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From creators.vice.com, an interview with Marcus by Patrick Marlborough
Painter Marcus Beilby has an eye for light. The West Australian realist has been capturing the state's otherworldly glow for decades. His depictions of Perth and Fremantle's working class—their spaces, style, dynamism—speak to the shifting faces of both the local and national socioeconomic landscape. By highlighting the static nature of Perth's visual memory, Beilby has lifted the recurring motifs of deli shopfronts, train stations, and old pubs—many of them now closed—in their heyday towards an intersection of the banal and the sublime.
Interview with Marcus at the Fremantle Shipping News
June 3, 2017 in Fremantle People
Marcus Beilby, well known Fremantle and Australian photo-realist artist, kindly agreed to talk to FSN about his arresting latest exhibition at the Fremantle Art Centre, photorealism as an art form, and his fascinating life as an artist since the 1970s.
The article includes an audio of the interview, find it at http://fremantleshippingnews.com.au/2017/06/03/interview-marcus-beilby/
Marcus Beilby | Sightings – City of Fremantle Art Collection
Following 2014’s Fremantle Realists exhibition, Marcus Beilby returns to FAC to resume his quest to reveal the fabric of everyday life through a visual language of finely tuned realism. Sightings brings together a body of new paintings and artworks from the City of Fremantle Art Collection which set intimate moments against a backdrop of public settings.
Exhibition runs from Sat 27 May to Sunday 16 July 2017.
Read more at the Fremantle Arts Center website here.
See the paintings included in the show here.
Sightings Opening
Opening of the Fremantle Realists show at the Fremantle Arts Center, 30 May 2014.
Marcus on ABC TV's The Mix
The Freemantle Art Center's stunning Fremantle Realists exhibition was featured on ABC's new arts program The Mix, you can watch it here, look for the Saturday June 28, 2014 show.
