The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery (MBCAG) is managed by City of Fremantle and located in the historic west-end, adjacent to commercial galleries and Notre Dame University. An intrinsic facet of Fremantle community, the gallery offers six individual spaces creating interplay of history with contemporary visual art and craft.
The (MBCAG) supports exhibition development and partnerships with artists, artist’s organisations and communities and provides subsidised rental spaces, development assistance and information services for exhibitors.
 

Printmakers Association of Western Australia awards

This exhibition will highlight the various different printmaking developments within printmaking art practice today, and serves to encourage both new and established print artists to exhibit their work. The open competition with awards for the most outstanding prints in several categories is judged by well known Western Australian art Luminaries.

14 July until 20 July 2008

Shadow Me Home

A joint exhibition by three artists from one family - Kati Thamo, Raku Pitt and Freya Pitt who between them encompass a broad range of artistic experience. With digital prints, paper cut-outs, frottage, collage and collagraph printmaking techniques and the use of shadows evoking a heightened sense of drama and theatre. Where the viewer experiences and participates in a series of surreal worlds which reflect on the dramas played out in everyday life.

Freya Pitt – CASUAL MARCH OF INDUSTRY, 2008
paper and overhead projector, size - various

Allen Borwick

This new series of works by local painter, Allen Borwick, is drawn from his life as he moves between his home here and another in Thailand.

25 July until 3 August 2008

Nathan Karnovsky

Working with oil pastels on sheets of brown paper, Karnovsky draws both on the aesthetic influences of cubism and the emotive poetry of Charles Bukowski and Paul Celan to produce a subtle study of the solitude of self in times of deep division.

Nathan Karnovsky – JEHOVAH, 2008
oil pastels on paper, 30 x 20 cm

Colours of Life

Artists Ralph Stanton, Maria Hart, Michael Whitehead and Eva Varga exhibit to raise funds for Save the Children programs in Western Australia.

9 August until 17 August 2008

For a Moment …

This installation based exhibition which has the full title of, for a moment the blissful feeling of being able to see it all; is based around relationships, which are formed during the process of constructing art. Conversations between materials, space (theoretical and physical), selected individuals, the curators, and the plethora of other stimuli that factor in an artist's practice. Project administrators, Jamie Macchiusi and Mark Parfitt, have inviting artists Tim Carter, Shannon Lyons, Matt Shane and others to be involved.

23 August until 31 Aug 2008

AAA, Architects and Artists Anonymous

A group exhibition of the built environment in Perth. The suburban home, the development in and around the City, the relationship of the building in the environment and the impact it creates. As the title suggests architects and artists will be exhibiting side by side. Curated by Shiloh Perry.

Art/Paper/Work: a fluid social landscape

Everyday life is now full of written words: emails, text messages, on-line banking, breaking news flashes, as well as the traditional newspaper, journal, tax return, investment and super reports, insurance company, local and federal government magazines or letterbox leaflets. Then there is the billboards and advertising on buses, sidings, sport shirts and even coffee cups. Graham Hay has documented and mapped the names, patterns and currency of the arts, and comments via paper and paperclay sculpture and installations.

Graham Hay – UNTITLED, 2008
Paperclay, 60 cm high

Curtin Staff Show

What has now become a popular annual event, is a collaborative exhibition of contemporary works by the lecturers and staff of the Department of Art, Curtin University of Technology, showcasing Western Australia's prominent art educators.