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Fertile Soil – 50 Years of the City of Fremantle Art Collection
The touring exhibition Fertile Soil celebrated the unique and diverse history of Fremantle, told through the eyes of 22 artists who have called the portside city home. The 25 artworks ranged from a selection of painting, drawing, printmedia, assemblage, textiles and ceramics by established Fremantle practitioners. “Fertile Soil focuses upon the core strengths of the…
Fancywork
Fancywork presented embroidery in a new context, layering the familiar imagery of European domestic culture over the “wild” natural environment of south west Australia, invoking the feelings of dislocation and strangeness experienced when negotiating arrival in an unknown place. The series of human-scale embroideries, worked over photographic images of landscapes, lead the viewer to reflect…