Image: David Bate, Slip of the Tongue, 2008, from the Bungled Memory series.

quiet moments: contemporary poetic photography

fremantle arts centre 6 june–26 july | free

Fremantle Arts Centre is supported by the State Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts

david bate (UK)

jane burton (VIC)

christophe canato (WA)

kate hamilton (UK)

estelle hanania (FRA)

susan hill (WA)

sascha weidner (GER)

christopher young (WA)

curated by susan hill

EDITORIAL

Ted Snell, quiet moments, SCOOP Homes & Art, p.276, Edition 44, Autumn, 2015*

Moments of Poetry, The Mosman-Cottesloe Post, p.24, 30 May, 2015*

Artlink – Previews, p.103, Issue 35:2, June, 2015*

Jessica Nico, Exhibitions with contrast, Fremantle Gazette, p.25, 9 June, 2015*

Artist’s Palette – artbeat, p. 11, 11 July, 2015*

Laetitia Wilson, Imagery that’s ripe for contemplation, The Weekend West, 11-12 July, 2015*

ONLINE

This week in Perth, Raven Contemporary, 2 June, 2015*https://www.ravencontemporary.com.au/this-week-in-perth-2-june-2015/

Alexandra Spring, Book ahead. Australia: Supersense, Melbourne animation, Kakadu Man, The Guardian, 4 June, 2015*http://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2015/jun/04/book-ahead-austra-lia-hot-tickets

Urban Walkabout – What’s On, Homepage, 4 June, 2015* http://www.urbanwalkabout.com/perth/

Hannah Ford, Quiet moments exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre, Urban Walkabout, 4 June, 2015*http://www.urbanwalkabout.com/perth/blog/post/6455

Anna Dunnill, quiet moments, Art Guide, 9 June, 2015*http://artguide.com.au/articles-page/show/quiet-moments/

Simon Cowling, Quiet Moments – Photography at Fremantle Arts Centre, Temple Dog Blog, 19 June, 2015*http://www.templedog.com.au/blog/2015/6/quiet-moments

Stephanie Lyon, quiet moments, Colosoul, 3 July, 2015*http://www.colosoul.com.au/vashti/art/quiet-moments/

Ella Rubeli, Visual poetry: an exhibition of poetic photography, The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age – Clique, 17 July, 2015*http://www.smh.com.au/national/clique/visual-poetry-an-exhibition-of-poetic-photogra-phy-20150717-giezuf.html

LISTINGS

Circuit, April – June, 2015

Art Guide, May – June, 2015

Art Almanac, June, 2015

Art Almanac, July, 2015

Art Guide, July – August, 2015

Circuit, July – September, 2015

ONLINE LISTINGS

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Discover everything from starting a vineyard to rolling sushi at next month’s Wine Show by the Bay.

This annual boutique wine expo will be held at the University Club at UWA, with tasting booths for top local, national and international wineries, mas-ter classes, cooking demon-strations and lunches.

There will be more than 30 booths offering tast-ings of wines, beers and produce from Voyager Estate, Laurance, Molly

Dooker, Forest Hill, Vasse Felix, Swinney, Credaro and Rustenburg Wines, to name a few.

A traditionally-trained Japanese chef will dem-onstrate his technique for sushi rolling in a session called Mastering Sushi.

World champion pizza maker Theo Kalogerakos, from Theo and Co, will show how to create the perfect pizza.

Representatives of Bayswater’s Little Cheese Shop will present a tutorial and tasting of top local and

international cheeses.There will be four wine

masterclasses: Tuning in to Taste; Marlborough Pinot Noir masterclass with Villa Maria; the Wonderful World of Wine interna-tional wine tasting; and Establishing Your Own Vineyard with Neilson Estate.

And once you’ve worked up an appetite, enjoy The Taste of Spain Tapas Lunch with Spanish wines ($75 per person), or the Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte high tea ($45 per person).

The Wine Show by the Bay is open to all and admission, $20 per person,

includes entry into the tasting fair and a mono-grammed tasting glass.

Demonstrations and masterclasses start from $25 per person and include light refreshments.

Bookings must be made by ringing University Club reception on 6488 8770.

For the full program, go to universityclub.uwa.edu.au.

Wine Show by the Bay runs from 11am to 5pm on Saturday, June 13, at the University Club in Hackett Drive, Crawley. There will be free parking in carpark 3 off Hackett Drive, entrance No. 1.

