calendar 2025
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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
6-10 pm
Exhibition open
28 JUNE- 10 AUGUST
Opening hours
Wednesday- Sunday
10am-5pm
GIAN MANIK
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. Considering both the pre- and post- colonial landscapes of Walyalup/Fremantle, as well as speculative visions for its future, this living, breathing time capsule is a generous, experimental conversation between the artist and local community.
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.
JULY-DEC
LANDING
THOUGHTS
Vessel joins Landing Thoughts in the delivery of a six part peer-to-peer learning series designed for practicing contemporary artists and creatives. Previously modelled as a one year distance course, for this new adapted version together with Vessel, Kate and Magni will lead 6 thematic sessions, aimed at artists/makers/thinkers to further develop their practice in a new context. Through mutual learning, material investigations and conversation this experimental model of knowledge production also examines what it is to land delicate thoughts in language.
Landing Thoughts, founded by Kate Moss, Laura Piasta, and Magni Moss is a post academy distance course for practising artists, makers and thinkers, developed from a shared desire to form new critical conversations within the contemporary arts discourse.
landingthoughts.com
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
cinemapolitica.org
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.au
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