FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival Exhibitions

The FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival is a festival of independant photographic exhibitions taking place during FotoFreo, the City of Fremantle Festival of Photography.  Celebrating innovation and diversity in photography, the Fringe Festival showcases exhibitions by emerging and established photographers from Australia and around the world.

The FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival is the biggest yet, with more than 90 exhibitions in Fremantle, Perth and the metropolitan area.

Fringe exhibition hubs are located in Fremantle, North Fremantle, South Fremantle, Perth, Northbridge and Swanbourne, with exhibition centres extending to Leederville, Mt Hawthorn, Highgate, Nedlands, Shenton Park, Victoria Park, Hillarys and Rottnest Island. Within these hubs are clusters of Fringe exhibitions: multiple exhibitions in the same venue or on the same strip.

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FREMANTLE

The port city of Fremantle hosts the largest collection of exhibitions of the FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival. A number of venues and locations in Fremantle will show multiple exhibitions during the Fringe Festival, including:

• Artsource (Level 1, 8 Phillimore Street)
• High Street, from the mall to the West End
• il Cibo Café (2 Market Street)
• Little Creatures Brewery
• Maya Indian Restaurant (75-77 Market Street)
• South Terrace (Cappucino Strip)
• Up on High Studio (133 High Street Mall)

 

Sabine Albers  

Adventure Unlimited           
Breaks Café 
85 High Street, Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April
Mon - Fri 7am - 5pm, Sat - Sun 8am - 5pm   

Glaciers, sheer rock faces, rugged mountains, rough rapids; the world has all of the natural attractions necessary for some serious action sports. Sabine Albers discovers that whether your passion is hiking, kayaking, sailing or heli-biking, in our idyllic adventure wonder-world you can play outside all day, everyday. This exhibition will contain a series of colour images from expeditions races, and extreme sports events from all over the world.

 

Sabine Albers    

Drawing on the Past            
Merenda Fine Art Gallery
1/78 High Street, Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April
Wed - Sat 12pm  - 4pm          

Six Cambodian orphans reveal their heart rending past through their childhood drawings. These orphans were asked to draw happy and sad memories from their past as a way to deal with the trauma of genocide and an ensuing war that raged in Cambodia. This exhibition will contain a series of black and white images, the children's drawings and an audio/video presentation with their stories. 

 

Stewart Allen

Driftwood: A Guide for Beachcombers           
Kidogo Arthouse
Bathers Beach, off Mews Road, Fremantle
20 March - 2 April
Daily 10am - 5pm, closed Tue

55 images, covering five countries: Australia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, The Solomon Islands and Samoa and the ocean, people and cultures intimately connected to them. Our seas are the largest single natural entity on the planet. Religions attach great significance to them; evolutionists say we crawled out of them. Philosophers, poets and romantics have called it their muse. For Stewart Allen, the ocean is the big blue metaphor, and the images in Driftwood explore the connection between people, cultures and the sea.

 

Paul Amyes

Broncos and Bulls           
Fremantle Chamber of Commerce Foyer
16 Phillimore Street, Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April 2010
Mon - Fri 9am-5pm

The idea for a documentary rodeo project arose from a wider study of rural Australia for Paul Amyes. The majority of Australians live a very suburban existence in close proximity to the coast while the real rural Australia is somewhat akin to another country - a very different experience altogether. Paul has captured the motion and the sheer spectacle of the Australian Rodeo. The images illustrate the physicality of it – the animals are veterans of the rodeo circuit, and some of them have developed very clear strategies for dismounting the riders.

 

Peter Annand

Air, Sand, Seawater           
Mad Monk Brewery and Kitchen
33 South Terrace, Fremantle
www.madmonk.com.au           
5 April - 18 April
Mon - Sat 11.30am-l0.30pm           
Launch: 7 April, 6.30 to 8.30 pm

The photographs in Air, Sand, Seawater were taken at Mapoon, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, a place redolent of human history and also the longer cycles of geology and other living species. This beach was the site of the first recorded contact between Europeans and indigenous Australians. Each picture follows the movements of an animal or plant across the sand. By selectively removing information from the digital image, Annand has isolated shapes dictated by the ephemeral structure of the sand as well as miniature fragments of animal life, stone and debris and leftovers of the photographic process.

 

 

 

Diane Bartlett, Anita Boulazeris, Emiko Monobe

Women on Top - Body and Soul           
Mad Monk Brewery and Kitchen
33 South Terrace, Fremantle
www.madmonk.com.au            
21 March - 4 April
Mon – Sat 11.30am – late, Sun, 9am - late
Launch: 21 March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Women on Top - Body and Soul is a collaborative exhibition focusing on the many facets that make up a woman. The photographs are from three different sets of eyes, from three different walks of life and culture, showing their individual perception and understanding of women. The exhibition is an exploration of everything that is associated with being a woman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Christou

The Watchers           
Artsource Fremantle - Old Customs House
Level 1, 8 Phillimore Street, Fremantle - Front Foyer
www.artsource.net.au
20 March - 18 April
Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm           
Launch: 20 March, 4pm – 6pm

The Watchers is the result of an ongoing body of work exploring surveillance of one type or another in our lives. Maria Christou is interested in the objects representing the idea of protection within a visual context. This body of work is a combination of hand printed colour photographs and montages centering on her intrigue in humanity's apparent need to feel watched and/or protected.

 

Angus Cole

Mochilero           
Little Creatures Brewery, Gallery 2
40 Mews Road, Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April
Daily 9am – midnight
Launch: 16 March, 6pm - 8pm

Mochilero is a journey, and whilst viewing these images of a country far away may appear as an adventure through geography, topography, and space, they are also of a voyage in time, and a passage through distant memories. Memories are far too often mistaken as exact recordings, as truthful representations of places, faces and times, but they are an entity unto themselves. The images are full of darkened vignettes, of faded and blurred peripheries; the colours, the textures, the focus are all imprecise retellings in the factual sense, but these are dreams, they are sensations, not captured with the dispassion of cataloguing a country but the warmth of experiencing it.

 

Glen Cowans

Beyond the Edge           
Brooker Furniture Gallery
43 High Street, Fremantle           
20 March – 18 April
Mon - Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 5pm, Sun 11am – 4pm
Book launch and signing: 11am, 20 March

Glen Cowans’s book, Beyond the Edge, will be released in 250 limited edition hard cover and 1000 softcover versions in its first print run, and will be shown alongside an exhibition showcasing some of his most popular underwater photographs as well as several new works not yet seen.

 

David Crocker

Med El Quiet Introspection           
Freight Gallery
21 Beach Street, Fremantle           
2 April – 18 May
Mon - Fri 10am - 4pm, Sun 11pm - 4pm
Launch: 31 March, 7pm – 9pm

I am David Crocker and I'm Deaf. Quiet Introspection is a series of conceptual/ surreal self-portraits. I have tried to create images that reach out to the observer and draw them into my life, and in doing so, give them a heightened perception of my disability. Perhaps it may even result in a lasting empathy for those with invisible disabilities. This exhibition is proudly supported by Med El.