Pampering the palate

Saxophonist Michael Bednall says two things have given him total exhilaration: performing on stage, and fl ying a plane.

Michael fl ew a plane with his father, once, though he didn’t manage to land it.

His father, Nigel Bednall, a pilot who wrote and taught the aviation program for Kent Street Senior High School, in Kensington, died sud-denly of a heart attack in Melbourne in 2011.

As a tribute to his dad, Michael wrote Flight, a saxophone piece that will have its world premiere when he performs it next weekend.

“The piece is about the feeling of what it’s like to fl y, that moment of exhila-ration,” Michael said.

Working with com-poser David Pye, Michael compiled Flight for alto

saxophone and electronics, featuring pre-recorded and distorted sax, and sounds recorded at Jandakot Airport, from where his father used to fl y.

Flight will be the centre-piece of a concert of new saxophone music for which Michael will be joined by the Perth Saxophone Collective.

The program features two other world pre-mieres – James L. Maley’s Fantasia for solo alto saxophone and electronics, and renowned Australian composer Ross Edwards’ Veni Creator Spiritus, for a saxophone ensemble – and the Australian premiere of Alexander Glazunov’s Concerto in E fl at major for saxophone ensemble.

The Perth Saxophone Collective formed last year with music students and graduates of UWA and WAAPA.

Take flight through music Find out how Theo Kalogerakos makes his world-beating perfect pizzas at the Wine Show by the Bay.

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The change has emerged over the past few years, when winemakers began picking grapes earlier to decrease potential alcohol and provide a crisper fi nish to their wine. They also pulled back on the use of new oak, lees contact and malolactic fermentation and so the modern wines may appear straightforward and simple.The object is to make a more food-friendly style that will age well, but some drinkers say they are now dipping out on fl avour and they prefer fl avourful chardonnay.It has polarised our customers and our panel members, as there are often wide-ranging scores and in-depth discussions on the merits of wines in our chardonnay tastings. We see room for different chardonnays but labels do not clearly differentiate between styles. Consumers who are looking to buy and are unsure about a wine will need to ask the opinion of winemakers and retailers.If they are willing to take a punt, they should buy a few different bottles and sort them out themselves, which can be a lot of fun.We have listed two super-premium wines

here that are poles apart in style but very high in quality. Try the two for a worthy comparison.

Flametree 2013 S.R.S. ChardonnayMade from grapes grown in the Wallcliffe sub-region of Margaret River as part of the sub-regional series (S.R.S.). A wine of elegance, it has a bright straw/green appearance, is driven by classical grapefruit and peach and has a long lean palate, tempered oak and fresh lively acidity. Will develop nicely in the bottle. A modern chardy to be ravished with grilled fi sh. Score 18.5 $50

Castelli 2013 Il Lirus ChardonnayFrom the cool Denmark sub-region in the Great Southern, this is a complex wine with a mineral edge and also a bundle of fl avour. It has been well-worked in the winery with classy oak and add-ons supporting the pristine varietal stone fruit and minerality, which extend to a fi ne acid fi nish. Suits a traditional chardonnay drinker, especially when served alongside crisp pork belly. Score 18.5 $46

Contemporary or conventional?Are you miffed by the change of style of chardonnay in Australia to a lighter, more acidic one and look for traditional wines to enjoy?

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TimeOut and Wine Show by the Bay have ve double passes to give away.To be in the running to win a double pass, email timeout@postnewspapers.com.au with “Wine Show by the Bay” in the subject line. Entries close at 5pm on Friday, June 5.Include your name and phone number. Winners will be noti ed by email.

Flight is on at the Astor Lounge, Mt Lawley, on Saturday, June 6. Tickets will be available a the door.

Quiet Moments and Aftermath are two photography exhibitions that will run at Fremantle Arts Centre from June 6 to 26.

Curated by Perth artist Susan Hill, quiet moments showcases poetic photog-

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Artist’s Palette 1110 Artist’s Palette

artbeatEndurance art has rarely been so pretty. In association with Head On Photo Festival, Stills is proud to present one of the most exciting new contributors to Asian-Pacific video art, Thai-Australian Kawita Vatanajyankur, and her arresting new video series Work (2015).

