Contact is supported by the Arts NSW and Graphic Art Mount
2 February 30 March
Vanila Netto creates photographic work triggered by found objects. A subtle reappraisal of their function, value and aesthetics is undertaken via a disarmingly simple process involving the reconfiguration of the readymade and the staged photograph. Vanila is drawn to the aesthetic edge and nobility of modest, underrated sources rejected goods and non-celebrities.
Vanila has stated, Lately I have been working on short performative acts using video and photography . Performance of simple acts that fail to fit in or do the expected thing. Treating a serious subject through actions verging on the ridiculous, insisting on the subjects failure, displacing obvious notions of success, and promoting a subtler utopia through ritual, drama, minimalism and parody.
A graduate of the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Vanila is working towards many solo and group exhibitions in 2008. Vanilas Fremantle exhibition is the first showing of her video work.
Belinda Fox, Backwards Forwards
Hold, 2007, drawing, painting and flocking on paper, 120 x 150cm, courtesy and © the artist
8 December 27 January
Belinda Fox presents an ambitious wall and floor installation drawing on the imagery and protocols of childhood games to describe current political and cultural themes. The work utilises a combination of flocking, painting and printing on wood and paper.
Belinda, an artist who specialises in works on paper, was the winner of the 2007 Burnie Print Prize. In 2006 Belinda undertook a residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute supported by the Australia Council and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. Belinda is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Australia and overseas. She has representation with Art House Gallery, Sydney; Beaver Gallery Canberra; and Turner Galleries, Perth. Belinda is a recipient of a Fremantle Arts Centre residency and her project has been assisted by Curtin University of Technology Faculty of Built Environment, Art and Design.
Marina Troitsky, Residual
Residence (detail), 2007, perspex and paper , 1.4 x 0.4 x 0.4m
installation dimensions variable, courtesy and © the artist
8 December 27 January
Marina Troitsky presents a series of works based on displacement and memory in relation to the cyclical nature of existence. These fragments of object and
image engender contemplation of the effect of
transience on our lives, in both an environmental and a personal sense.
Marina, who lives in the South West has a German
and Russian heritage. Her environment and the
residual effect of migratory translocation influence
her evolving practice.
Alwin Reamillo, Mang Emo + Mag-himo Grand Piano Project
Javincello+Co (Christmas 1965, Manila) (detail), 2005, photocopy emulsion
transfer of re-used plywood, 20 x 30cm, courtesy and © the artist
8 December 27 January
Mang Emo + Mag-himo Grand Piano Project is an ongoing project hosted by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Fremantle Arts Centre. The project explores the cross-cultural and cross-generational possibilities that emerge out of Alwins commemoration of his familys piano manufacturing business, Javincello & Company.
Alwin was born in Manila in1964 and moved to Australia in 1995. His practice is diverse embracing installation, sculpture and performance with a focus on questions about migration and translation. He recently completed the Thuringowa Helicopter Project with Pinnacles Gallery, Thuringowa, Queensland.
Pip & Pop presents Ill Be Your Mirror, Tanya Schultz and Nicole Andrijevic
Play Date No 1, 2007, installation view, courtesy and © the artists
27 October 2 December 2007
Collaborative duo Pip and Pop transforms everyday materials into a playground of desire and abundance. With a child-like optimism of wanting it all, this candy coated paradise provides a looking glass in which to ponder the external world and reflect the synchronistic dialogue that occurs between the two artists. From the moment they met and saw each others work, Pip and Pop felt as though they had reunited as long lost sisters. The uncanny synchronicities in their visual language and personal lives have brought them to collaborate happily ever after.
Olga Cironis, Behind Each Look
Behind Each Look, 2007, courtesy and © the artist
27 October 2 December 2007
Olga Cironis transforms everyday objects by covering or embalming them with 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 has exhibited widely in Western Australia and recently in Melbourne with fortyfivedownstairs Gallery. She is a recipient of a Fremantle Arts Centre residency.
Ruth Parker, Shadow Space
Archaeology (detail), 2003-07, found bottle tops, 300 x 200cm, courtesy and © the artist, photo: Bewley Shaylor
27 October 2 December 2007
Ruth Parkers woven installations of rusty bottle tops cast shadows that appear hard or soft depending on the viewers vantage point. Her humble materials are sourced from bottle shops car parks and road sides. Ruth lives in Fremantle, has exhibited widely in Perth and also practices as an art therapist.
