FotoFreo Perth 2008 Exhibitions
The FotoFreo Perth exhibitions for 2008 listed below are arranged in alphabetical order by the photographer's surname or, in the case of a group show, the name of the curator.
AIPP Masters
The Masters V Una Volta
The AIPP "Masters" Exhibition, an annual event at this contemporary fine art gallery, has been rescheduled to coincide with FotoFreo2008. All 17 photographers exhibiting have received gold or silver awards at the annual Australian Professional Photography Awards or been recognised by the AIPP Honours Committee for outstanding ability. The exhibition covers a broad range of subject matter, all captured and printed to the highest standards of photographic craft using either traditional emulsion or digital output. The photographers are: Anna Bombardieri, David Brittain, Geoff Fisher, Peter Hasson, Tony Hewitt, Greg Hocking, Nick Meladonis, Richard Syme, Lyn Whitfiefd-King, Richard Woldendorp, Russell Barton, Robyn Cusack, Frances Howlett, Gary Saare, Brian Smyth, Dale Neill, and Nicholas Djordjevic.
Venue: Monart Gallery, 129 Waratah Avenue, Dalkeith, 4 April – 5 May, Tue-Fri: 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun: 2pm-5pm.
Jeff Atkinson
Shallows
Using split images showing above and below the surface, Shallows explores life in the water, from the ocean to swimming pools.
Venue: Earlywork Gallery, Shop 9, The Biscuit Factory, 330 South Tce, South Fremantle, 5 April – 4 May, 10 am to 4 pm, daily.
Untitled image 01 by Alex Bradley
Alex Bradley
0=2: The Mirror and the Knife
0=2: The Mirror & the Knife presents a fantastic voyage into the hidden unknowns of the body and nature. Photography has long been used by the categorising gaze of science, yet this exhibition reveals that the scientific truths gained by photography are also fictions: even the highest resolution montages (of human and plant cells film and television stills, photograms, x-rays, text, and digital & analogue photography) illuminate the cultural projections inside that microscope detail of the camera’s vision. A photograph is but a mirror that cuts.
Venue: Spectrum Project Space, 221 Beaufort St., Northbridge, 3-20 April, Wed-Sun: 2-6pm, launch 7pm Apr 3
White cells Fremantle Prison by Tim Burns
Tim Burns
On Record: Tim (3rd degree) Burns photographic Retrospective
On Record photographically describes the public record and works spanning 30 years of work by West Australian artist, performer and filmmaker, Tim Burns. The exhibition includes a series of photo prints, the recreation of three of his installations, Alphabet City, Black Male and Sight Unseen and DVD’s of a number of his films. It includes Minefield, A Change of Plan, the award winning A Pedestrian Series of Postcards’, CARnage and Lukes Party. Part of this exhibition was recently shown at Uplands Gallery in Melbourne. This is a show not to be missed by art historians, filmmakers, photographers and collectors alike.
Tim Burns is one of Australia’s true avant-garde and socially active Artists whose works using interactivity, surveillance, performance film, TV, video and painting, often broke new ground in their innovative uses of the media. Although from the Western Australian wheat belt he has lived in New York for large part of his professional life. Some believe that he has been so far ahead of the pack that few in Western Australia realise the importance of the work or his place in the history of Australian art. According to Daniel Thomas, “Burns’s piece has turned out to be a key work in Australian art history………. More important than art-historical priority, it was artistically stimulating to set up confusion between broadcast or pre-recorded vision on one hand and real-time view back on the other”
Venue: Urban Dingo Gallery, 28a Queen Street, Fremantle. Gallery open Tuesday to Saturday 11-5 pm or by appointment. Phone 9336 6972 or a/h 0414876345. Tim Burns exhibition runs from April 10 - May 6.
Mark Coddington
Western
Photojournalist Mark Coddington documents a year on the western frontier. Guns, bush bashing, game fishing, night nurses, adrenalin junkies, guns, giant prawns, motorcycles, bananas, and more guns -it’s mayhem in the wild west.
