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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.


27 juneOpening night
FRIDAY, 6-9 pm


Exhibition open

28 JUNE- 10 AUGUST
Opening hours
Wednesday- Sunday
10am-5pm
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
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







28 JUNE- 10 AUGUST
  AMANDA BELL
Vessel 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."




PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
2025 is an exciting first year of programming with plenty of activities for the community. This will include peer-to-peer learning opportunities, artist-led talks and workshops and community engagement initiatives.

These programs will transform the space into a place for audience participation and artistic experimentation.


dates to be announced soonCINEMA
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

cinemapolitica.org
Thursday, 31st of July, 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.


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.BACK TO HOME