The beach is a defining element in the life of Fremantle. It is a significant site of culture and nature, a place of contest and context and a subject explored by artists to investigate links between myth and reality, indigenous and foreign. This exhibition provides a staging point to consider artworks drawn from the Collection…

Opening Thurs 25 Sept | 6:30pm | Bar Open | Live Music By Mei Saraswati Runs Fri 26 Sept – Sun 16 Nov | Free The annual Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing is Australia’s premier printmaking award and presents a showcase of our nation’s finest prints and artists’ books. Returning for its…

This exhibition tracks the etchings and screenprints of WA artist Robert Dorizzi who, after graduating from Perth Technical College in 1967, was conscripted to serve in Vietnam from 1969-70. Many of Dorizzi’s remarkable images have not been exhibited previously and draw directly on his post Vietnam experience. It was not until 2000, when he took…

An exhibition of production ware and domestic ceramics from the City of Fremantle Collection by artists associated with FAC’s learning and exhibition program from 1973-90. Featuring international, national and local artists including Guy Grey-Smith, Stewart Scambler, Sandra Black, Joel Smoker and Jean Robins. Weight of Evidence Floorsheet

David Attwood and Jurek Wybraniec will create, with some help from their friends, an Emu Export wizard stick that will snake throughout the entire gallery space. Green & Gold is both a monument and a protest – a reflection on an outdated, outmoded icon and a refusal to let go. The wizard stick is a…

Structures have a tendency to measure, delineate, regulate and mark bodies. In Boundaries of Beige Marzena Topka uses textiles such as office clothing and string in unusual ways to explore organisational structures and how they work their way into our daily lives. Whether this happens through duty, responsibility and necessity, or through self imposed routines…

Standing alone in the desert or forest can provoke an awareness of our own ‘smallness’ and insignificance in the greater world. It is this idea, and the sense that our physical impressions on the ground are lasting records of our existence that is explored in ceramicist Stewart Scambler’ Parched: Australia Is A Dry Land. Scambler is…

Stone & Floating Steel is the culmination of a month-long residency at FAC by Alice Springs-based painter Neridah Stockley. During her stay here in 2013 Stockley enjoyed painting outdoors throughout Fremantle, capturing scenes that will be familiar to many locals. The artist has an interest in port cities and how their evocative imagery becomes stitched…

Tropaeum, the Latin word for a monument erected to commemorate victory, has over time morphed into our modern word ‘trophy’. This idea and the statement of power implied by trophies is explored by seven Western Australian and one Victorian artist in this thought-provoking exhibition of sculptures. Through a series of new works, the artists tackle…

Thirty-four years on from their watershed exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA, Fremantle Realists brings together the work of three significant artists who turned their gaze toward the port city and local subject matter. Ray Beattie, Marcus Beilby and Ken Wadrop operated out of a shared studio in High St, Fremantle, during the late…