PIERRE BISMUTH

Pierre Bismuth is the Academy Award winning co-writer of the 2005 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Expressing a curiosity about miscommunication in all its guises, his exhibition is underpinned by a deep engagement with language and his sense of humour. The All Seeing Eye is Bismuth’s second collaboration with director Michel Gondry, inspired by a shared love of low-fi effects. Disney characters speak in different languages in The Jungle Book Project, reworked from the animated classic. In the new work, The Most Read Book in the Least Spoken Language, Bismuth collects and arranges bibles from across the world reflecting his interest in the relationships between oral, written and digital communication.

Saturday 24 July – Sunday 19 September

Fashioning Now
changing the way we make and use clothes

Australian designers Romance was Born, Issey Miyake and other high-profile practitioners prove that sustainability and fashion can coexist in this international exhibition.
Sustainability is becoming integral to the way clothing is produced, used and discarded. Fashioning Now explores various methods that are rooted in low-impact production. Fashioning Now includes garments, textile objects, photography, illustration and video.

Curated by Alison Gwilt, Course Director, Fashion and Textile Design, University of Technology, Sydney, and Timo Rissanen, Assistant Professor, Fashion Design and Sustainability, Parsons the New School of Design, New York.

Nairn Scott - The Glomesh Project

Gold is the ultimate status symbol which resonates across history and all cultures.
Valuable gold fob watches and lavish candelabra sit alongside gloriously cheap nick-nacks from the Two Dollar Shop. Meticulously printed on hand-gilded paper, Scott bestows an elegance on the enduring and the disposable, the real and fake. The playful interchange of Scott’s ‘pick-and mix’ aesthetic exposes the folly of equating good taste with social status.

Nairn Scott, The Glomesh Project (detail), 2009
Pigment ink and 23k gold on cotton rag, 25 x 28 cm, ed 1/5
courtesy and © the artist.

Mark Parfitt - Dream Bore

Inspired by the humble bore, Perth artist Mark Parfitt celebrates the life supply of more than 80,000 suburban backyards.
His own bore made redundant, Parfitt seeks alternative uses for this Western Australian icon.
Assuming the self-reliant mindset of so many ‘can-do’ homeowners, Parfitt converts his home-made bore into an underground garden. Dream Bore is a fond and humorous application of recycling and reinvention to this backyard staple. The garden is accompanied by his exploratory drawings and diagrams and an artists’ book by Jamie Macchiusi (WA) and Gemma Weston (WA).

Vera Möller - darkrooming

Vera Möller (VIC) creates an eerie and luminous installation in which over 3,000 components glow and oscillate.
In what Möller has characterised as a ‘museum of fictional species’, strange, organic forms are withered and calcified, accentuating the alien qualities of nature. Informed by her studies in theology and microbiology, Möller’s fantastical work is simultaneously bathed in an atmosphere of decline while predicting the emergence of new aberrant life.

Vera Möller, darkrooming, Heide MOMA, 2006,
mixed media installation comprising modelling materials, porcelain, plastic, wood, Styrofoam, aluminium foil, synthetic polymer, enamel and oil paint, steel, glass, dimensions variable
photography: John Brash, courtesy and © the artist.

Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2010
supported by Little Creatures Brewing

Fremantle Arts Centre presents its annual vibrant snapshot of contemporary prints and artists’ books.
In its 35th year, the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing continues to invigorate and challenge the notion of print. Emerging and leading Australian artists are exhibited together, giving audiences an opportunity to enjoy a range of traditional and contemporary approaches.
The Award offers four prizes: a major acquisitive prize of $12,000 and $5,000 non-acquisitive prize, the $6,000 acquisition fund for the Little Collection and the $300 People’s Choice Award.

Saturday 25 September – Sunday 21 November

James Dodd - Boab Inscriptions

James Dodd’s concern with graffiti culture takes him on a uniquely Australian journey.
During his residency, Dodd will collect the text and marks that are handcarved into the Boab trees of our state’s north. The rich historical significance of the Boab trees and Dodd’s investigations into contemporary street art inform his residency and exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre.
His practice traverses a wealth of influences to present a rich and dynamic interpretation of street art and culture in a gallery environment.

Originally a respected street artist, Dodd has received a Masters of Fine Art from the University of South Australia.