In an uncanny restaging of a fresh fruit market, Vatanajyankur uses the tools and tasks of its workers to undertake physical experiments that playfully, and often painfully, test her body’s limits. From weighing bananas to balancing watermelons, the videos present an array of luminous yellows, citrus greens and bubblegum pinks. In them, the artist’s graphic visual language is one of consumption and desire, speaking to a world of instant gratification and flattened complexity. This heightened superficiality, however, lures you in only to confound your expectations. The videos offer a powerful examination of the psychological, social and cultural ways of viewing and valuing

women’s everyday labour. Intersecting the long histories of ritual

and performance with the relatively new medium of video, Work redresses how women’s crafts have been considered lesser forms of creativity than the ‘fine arts’, which were not long ago epitomised by

man-made representations of the female body. Uniquely, Vatanajyankur’s video performances are accessible and visually appealing: substantial in their conceptual rigour, and, at the same time, entertaining. The exhibition’s lasting effect resonates deeply by asking; what are the limitations of our bodies, the continuing challenges of mundane labour, and the ongoing tasks for feminism in a globalized and digitally networked world?

Stills Gallery36 Gosbell StPaddington, NSW, 2021Ph: 02 9331 7775Email: info@stillsgallery.com.auWeb: stillsgallery.com.au

Above: ‘The Carrying Pole’, 2015. HD video still © Kawita Vatanajyankur. Image courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney.Far left; ‘The Lift’, 2015. HD video still © Kawita Vatanajyankur. Image courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney.Left; ‘The Scale’, 2015. HD video still © Kawita Vatanajyankur. Image courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney.

Work

Great mixes of colours are deliciously abundant in a new exhibition at Wagner Art Gallery by Utopia artist, Lena Pwerle. This exhibition celebrates Lena’s Ahalpere Country and its traditional water sources, as well as the energising power of colour. Her fresh, interchanging fields of colour inject neutral spaces with energy, integrating new colours and textures into

the home-space. These paintings radiate warmth and give a splash of unexpected colour. Each work captures significant land features of Ahalpere Country, as well as the unique persona of Lena’s brushstroke and her creation of irregular arced motifs and shimmering patterns.

Lena Pwerle is a senior artist from Utopia, NT. After gaining experience working in batik in the late 1980s and 1990s, she began working on canvas, painting water soakages and conkerberries from the Utopia region in vibrant acrylics. Lena also paints Awelye (women’s body paint designs). Her work is regularly exhibited around Australia and

overseas, including the USA and Brazil. Her work was exhibited in one of Utopia’s important foundation exhibition’s, ‘A Summer Project’, at the SH Ervin Gallery (1988/1989) and is represented in important public and private collections, including the Powerhouse Museum and Holmes á Court Collection.

Wagner Art Gallery 39 Gurner Street Paddington, NSW, 2021 Ph: 02 9360 6069 Email: wagnerart@bigpond.com Web: wagnerartgallery.com.au Facebook.com/WagnerArtGallery

Lena PWerLe

Above left: Lena Pwerle – Soakage Acrylic on canvas 150 x 210cm Above right: Lena Pwerle – SoakageAcrylic on canvas 120 x 210cm

‘quiet moments’ showcases the work of some of the premier photographic artists from the UK, Europe and Australia. Curated by Susan Hill, the works presented feature strange scenes, peculiar figures and random

objects from everyday life combined in unexpected ways. ‘quiet moments’ features the work of eight prominent national and international photographic artists including: David Bate (UK), Jane Burton (VIC),

Christophe Canato (WA), Kate Hamilton (UK), Estelle Hanania (France), Susan Hill (WA), Sascha Weidner (Germany), and Christopher Young (WA).

Fremantle Arts Centre1 Finnerty St, Fremantle, WAFacebook: fac.org.auPh: 08 9432 9555

‘quiet moments’: ContemPorary PoetiC PhotograPhy

Far left; Jane BurtonSleep has his house #10, 2011Pigment print, edition of 5 + 1 A/P60 x 40cmLeft: David BateMisreading a Situation Bungled Memory Series, 2004 C-type prints, edition of 3 51 x 61cm

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(https://www.ravencontemporary.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/David-BatSlip-of-th-Tongu.jpg)David Bate, Slip of the Tongue, 2004, from the BungledMemory series

Aftermath (https://fac.org.au/events/669/aftermath-landscape-photographs-by-john-gollings-from-black-saturday?pid=58) & quiet moments (https://fac.org.au/events/668/quiet-moments-contemporary-poetic-photography?pid=58) @ Fremantle Arts Centre (http://www.fac.org.au/)

