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VESSEL SEASON 1:





Vessel launches its inaugural season of programming with a major exhibition of newly-commissioned, site-responsive work celebrating an experimental and collaborative  approach to both the practice and presentation of painting.

Promoting career defining moments for early career artists to present works to scale. An artist-in-residence will run concurrently, alongside an exhibition at CURRENT Gallery together with an extensive program of related discursive events allowing ample opportunities for audiences to further engage with contemporary art and ideas of our time.


Exhibition open

28 JUNE- 10 AUGUST
Opening hours
Wednesday- Sunday
10 am-5 pm
GIAN MANIK
Regenerative Strategies

 For this first major solo exhibition at Vessel, Boorloo/Perth-born and now Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Gian Manik will collaborate with students from eight local primary schools to create a suite of large-scale paintings reflecting on ideas of place.  Created in collaboration with over 250 children from eight primary schools in and near the Walyalup/Fremantle area, the work is a reflection upon ideas of environment and place, encompassing deep time thinking, contemporary contexts and speculative visions for the future. This living, breathing time capsule is a generous, experimental conversation between the artist and local community.

28 JUNE- 10 AUGUST AMANDA BELL
Artist-in-ResidenceVessel is proud to announce the launch of its Artist-in-Residence program with acclaimed First Nations artist Amanda Bell as the inaugural resident. Amanda Bell, a Badimia Yamatji and Yued Noongar woman who was born on Whadjuk Country and raised on Wardandi Country in Undalup/Busselton, brings her diverse artistic practice to Vessel's new purpose-built creative space in Walyalup.

"I seek to engage with others by telling stories in a way that is 'right way' for me as an Aboriginal person and artist, and to make a contribution to making spaces culturally safe in the arts and beyond."


28 june
saturday, 3-4 pm. PANEL DISCUSSION: 
Regenerative Strategies

  • Gian Manik, artist
  • Annika Kristensen, curator
  • Timmah Ball, writer
  • Kate Driscoll, art teacher

Talking about the creative process, collaboration, intergenerational skill-sharing, our immediate environment and speculative thinking.

Free, public event



24 July

Thursday 6 pm - 8 pmDESIGN FREO 
CONVERSATION 09 - 
MARK LILY / MANNER Who looks at banksia nuts and sees a chair, or spies a terracotta pipe and sees a lamp? Mark Lilly does.

Mark Lilly is a local designer/maker gaining national attention for his beautiful, innovative work. Self-taught, he launched his practice, as a ‘design diary’ to document his craft-centric experiments with form and function.

Mark finds inspiration in unusual places. His Banksia Chair, a unique piece crafted from banksia seed pods, debuted at Fremantle Design Week and was runner-up in the inaugural Anibou Prize, a national award program celebrating emerging designers and ingenuity in Australian furniture design.

Drinks will be available from the bar - arrive at 6 pm to view the Regenerative Strategies exhibition by Gian Manik , presented by Vessel Contemporary. The Conversation will kick off at 6.30pm.



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31st of July 
Thursday, 6pm-10pm.Landing Thoughts: 

Peer-to-peer learning program. Session 01 - Share your practice and thoughts  - Kate Moss, Magni Moss
Intro to the course and a get to know each other session where everyone will share their practice, thoughts and expectations according to a model.

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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.

05 AUGUST

TUEsday 7 pm - 9 pm
 Tone List  x Vessel present a site-specific performance by Mary Rapp
 “Mary Rapp is one of the most exciting and emerging talents in Australia. I haven't in over 40 years of international experience come across a musician of Mary's caliber.” Jon Rose

“Rapp had an instinct for being taciturn and pithy; for making the music gossamer light or adding phenomenal weight and vigour, using extraordinarily few notes” Sydney Morning Herald

Vessel joins Tone List in presenting a performance for voice, cello and double bass by Mary Rapp. The performance will take place in Gian Manik’s exhibition Regenerative Strategies and will absorb the work, the space and the site itself to create a deeply felt exploration of embodied resonance - music with guts. This is Mary’s first performance on Whadjuk boodja, since recently relocating here.