Venue: Queen Street Gallery, 28B Queen Street, Fremantle (opposite the North Entrance to Myer), 24 April – 4 May, Wednesday – Sunday 11am – 5.30pm, phone: 0407 445 834
Official opening Wednesday 23rd April 6:30
– 8:30pm.
Glen Cowans
SEAing MONOchrome (Nature)
Artistic expression has been used to reveal the exotic and vibrant marine benthos interpreted as black and white and monochrome photography, be it monochrome in reproduction or monochrome naturally occurring through the natural filtration of the colours within the light spectrum by water depth. This is juxtaposed with images shot using flash photography revealing the vibrant reality of the reef. Sadly, we are creatures with the ability to manipulate and change our environment. If we do not heed today’s warning signs, monotones without the use artistic expression may become the natural palette of our oceans as corals bleach and our oceans become barren wastelands, let us hope it is not too late.
Venue: Carter Studios, 9 Captains Lane, Fremantle (next to the Roundhouse) April 9 - 28, Wed-Sun: 10am-5pm, Launch Wed 9 Apr.
Michael Dooney
A Question of Waste
As we are being made all the more aware of our impact on the environment and the importance of sustainable living, there is no real reason why any of the waste which we produce should end up in landfills. If you are a recycling sceptic who believes all the waste ends up on the tip anyway, or if you ever wondered where the recyclable waste goes after it’s been collect from the curb side, this series of images provides some enlightenment.
Venue: The Cracked Gallery, Behind the Monkey, 479 Beaufort Street, Highgate , April 5th - 18th, Mon, Tue, Wed and Fri - 10:00am to 5:30pm, Thu - 10:00am to 7:00pm, Sat - 9:30am to 5:30pm, Sun - 11:00am to 4:00pm.
Nigel Gaunt, Peta-Ann North, Mark Griffin and Denise Gallyot
Reflect (Landscapes/Abstract)
Reflect features a range of images of trees and water with the aim of raising awareness of conservation issues.
Venue: PhotoArt Gallery, Shop 27, London Court, Perth, 5 April – 4 May, Mon to Thu 9.00am – 5.00pm, Fri 9.00am – 5.30pm, Sat 10.00am – 4.00pm and Sun 12pm – 4pm.
Sam James
I Don't Remember Anything, Other Than It Was Perfect
“It’s a romantic ideal but also a bit pathetic. It is to reflect on and recall only the good times and not to dwell on the bad ones. But this could also be considered a state of denial.
“If you think about a trip you once went on, one where you took a lot of photos. And years later, when you’d forgotten the details of the trip your mind can be triggered by looking at the photographs. Since people mostly only take photos of the happy times, looking back on the photos, one could quite easily not remember anything other that it was perfect.” Sam James.
Venue: The Old Royal George Gallery, George Street, East Fremantle, 18-22 April, 11am – 5 pm daily. Artist’s talk, April 20, 3pm.
Charles Kasprzak
Family Stories
Family Stories is a personal narrative by Charles Kasprzak exploring his history and identity. The images show Kasprzak asking questions, delving into the stories of his family and his immigrant heritage to create a cathartic experience for the photographer. Family Stories has universal appeal because everyone has a story to tell…
Venue: Kurb Gallery, 310 William St., Northbridge, April 5 – May 4. Sun-Thurs: 1-7pm; Fri, Sat: 1-8pm
Untitled image by Kostas Korsovitis
Wayang is is a part of the 20th UNIMA Congress and World Puppetry Festival
The photographs in this exhibition about shadow puppetry were taken during 2 trips in 1999 & 2002-2003.The first one was to Java and Bali and the second one to Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia. In the course of this photographic project Korsovitis says, “I realised that the Wayang was far more than just entertainment. It reflected the eternal struggle between good and evil, between light and dark, gods and demons - pretty much the human condition. A reflection of what was happening inside me. Its natural adaptability to modern times and its educational and cultural values has helped it survive. I found it relevant and a source of pleasure for millions of people in South East Asia.”
Kostas Korsovitis is a freelance photographer living and working in Sydney and an active participant in the Sydney music scene. He has documented, managed and filmed many bands over the last ten years. Some of the people he has worked with include, the Infadels, Ed Kuepper, raw sugar and Coda. During his overseas travels he developed a strong interest in traditional theatre which led into a long term project of documenting, through photography, shadow puppetry throughout Southeast Asia.
