WesternAustralia 151Fremantle
FremantleArtsCentre
1 FinnertyStreet,Fremantle6160.
T(08)[email protected]
Wwww.fac.org.auFreeentry.HDaily10.00to 5.00.
July 27 to Sept 14 OtherSuns:CultSci-fiCinema&
Art– featuringlocal,nationalandinternationalartists
exploringthelessfamiliarunderbelliesof science
fiction:thehybrid,thenoisy,theforbidden,andthe
vernacular.Artistsexplorethedetritusof thefuture,
theecologiesof otherspaces,andthepolymorphic
technologiesof tomorrow.Also,StuartElliot:
Fremantle 1988 – StuartElliott’sFremantle 1988
is a ‘fakeological’digthrough 200 yearsof recent
WesternAustralianhistory,fromthetimeof invasion
to commemorationof thenationalbicentenaryin
1988.Elliott’simposingandinteractivecabinetof
horrorsis a multi-levelledpaintedassemblage,fullof
eccentricdramatisationsandexoticreminiscesthat
shedlightupona webof powerfullocalandnational
storiesof conflictandsurvival.
Jacob Pander and Marne Lucas, Incident Energy (film still), 2013,
4-channel
Courtesy the artist and Fremantle Arts Centre
Japingka Gallery
47 High Street, Fremantle 6160. T (08) 9335-8265.
E [email protected] W JapingkaAboriginalArt.com
H Open daily. Through Aug Gallery 1: My Journey
through Ingarrda Country by Sonya Edney. Gallery 2:
Bush Garden by Artists of Ampilatwatja.
Moores Building
Contemporary Art Gallery
46 Henry Street, Fremantle 6160.
T (08) 9432-9898. E [email protected]
W http://www.fac.org.au/about/moores-building
H Daily 10.00 to 4.00. To Aug 11 Creative Connections
- a project that pairs artists with disabilities and poets,
working together to create a range of varying artworks
that demonstrate their diverse abilities and personalities.
Also, Resonance by Carmela Corvaia (WA) – sculptures
and assemblages constructed from found materials
combined with felting, twining and stitching. Aug 16 to
Sept 1 (opening Fri Aug 16, 6pm) Merge – a body of
two and three dimensional work by Margaret River artist
Shayne Hadley inspired by observations of figures and
their reflections upon water.
Perth City
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Perth Cultural Centre, James Street Mall, Perth 6000.
T (08) 9492-6600 F 9492-6655.
W http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au Free entry unless stated
otherwise. H Wed-Mon 10.00 to 5.00 (closed Tues).
To Aug 5 WA Now: TJYLLYUNGOO/Lance Chadd:
Ibelongyoubelongwebelong. A series of recent works
trace the artist’s connection to people and place, in
particular the Boorongurup (Porongorup Ranges),
the oldest granite formation on Earth. Through
portrait and landscape paintings and sculpture
Ibelongyoubelongwebelong lays bare the the spiritual
unity of land and people and afford the wider public
access to this knowledge and adoption. To Sept 9
AGWA Design – Family resemblance. A collection
display featuring a range of largely ceramic works that
showcase the way some of the nation’s and world’s
best makers create sequences and clusters of objects.
The display includes recent and older acquisitions
by artists such as Ron Nagle, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott,
Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Margaret West and Sandra
Black, amongst many others. To Sept 30 Screen
Space: Undesirable bodies by Pilar Mata Dupont –
filmed at, and in, Jurndawurrunha –
a natural freshwater spring sacred to the Yindjibarndi
people of the Pilbara region—the work considers,
through poetry of filmic means, introduced ground
and underwater flora as a form of colonisation
and how contemporary conservation efforts can
restore the equilibrium.Pilar Mata Dupont, Undesirable bodies, 2018, three-channel digital
video, sound, colour, 1/5, 16:16 mins
State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased 2018
Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of Western AustraliaTo Nov 4 The Botanical: Beauty and Peril – this
major exhibition explores the abundant beauty of the
botanical world and the threats that assail it. Drawing
from the renowned Janet Holmes à Court Collection
and the AGWA Collection to present a vivid, involving
and sometimes disturbing journey through the diverse
representation by Australian artists of the glorious
kingdom of plants. From Aug 17 WA Now: Breathing
Pattern by Eveline Kotai – over the past 15 years,
Kotai’s interest in material dissolution and