Tuesday 5th of August
Doors open 7pm
Performance 7.30pm

ABOUT MARY RAPP
Mary’s practice is led by their perpetual curiosity that investigates jazz, classical, experimental and Korean traditional music. Her interests and musical goals lie in notions of digging deep into the body, movement led technique, site specific composition and practice, and noisy catharsis.
https://maryrapp.com.au/
ABOUT TONE LIST
Tone List is an artist-run, Boorloo-based label for exploratory music. It is dedicated to the nurturing of approaches to music-making which receive little or no attention in existing structures on the west coast of this continent, especially where those approaches are radical or novel. Tone List is a not-for-profit incorporated association, and a registered charity. Its core operations are volunteer-run.
https://www.tonelist.com.au/



Vessel will run a paid bar, with support from our event partners Otherside Brewing, MadFish Wines, Lightning Minds


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05 AUGUST

SATURDAT 1 pm - 3.30 pm REGENERATIVE STRATEGIES - A WORKSHOP BY GOOD TOGETHER


In dialogue with Gian Manik’s ‘Regenerative Strategies’ exhibition, the team at Good Together is hosting a workshop in the gallery

MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON. 

13th of August 

Wednesday,  6pm-9pm.LANDING THOUGHTS
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING PROGRAM
Session 02 
Foundation back and forth -  Magni Moss
What kind of art (worldview) do you do (have)? What kind of worldview does your art communicate? What is (your) process?This workshop investigates philosophical cosmology, ontology and epistemology as a fundament for our art practices. Lecture and group discussions.

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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.


21st of September
SUNDAY,  10 am-3pm. 
LANDING THOUGHTS
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING PROGRAMSession 03
Words as material - Kate Moss
Approaching writing as an active process to slowly digest and critically examine the world around us. Within studio practice or broadly in life, writing can happen anywhere, on the train, on the sand at the beach, as a sketch, as a beginning - magic happens when we allow ourselves to sit and write. Looking at the writing of Nancy Holt, Lisa Bellear and Inger Christensen. Switching off phones and from the commute to the workshop, participants slowly land in the room-activating a different mode of doing.

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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.8th of october
wednesday,  6pm-10pm. LANDING THOUGHTS
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING PROGRAMSession 04
Beuys Beuys Beuys we’re looking for a good time -Magni Moss
About Beuys and how art can (can it?) be political. Taking point of departure in one of the most influential artist of the 20th century we look into how one can and can’t make a change today, with help from French philosopher Jacques Rancière investigating conceits of radical democracy and consensus. Introduction by Magni, screening of Beuys the documentary and post movie discussion.

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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.09th of november
SUNDAY,  10 am-3pm. LANDING THOUGHTS
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING PROGRAMSession 05 Weathering/Walking/Listening-Kate Moss
Furthering on from Words as Material, this workshop centres listening as an active, engaged practice —crucial to artistic process.Walking along the banks of Derbal Yerrigan, asking questions:

How do we centre listening- listening with our whole body- in our individual practices? We will be thinking with artists, writers such as Jazz Money, Daniel Browning, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Kinsella, and Etel Adnan.


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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.13 - 30 NOVEMBERFREMANTLE BIENNALEA major collaborative exhibition with Fremantle Biennale in November. A partnership highlighting the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and what two voices can achieve together.

Vessel and Fremantle Biennale will be bringing international artists to create a site-responsive commission and provide Western Australian audiences with international perspectives, arts and dialogue.

fremantlebiennale.com.au14th of december
SUNDAY,  1pm-5pm. LANDING THOUGHTS
PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING PROGRAMSession 06
Material as part of an immanent quality - Magni Moss
What importance, role and effect does the actual material have that we use? We start with a theoretical note connecting to our second session but with a special focus on experience and immanence, looking at the lifelong practice of Inge Grünwaldt Svensson. Then, we will get into a painting material workshop making egg oil tempera and talking about paint and pigments.


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Please note that you can purchase tickets to individual sessions for AU$ 33 per session or a ticket for the whole season at a discounted rate of AU$ 165. Free for First Nations folks.DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED
CINEMA
POLITICAOur ongoing Public Program is a collaboration with Cinema Politica. A curated selection of documentary films will be screened accompanied by invited speakers to prompt discussion.

Cinema Politica is an international network that  distributes and streams independent films. Cinema Politica shares Vessel’s belief in the power of art to not only entertain but to engage, inform, inspire, and provoke social change

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