Two photographic exhibitions at Fremantle Arts Centre cover both the introspective and the outward-looking. Quiet moments: contemporary poetic photography brings together artists who use photography toreveal the poetry within small details, odd scenarios and ambiguous settings. Bordering on the surreal,these artists highlight the details that don’t necessarily go unnoticed, but more often than not gounrecorded. These scenes – a disrupted still life, or an darkened interior – provide the ideal starting point fora narrative, and the space for viewers to build their own internal stories. Also showing is Aftermath, a seriesof photographs of the Victorian landscape, taken following 2009’s Black Saturday by celebratedarchitectural photographer John Gollings.

Quiet moments: contemporary poetic photography (https://fac.org.au/events/668/quiet-moments-contemporary-poetic-photography?pid=58) & John Gollings: Aftermath(https://fac.org.au/events/669/aftermath-landscape-photographs-by-john-gollings-from-black-saturday?pid=58), Mon to Fri 10am-5pm, 5 June – 26 July, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle; (08)9432 9555, fac.org.au (http://www.fac.org.au/)

(https://www.ravencontemporary.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Shridan-Colman-8.jpg)Sheridan Coleman, Online Barrow Island WildernessExpedition Notes (detail), 2015, watercolour on paper

Wilderness User (http://papermountain.org.au/program_items/wilderness-user/) @ Paper Mountain(http://papermountain.org.au/)

Perth artist Sheridan Coleman is a landscape painter, but not in the traditional, oil-on-canvas, observationalsense. Coleman’s practice is firmly entrenched in the era of sat-nav, with Google Earth providing theinterface through which she views the landscape. It’s a rich vein of exploration – how do we conceive ofourselves and the world around us in the wake of these new capabilities? Certainly the notion of armchairtraveller has taken on a whole new meaning: we can now traverse the world on a handheld device with afew gestures and finger swipes. Digital quickly replaces real, and we become ‘users’ of wilderness in thesame way that we are internet users. For this exhibition, Coleman presents paintings, small sculptures,photography and video that investigate what it means to wander the earth virtually, view mountains andrivers as satellite imagery, and experience nature solely through a digital intermediary.

Sheridan Coleman: Wilderness User (http://papermountain.org.au/program_items/wilderness-user/), Tuesto Sun 9.30am-5pm, 6-21 June, Paper Mountain, 267 William Street, Northbridge; papermountain.org.au(http://papermountain.org.au/)

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Book ahead, Australia: Supersense,Melbourne animation, Kakadu ManIn our weekly tout of the hottest shows just announced, book now to see the festival of the ecstatic,the best of animation and refugee arts and culture

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Melbourne international animation festival

Mickey Mouse, begone. This rapidly expanding festival celebrates the best current andretrospective animation films from around the world, along with hosting workshops andtalks. While the Australian showcase selection is always popular, there’s also a studentfestival selection, the intriguing Late Night Bizarre, a music video program and plentyfor kids. Those who can’t decide will enjoy Best of the Fest.

Melbourne international animation festival, ACMI, 21 to 28 June

Supersense southside

Billing something as a festival of the ecstatic is already intriguing: the idea of marryingclassical music, art, film and dance with their cutting-edge contemporaries takes it up anotch. Supersense matches Eastern trance with punk, electronic artist Ash RaTempel/Manuel Gottsching with Indigenous artist Gurrumul and John Cale with The JonSpencer Blues Explosion. Curious

Supersense, Art Centre Melbourne, 7 to 9 August

Kakadu Man (to music)

The Dreaming poetry of Gagudju elder and poet Bill “Kakadu Man” Neidjie opened upthe glorious landscapes of Kakadu national park to a wider audience, and the AustralianChamber Choir has commissioned composer Tom Henry to set extracts to music. Beforethe choir set off on their European tour, they will play two special shows for localaudiences.

Kakadu Man, Macedon on 13 June; Middle Park on 14 June

Quiet Moments in Freo

As the world swirls around us, what better moments to capture than those of stillness?Curated by artist Susan Hill, this exhibition showcases photographers who seek outrandom everyday objects ladened with metaphor and hidden meaning, to give viewersjust a little breathing space.

Quiet moments: contemporary poetic photography, Fremantle Arts Centre, from 6 June to26 July

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Poetic photography is distinctive for cutting juxtaposition and languid beauty, offering many possible meanings in stark

contrast to the majority of advertising and online imagery saturating today's media.

