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29/1/2010

Four Exhibitions

Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle

Guy Benfield: Expanded Ceramithéque Drug Time Present

Guy Benfield is the fourth artist to be invited to explore the City of Fremantle Collection. His installation juxtaposes his selection of ceramics from the Collection, many of which have not been recently exhibited, alongside his own. Benfield’s approach to the Collection reflects a worldwide revival of interest in the crafts and their accompanying ideals. To make, acquire and to hold ceramics is a cultivated pursuit which has long been enjoyed in the Fremantle community. The connoisseurship of ceramics is equated with a keen eye and good taste.

Benfield appreciates the folly of his own ceramics. They are far from the embodiment of admired values such as solidity and honesty. Benfield animates his own ceramics with a sense of the precarious and the ephemeral which derives from his engagement with performance and collage. He mixes up the earthy sensibility of the ‘pots’ with his pop-psychedelic aesthetic of faux wood grain and woven and metallic textures.

Through his iconoclastic installation he is seeking to draw attention to how aesthetic activities function in our daily lives. He is suggesting that our stylistic choices are not only about the desire to get in touch with our creativity and to re-cast and improve our corner of the world but they are also expressive of our vanities.

Benfield is an Australian artist who lives in New York. He is represented by Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, and Uplands Gallery, Melbourne. This exhibition is presented with sincere thanks to the participating Collection artists for entering into the spirit of the project.

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Clare Davies: a miraculous memory

Clare Davies’ magical room, a miraculous memory, drifts between abstraction and figuration, enticing viewers into a scaled-up, three dimensional installation which emanates from a strange, small drawing. With voluminous and linear elements receding and encroaching, the miraculous appears potentially dark and awkward in this floating dreamscape.

Fremantle-based Clare Davies has long been intoxicated by the possibilities of dreams. An accomplished animator who has exhibited in the Fremantle Print Award, here she focuses on the often under-valued material of paper. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

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Justin Spiers: The Detour

The Detour was shot on location at the Castle Fun Park on the outskirts of Mandurah. More than a record of the demise of a theme park, Spiers expresses his disquiet about the insertion of fantastical Western

European architectural vistas into this suburban bushland. As Spiers' melancholic images testify, the hermetic nature of the Park is no guarantee of security against the ravages of bushfires.

Spiers is currently undertaking a residency at Red Gate Gallery, Beijing. He previously endeared himself to pets and their owners nation-wide as the co-presenter of Pet Photo Booth.

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Sohan Ariel Hayes and Laetitia Wilson: Datadrum v.2.04

Datadrum v.2.04 is an interactive video installation in which the transmission of sound is visualised as it travels across a model city.

Video is mapped onto miniature architectural models and participants drum electronic pads to interact with the work, triggering sound and image events. The inhabitants of the Sixth Dimensional City are played in different ways; some made ecstatic, some maddened and others remain indifferent.

This project was developed with the support of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts’ Research and Development Fund, made possible by the State of Western Australia through Department of Culture and the Arts.

Opening 30 january 2010

Image: Guy Benfield

Fremantle Arts Centre
1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle, Western
Open 7 days, 10am-5pm
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