A scene from the 2021 Fremantle Biennale’s drone light show Moombaki (2021). Artwork by Ilona McGuire, commissioned for CROSSING 21. Image courtesy of the artist and Fremantle Biennale. Photo: Duncan Wright.
Now in its third iteration, the 2021 Fremantle Biennale is its most ambitious edition to date and shows deep-rooted engagement with a host of local artists, whose work excavates untold stories inspired by the Port city’s many spaces.
‘And we’ve done that in the past with artists like [Felice] Varini [in 2017] and Studio Roosegaarde [in 2019].
Blasting the sandbar enabled the area to become the deep sea port and thriving centre of trade it is today, but also irrevocably changed an ecosystem that the area’s Indigenous peoples had relied on for millennia.
ArtsHub's Arts Feature Writer Jo Pickup is based in Perth. An arts writer and manager, she has worked as a journalist and broadcaster for media such as the ABC, RTRFM and The West Australian newspaper, contributing media content and commentary on art, culture and design. She has also worked for arts organisations such as Fremantle Arts Centre, STRUT dance, and the Aboriginal Arts Centre Hub of WA, as well as being a sessional arts lecturer at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
