Relative Magazine

This Saturday night (15th October) sees the Fremantle Arts Centre transforming for the third installment of the great Feast Your Eye’s (FYE) Festivals.

This year the festival is themed on the rapid growth of our city. Artists will explore this theme producing two pieces each to be displayed in a beautiful outdoor gallery, situated in the courtyard of the Arts Centre. FYE 2011 involves 15 visual artists, 20 emerging film makers, 4 installation artists, 2 live painters and with live music performances from Billie Rogers, The Lonely Brothers and the Voltaire Twins.

Doors open at 6pm, get down early to check it out!

A big thanks to everyone who made it down to the first Relative Sketch, helping make it a fantastic night! Check out some images below.

Dave Wolfy’s (AKA Dave Misled’s) new exhibition of original paintings opens tonight (Friday 9th Septemeber) @ Lick in Fremantle. The exhibition is running until the 30th September. Get down and check it out!

To celebrate the depth of creative talent within our community, Relative host regular events that provide a forum for those with an open and creative mindset to congregate, celebrate, inebriate, and for the lucky ones amongst us procreate.

Join us for our inaugural Relative Sketch, which sees Relative partnering up with a series of local illustrators for a night of live art, good tunes and creative inspiration. Relative Sketch shows a variety of established and emerging Perth illustrators at work and provides an opportunity to get acquainted with them. Engage with the artists, learn, get inspired or simply be entertained by a range of creative processes in action. Each artist will work on several small pieces throughout the night, which will be available for purchase while they work.

This first installment of Relative Sketch will involve artists’ Anya Brock, Daisy+Boy, Natasha Muhl, Owen Wachla and Radam & Fudger from (Gfted), with more artists to be announced closer to the date. {Move} DJ’s and James Ireland will be spinning their finest on the decks.

Doors open at 7pm, entry $10 at the door.

Venue – Four5Nine Bar, Downstairs @ the Rosemount
Date – Saturday 24th September

Look forward to seeing you there!

Home is Where My Heart Is is a photographic exhibition capturing the reality of youth homelessness. Now in its fourth year, the exhibition is the culmination of a project that partners young emerging photographers with young homeless people, who are asked to take a photo that captures their interpretation of home.

It is the simple act of sharing knowledge and skills that makes this exhibition so powerful. Each large-scale print will be taken by the young homeless person; the emerging photographer is simply involved in enabling the young person to understand light, aperture and composition and how these creative elements affect the way we read an image.

Profit from the sale of prints goes directly back to the services that support these young homeless people. In 2010 we raised over $7000 for these services. This event is run by the Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia in partnership with Propel Youth Arts WA.

Opening Night: Thursday 4th August 2011 @ 6pm
834 Hay Street (opp. His Majestys Theatre)

The exhibition entitled simply ‘Three’ will showcase the artistic talents of Jasmin Austin [WA INK], Ryan Smith [Foothills Tattoo], and Lauren Fenlon [Holdfast Tattoos]. Influences of the ‘Three’ are as diverse as figurative painting, graffiti art, Japanese tradition, modern illustration, realism, and the renaissance & baroque periods.

Their subject matters range from movement of the human form to merging cultural motifs, executed with experimental techniques in oils, watercolours and copic markers. The tattooist out of body experience ‘Three’ will be unveiled 7pm Saturday July 23 at Kurb Gallery, 310 William Street Northbridge.

The exhibition will be open for public viewing from 2 – 6pm daily until Friday July 29. Check it out!

The Revelation Perth International Film Festival is one of Australia’s leading film festivals, showcasing progressive and inspiring works from local and international filmmakers. Embracing all ages, tastes and backgrounds Revelation seeks to challenge audiences and the industry itself with vibrant, individual, unusual, passionate and committed works.

This year sees Relative partnering up with Revelation to give-away three double passes to the feature film ‘LBF’, based on the cult novel by Perth author Cry Bloxsome. Showing on the closing night (July 24th @ 8pm), this session will be attended by director Alex Munt alongside Gracie Otto, Cry Bloxsome and Toby Schmitz followed by a Q&A. A full synopsis and trailer of the film can be viewed here.

To go into the running to win simply sign up to the Relative mailing list through the home page of relativemagazine.com by Friday July 15th. If you are already a subscriber then you will go into the draw automatically.

Running from Thursday 14th July through Sunday the 24th July, the Revelation Perth International Film Festival will showcase exclusively at the Art Deco styled Astor Theatre in Mt Lawley. The full schedule of the festival can be found on the Revelation website. We thoroughly recommend you get down and check it out.

Congratulations to Abdul Abdullah for a fantastic exhibition opening on Thursday night – you can check out some photo’s from the night below. The exhibition runs until the 14th July at the Linton and Kay Contemporary Arty Gallery in Subiaco, we thoroughly recommend you get down and have a look.

Archibald Prize 2011 Finalist Abdul Abdullah, opens his new exhibition ‘Celebrations and Gold’ on Thursday June 30th at the Linton and Kay Contemporary Gallery (123 Hay St, Subiaco). The exhibition runs until the 14th July, get down and check it out!

Hidden Treasures is a winter music festival series offered by the City of Fremantle throughout July. Every Thursday in July, High Street will become a live music hot spot for those wishing to explore the new music talents developing in Fremantle or indulge in memories and relive some of the great times in Fremantle’s music history.

The venues down High Street will reveal their own secrets as doors are opened to clubs that for many years have been the private domain of membership, as well as the private spaces upstairs above the retailers. Talented young local designers have been enlisted to put together temporary décor installations to transform these places, making them visually captivating and socially cosy spaces for performance. Every Thursday the venues will each host an event at different times, allowing you to wander from one venue to the next and enjoy each act, grab a meal and make a night of it.

For more information, visit the website and Facebook page.