 

Alistair Dickinson

Not Far From Here           
Remedy
95 High Street, Fremantle
20 March - 18 April
Mon – Sat 9.30am - 5.30pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm

Not Far From Here works two fold: firstly, as an exploration of melancholy, romanticism and hope as observed in the artist's immediate surroundings of Perth, Western Australia; and secondly, as an exploration of the implications of associating an open disrupted narrative to seemingly matter-of-fact visual material.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sandy Edwards

Dried           
Hubbles Yard Cafe
50 George Street, East Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April
Mon - Sat 7am - 5pm

Dried is an exhibition of images depicting an Australian rural industry in crisis. Block 584, Cardross is a 25-acre property located in the Sunraysia district in north west Victoria. In February 2009 seventeen acres of dried fruit grape varieties were harvested at Block 584. Like many other districts in south eastern Australia, the Sunraysia region has endured ten consecutive years with below average rainfall and drought conditions. This has devastated the district and seriously questioned its future viability.

 

Becky May Felstead and Julian Tennant

No Maps, No Batteries           
The Merchant Tea and Coffee
17 South Terrace, Fremantle           
19 March - 18 April
Daily 8am - 9pm

No Maps, No Batteries is a collaboration between Perth photographers Becky May Felstead and Julian Tennant that features photographs taken "off the beaten track" in the region known as Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand). The photographs, all taken using older film or plastic 'toy' cameras invoke feelings of discovery and adventure in a dreamlike way. The locations and subjects featured reinforce a dreamlike exploration of the exotic 'other' in a 21st century where indigenous cultures struggle to maintain their sense of identity in a rapidly changing world.

 

 

 

 

Hai Yan Feng

Memories of Perth           
EMRGNC Gallery
Unit 9, 27-35 William St, Paddy Troy Mall, Fremantle
20 March - 29 March
Thu – Sun 1pm - 7pm

This exhibition explores three separate themes: The Memories of Autumn, a series showing  leaves on the water to reflect about life. Bus Stop Stories, a series of local bus stops that have been painted by various artists expressing a love of Australian life. Work #20 Within, a series showing peoples lively responses to an artist's work at Sculptures by the Sea Cottesloe 2009.

 

Weichao Feng

Australian Farmers           
Artsource Fremantle
Old Customs House, Level 1, 8 Phillimore Street, Fremantle
www.artsource.net.au            
20 March - 18 April
Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm           
Launch: 20 March, 4pm – 6pm

In Australian Farmers, Chinese photographer Weichao Feng casts his eye on a subject that is intrinsically Australian. The exhibition documents farming families and the various crops and livestock activities that surround them.

 

Fremantle Arts Centre's photography students

 

feast           
Fremantle Arts Centre
1 Finnerty Street. Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April
Daily10am - 5pm

The photographs featured in feast have been selected from work produced by students from the intermediate photography courses on offer at Fremantle Arts Centre. feast offers viewers a visual smorgasbord of beautiful and unusual images, and new and personal interpretations of the everyday.

 

Anthony Gajewski

Kroma Soma           
Up on High Studio Gallery
Upstairs, 133 High Street Fremantle           
www.uponhighstudio.com
20 March - 18 April,
Daily 11am - 4pm

Kroma Soma explores the combination of colours and bodies in photography ("Kroma", from the Greek for "colour" and "Soma", from the Greek for "body"). Exhibition images range from models photographed with complex studio strobe lights to the photography of found objects with fluorescent tubes and desk lamps.

 

Caitlin Harrison

Shundori Mahila           
Fremantle RSL Wyola
81 High Street, Fremantle           
27 March - 18 April.
Sun – Wed 10am - 2pm, Thu – Sat 10am - 5pm
Launch: 27 March, 2pm

Women's rights in Bangladesh are at the forefront of debate nationally and internationally and although the dialogue and recognition of inequality has been largely established, there remains a huge disparity between the social status of men and women.  Shundori Mahila reflects, in a complimentary and at times contradictory manner, issues that are raised in direct quotes gathered from Bangladeshi women. Harrison spent 5 months working with various Bangladeshi women from activists to acid attack survivors. The images and words in Shundori Mahila are derived from her interaction with these women.

 

Jean-Paul Horre

Making Ginger
X-Wray Café
Lot 4, 3-13 Essex Street, Fremantle           
20 March – 18 April
Daily 8am - 11pm
Launch: 20 March, 8pm – 10pm. Concert by 10 Cent Shooters.

Over the span of four months, Jean-Paul Horre lived in Margaret River to document luthier Scott Wise and his process of building one of his instruments. This exhibition was held in Margaret River recently to celebrate Wise's 30 years of being a luthier.

 

 

 

Bo Janmaat

Street Stills           
Little Creatures Brewery, Gallery 1
1 - 40 Mews Road, Fremantle           
20 March – 18 April
Daily 9am – midnight
Launch: 16 March, 6pm - 8pm

The images in this exhibition are taken during road trips in Australia and elsewhere,  often in cities, sometimes in country towns, but always on the road. In reportage photography, the subject comes first, the circumstances are second. There is not always time to wait for the right light. In Street Stills, many photographs are taken under harsh light conditions, adding an extra dimension to the subject.

 

Nadia Janis

Michael and Helen           
Up on High Studio
Upstairs, 133 High Street, Fremantle.           
20 March - 4 April
Daily 11am - 4pm

This work is a documentary series on Michael and Helen. Michael is 59 years old and suffers from schizophrenia. He lives on the streets, is a well-known character and integral part of the community in Balmain, Sydney.  Helen is his friend and occasional “partner”. She lives in housing commission in Balmain and no longer has any living relatives. Michael and Helen is part of an ongoing project documenting the every day lives of those with lives less fortunate than ours. It seeks to personalise their experience by bringing their lives to our attention and to remove the “distance” and barriers we create between “us” and the “homeless”.

 

 

 

 

 

Hank Kordas

Fly High - Land Well           
Wild Poppy
2-6 Wray Ave, Fremantle           
20 March – 18 April
Mon – Sat 7.30am – 4.30pm

This is an exhibition of enlarged colour photographs of young men in the act of leaping into the ocean from heights. The simplistic view is one of young men leaping into the water; Hank Kordas uses these actions as a metaphor to describe the many rites of passage young men engage in to conquer fear, to gain peer acceptance, to achieve status or just for fun. The photos embody the inherent risk taking and largesse of life associated with youth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy Lock

My Space           
Fremantle Markets: The Shed, Henderson Street entrance
20 March - 18 April   
Fri 8am - 8pm, Sat 8am - 6pm, Sun 8am - 6pm

A collection of street portraits inviting the audience into a moment of time and space of the subjects’ day. My Space explores the state of mind and being that we display to the world in our public flowing collection of singular moments. As they are. As they were. No stage or studio, simply the public path in which they occupy. A moment in My Space.

 

Timothy Lock

A Truckie’s View
Fidels’ Bar and Café
24 Essex Street, Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April

A Truckie’s View is a collection landscape images taken from the truck window while on the roads and highways of the North West. The road is always the same, but the land it winds through is a beautiful changing phenomena. As light laps its way across the horizon day after day, storms roll through and clouds caressing your view, one can't help but be mesmerised by the power of the open road.

 

Roel Loopers

Impressions of a Working Port
Fremantle Ports Administration building
Foyer, 1 Cliff Street, Fremantle           
15 March - 30 April
Mon – Fri 8am - 5pm

Fremantle Port is one of Roel Looper’s favourite subjects for photography. It is never the same. The ever-changing landscape of the port is complemented by the ever changing sky above: huge blue skies, rainbows, pelting rain, enormous white clouds, brilliant sunsets and moody sunrises. This is a dream for an old Dutchman who loves the ocean.

 

Alastair McNaughton

Kumbh           
Shedwallah
6 Stack Street, Fremantle.           
14 March - 16 April.
Wed – Sun 10am - 5pm

Kumbh is an exhibition of black and white images from the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India. The Kumbh Mela is the biggest spiritual gathering in the world. An estimated 7 million people gathered here in 2001.