Venue: Perth Concert Hall April 2 – April 12, official launch April 4 6-8pm
From the Dolly Land series by Cecile Lacombe
Cecile Lacombe
Dolly Land (Conceptual)
The year 2163 – A heat wave on earth composed of a multitude of mountainous islands. The continents have lost 90 % of their territory. The surviving population is essentially female. Very few children have survived the permanent scorching heat. Men have slowly disappeared, engulfed by the collapse of enormous dams. During these last years, humans have undergone numerous mutations trying to resemble fish moving and breathing in water without any apparent success. Women became beautiful during the beginning of this new millennium suffering from those spiritual and physical burns. After 2100 clothes became unbearable in spite of the refreshing and protective fabric.
Water, hot and radioactive is the meeting point for a swim. Interior ponds or on the windy coast. Woods are for hiding after leaving the fields. A western island. Ancient Sierra Vada: Dolly Land.
Venue: Brazen Art Space, 400 South Terrace, South Fremantle, 4 April – 4 May, Wed-Sat: 11am-5pm, Sun: 12pm-5pm. Launch: 10 April, 6pm.
Sons of Beaches by Seng Mah
Seng Mah
Sons of Beaches (Documentary)
Sons of Beaches is an exhibition that takes the iconic surf lifesaver beyond the stereotype and its traditional associations with masculinity, mateship and machismo. The photographs reveal the stories of individual surf lifesavers, moving beyond stereotypes to present the human story behind the icon: one that is poignant, humorous, tender and even erotic. These images re-purpose the icon for consumption by a 21st century multi-cultural, multi-faceted audience, and reflect currently evolving thoughts and attitudes about men, masculinity and about being Australian.
Venue: Kurb Gallery, 310 William St., Northbridge, 29 Mar – 13 April.
Sun-Thurs: 1-7 pm; Fri, Sat: 1-8 pm
Launch 29th Mar. 7pm-10pm.
patent by Veronica Mauri
& /Julian Tennant
Veronica Mauri/Julian Tennant
Salacity (Documentary/Conceptual)
Fine art photographers Nikki Mauri and Julian Tennant present images that are subtle and titillating, yet confound and arouse, presenting as many questions as answers about voyeurism, desire and power. Salacity is a journey to explore the naked human condition, our perceptions of self and sexuality in a world of constant surveillance and instant gratification.
Venue: Kurb Gallery, 310 William St., Northbridge, 23 April – 4 May.
Saturday – Thursday: 1-7 pm, Friday: 1– 8 pm,
Launch Wednesday 23 April, 6-9pm
Paula and Steven by Terry Mathews
Group Show: Yvette Bonhoffer / Clayton Martin / Terry Mathews / Kay Merrin / Pauline Miles / Wayne Richards / Judy Mary Seward / Mary Urquhart / Nicky Vervest / Mark McPherson (exhibitor, exhibition coordinator and curator)
Your Family and Mine
Your Family and Mine takes a closer look at the often private landscape of the family; the people we live with, the places we live in and the people we come from. Moving through closed doors, household interiors open up giving an intimate preview of how we live and who we live with. In particular, Your Family and Mine looks at the lives of people living with a mental illness and plays with notions of perceived normality and dysfunction.
Venue: Freight Gallery, 21 Beach Street (opposite East St Jetty) Fremantle
18 April –- 4 May
Open: Monday – Friday 10 – 4pm, Sundays 11 – 4pm
This is a DADAA Inc project supported by Healthway, Dept of Culture and the Arts (WA), Lotterywest and Australia Council for the Arts
Adam Monk
In the steps of Mathew Flinders - Western Australia’s South Coast (Landscapes)
Western Australian born Adam Monk is a Fremantle based specialist in Limited Edition landscape photography. His work is displayed in a dedicated photographic space in the West End of the city surrounded by historical buildings and Notre Dame University. The South Coast exhibition is his latest work and follows the path of English navigator and cartographer Mathew Flinders along a lonely Western Australian southern coastline during his 1801 - 1803 circumnavigation of the Australian continent. The scenery is unique, isolated and breathtaking, manna to a landscape photographer of Adam Monk’s ability. Large format panoramic film photography on huge canvas. Presented for the first time in FotoFreo 2008.
