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  • A work from Revealed, which depicts the Perth skyline bathed in red. In the foreground are indigenous plants, silhouetted against the firey sky. A large white images of an Aboriginal elder hovers like a ghost superimposed over the scene. An exhibition that will ignite your liyarn
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    An exhibition that will ignite your liyarn

    7 June 2023

    You’ll want more than one visit to absorb the invigorating array of art works by Aboriginal artists, on display in this year’s iteration of Revealed at Fremantle Arts Centre, says Savannah Travia-Dann.

    Reading time • 6 minutesVisual Art
  • Reading time • 8 minutesVisual Art
  • A sculpture depicting two sheep at Marawar-ak Sugar and spice at Marawar-ak
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    Sugar and spice at Marawar-ak

    14 December 2022

    From introspection to tongue-in-cheek fun, two complementary exhibitions at Fremantle Arts Centre transport Jaimi Wright.

    Reading time • 7 minutesVisual Art
  • Reading time • 6 minutesVisual Art
  • Sonia and Elisa Jane Carmichael, Dabiyil Bajara, 2021, cyanotypes on cotton, 5.5 x 2.7m each. Photography by Pixel Poetry A series of six painted canvases curve around the edge of a wooden-floored room. Each painting is of an abstract waterscape, painted white on a blue background. The paintings are variously combined of lines and circles, as well as the occasional animal and have a map-like quality. Creating artistic asylum at Fremantle Arts Centre
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    Creating artistic asylum at Fremantle Arts Centre

    16 March 2022

    Less than a year into his tenure at Fremantle Arts Centre, curator Glenn Iseger-Pilkington has made a splash with his first exhibition, “Undertow”, but that’s the tip of the iceberg in terms of the centre’s plans, discovers Rania Ghandour.

    Reading time • 10 minutesVisual Art
  • An image of an artwork from the Undertow exhibition, predominantly blue with a variety of white marks, including printed impressions of nets Ocean casts its spell
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    Ocean casts its spell

    15 February 2022

    Moments of personal connection and culture are showcased through experiences of the ocean and life at its shore, as Miranda Johnson writes.

    Reading time • 6 minutesPerth Festival
  • 7. Kate Rohde, Ornament Crimes, 2015 mixed media dimensions variable, exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria in the Rigg Desig Brightly coloured shiny ornaments sit on a bench in front of a fluoro patterned wall Interactive exhibition a blast for kids
    Kids

    Interactive exhibition a blast for kids

    13 December 2021

    Seesaw’s junior reviewers Chloe and Jackson Davis marvel at the joys of colour in this new exhibition from the Fremantle Arts Centre.

    Reading time • 4 minutesVisual Art
  • Yabini Kickett, Burdiya-ka (Bosses) (Caroline Kickett and Helen Picket), 2021 Two portraits of First Nations Women, both photographed in bush settings. The woman on the left looks straight to the camera. She wears a light turquoise t-shirt. The woman on the right wears a pink t-shirt and looks out to the right, away from the camera. Both women look calm. Stories of survival
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    Stories of survival

    2 March 2021

    Curated by Glenn Iseger-Pilkington ‘nyinalanginy / the gathering’ is a thoughtful and provocative exhibition of works by First Nations people of the Indo-Pacific region, writes Michelle White.

    Reading time • 5 minutesPerth Festival
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