 

Alastair McNaughton

Rabari to Roma           
Gypsy Tapas House
3/124 High Street, Fremantle (Highgate Court)
20 March - 18 April
Thu – Sat 11am - 11pm

Alastair McNaughton's exhibition juxtaposes portraits of the Rabari a tribal group from Gujarat in India and the Roma gypsies of Romania. Linguistic and genetic evidence indicates the Roma originated from the Indian subcontinent. From 800 to 1000 AD, groups from north-west India began to migrate west into Persia and onwards to Armenia. By 1300 AD the diasporas had settled in Serbia and soon after were recorded in Romania, Spain, France and Germany.

 

Graham Miller

American Photographs           
New Edition Bookshop
82 High Street, Fremantle           
19 March - 18 April
Mon – Sun 8.30am - 9.30pm

American Photographs is the result of a road trip through the Southwest of America in June 2009 - an intersection between fables of the West and the reality Encountered along the road. Through the windscreen of our silver V6 Ford Fusion, we saw only fragments of Robert Frank’s lonely gas stations, bars and luncheonettes from the 1950’s. Big tourists with digital cameras dominated the landscape, jostling into Ansel Adams vistas and Stephen Shore streetscapes. The West nevertheless remains seductive. The sublime beauty of the landscape survives, and the promise of what lies beyond the horizon urges the traveler to keep looking.

 

Tracy Mortimer and Natalie Holodny

Vues D'Optique           
Lick Clothing - Creative Window Space
25 Market St. Fremantle           
14 March - 18 April 
Open daily

This work is a fusion of photography and craft. Using the idea of paper tole to give a new dimension to photography, where different layers are created from a two dimensional perspective to create the illusion of a 3D image.

 

No Culture Icons Collective

No Culture Icons
il Cibo Café - Upstairs gallery
2 Market Street, Fremantle
25 March - 28 March
Daily 10am – 4pm
Launch: 24 March, 7pm

No Culture Icons is a collective of young international and emerging photographers whose works offer a comparative view of snap shot moments in both the public and private sphere, displaying the visual characteristics and the activities of today through the perspective of young people. No Culture Icons offers the viewer and the participant a suggestive narrative of contemporary youth culture throughout the world today, utilising photography as a chosen medium.

 

 

Jack Pam

Eleventhirty
Locations throughout Fremantle
20 March - 18 April

Eleventhirty, a new publishing project by Jack Pam, is a magazine printed for distribution directly onto the walls of a city and reproduced as an online journal. This will be the first issue of eleventhirty and will be published in large format and distributed in areas accustomed to the visual language of advertising throughout Fremantle. The issue will be joined from page 1 to 64 via a map, with which interested people will be invited to explore the city of Fremantle to experience eleventhirty. Featuring: Lloyd Stubber (Australia), Jack Pam (Australia), Sam Hodge (Australia), Yusef Sevincli (Turkey), Klaus Muenzner (Germany), Christian Belgaux (Norway), Sergio Belinchon (Spain), Mirjam Siefert (Germany), Ben Pier (USA), lin zhipeng (China) Lilly Mcelroy (USA).

 

 

 

Alma Sarhan

The Many Faces of Bellydance 
Gypsy Tapas House
3/124 High Street, Fremantle  (Highgate Court)
19 March - 18 April 
Thu - Sat 11am - 11pm
Launch: 18 March - set menu with live music and bellydance show (bookings: 93367135)

Alma Sarhan, a bellydancer for over 20 years, offers a colourful exhibition on Middle Eastern dance. Young, old, female, male, curvaceous or toned -  bellydancers are a varied lot. The dancers in the exhibition were photographed here in Australia and in Cairo at the Nile Festival.

 

Cim Sears

The Battery           
Parkview Room, Esplanade Hotel Fremantle
Corner Marine Terrace and Essex Street, Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April
Mon - Sun 10am - 10pm

The Coolgardie Battery is a State and National Heritage Site to white Australians because it represents the history of men and women in their quest for gold. The earth, stones, trees and waterways that the Battery sits on is an Aboriginal heritage site to Indigenous Australians because of their timeless connection to land through their culture and Dreaming. This unique set of circumstances presents us with the opportunity for an intensely interesting engagement in contemplation and discussion. As an artist/photographer, on an aesthetic level, Cim Sears is particularly seduced by the quest to capture and analyse the magic of composition and light. The Battery and its surrounds, bathed in the Coolgardie light is her perfect muse.

 

Darren Smith

Le Campement
Outdoor Installation - 91 High Street Fremantle           
21 March to 4 April           
Launch: 21 March, 3pm

Bohemianism is more than a way of life. It's a state of mind, an atmosphere that absorbs into the creative genius to live uninhibited, creative, and free. I travelled to the south west of France to the fringes of contemporary culture. I found French gypsies who have replaced their caravans with houses and mobile phones, yet continue to live without television or Internet. They grow their own wine, pick the forest for wild mushrooms, and come together in droves to share stories, make music, and to live free. This is a place that wishes time had stood still: a desolate, yet seductive look at a lifestyle that is disappearing before your eyes. Le Campement stands as a multifaceted series of photographs taken by a spectator, outsider, and invited guest; all wrapped into one complex and deeply layered work.

 

Carla Steele

Chi Mwana           
Film and Television Institute WA
92 Adelaide Terrace, Fremantle 6160
16 March - 18 April 2010
Opening times: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm and  Fri 26 Mar 9am-8:30pm, Sat 27 Mar 2pm-4:30pm & Sun 28 Mar 2:30pm-4:30pm
Launch: 16 March, 7pm

Chi Mwana, a greeting used by the Ugandan children meaning "what's up baby", is a series of photographs documenting a month-long journey spent in Uganda, East Africa in September 2008 with charity organisation Hope of Africa Inc. What resulted is a series of captivating, vibrant images that tell the story of hope and joy. The documentary style of photography captures spontaneous moments of play, intimate moments of prayer and the raw beauty of unrestrained instances in time.

Marianne Symons

Illuminator
Maya Indian Restaurant (Bar)
75-77 Market Street, Fremantle
20 March - 18 April.
Tues - Sun 5pm till late. Closed Monday.
Launch: 21 March, 4pm

Illuminator is an exhibition of little boxes that hold Marianne Symons's whimsical and ethereal photography. Illumination of the boxes brings these playful scenes to life.

Marion Treasure

Reflectionism           
il Cibo Cafe (Ground floor)
2 Market St., Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April
Daily 7am - 4.30pm

Reflectionism - An adventure over 10 years, reflecting photos that create new images, enticing one to stop awhile and ponder what is. This Limited Edition Collection is from Southern West Australian Bush, Garden and Beach. Plus a little surprise!!!

 

 

 

Gemma-Rose Turnbull

Show Us Ya Tits           
Artsource Fremantle
Old Customs House, 8 Phillimore St., Fremantle - Upstairs Hallway           
20 March - 18 April
Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm
Launch: 20 March, 4pm – 6pm

Breasts have often been the subject of the photographer's gaze; as persistent icons of femininity and sexuality. They play many roles throughout a woman's life, and it is these varying functions that Gemma-Rose Turnbull investigates in her ongoing documentary series Show Us Ya Tits.