Venue: Adam Monk Gallery, 62 High Street, Fremantle, April 5 – May 4, Mon-Fri: 10am-5.30pm, Sat-Sun: 12pm-5pm.
Jacquie Moran
Birthing
For photographer, Jacquie Moran, ‘Birthing’ arose from her immense reverence for the birthing process: she believes that who we are is shaped critically by the way in which we are born. ‘Birthing’ provides a photographic documentation of the different ways of giving birth in Western society. This ranges from at-home natural birth with and without the use of water to both natural and intervened birth within the hospital environment including caesarean-section delivery.
‘Birth: 3 Seconds Later’ are almost consecutive images from one roll of film she shot of an at-home water birth. They communicate the absolute power and beauty of birth; the baby’s connection with (her) Mother is also very distinct and important to her.
Venue: Code Red, 158 Canning Highway, East Fremantle, 4 April – 7 May
10am-4pm Mon-Sat
Genevieve Morrissey
Putting it altogether (Documentary)
Fremantle based Western Australian Greg James is an internationally recognised sculptor. His waterfront workplace houses this exhibition and is both his Studio and Gallery. Genevieve Morrissey began her photographic career in the early 1980s and has been involved in commercial, industrial
and aerial work along the way. Putting it All Together is a window into the world of Greg James at work in his J Shed studio. With the love of process as part of her makeup Genevieve follows Greg and his team as they execute the many procedures required to take a concept from an idea through to a finished bronze sculpture.
Venue: Greg James Studio, Studio 2, J Shed, Fleet Street, Fremantle, April 5 – May 4, Weds – Sun 10am – 4pm.
Sue-Lyn Moyle
Reportage Cambodia
Reportage Cambodia takes viewers off the beaten track and into a rich cultural landscape. Beauty is found outside of the aesthetic and instead explored through resilience of the human spirit. The start of the Khmer Rouge trials for atrocities committed under the Pol Pot era in the 70’s, reflect a move to reconcile with a past that has hindered the future. This transition resonates through the range of images from often remote parts of the country. The use of film conveys a raw, unmanipulated quality to the images, revealing lives rarely seen in such close intimacy.
Venue: Keith & Lottie, 276 William St, Northbridge, April 9-23, 11am-6pm.
Launch: April 9, 6pm.
Brigitte Najjar
Indian Spirit (Documentary/Travel)
Indian Spirit traces Brigitte Najjar’s 3-month journey through India. In a country as diverse and complex as India, Najjar captures the rich texture of Indian life and taps into the human spirit of its people. The subjects captured in this series have all maintained their sense of dignity and hope amongst the poverty they are faced with. This exhibition evokes long-lasting impressions, emotions and responses to the ever-changing faces of the Indian spirit.
Venue: Arthouse Central, 606 Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley, April 5-19, Wed-Fri: 10.30am-5.00pm , Sat-Sun: 11.00am-4.00pm, Mon-Tue: Closed.
Matt Newton
The Forest
The great Tasmanian story right now is the story of the forests. It is a contest for the island’s soul and the forests are sites of drama, passion and yes, pain. Will this wild and special island retain the free agency that entitles it to love and wonder, or is to be reduced to the mere banality of artefact, no more nor less than every other abused and broken scrap of the globe?
Venue: Code Red, 158 Canning Highway, East Fremantle, 4 April – 7 May
10am-4pm Mon-Sat
Wallpaper
by Marite Norris
Marite Norris
The Yorkway Scene
Marite Norris illustrates her experiences of squatting in a crazy London Council Block, Yorkway Court. The dilapidated flats, in Kings Cross have since been demolished. These images display marginalized subcultures of people who see the world differently. It is a study of (mainly) women, doing what they do in the world. It was inspired by the underground fetish scene of London in the 1990’s; animated and erotic, with a touch of humour.
