CURRENT is pleased to present APPLIED ARTS, a combined exhibition and retail space taking over the Naval Store’s former substation for Fremantle Design Week 2024.

Featuring Adult Contemporary, KEE RAA MIK, New Domestic Landscape, Prestige Bricks, Reece York, and Clare Wohlnick, the hybrid display takes inspiration from the idea of the ‘applied arts’ (art that applies design and decoration to everyday and practical objects for aesthetic purposes). In theory, the term is used in distinction to the ‘fine arts’ (art that produces objects with no practical use, whose only purpose is to be beautiful or stimulate the intellect). In practice, however, the two often overlap.

Open times:

Friday 18 Oct, 10:00am–5:00pm
Saturday 19 Oct, 10:00am–8:00pm
Sunday 20 Oct, 10:00am–5:00pm

Opening celebration:

Saturday 19 Oct, 5:00pm–8:00pm

This event will open concurrently with The Nature of Transition, an exhibition curated by the design studio Lightly in the neighbouring Naval Store for Fremantle Design Week. Please join us for an opening night celebration on Saturday 19 October, from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.

For questions about this event, please contact the organiser.

ADULT CONTEMPORARY ARI x CURRENT CURRENT is a creative and artist-run place. We welcome and encourage contemporary practice to occur in the space. Contemporary practice is a softer definition of creative and artistic creation that welcomes people from all kinds of disciplines. We want to emphasise that institutional recognition isn’t what makes great art and contemporary praxis.

CURRENT hosts a range of programmes that are experimental, innovative, test new ideas, extend existing artistic practices and engage with contemporary artistic discourse. We want to contribute and be part of the contemporary fabric in Walyalup, WA and beyond.