 

 

Rob Turner

Themes           
The Maya Indian Restaurant (Ground floor)
75-77 Market Street, Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April.
Tues - Sun 5pm till late. Closed Monday
Launch: 21 March, 4pm

Generally my purpose for photography has had a practical base - usually sports, children or a combination. Sculpture is also a long held interest area and I have developed both skills and an inventory of images based on sculpture - basically masking a desire to be a sculptor myself. Photography providing the exposure to sculpture, a past business venture also had a sculptural element and I feel that when the time is right will lead into the third dimension, when the time is right. The exhibit will explore several areas and hopefully push me to develop further my so far short journey down the long pathway.

 

Amy Vinicombe and Emilie Saubestre

Travelling Trees           
Clancy's Fish Pub (backyard)
51 Cantonment Street, Fremantle
www.clancysfishpub.com.au           
26 March - 28 March
Daily 12pm – late

Travelling Trees is a first exhibition by emerging photo media artists Emilie Saubestre and Amy Vinnicombe, who have put together a collection of travel photographs while studying photography at Perth Central TAFE. The series will be displayed in the trees surrounding Clancy's Fish Pub. The exhibition includes photographs from a variety of different places including international, interstate and West Australian surroundings.

 

April Ward

Public Places Private Lives
Sail and Anchor Pub Brewery (Upstairs Bar)
64 South Terrace, Fremantle
www.sailandanchor.com.au
20 March - 18 April
Thu - Sun 12pm til late

This series of work is a study of the society I see on a daily basis; of people living their private lives in public spaces; their acceptance of having their private moments so unwittingly on display. Today, people seem more prepared to outwardly display behaviours and emotions that were treated with more discretion in generations past. Witnesses seem more accepting of such traits and in sharing these common spaces. These images represent the questions that confront my mind on encountering modern society.

 

Mark Ward

Pinhole Panoramas
The Maya Indian Restaurant (Function room - upstairs)
75-77 Market Street, Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April 
Tue - Sun 5pm til late. Closed Monday.
Launch: 21 March, 4pm

Shot on film and printed in panoramic format Pinhole Panoramas presents unique landscape and seascape images of Western Australia. This exciting photographic exhibition shows natural landscapes, some touched by human endeavour, in regions as diverse as the South West and Wheatbelt to Rottnest Island and suburban Perth. The photographs were shot using a plastic “toy” panoramic camera which has no lens, no lightmeter and no viewfinder. In today’s world of ever increasing megapixels it is refreshing to see that 100+ year old film technology can still produce exciting photography.

 

Lauren Waye

Unfettered Views
Kulcha
1st floor, 13 South Terrace, Fremantle
www.kulcha.com.au
20 March - 18 April
Mon - Fri 10am-4pm

In Unfettered Views, photographer Lauren Waye offers a unique vision of China. Waye says, "I seem to always be moving. Maybe I was born that way. All that movement has been caught on my camera since I was a kid - sometimes it is simply a record, instead of the beautiful journey it should be. A reluctant trip (to a place I knew very little about) surprisingly meant that China crept up into my heart and made me explore the secrets it was hiding. It was subtle and quiet and unexpected - and the mixed sights I was able to capture are collected here, untouched by pre-conceptions and so different to anything I have done before."

 

Peter Zuvela

Loss and Unrealised Dreams           
Greg James Sculpture Studio Gallery
Studio 2, J Shed, Fleet Street, Fremantle
21 March – 18 April
Tue - Sun 10am - 4pm
Launch: 21 March, 5pm - 8pm

Through the eye of the camera, trapped memories and dreams are captured in the decaying peeling paint, the muted colours of a deserted house and soft autumn light streaming through windows and doors. Images depict everyday objects now
abandoned as the family fractured and moved away, leaving a virtual museum of life frozen in time. This dislocation and relocation, a common migrant experience, is poignantly represented by a series of beautiful images produced during Peter Zuvela's recent visit to his family's ancestral home in Croatia, now deserted and empty of human life.

 

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NORTH FREMANTLE - MOSMAN PARK

The North Fremantle Fringe Festival hub combines good food and drink with photographic artwork, with exhibitions held in the area’s iconic eating and drinking establishments. These venues will be throwing a joint launch on 28 March, 3pm – a great way to experience the creative vibe that this Fringe hub has to offer.

 

David Jo Bradley (Perth), Nic Duncan (Regional WA), Shane Hulbert (Melbourne), Christine Ko (Sydney), Izabela Pluta (Sydney), Juha Tolonen (Perth),) and Christine Tomas (Perth)

space to space           
Harvest Restaurant
1 Harvest Road, North Fremantle
www.harvestrestaurant.net.au           
29 March - 20 Jun
Wed - Sat Dinner; Fri – Sun Lunch; Sat-Sun Breakfast
North Fremantle FotoFreo Fringe Launch: 28 March, 3pm

space to space is a group exhibition showcasing the work of national photo media artists who are at various points in their careers. This exhibition will present viewers with original photographic works inspired by themes of change, adaptation, identity and place. Enquiries to: christinetomas@westnet.com.au.

 

Mihaila Lukic

Faceless           
Mojo's Bar
237 Queen Victoria Street, North Fremantle           
20 March – 18 April
Daily 8pm until late             
North Fremantle FotoFreo Fringe Launch - 28 March, 3pm

Can you see a person’s soul by gazing into their eyes? Does a smile or a frown give true insight into how someone feels? Or is it possible to gain meaning without seeing the whole face? A photo can still have so much power when part or all of the subject’s face is absent,  hidden or blurred or cropped (decapitated purely for artistic purposes!). Faceless adds an air of mystery; it intrigues the mind and makes you question the story behind the photo. it’s like a movie with an open ending; one needs to feel a sense of contentment in knowing that one will never fully know. Its beauty lies in its incompleteness. As Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge".

 

Marnya Rothe

Cut Out           
Mosarts - Mosman Park Memorial Hall Gallery
16 Lochee Street, Mosman Park
28 March - 4 April
Daily 12pm - 6pm           
Launch: 27 March, 5.30pm - 8pm

Marnya Rothe's exhibition Cut Out is a photographic reaction prompted by her immersion and research into the world of fashion photography, surrealism and gender politics. Her work could be described as “surrealist fashion photography, exploring the themes of gender roles and displacement”. She is captivated by the ability of photographs to transport the viewer into a world where boundaries don't exist and desire is strong; she aims to use these elements to characterise her work. This exhibition is proudly sponsored by MosArts.

 

Phil Tucak

Ride Nature’s Ripple           
Mrs. Brown Bar
241 Queen Victoria Street, North Fremantle,
20 March - 18 April
Tue - Thu 4.30 - 12am, Fri - Sat 1pm-12am, Sun 1pm-10pm           
North Fremantle FotoFreo Fringe Launch - March 28, 3pm

Ride Nature’s Ripple takes the viewer on an ethereal journey through nature’s wonderful realms, giving a sense of how the unavoidable ripple of nature exists in everything. Highlighting nature’s ability to create beauty almost without effort, many works juxtapose nature’s contrasts to challenge viewers perceptions, blending extremes of hot shifting sand dunes with the haunting majesty of Antarctic icebergs. This exhibition is an exploration of the diversity and power of nature, incorporating sand dunes, ice and animals, enjoy the journey as we Ride Nature’s Ripple. For more information visit www.philtucak.com.

 

 

Amy Vinicombe and Lyle Branson

Drawing-76           
Mojo's Bar
237 Queen Victoria Street, North Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April
Daily 8pm – late
North Fremantle FotoFreo Fringe Launch: March 28, 3pm

Drawing-76 is a exhibition of darkroom experiments based on the Dadaist approach  of using chance as a creativity process. These prints have been stretched and twisted to the limit in the darkroom and are not your conventional photographs.