Venue: Kurb Gallery, 310 William St., Northbridge,
5-19 April, 10-5pm daily
Dee Dee Noonan, Wil Ainger, Jennifer North, Jo Cleland, Melyssa Parker, Tracy Mortimer
Are you looking at me? (Conceptual/Documentary/Portraiture)
Prolonged, direct staring is socially taboo, but looking deeply or closely into the face of another is irresistibly alluring. In photographs, viewers can make interpretations using gesture, posture and pose as clues to construct their own story. Are you Looking at Me? is about the social transaction involved looking, or being looked at, and the triangular relationship between sitter, viewer and photographer.
Are you Looking at Me? showcases the work of six emerging photographers currently at Central TAFE, with each presenting a series of new works showing a cross section of responses to the theme.
Venue: The Showcase Space, Central TAFE, Cnr Aberdeen and Beaufort St, Northbridge, 5 April – 3 May, Open Wed – Fri, 12 to 6pm.
Launch: 10 April.
Krs One by Josh Robenstone
Josh Robenstone
New York / Hip Hop
New York City is the birthplace of Hip Hop music and its cultural evolution. This exhibition focuses on one of its founding fathers, KRS One and on a semi-fictional environment in which he performs, lives and breathes.
Rather than the visual explanation of, “this is this and that is that”, the photographs represent the more subtle elements of the culture whilst at the same time become part of the culture itself.
Photographed over 4 weeks in NYC in 2006, this series is part one of an ongoing body of work which looks to interpret the evolutions and manifestations of Hip Hop as culture, and to explore its existence within the day to day landscape of the city.
Venue: Code Red, 158 Canning Highway, East Fremantle, 4 April – 7 May
10am-4pm Mon-Sat
Cim Sears, Helena Taelor and Robin Telford
Field Work
Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary- things that we would normally pass by. The corner of a door, telegraph lines that slice the sky, the shapes that form nature and human application on the land. To break things down and capture it in a frame is always a joy and always a challenge. Recording things around us and parts of things, seeing the parts that make up our perception of the whole. Capturing the parts of an image- moving towards abstraction, and ultimately a process of distillation of place and “being in the field”.
Venue: The Old Royal George Gallery, George Street, East Fremantle, 23-29 April, 11-5 daily.
Launch: 23 April, 6pm.
Walter Stahl
Document/Monument
German born Walter Stahl came to Australia in 1998 and now resides in Brisbane. This exhibition features a most unlikely subject matter: bugs and insects. They have been incorporated into photographic compositions that need to be seen to be appreciated.
Venue: Perth Concert Hall, 5 St. Georges Terrace, Perth, April 5 – May 31.
Yolanda Stapleton (curator)
FotoLomo: A Lomographers of Perth Exhibition
FotoLomo is a show based on the community aspect of Lomo photography – photographs taken with a simple Russian-made camera called the Lomo. Unpredictable and idiosyncratic, Lomo photography leads to the creation of unique images.
Venue: Keith & Lottie, 276 William St, Northbridge, April 24 – May 10, 11am-6pm daily.
Launch: April 24, 6pm.
Julian Tennant/Mark England
Chasing Apsaras (Documentary)
Apsaras, the divine celestial nymphs and courtesans of Hindu mythology are found from India to the ancient Champa Kingdom of Southern Vietnam. Chasing Apsaras is an Indochinese journey that contrasts the 21st century with age-old ritual.
From the frenetic desperation of the Soi Cowboy to the tranquility of ancient Angkor temple ruins, photographers Mark England and Julian Tennant blend digital capture with vintage Cyanotype, Kallitype and traditional B&W printing techniques. The resulting images are a fitting parallel to this world in a state of flux, where tradition is forced to adapt and change of be subsumed by it.
Venue: Kurb Gallery, 310 William St., Northbridge, 20 Apr – 4 May.
Sat-Thurs: 1-7 pm; Fri: 1-8 pm
Launch Wed 23 Apr, 7pm
Gerhardt Thompson
Nudes in Landscape
Nudes in Landscape is powerful exhibition of black and white images of the nude form in landscape environments. Australian photographer Gerhardt Thompson has won over 75 awards in both open and specific categories and over 90 acceptances/honourable mentions. He is also a photographic judge at photokonkurs.com and is currently considered one of the top photographic masters of the B&W artistic nude worldwide.