Curated by artist Susan Hill, the works feature strange scenes, peculiar figures and random objects from everyday life

combined in unexpected ways. Rich in colour, hidden meaning and metaphor, viewers are invited to contemplate the

images and project their own day dreams into the scenes.

The exhinbition features the works of eight prominent national and international photographers including David Bate

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quiet moments, curated by Susan Hill, brings together artists from several countries who workwith poetic photography. The exhibition focuses on meanings drawn from unexpectedjuxtaposition. Through the work of Australian artists Jane Burton, Christophe Canato, Susan Hilland Christopher Young, along with France's Estelle Hanania, Germany's Sascha Weidner and theUnited Kingdom's David Bate and Kate Hamilton, Hill seeks to evoke a kind of dream state,allowing the space between the pictures to connect disparate works in different ways.

In Bate’s pared-back 2004 series Bungled Memories, cups and bowls accidentally broken by theartist are photographed individually on a dining table. The composition and light, which divideeach image into clear segments, recall early Dutch still-life paintings. Just as the 16th centurydepictions of flowers and breakfast tables are, upon closer inspection, richly layered allegories ofmortality, God and human nature, Bate’s images hint at bigger stories. A Slip of the Tonguedepicts a knife, a jaggedly broken plate and a lemon placed in front of an empty chair.Juxtaposed, these quiet objects suggest a conversation turned painful: an intimate accident,blood in the mouth, stinging acid.

Hanania brings the memento mori tradition into sharp relief against contemporary daily life inskull & bread, 2006, from her series shady. Shown with other, seemingly unrelated images, theresult is a sense of the uncanny both within and between works. The exhibition space itself, withopen windows and fireplaces, echoes the domestic setting of many of the photographs. This,taken with the Fremantle Arts Centre building’s own history as an asylum, heightens thediscomforting sense of familiar-unfamiliar. In quiet moments, linear modes of thought areabandoned for more dreamlike connections, which settle and rise in thin strings and layers acrossand throughout the exhibition.

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Photography has been stuck being “about” subject matter. Painting, forPhotography has been stuck being “about” subject matter. Painting, forexample, has not been about its subject matter for centuries; it is “about”example, has not been about its subject matter for centuries; it is “about”paint, surface, color, illusion, many things, but rarely subject matter.paint, surface, color, illusion, many things, but rarely subject matter.

When you have millions upon millions more people with cameras, takingWhen you have millions upon millions more people with cameras, takingportraits, landscapes, still lifes, then “serious” photographers’ work getsportraits, landscapes, still lifes, then “serious” photographers’ work getsburied. The answer? Simple. Do what “art” has always done: transcend theburied. The answer? Simple. Do what “art” has always done: transcend thechatter of the masses. In this case, look inward, look at the “meaning” of thechatter of the masses. In this case, look inward, look at the “meaning” of thephotograph. Don’t try to take a more beautiful landscape; you’ll get lost in thephotograph. Don’t try to take a more beautiful landscape; you’ll get lost in thenoise." ~ Thorney Liebermannoise." ~ Thorney Lieberman

Well, yes, Thorney, you do have a good point. But unfortunately the 'meaning' of the photograph hasWell, yes, Thorney, you do have a good point. But unfortunately the 'meaning' of the photograph hasled many so-called art photographers to forget entirely about subject matter altogether. Whichled many so-called art photographers to forget entirely about subject matter altogether. Whichmakes for very dull viewing in many cases. makes for very dull viewing in many cases.

Fremantle Arts Centre currently has two exhibitions showing - the excellent Fremantle Arts Centre currently has two exhibitions showing - the excellent Aftermath Aftermath by Johnby JohnGollings and Gollings and Quiet MomentsQuiet Moments, a group show curated by Susan Hill. John Gollings is a legend in, a group show curated by Susan Hill. John Gollings is a legend inAustralian photography circles, and his exhibition of Australian photography circles, and his exhibition of aerial photography of the desolated landscapesaerial photography of the desolated landscapesleft by the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria is a wonder. Beautifully printed large scale printsleft by the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria is a wonder. Beautifully printed large scale printscaptivate, inform and make us painfully aware of the fury of nature. FAC is to be highly commendedcaptivate, inform and make us painfully aware of the fury of nature. FAC is to be highly commendedfor showing photography like this, and it is rewarding to see a major gallery in Western Australiafor showing photography like this, and it is rewarding to see a major gallery in Western Australiataking the medium seriously.taking the medium seriously.