 

Bo Wong

Superbia           
North Fremantle Bowling Club
40 Stirling Hwy, North Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April 
Fri 4pm - 12am, Sat 2pm - 12am, Sun 2pm  - 10pm
North Fremantle FotoFreo Fringe Launch: March 28, 3pm

Fremantle artist, Bo Wong merges her background in architectural photography and contemporary photo-media practice in this exploration of sites of significance around Fremantle. The body of work includes a series of suburban delis, houses donning Christmas lights and buildings previously inhabited by her ancestors.

 

 

 

 

 

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SOUTH FREMANTLE

Dean Dampney

From Innocence and Back    
Earlywork Gallery (The Biscuit Factory)
9/330 South Terrace, South Fremantle           
23 March - 11 April
Daily  10am - 4pm
Launch: 26 March 6pm – 8pm

From Innocence and Back, brings us an intimate window filling light into the world of photographer Dean Dampney. A photo diarist, Dampney's perspective brings us those he is closest to, his friends and his family, immortalized in their innocence and natural beauty.  For all of us who have gone on to experience life through anything less than wide eyed amazement, this is a body of work, a series of portraits, that just might open your eyes again and bring you back, if only for a moment, to a time of innocence.

 

Roger Garwood and Alastair McNaughton

The Blessing of the Fleet, Forever Fremantle and Cuba Libre
Source Gallery
262 South Terrace, South Fremantle           
17 March - 18 April
Daily 10 - 5pm           
Launch: 17 March, 6.30 - 8.30pm

The Blessing of the Fleet is Fremantle's oldest standing ceremony. Roger Garwood has been photographing the ceremony for 36 years and the pictures on display are from his archives of black and white material which record changing and traditional Australian lifestyles. In Forever Fremantle  Alastair McNaughton presents a series of black and white images taken on the streets of Fremantle.  Alastair McNaughton's Cuba Libre is a series of black and white images taken in Cuba showing the people of this Communist country at work and play.

 

Sue-Lyn Moyle

Open Road           
Aubergine Gourmet Foods and Café
231 South Terrace, South Fremantle
18 March - 18 April
Mon - Fri 7am - 4pm, Sat - Sun 7am - 5pm

Open Road takes the traveler on an abstract journey through the relative unknown; being led or drawn down long or windy roads, experiencing new discoveries and reminiscence along the way. Photographer Sue-Lyn Moyle looks at the undulating landscapes of Western Europe and explores the immense contrasts between the summer and winter seasons with mood-evoking black and whites as well as highlighting the colours of natural surroundings.

 

Rae Threnoworth

Sandy Feet
The Sandcastle Restaurant
Shop 11/396 South Terrace, South Fremantle
www.sandcastleorganic.com.au
12 March - 20 April
Tue from 4pm - late, Wed - Sat from 6pm - late, Sunday 9am – 4pm then 6pm till late
Launch: 12 March, 6pm

Being an Aussie surfer and photographer, my passion is to capture the essence and beauty of the ocean and surfing lifestyle. For many being a part of the surfing tribe becomes their life, their religion and their reason for being. Sandy Feet draws inspiration from within this culture to express the sense of mateship, adventure, spirituality and freedom that reflects this way of life.

Shenade Unicomb

The Unaimed Arrow Never Misses           
Tasty Express
310 South Terrace, South Fremantle           
20 March - 18 April
Mon - Sat 7am - 3pm

These shots make all those times when I was traveling and (almost) sick of continuously holding my camera and friends yelling at me "you're missing the real thing!" all completely worth it. I aim to trigger stories of life in faraway lands through single images. I'd rather capture an image as it happened for me, right then and there, when it was a perfect moment, than obsess over that perfect shot. Like the old Hawaiian proverb, "the unaimed arrow never misses", life is beautiful when it just "happens".

 

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NORTHBRIDGE

Jedda Andrews, Ryan Boserio,  Luke Thompson,  Dee Allen,  Tunnel Tag +++

Don't Shoot           
Last Chance Studio
456 William Street, Northbridge           
25 March -  28 March
Fri – Sun 11am - 6pm
Launch: 26 March, 6.30pm - 9pm

Jedda Andrews has had the opportunity to travel around Australia living with and documenting many of the best and most notorious Australian Graffiti writers. There are very few boundaries between youth sub-cultures within Skating, Music Production, Performance and Graffiti - circulating within all these cultures are members who are meticulously documenting.  In Don't Shoot, Andrews and fellow photographer/artist/curator Ryan Boserio aim to draw a thread through all these cultures, to showcase what they believe is a unique vision of Australian youth culture taken from within its ranks.

 

Natalie Blom, Krysia Cant and others

Off The Wall           
Showcase at Gallery Central
Corner Aberdeen and Beaufort Streets, Northbridge           
15 March - 1 April
Mon - Sat 12 - 3pm

Off The Wall is an exhibition showcasing photographic explorations on the theme of The Wall. It features works by a group of driven young photographers of vast vision and variety. Curating this group show is Natalie Blom and Krysia Cant, joint recipients of the Central TAFE  Monart Scholarship.

Dan Zhou

Tibet
Shanghai Tea Gardens Restaurant
1/399 William Street, Northbridge
22 March – 25 April
Tue - Sun 11am - 9pm
Launch: 22 March, 6pm – 8pm

Tibet showcases a series of photographs chronicling the landscapes, people and cultures of Tibet.

 

Karen Djordjevic

The Going Away and the Coming Back
Brave New World
315 William Street, Northbridge           
25 March - 18 April
Daily from 11am
Launch: 25 March, 6pm - 8pm

This exhibition features a collection of black and white scapes from Karen Djordjevic's journeys around the globe.  Using a 35mm SLR camera and shooting with black and white film, these resonant images are in the tradition of Magnum Photography.  Karen's style of photography is about taking the time to look and then re-look, as she finds quite often you see things differently, whilst also allowing for amazing moments to naturally unfold before her eyes.

 

Gibson Nolte

Get A Real Job: West Australian Artists at Work           
Blue Room Theatre
53 James St. Northbridge           
April 16 - 25
Mon – Fri 10am - 6pm; Sat – Sun 11am – 4pm
Launch: 16 April, 5pm – 7.30pm

"Get a real job!” Sometimes in jest, sometimes in offence, this cliche is one most artists will admit to having had levelled at them throughout their careers. Selected from documentary photo essays shot over the last 18 months, the images in this exhibition feature West Australians who have turned the cliche on its head, choosing to make the creation of art - be it visual, performance, musical, or literary - their real job.

 

Tim Storrier

Horizons           
United Galleries 281 Newcastle Street, Northbridge
www.unitedgalleries.com.au           
25 March – 29 April 
Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5pm,  Sat 12pm - 4pm           
Launch: 25 March, 6pm

Tim Storrier is interested in the decay of material culture and fire represents the source of both devastation and renewal. There is a tension in his work between beauty and decay: his evocative use of texture and colour in the atmospheric effects at daybreak and dusk, are counterbalanced by destructive or gruesome elements like fire, snakes and slabs of meat.

 

David Woolley

Glamour Puss
The Burlesque Lounge Studio
Upstairs - 267 William Street, Northbridge
22 March – 3rd April
Mon - Thu 12pm - 4pm, Sat 1pm - 4pm

Glamour Puss, preening, purring or posing cats are always at home in front of the camera much like us humans who in this exhibit perform, resemble and attain to be just that!

