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Sat 5 Jul — Sun 17 Aug

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Jonathan Jones & Sriwhana Spong | Moving Light

Jonathan Jones (Sydney and Sriwhana Spong (Auckland) juxtapose elements of light and darkness in the spaces of the Arts Centre deploying video, objects and different lighting technologies to invite a critique of site and history. Referencing their respective cultural backgrounds (Jones – Kamillaroi/wiradjuri and Spong – Balinese), their exhibition is the blending of worlds illuminated…

Sat 5 Jul — Sun 17 Aug

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Annabel Dixon | Making Something Else

Annabel Dixon is concerned with the materials and vocabularies of collecting and looking. The acts of sorting, listing and arranging are central to her interpretation processes. This solo exhibition brings together a significant number of strands and components of her practice, offering an overview of Dixon’s nuanced observations of paper, pattern and category.   Dixon…

Sat 5 Jul — Sun 17 Aug

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Bit Perfect | City of Fremantle Art Collection

Bit Perfect brings together a selection of award-winning digital prints and artists’ books from the Fremantle Print Award archives. Specialising in digital photography and print technologies, the works evolve ideas about feminine identity and sensuality, while the books provide the viewer with an insight into the everyday artist’s journey.

Sat 17 May — Sun 29 Jun

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Bon Scott Project: Bon Scott Letters Exhibition

Fremantle Arts Centre is presenting the first curated exhibition of letters written by Bon. A prolific correspondent, the letters are characterised by candour, cheekiness and Bon’s bawdy sense of humour. They provide and unparalleled insight into his long years on the road and the way he created his lyrics. These very personal letters have been…

Sat 17 May — Sun 29 Jun

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Bon Scott Project: The Bon Scott Exhibition

Bon Scott exemplifies rock’n’roll. As the lead singer and co-lyricist of AC/DC (1974-80), he was also the quintessential Fremantle boy, growing up in the port town before cementing his name in rock. The Bon Scott Project is a multi-faceted program that celebrates and critiques the life and legacy of Bon Scott. He was a man…

Sat 17 May — Sun 29 Jun

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Bon Scott Project: The Bon Scott Blog

Artist Lucas Ihlein has been commissioned by Fremantle Arts Centre to write a blog about his experience as a non-fan coming to know Bon through the eyes and ears of the fans, the tribute bands, the mad collectors, the obsessive fans, and the cultural studies professors. The Bon Scott Blog is updated regularly, get in…

Sat 5 Apr — Sun 4 May

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Everything is Nothing | City of Fremantle Art Collection

An exhibition of paintings, prints and assemblage which draws from the popular genre of Still Life. Associated with the representation of ownership, consumption and domestic space, Still Life has also been used to scrutinise the transience of life. Artists represented include Ray Beattie, Kathleen O’Connor, Margaret Preston and Trevor Richards.

Sat 5 Apr — Sun 11 May

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Marian Drew | Every Living Thing

Marian Drew’s 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.   Dres is Conveyor of Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane. The recipient of…

Sat 5 Apr — Sun 11 May

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Hayden Fowler | Call of the Wild

Hayden Fowler’s 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…