Quiet MomentsQuiet Moments, on the other hand, is a bit of an uneven show, and some of the images on display, on the other hand, is a bit of an uneven show, and some of the images on displayare a good example of 'meaning' outweighing content. Unless the are a good example of 'meaning' outweighing content. Unless the meaning of your work ismeaning of your work isinteresting to others and has the technique and construction to hold one's attention, then the workinteresting to others and has the technique and construction to hold one's attention, then the worktends to become self-absorbed, cogent only to the artist and his/her acolytes. No doubt some of thetends to become self-absorbed, cogent only to the artist and his/her acolytes. No doubt some of thephotographers in this show had some highbrow philosophy attached to their work, but without anyphotographers in this show had some highbrow philosophy attached to their work, but without anydidactics attached to the images it was not clear what we were being asked to look at - theydidactics attached to the images it was not clear what we were being asked to look at - theycertainly didn't succeed on a purely aesthetic basis, which seems for some to have become almostcertainly didn't succeed on a purely aesthetic basis, which seems for some to have become almosta badge of honour in recent years. No doubt the catalogue may have explained some worksa badge of honour in recent years. No doubt the catalogue may have explained some workssatisfactorily enough to justify their inclusion, but I was not enthused enough by the images to forksatisfactorily enough to justify their inclusion, but I was not enthused enough by the images to fork

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out the $7 to find out. Instead of out the $7 to find out. Instead of (or as well as) (or as well as) a catalogue which had to be purchased, the FACa catalogue which had to be purchased, the FACshould have supplied the usual free A4 printed sheets that gave the viewer some informativeshould have supplied the usual free A4 printed sheets that gave the viewer some informativebackground information.background information.

Of the photographers whose work I enjoyed were Of the photographers whose work I enjoyed were David BateDavid Bate, whose , whose Bungled MemoryBungled Memory series of series ofbroken crockery were whimsical and reflective, and broken crockery were whimsical and reflective, and Estelle HananiaEstelle Hanania, whose , whose ShadyShady series serieswere powerful and well-executed images evocative of black magic and witchcraft. Both thesewere powerful and well-executed images evocative of black magic and witchcraft. Both thesephotographers had something interesting to say, and said it engagingly and with a sense that theyphotographers had something interesting to say, and said it engagingly and with a sense that theyknew their craft. Some of the other photographers used the deconstruction of photographicknew their craft. Some of the other photographers used the deconstruction of photographictechnique as a statement to emphasise the integrity of their vision as being beyond the need fortechnique as a statement to emphasise the integrity of their vision as being beyond the need foraesthetics, supposedly lending gravitas to 'meaning' over actual subject matter. That only worksaesthetics, supposedly lending gravitas to 'meaning' over actual subject matter. That only workswhen ideas are powerful, real and thought-provoking, which in this exhibition was not the case. Wewhen ideas are powerful, real and thought-provoking, which in this exhibition was not the case. Weneeded a little boy in the crowd to point out the king's nakedness. But perhaps I'm just being aneeded a little boy in the crowd to point out the king's nakedness. But perhaps I'm just being agrumpy old man. grumpy old man.

As an example, the work byAs an example, the work byChristophe CanatoChristophe Canato, , Ad VitamAd VitamAeternumAeternum (the title should have (the title should havewarned me) was a series ofwarned me) was a series ofphotographs covered by tissue paperphotographs covered by tissue paperthat had to be lifted after donningthat had to be lifted after donningcotton gloves, as if in the Library ofcotton gloves, as if in the Library ofCongress rare books section. Puh-Congress rare books section. Puh-leeze. I couldn't be bothered,leeze. I couldn't be bothered,although I was tempted to tear eachalthough I was tempted to tear eachcovering off its picture. But perhapscovering off its picture. But perhapsthat was what Mr Canato was hopinthat was what Mr Canato was hopingg

would happen. would happen. And while we're on what else annoyedAnd while we're on what else annoyedme about this show was the curator's deliberate placingme about this show was the curator's deliberate placingof pictures in odd, almost random places, sometimesof pictures in odd, almost random places, sometimesbreaking up a single photographer's work into severalbreaking up a single photographer's work into severallocations. In one instance, three small images from alocations. In one instance, three small images from aseries by Susan Hill (I think - they were well separatedseries by Susan Hill (I think - they were well separatedfrom her other series from her other series What Does the Moon EatWhat Does the Moon Eat ) were ) werescattered, one above a door, one on the wall next to thescattered, one above a door, one on the wall next to thedoor and one on a wall in an adjoining corridor. Why? Idoor and one on a wall in an adjoining corridor. Why? Ithought we'd grown out of that sort of art bullshit at thethought we'd grown out of that sort of art bullshit at theend of the seventies. Yes, I'm definitely being a grumpyend of the seventies. Yes, I'm definitely being a grumpyold man.old man.