 

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PERTH

Perth is the second largest exhibition hub in the FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival, with a number of venues and locations showing multiple exhibitions during the Fringe Festival:

• Wolf Lane (behind Murray Street) has exhibitions at Aldas Gallery and Project Space, Tiger Tiger, Secret Garden and the Wolfe Lane Bar
• The Perth Town Hall (Corner Barrack Street and Hay Street)
• The Free Range Gallery (339 Wellington Street) will host a series of three exhibitions during the FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival.

 

Sapna Chandu

Someday we'll all be married           
Aldas Gallery and Project Space
317 Murray Street (rear - in Wolf Lane)
20 March - 3 April
Mon - Thu 7.30am - 5pm, Fri 7.30am - 12pm         
Launch: 24 March, 6pm - 9pm

The wedding has been scripted into a happily ever after tale, available for mass consumption. Yet, in this age of decadence in Australia's multicultural capitalist society, demanding careers and material wants are redefining tradition. Some day we'll all be married is a documentary series, which plays with the language of ritual, and considers the influence of ritual in the construction of our contemporary identity.

 

City of Perth Photographic Commission Exhibition

Photographs by Max Pam and Simon Westlake
Council House
27 St Georges Terrace, Perth
22 March to 16 April
Daily 8.30am - 5pm

In the inaugural City of Perth Photographic Commission, two prominent West Australian photographers, Max Pam and Simon Westlake, were commissioned to document the development and changes of the city through artistic processes on a regular basis. Max Pam has created a photographic essay of Perth that captures the social elements of the City as well as its built environment. Simon Westlake turns his attention to architectural photography to document the current major developments taking place in the City. These two complementary projects provide a valuable contrast between the different approaches to documenting the city and provide an important historic, as well as artistic, record of the city at this moment in time.

 

Cyrus Cornut (France)

Cities Are Like Oceans           
presented by picture show
Wolfe Lane
Rear 321 Murray Street, Perth.           
2 March –13 April
Mon – Thu 4pm - late, Fri – Sun 2pm – late
Launch: 2nd March, 6pm

I came to photography through travel. ‘It allows you to escape a vision : that of the sterile repetition of places, people and of yourself’ (Stevenson). Having dreamt of the great tropical forests of the world, I started travelling in cities. This attraction for urban jungles comes from the personal rapport I have with them. As a new-born baby discovers the world, I plunge naked into them, filled with an ‘oceanic feeling’. I then ‘scan’ the city, walk ceaselessly and find my way by cutting the territory up into personal land marks : the traces, links, empty spaces, junctions, edges, heights, complex places… It is wandering, an urban vision without the pretension of being objective, just an extension of my architect’s eye.

Cities are Like Oceans shows the place of human beings in cities that are increasingly chaotic, and where modernity, dictated by the rule of economics tends to irrevocably take over traditions that have been established over time. Man as a social being no longer has a place here. Human scale has been reduced to nothing. Man, with an individualistic future is lost like a drop in the urban ocean. Cyrus Cornut finds the poetry of fatalism in these cities by putting the human scale into the eternal urban palimpsest, guided by this feeling that links the individual to everything else. The light is that of dawn or dusk, of neon or storms, to dramatise the seemingly unavoidable evolution. Sublime the urban, put enchantment back into reality.

Jessica Davis

The Uncanny        
Juice Box Gallery
24 Angove Street, North Perth
26 March – 11 April
Launch:  26 March, 6.30pm

The Uncanny by Jessica Davis explores notions of ‘The Uncanny’, the concept of an instance being simultaneously familiar yet strange. Davis creates images that are ambiguous, disturbing and uncomfortable. Evoking confusion, she aims to disambiguate ideas of separation and attachment in relation to the objects that both attract and disturb us.  Drawing on psychoanalytic theory of repressed desires, the infantile experience and the maternal, she interrogates the recurring emotions of rejection and hysteria.

 

Jackson Eaton and Gene Eaton

Perth From Space
Free Range Gallery
339 Wellington Street, Perth           
20 March - 1 April
Wed – Sun 1pm - 6pm
Launch: 20 March, 6pm - 8pm

An unfamiliar document of the forgotten interiors and overlooked exteriors of the most isolated capital city in the world, Perth From Space is a personal reflection on coming home and an investigation of how a city comes to be. It is space from Perth and Perth from space.

 

© Kosta Korsovitis

Epiphany (Kosta Korsovitis, Angelina Potapova, Michael Wickham, Robert Johnston, Marc Stimson)

Exposed Currency           
Perth Town Hall
Corner Barrack Street and Hay Street, Perth
22 - 31 March
Daily 10am - 4pm
Launch: 23 March, 6pm - 9pm

Exposed Currency – a play on words meaning “money shot”, probes at the current events of the Global Financial Crisis, and how it affects us all today. The photographs focus on the articulation of the photographers’ relationship with facets of the global political environment, expressing their desire for freedom, individuality and self- expression. The irony in involving a monetary theme in this exhibition highlights the tension between the core values of the Epiphany group and the need for photographers to gain some measure of success in the global market. In Exposed Currency, photographers expose more than they had hoped for.

 

Kelly Feil

© Kelly Feil

Surrounds           
Perth Town Hall
Corner Barrack and Hay St., Perth           
22 March - 31 March
Daily 10am - 4pm           
Launch: 23 March, 6pm - 9pm

These images are a depiction of the world around us, both real and surreal.  They are created in the electronic dark room. 100 percent photographic in origin, the images are formed by blending and layering several images to make the final composition. Kelly Feil is heavily influenced by surrealism and loves creating images that are dreamlike and fantastical, yet with a note of realism. She aims to take her audience somewhere out of their current reality and experience something new in these surreal landscapes; to expand their imagination and to look outside their own immediate ideals and ideologies.

 

Mark Greene

Every Picture Tells a Story           
Mountain Designs
862 Hay Street Perth
www.mountaindesigns.com.au           
20 March - 3 April 
Mon-Fri 9 - 5pm, Saturday 9 - 1pm

Travelling through developing countries presents numerous opportunities to explore cultures, beliefs and traditions very different to our own. In the rural and more remote areas many people still live traditional lifestyles and approach their daily routines at a different pace. Although generally shy and reserved in nature their generosity, sustainability and innovation is fascinating. Women and children feature prominently in the exhibition as they portray a sense of uninfluenced innocence, which is representative of their traditional culture. Some of these traditions are disappearing quickly in many areas.  This exhibition focuses on recent travel through Northern India, Western Nepal, Cambodia and Laos.

 

Dale Grice

City Life           
Secret Garden
Shop 7/329 Murray Street, Perth           
12 March to 29 March
Mon - Fri 7am - 2.30pm

City Life draws inspiration from the often hidden life of our city. Perth. That which exists “after hours” in the dark alleyways, the deserted shopping malls and the lonely back bars. It takes a brief glimpse at the streets beyond midnight from the homeless to the wanderers, the entertainers to the entertained.

 

 

 

Rebecca Lee

Art of Travel: Australia           
Caffissimo East Perth - ABC Studios
30 Fielder Street, East Perth           
20 March - 18 April
Mon - Fri 6.30am-4pm
Launch: 26 March, 5-7pm

The Art of Travel is an ongoing project which explores global human habitats. Photography is used to capture cultural objects seen within these landscapes, thus representing mans lasting need to classify and repeat their physical surroundings. These cultural objects are like signs which offer a glimpse into the immediate ethnicity of the land and its inhabitants. Presented in collage format, Rebecca Lee has adopted this style to truly narrate the significance of mans habitual self-branding. It is the desire of the inhabitants, and the curiosity of the traveller to reclaim the importance of these cultural objects time and time again in an attempt to gain some [a] perspective through cultural comparison[s]. Through these vices Rebecca encourages you to look, observe, acknowledge and move on!