Venue: Gadfly Gallery, 131b Waratah Ave, Dalkeith, April 1 – 20, Tue-Fri: 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun: 2pm-5pm, then at the Perth Concert Hall, 5 St. Georges Terrace, Perth, April 21 – May 4.
Richard Wainwright
Eastern Chad – Surviving Darfur
Eastern Chad- Surviving Darfur documents the refugee crisis in Eastern Chad, a region beset by conflict and yet neglected by much of the Western media. Since taking up photojournalism at the age of 25, Richard’s work has always had a human rights dimension to it. Working closely with aid agencies he aims to highlight situations not always prevalent in the mainstream press. A journalist at heart he believes photography still remains the foremost medium to understand and inform the public what is happening in the world.
Venue: Code Red, 158 Canning Highway, East Fremantle, 4 April – 7 May
10am – 4pm, Mon – Sat
Bohdan Warchomij
Zone
Zone examines the impact of Chornobyl on the people of Ukraine. (Chornobyl is the Ukrainian spelling for the nuclear reactor that erupted in the world’s worst nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986).
Chornobyl has left its footprint on Europe and left problems of massive dimensions in Ukraine, Byelorussia and Russia itself. The doctors in Lviv’s Chornobyl Children’s Hospital have seen a huge rise in thyroid cancers, leukemias, congenital heart and kidney defects and genetic diseases. Many of the seriously ill children are abandoned to state orphanages because their parents are unable or unwilling to take on the task of looking after them. In orphanages like Znamenka children with hydrocephalus, spina bifida and cancers of various kinds have uncertain futures, despite the attention meted out to them. Care in Znamenka is quite exceptional, and the children living there are fortunate, but many require specialist treatment that is neither available nor affordable in Ukraine.
Bohdan Warchomij was born in Germany in 1946 and migrated to Australia in 1949. He is a freelance photojournalist specializing in Ukraine. In 2004 he covered the Orange Revolution for the Times of London and The Globe and Mail in Canada. Those images were exhibited in a major exhibition at Foto Freo 2006, an International Photography Festival in the city of Fremantle in West Australia.
Opening times: Wednesday – Sunday 11am – 5:30pm
Official opening Wednesday 9th April 6:30 – 8:30pm
Ian Weir
Lightsite: Camera as place
Conventional cameras tend to separate the viewer from a more direct experience of landscape. Lightsite places both the landscape and the viewer inside the camera, reminding him/her that landscapes are constructed through the agencies of light and personal interpretation. Lightsite was conceived by Ian Weir as a means of celebrating connectivity between people and place. This was achieved by placing people inside a room-sized pinhole camera as it travelled for six months throughout Western Australia. Lightsite is floorless so that photographs can be captured inside showing the subject standing within their landscape. But this scene is revealed only by the light entering the pinhole - light which has reflected off the landscape and family members outside the camera.
Ian Weir is a photographic artist and architect who is seeking to develop new means of representing the cultural and biophysical landscapes of the great southern region of Western Australia.
Venue: Social History Museum (Fremantle Art Centre) April 5 – May 11, 10am – 5pm
As a part of this exhibition a walk in sized pinhole camera will be erected in the grounds of the Fremantle Art Centre
Christopher Young
Drei
Drei (German: three) addresses aspects of artist Chris Young’s identity and creative practice. It develops ideas of context, narrative and space in the communication of concepts. Chris says’
“I am interested in what or who is not there, what I can’t see and the helplessness of not being able to ‘ground’ an image in a time line. ‘Why’ and ‘how’ are impossible to ignore. Using limited information and emotional response I, as others, fill in any gaps creating myths. By contrasting images in exhibition, the goal is to invent a deeply personal and confronting but, at the same time, completely fictional narrative.”
Venue: Breadbox Gallery, 18 April – 4 May, Wed-Fri: 12-5; Sat-Sun: 2-5
Launch 6pm 18 Apr
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