Western Australia
Fremantle
Artitja Fine Art
South Fremantle, 6162. T (08) 9336-7787, 0418-900-954. E info@artitja.com.au W www.artitja.com.au Directors: Anna Kanaris and Arthur Clarke Celebrating 15 years in 2019, Artitja Fine Art Gallery is based in South Fremantle and hold quarterly satellite exhibitions. They are open at all other times by appt. Recipients Fremantle Business Awards: Outstanding Cultural Enterprise in 2017. Corporate Social Responsibility in 2016. To June 16 at Earlywork, 330 South Terrace, South Fremantle: Paru by Spinifex Hill Studios artists. A group show featuring Mayawokka Chapman, Mulyatingki Marney, Maggie Green, Illyampi Victor Burton, Nyangulya Katie Nalgood, Doreen Chapman, Gloria, Winnie Sampi and Nancy Nyanjlpayi Chapman. Following a visit to the Pilbara in 2018, Artitja Fine Art Gallery is delighted to have secured the opportunity to select and curate this special exhibition of paintings by the Spinifex Hill Studio artists. Based in South Hedland in Australia’s far north west the artists are connected to Country right across Western Australia. The paintings explore the artists deep connection to place through family, memory and culture.
Fremantle Arts Centre
1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle 6160. (08) 9432-9555. Free entry. Daily 10.00 to 5.00. June 8 to. Taiwanese artist is the tenth exchange artist to visit Fremantle for the Asialink exchange between FAC and the Taipei Artists Village. Working in ceramic sculpture, work is often self-consciously sensual and fleshy, focused on the human body as a hybrid form. This exhibition is a response to the aesthetic and cultural shift from Taipei to Fremantle and an investigation into local materials and techniques. Also, is the first survey exhibition of paintings and works on paper by (1843–1894). An experienced seaman from humble beginnings, he served in Fremantle’s Water Police before being appointed Fremantle’s Port Pilot and the first Chief Harbour Master for WA. Curated by André Lipscombe. Also, brings together a selection of artworks and historical and contemporary photography from the City of Fremantle Art and Civic Collections. It provides various points of discovery and revelation about Fremantle’s Harbour, a significant subject for many artists and photographers who have made Fremantle their home. Artists include: and . Curated by André Lipscombe. Also, – Fremantle-based artist has been invited to create an interventional work in FAC’s Main Gallery. studio practice includes hard-edge abstract paintings and three-dimensional wall mounted works that explore bold colour, geometric shape and pattern. He draws on a wide range of historic and contemporary sources, including Islamic and mosaic tile patterning, architectural modelling and tessellations. He has adapted his studio practice into public and gallery spaces, incorporating floors, walls, windows and roads as surfaces on which to apply pattern and colour. Also, – this exhibition is the first solo presentation of sculptures by in WA in over a decade. As the title suggests, the objects in this series are the result of several years of experimentation, focused exclusively on paper-based media. This recent work is explicitly handmade response to both the influence of digital manufacturing and the tradition of monumental sculpture. will be accompanied by a book published by the Surf Street Press.