 

Miza Moreau

Allegiance           
Free Range Gallery
339 Wellington Street, Perth            
3 April – 11 April
3 April - 5 April 10am - 3pm, 6 April 11am - 7.30pm, 7 April -11 April 11am - 5pm  Launch: 6 April, 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Allegiance examines the relationship between personal, national, and cultural identities manifested in the interplay between culturally significant icons from the US and Europe. In this exhibition, Miza Moreau’s photographs explores the way persons  from culturally diverse background integrate identities through national belonging and the tensions between self and culture.

 

Rhiannon Newton

Concrete Skin           
Aldas Gallery and Project Space
317 Murray Street (rear - in Wolf Lane)
20 March - 3 April
Mon - Thu 7.30am - 5pm, Fri 7.30am - 12pm       
Launch: 24 March, 6pm - 9pm

An interest in sensation, an unquestionable consequence of a life in dance, has motivated this attempt to trace the ephemeral nature of those moments which shudder a body. I am intrigued by the senses and their ability to react in a moment with the body's in-scripted memories and over-ride the mind. I am simultaneously mystified by that which repeats.... by the safety of sameness and the security of routine. I attempt to frame and celebrate the everyday with the same passion for which I chase the fleeting.

 

Emiliano Roia

Uno Strano Sogno (A Strange Dream)           
Gingers Gentlemen Shoe Boutique
Shop 2, 317 Murray Street, Perth
20 March - 18 April  
Mon – Thurs 10am - 6pm, Fri 10am - 9pm, Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm

Since moving to Australia two years ago, I have had the sensation of living in a surreal dimension. Every time I return home to Rome I feel a sense of awakening. Whilst I am surrounded by the people that I know, familiar smells and colours, there still remains a dream-like sensation from the other side of the world. I have photographed houses as a way to express these sensations. I tried to depict them without any context or a clear indication of a light source to enhance this idea of a dream-like suspension, ambiguity and vagueness.

 

Yolanda Stapleton and Sarah Brown

WA/CA
Free Range Gallery
339 Wellington Street, Perth
15 April - 18 April
Thu/Sat/Sun 12 - 5pm, Friday 2 - 7pm
Launch: 14 April, 6 - 8pm

Two artists, in different west coast cities, communicate with one another by taking a photograph at the same time of day to illustrate what they are doing or seeing at that moment. As well as being visually engaging, this exhibition explores ideas of longing, isolation, confusion and sometimes heartbreak and how the artists can use visual mechanisms to cope whilst also feeling connected to someone else even for just a second. Proudly sponsored by Pigeonhole and Shopmoose.

 

 

Christine Tomas

unfamiliar spaces
Tiger Tiger Coffee Bar
4/329 Murray Street, Perth
www.tigertigercoffeebar.com
29 March – 30 April
Mon – Wed 7am - 8pm, Thu-Sat 7am - 10pm

“My photographs are a survey of Perth's sub-cultural groups and the aesthetic identities that they subscribe to. Every two years I will photograph the same group of people who today are aged between 16 and 26. I initially chose this group at random from the streets of Perth. Each time I meet them to take their portraits I will pose a series of questions to them about their world view and future plans. As their self-perceptions and ideals transform over time, I aim to explore how each individual views and presents themselves, and how this may contrast with general public perceptions of their technology-driven, cyber-networking generation.” Christine Tomás

 

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SWANBOURNE - COTTESLOE

Gitte Eyres and Wendy Thorn 

Belonging to the Land           
Altus Real Estate
113 Claremont Crescents, Swanbourne           
22 March - 16 April
Mon – Fri 8.45am - 5.15pm           
Launch: 26 March, 6pm – 8pm

Wendy Thorn and Gitte Eyres share the same love of the land – crisp mornings and the golden light at the end of a day create opportunities to capture images that make up our daily lives. There is always an image to be found – whether it be a work boot, the working dog, a roll of wire, a fence post, a shed, a dirt track or fascinatingly shaped objects at the farm dump - the opportunities are endless.  Wendy lives and works on the land and Gitte wishes she was still there.

 

Engielique Franz

Distraction           
Choux Café
93 Shenton Road, Swanbourne           
20 March - 18 April
Mon-Fri 7am - 5pm, Sat 7am - 2.30pm, Sun 7am -12pm, closed public holidays 

There's a familiarity and beauty in black and white photography, a sense of romance in the creation and representation of a moment in time. All distractions are eliminated and all that is left is what is being presented. Engielique Franz seeks to find the beauty in everyday life and in everyday locations and at the same time try to bring about awareness and respect for the natural and cultural diversity of our world.

 

Marite Norris

The Harlequin Collection           
The Naked Fig Café
278 Marine Parade, Swanbourne (corner of Odern Crescent)           
20 March - 20 April
Tues - Sun 7am - 10pm, Mon 7am - 6pm

Marite Norris’s work is about ordinary people. She likes projects that teach her about the vulnerabilities, strengths and differences in individuals. This eclectic presentation of images is named “The Harlequin Collection” after the mismatched, colourful and motley costume of the European folk character. Many of these images display marginalized subcultures of people who see the world differently, or live outside the square. Some images are stylized and contrived. This is juxtaposed with the movement and energy of others.

 

Serena Pearce

On the Edge           
Dancing Goat Café
142 Railway Street, Cottesloe (opposite the Swanbourne train station)           
19 March - 20 April
Mon to Fri 6am - 4pm, Sat 7am - 12.30pm           
Launch: 19 March, 6pm - 8.30pm

On the edge of the shipwreck-strewn beaches of the Skeleton Coast and the arid orange dunes of the Namib Desert is the township of Modessa, Namibia. It is a settlement area adjacent to the German Colonial Town of Swakomund established to house the previously nomadic Damara people.  These people live life on the edge - the edge of the sea, the desert, the AIDS epidemic, life. 

 

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LEEDERVILLE - MT HAWTHORN

Rebecca Dagnall

Paradise Lost 
Studio Red Dust 
152 Scarborough Beach Road, Mt Hawthorn 
20 March - 10 April
Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 4pm 
Launch: 27 March, 6pm - 8pm

Rebecca Dagnall's work has been a continuing exploration of suburbia. Inspired by the lived experience of this all too familiar space, her work has been a series of investigations into notions of nostalgia and the real, the beauty of the banal, suburban iconography and the ongoing investigation into peoples’ relationships with their immediate surroundings. Paradise Lost is an exploration of suburban iconography dealing specifically with heavy metal culture and its icons. The dark apocalyptic landscapes echo the images that have become the aesthetic of Heavy Metal. In each image there is an area of mirrored photograph that forms the skulls and evil beasts that we can recall from Heavy Metal album covers. Somewhere in the image is the headbanger, captured in motion creating an esoteric presence.

 

Cherina Hadley

Seeing in the Dark          
Distracted Art Shop
324 Oxford Street, Leederville.
9 March – 10 April
Tue, Wed, Thu 10am - 7pm, Fri, Sat 10am – 5pm

Truth is not always found in the biggest of things, but comes in little revelations, little epiphanies. It is the things people write on walls when alone, it is moments of quiet joy and melancholy. It is encountered here, in these images of protest, of childhood, of contemplation, of back alleys and brief beauty. The photographs in Seeing in the Dark are of late afternoon, or the very latest part of the night - in-between times and places where things are happening although we dream they are not. This work explores those in-between spaces, and the time that elapses as we move from one place to another.

