Love Freo

I’m posting this for two reasons:

1. It’s an inspired use of a knackered looking fuse box.
2. It’s advertising a Staff Creative exhibition at The Sandcastle Organic Restaurant South Terrace. Work is by the staff and crew, might be interesting, might not.

Blackboard Fuse Box

The other day I went down to the Freo Prison to check out the current exhibition Captured – black & white photographs by Karin Calvert-Borshoff, taken inside Fremantle Prison. The photographs were taken over several weeks in June 1991, five months before Fremantle Prison closed its gates as WA’s maximum security prison. What struck me was the intimacy of the portraits. The photographer really managed to capture the people’s personality. In her statement she said: I avoided whenever possible being told what the offences of the men being photographed were and therefore avoided having to deal with my own moral judgments. By doing this I attempted to treat the men as individuals, rather than criminals and therefore on a more normal or natural platform.

Exhibition Poster from 1991

Watching an ABC Report About the Prison

Memories of the Prison by Perth People

Pre-tourist Era

Captured: Freo Prison 1991
Exhibition at the Fremantle Prison,
1 The Terrace,
June 16 – September 6, 10am–5pm daily
Admission Free

Louis Kahan is a Western Australian artist, he has an exhibition on at Gallery East until the 28th of June that’s worth a look.

Two Very Different Self Portraits

This is my favorite, The Pianist, it has a touch of futurism about it.

Gallery East,
94 Stirling Highway,
North Fremantle,
WA 6159.

Phone: (+61 8 ) 9336 6231

Gallery Hours:
Tues- Sat: 11am – 5pm
Sun: 2 – 5pm

I went to see Fern Petrie’s exhibition: Remembrances, Collections and Keepsakes while I was wondering around looking at all The Fremantle on the Edge stuff today.

I like the Moores Building as a gallery space because it’s quite a wide open area and you can view pieces from a distance, which is perfect for large canvases like the one below (one of my favourites).  It was based on a cityscape, kind of like a map grid and it had lots of fine detail once you got up close to it.

Overall I would say I’m not a fan I also had a look at some of her older work on her website but I really did like her more abstract canvases that she had on display at this exhibition.

There’s always something happening in Freo. Today I came across some great installations in the shop windows on High Street. They are part of the ‘Fremantle on the edge’ exhibition. There was a bit of info with each installation and back at home I read up on it on the web – http://humanities.curtin.edu.au/schools/BE/architecture_interiorarchitecture/edge.cfm (catchy web address, isn’t it?):

Fremantle on the Edge is a first time interdisciplinary event being carried out as a forerunner to the establishment of a Creative Arts Biennale to be centered within the historic port City of Fremantle, Western Australia. Fremantle on the Edge will bring together international artists, practicing art and design staff expertise together with students from Architecture + Interior Architecture + Fashion + Furniture + Product + Jewellery + Graphic Design. Participants will engage in active experimentation with and manipulation of the spatial and temporal dimensions of the inhabited, urban environment which makes up this exciting and engaging City. Artists, designers and students will investigate the city through activity such as researching the cultural history, documenting existing scenarios, mapping the city, creating new scenarios. Further exploring these new scenarios through the development of models, images, performances, mock ups, installations, projections, didactics/displays. Eventuating in the presentation of ideas through public pitches involving industry, student and staff discussions, an exhibition including the installation and display or work occupying sites such as shop windows and public spaces throughout the City of Fremantle CBD.

I got myself a leaflet of the exhibition and will check more sites out over the weekend.