Susan Flavell, Unhorsed
Men 1,2,3,4,6, 2006-7, cardboard, hot glue, prosthetic eyes, 2.5 x 1.2 x 0.7m approx, courtesy and © the artist
27 October 2 December 2007
Susan Flavells practice has recently shifted away from figures of animals into the human form. Her cardboard sculptures are heroic in scale but not in material. Flavells works have many similarities with drawing the lines of construction, including the mistakes, the rubbings out, the overdrawing can be seen. Out of the physicality of modelling cardboard on this scale has emerged a struggle between the artist and the apparent agency of each figure. Susan has an extensive history exhibiting in gallery and outdoor contexts in Western Australia.
Her work is held in the States major collections.
Fremantle Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing
Australias leading award for prints and artists books in
any print medium
8 September 21 October
For more information Fremantle Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing
Also on view Relief Method: prints from the City of Fremantle Art Collection.
Stories from the North, Tales from the West, Franck Gohier and Chayni Henry
Left: Chayni Henry, Kimberley Crocs, 2007, acrylic on board, 40 x 30 cm
Right: Franck Gohier, OXO, 2005, acrylic on board, 44 x 33 cm, courtesy Ray Hughes Gallery
21 July 2 September 2007
In their first joint exhibition, Franck Gohier and Chayni Henry, present a selection of paintings that reflect their engagement with the Kimberley landscape and their home city of Darwin. Drawing on a favourite fifties novel, Cowboy Small, Franck brings a pop-inspired twist to the politics and topography of the Kimberley cattle industry. Chaynis paintings record trips through the Kimberley shared by she and Franck.
Predominantly self-taught, Chayni Henry is currently Artist-in-Residence at Charles Darwin University in Darwin. Included in Primavera 2006: exhibition by young Australian artists at the MCA in Sydney, her style juxtaposes painting and writing.
Franck Gohier taught and editioned prints in communities across Northern and Central Australian for many years. He now pursues his own socio-politically motivated practice full-time and is represented by Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney. Francks works have not been exhibited previously and the show includes new works by Chayni.
Projector Video Works
Sam Smith, Tokyo Exercises Suite (edit), 2005, digital video still
28 July 2 September 2007
Artists 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 Artist-in-Residence at the Fire Station Artists Studios in Dublin, Australian Kate Murphy, has assembled videos ranging in duration from 40 seconds to six minutes which offer an eclectic range of moving image work. Program length: 41 minutes.
Kate Murphy gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the NSW Government through the Ministry for the Arts
FOUR acknowledges the assistance of Dublin City Council and The Arts Council, Ireland
Brendan Lee is represented by Crossley & Scott, Melbourne
Todd McMillan is represented by GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Ms & Mr are represented by Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Pete Volich is represented by Stills Gallery, Sydney
MARKER>, Pia Bennett, Larissa Boyd, Patrick Doherty, Joshua Fitzpatrick and Clare Peake
Larissa Boyd, Horse, 2006, ink and charcoal and watercolour on paper, 76 x 56 cm
9 June 15 July 2007
MARKER> brings together a circle of young 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.
Media release available under Exhibition Publications
Izabela Pluta, Home(land)
Home(land) 2, 2006, inkjet wallpaper prints, 200 x 300
9 June 15 July 2007
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 necessarily a representation of it.
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Michelle Glaser, The Diabolical Doctor Pancoast
Helen Smith, credit from The Diabolical Doctor Pancoast
9 June 15 July 2007
The Diabolical Doctor Pancoast is a tale of sex and alchemy set in the Victorian era. Michelles 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 is an artist, curator and writer who works with linear and interactive media and biologically enhanced technology. Her new media projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
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Jeremy Kirwan-Ward, Undercurrent
Undercurrent (detail), 2006, acrylic on canvas, 390 x 570 cm
28 April 3 June 2007
Undercurrent arises out of Jeremy Kirwan-Wards 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 artists encounter with sensations of water.
Jeremy Kirwan-Ward is a painter engaging with the language of colour-field abstraction working in Fremantle. He has been exhibiting since 1971. His works are held in collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Artbank, the National Gallery of Australia, the Kerry Stokes Collection and the Wesfarmers Collection. He is represented by Perth Galleries.
The exhibition is accompanied by a free publication which includes an essay by Helen Carroll Fairhall, Curator, the Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, also available under Exhibition Publications
Associated Event
Saturday 5 May, 2.00pm
Jeremy Kirwan-Ward and Andre Lipscombe, Curator, City of Fremantle Collection, lead a tour of Undercurrent and the exhibition, Private Viewing, which offers an insight into the evolution of the artists ideas over three decades.
Free, bookings not required
Stuart Bailey, Crafting self-esteem
My first creative act, 2006, polystyrene, plaster, dirt, found plastic and paint, 44 x 44 x 30 cm
28 April 3 June 2007
Stuart Bailey is a Melbourne based artist 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 sculptures. His sculptures are installed alongside a wall drawing and works by Basil Hadley (1940-2006) from the City of Fremantle Collection. Bailey is drawn to Hadleys enjoyment of the tragicomic and looks to him as a possible mentor in his commentary on the impact of institutions on the individual.