Having got that lot off my spleen, I once again thank theHaving got that lot off my spleen, I once again thank theFAC for devoting its entire space this month toFAC for devoting its entire space this month tophotography, for mine is just one, mainly uninformed,photography, for mine is just one, mainly uninformed,opinion, and I hope many will go to see the exhibitions onopinion, and I hope many will go to see the exhibitions ondisplay. For my part though, thank god for John Gollings.display. For my part though, thank god for John Gollings.

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Quiet MomentsBy Colosoul Editor · On July 3, 2015

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Quiet Moments is an eclectic display of poetic photography featuring the works of eight prominent local,

national, and international photographers: David Bate (UK), Jane Burton (VIC), Christophe Canato (WA),

Kate Hamilton (UK), Estelle Hanania (FRANCE), Susan Hill (WA), Sascha Weidner (GERMANY), and

Christopher Young (WA).

The images are strong, and utilise simile and metaphor, which leaves the works open to interpretation;

offering a unique experience for every viewer. As an art viewer who is always looking deeply for a

meaning I found the exhibition to be a challenging experience as I searched for the meaning in sets of

photographs which seemed random and disconnected, or through finding interpretations which didn’t

connect with the title. It was an important lesson in letting go of the intended meaning and allowing

myself to look at art with a fresh perspective.

Estelle Hanania’s ‘Skull and Bread’ is a strong image of a human skull and a loaf of bread. Two objects we

wouldn’t usually associate a relationship with, here create an interesting contrast. Estelle Hanania’s ‘Spy’ is

another intriguing piece. On the surface it appears to be a photograph of a marble stuck to concrete;

however on closer inspection the lines and texture of the concrete and the shape of the marble allow me

to reinterpret the image to be a close up of an elephant.

Jane Burton’s ‘Sleep Has His House’ series is magical, the blue hued pigment prints have a childhood

dreamlike quality reminiscent to Lewis Caroll’s Alice In Wonderland. Complete with images including: a

snow dome, a mushroom painted on a cracked plaster wall with the paint colours running, a little girl

sleeping on the floor in front of a curtained window, ocean scenes with rocky outcrops, a silhouette of a

girl, and a room turned upside down so the light bulb stands instead of hanging down.

There are too many stunning photographs and unexpected contrasts at play to mention. If your open to

drawing your own conclusions, bringing your own stories to life, and escaping through imagery ‘Quiet

Moments’ is the exhibition for you.

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Slip of the Tongue, 2004, from David Bate's Bungled Memory Series is on show as part of 'Quiet Moments: Contemporary poetic photography' at Fremantle Arts Centre.Photo: David Bate

An emerging photography movement in the past ten years has been that of poetic photography, a style of art photography distinctive for cuttingjuxtaposition, languid beauty and visual ambiguity.

Quiet Moments: Contemporary poetic photography is a new exhibition on display at Fremantle Arts Centre, showcasing the work of some of thepremier photographers from the UK, Europe and Australia. The works presented feature strange scenes, peculiar figures and random objectsfrom everyday life combined in unexpected ways.

Rich in colour, hidden meaning and metaphor, viewers are invited to contemplate the images and project their own ideas into the scenes.

Many of the artists' works are based around domestic scenes, with familiar objects and places in disorder or out of context. Often the focal pointof the image is shrouded; faces are hidden by hair or shadow or plastic; scenes are cropped to restrict the view and provoke curiosity in theobserver.

"When a viewer becomes engaged with images that appear ambiguous, they attempt to fill the gap by mentally trying to make sense of theimages," curator Susan Hill said.

"Like poetry, this encourages a viewer's mind to wander, imagine and create a prehistory or post story for the images."

Quiet Moments: Contemporary poetic photography is on until July 26.

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