 

Veronica Mauri and Nick Palasin

Urban Picnix           
Cranked Cafe
6/106 Oxford Street, Leederville           
22 March - 18 April
Sun-Tue 6.30am - 4pm, Wed-Sat 6.30am - 10pm           
Launch: 23 March, 6.30pm - 9.30pm

Urban Picnix is a collaborative effort between two artists who observe life within urban landscapes. The environment may be hard, cold, isolating, its light harsh and dramatic; but the human figure brings these landscapes to life, infusing them with colour, humour, even warmth.

 

Richard Wainwright

Mongolia - Surviving Winter           
HQ Gallery YMCA
60a Frame Court Leederville           
22 March - 14 April
Mon - Fri 9.00am - 5.00pm

Under the streets of Ulaan Baatar in Mongolia, the coldest capital city in the world, many children struggle to survive the bitter winter where temperatures reach -40C. Mongolia - Surviving Winter documents the lives of Munkhbat and Altangeret, both 15, who have been forced to live down a manhole in the Unur district of Ulaan Baatar for over three years, having fled broken homes. A tough, lonely existence, violence from drunken adults and other street children is ever present. 

 

 

 

 

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HIGHGATE

Seng Mah

Sons of Ganga           
The Cracked Gallery, Behind the Monkey
479 Beaufort Street, Highgate
www.behindthemonkey.com.au
13 March - 31 March
Mon - Fri 10am - 5.30pm, Sat 9.30am - 5.30pm, Sun 11am - 4pm
Launch: 13 March, 5.30pm

Sons of Ganga chronicles life unfolding on the banks of the river Ganges in the city of Varanasi, India. The Ganges is the most holy of rivers in India; for Hindus, she is the goddess Ganga. To bathe in the Ganges is to attain moksha, the release from the cycle of death and rebirth.  Yet, the Ganges is so heavily polluted that its waters are septic. Sons of Ganga is the story of modern day Varanasi and the intersection between the spiritual and the secular on the banks of the holiest of rivers. For more information, visit www.thesnapshooter.net

 

Veronica Mauri 

Broken Doll           
Behind the Monkey – window space
479 Beaufort Street, Highgate
26 March – 9 April
Mon, Wed and Fri 10am - 5.30pm, Thurs 10am - 7pm, Sat 9.30am - 5.30pm, Sun 11am - 4pm

Broken Doll is an exhibition that is displayed on ostrich eggs by way of Polaroid lifts. A digital image was printed onto fine art paper, and then shot with a large format camera loaded with Type 59 film. The image was then separated from its backing by submerging in boiling water and placed on the eggs very carefully to avoid tearing. As the film is no longer in production, the eggs themselves are collectables and are editions of one only.

 

Julian Tennant

Cerveza ‘Tropical’: Caught in a Cuban Timewarp           
The Cracked Gallery, Behind the Monkey
479 Beaufort Street, Highgate           
2 April - 18 April
Mon, Wed and Fri 10am - 5.30pm, Thu 10am - 7pm, Sat 9.30am - 5.30pm, Sun 11am - 4pm

In 1958, Graham Greene published his classic comedy Our Man in Havana, which told the story of Mr. Wormwald, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts and intrigue. Using the book as his guide, Julian Tennant's photographs show a Cuba of the early 21st century, but a physical space that could easily be mistaken for the world of Mr. Wormwald. Cerveza ‘Tropical’: Caught in a Cuban Timewarp is part of a larger photographic body of work that follows in the footsteps of the protagonists of classic literary works.

 

 

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NEDLANDS - SHENTON PARK

Tracy Mortimer 

Precious Metal           
The Orangery
320 Onslow Road, Shenton Park           
20th March - 2nd April
Tues - Sun 12pm - 6pm

This body of work illustrates the rich tonal range of traditional palladium printing on fine art paper using the latest digital negative techniques. Different developers were used to render different effects. Precious Metal is a beautiful collection of images that evokes the "old world" feel of this technique.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Schulz

Finding Places           
The University Club of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley (UWA entrance No. 1 on Hackett Drive)
22 March - 24 April 
Mon-Fri 7.30am -7.30pm, Sat 7.30am - 5.30pm
Launch: 26 March, 6pm - 7.30pm

Finding Places is a combination of old and new works portraying places discovered, seen and felt over a period of eleven years. Significantly the body of work encapsulates travels to North and South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, attempting to portray each continent and its unique place, whilst knitting together the sameness and bringing forth a change, a new discovery, a realization of something beyond the physicality of the place.

 

Helena Taelor 

Just Wild           
The Orangery
320 Onslow Road, Shenton Park
20 March - 2 April
Tue – Sun 12pm - 6pm

Helena Taelor presents a collection of photographs that illustrates the effect of climate change in our South West. Images of wild flowers, native orchids, fungi, salt lakes and dead trees were processed as black and white lith prints giving them an ethereal look to emphasise the uncertainty of their continued existence.

 

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VICTORIA PARK

Gary Beilby

Wildlives           
Vic Park Arts Centre
12 Kent St. East Victoria Park           
19 March - 7 April
Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat 11am – 3pm, closed Sun
Launch: 5.30pm, 19 March

As a wildlife vet I find myself frequently at the coalface of man's impact on the natural world around him. As a photographer I have a deep desire to expose this impact to a wider audience and to draw attention to the collateral damage that results from our relentless expansion. This is an exhibition of the amazing intimate moments I have shared with wildlife across the State of Western Australia. Whether healthy, injured or no longer among the living, these animals all have stories to tell.  For more information, visit wildlives.beilby.com.

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HILLARYS

Western Australian Underwater Photographic Society

Artificial Reefs: Oases for Marine Life?
Naturaliste Marine Discovery Centre
39 Northside Drive, Hillarys (Hillarys Boat Harbour)
1 Feb - 30 April
Mon - Fri 10am - 4pp, closed public holidays

Artificial Reefs: Oases for Marine Life? shows how readily man-made structures in  the marine environment are colonised by marine life. Artificial structures often provide additional habitat that is usually physically different from the natural environment. Although such structures can be detrimental to local marine ecology when first introduced, they can eventually become havens for marine life, resulting in increased abundance and diversity in the region. For example: Busselton Jetty and the HMAS Swan wreck in Dunsborough.

 

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ROTTNEST ISLAND

Oliver Cardona

Botanical Portraits           
Holy Trinity Church, Rottnest
Henderson Ave, Rottnest Island           
20 March – 18 April
Daily, 8am - 6.30pm, daily mass 9am - 9.30am

Botanical Portraits is a collection of flower studies that grow around the artist’s suburban house. Most of these plants are hardly ever noticed and sometimes considered as weeds either because they are too small, too common or grow too low. Looked at up close and in isolation however, the true beauty of these plants is exposed and intricate detail can be appreciated. Wild plant life is often taken for granted and often considered a nuisance around the house and we rarely stop and look at what the lawn mower is chewing up.

 

Elizabeth McCaig

Out of the Blue           
Courthouse Bar, Rottnest Lodge
Kitson Street, Rottnest Island           
10 March - 20 April.
Daily 7am - 5.30pm

Out of the Blue - unique, handcrafted photographic cyanotype/blue prints using cotton rag paper, linen and silk. Elizabeth McCaig explores a cool water theme to illustrate a fresh look at a traditional technique first developed in 1842.