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Abe Dunovits and Tania Ferrier, Collide
Tania Ferrier, Funky Victoria, 2006, artline pen and gesso on paper, 34 x 24 cm
28 April 3 June 2007
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, Ferriers quirky drawings embed reproductions of 18th and 19th century engravings in contemporary printed papers. Dunovits offers irreverent assemblages of found and recycled objects as shrines to consumer culture. Tanya is represented by Stafford Studios.
Echoes of Home, Memory and Mobility in recent Austral-Asian art
Renee So, The Merchant and The Villain, 2005, knitted lambswool, 66 x 46 cm Photos: John Bush
Echoes of Home presents the work of 14 Australian artists, craftspeople and designers who have an Asian background and includes historical and experimental approaches to media such as ceramics, textiles, paper, jewellery, sculpture and painting. Developed by the Museum of Brisbane, it has been curated by Christine Clark who worked on the Asia-Pacific Triennial for ten years at the Queensland Art Gallery.
Accompanying the exhibition is a discussion hosted by the Asian Australian Studies Research Network at www.asianaustralianstudies.org/echoes.html. Moderated by Dr Dean Chan, Postdoctoral Research
Fellow, School of Communications and Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University, this ongoing program will consider the shows curatorial framework and further highlight these artists contribution to
contemporary understandings of cross-cultural experience.
Artists
Keiko Amenomori-Schmeisser, Dadang Christanto, Yuri Kawanabe, Won Seok Kim, Liu Xiao Xian, Yoshie Mizuno, Humna Mustafa, Alwin Reamillo, Pamela Mei-Leng See, Shine Myung-ok Shin, Renee So, Jaishree
Srinivasan, Alistair Trung and Savanhdary Vongpoothorn
Public Programs
Exhibition Tour with Christine Clark, Exhibition Curator
Saturday 10 February, 2.00pm
Free, bookings not required
Asian Australian Studies Research Network Online Responses
View responses to the exhibition at www.asianaustralianstudies.org/echoes.html
Moderated by Dean Chan, responses by invited contributors from diverse backgrounds will be uploaded on a rolling basis during the exhibition. Continuing for the duration of its national tour, and incorporating curatorial essays and images of the exhibition, the online program will create a valuable archive for Echoes of Home.
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Turning into a corner, Bernadette Anderson
Turning into a Corner (detail), 2005, PVC plastic, images (drawings & digital) and movement;
Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, WA
20 January 4 March 2006
Seeking to give expression to the Taoist notion of movement and stillness, Bernadette Anderson invites viewers to linger in her work - its luminous quality and contained spaces giving rise to intimate and private recollections.
Catherine Higham, Presence
Sensory Connection (detail), 2005, oil on board and baling twine, 1.2 x 2.4 m
20 January 4 March 2006
Catherine Highams assemblages and sculptures utilising found materials
weathered over time are expressive of her experience of the inter-relationship between nature and farming life.
Pantjiti Mary McLean, Paintings and Drawings
Wati Nyarlpi(detail) 2002, drawing pencil on paper, 120 x 80 cm
20 January 4 March 2006
A suite of paintings and drawings, several never exhibited before, celebrating Pantjiti Mary McLeans family history and culture. Drawn from different periods and selected
in association with Nalda Searles, the exhibition will include drawing books from the
artists collection.
Walking with the Wongi, Karron Bridges
Damien Lane (Pilpanhi), 2006, gelatin silver print, 20 x 23 cm
20 January 4 March 2006
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.
Digging the Past Burying the Future, d&k
Tomorrow digging the past burying the future,2006
9 December 14 January 2006
2006 Artists in Residence, David Turley and Korin Gath, present work
within the Centres grounds unearthing its origins and delving into its future.
Wallal to Israelite Bay, Justin Trendall
Tomorrow Will Be Fine , 2006, screenprint on silk, 73 x 105 cm. Photo: silversalt photography
9 December - 14 January 2006
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.
Each moment a new tale is shouting to be told in silence, Layli Rakhsha
My Place is no-place(detail), 2006, mixed media and lapis lazuli on canvas, 16 x 24 cm
9 December 14 January 2006
Layli Rakhshas printmaking approaches the Western Australian landscape with feelings of nostalgia and longing. Uncertain pathways and hidden places are articulated through the application of precious texts by Persian poet Rumi (1207-1273).
Ichor ( kτr ) n., Pip McManus
That further shore(detail), 2006, ceramic, fire, 15 12 x 82 cm
9 December 14 January 2006
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 vessels invoke the importance of connecting to the rhythms of the natural world and convey a sense of urgency about its dissolution.