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…

An exhibition developed in concert with the John Curtin College of the Arts Gifted and Talented Visual Arts Program, Light and Shade draws upon the Collection to articulate a broad range of conceptual, technical and material approaches to the representation of tone and tonality. Light and Shade will be supported by a program of floortalks…

Globetrotting performance, art, music, fashion and new media provocateurs Chicks on Speed roll into to FAC this April with a typically genre-defying and mind-bending show. An immersive and interactive exhibition, SCREAM features a giant sculptural structure on which Chicks on Speed project a visually chaotic collage. The exhibition also invites audience members to use iPads…

BALI: return economy is an expansive exhibition that looks beyond the clichés and kitsch souvenirs to get to the heart of a dynamic relationship between neighbours. Featuring works as diverse as video art, political cartoons, age-old wayang paintings and the cutting edge contemporary Balinese art often missed by tourists, this exhibition draws together an eclectic,…

London artist Steven Dickie’s sculptural and other-worldly inventions, sound experiments, videos and performances look at the way we accumulate and process knowledge. Dickie’s past works have involved a retro-futuristic concoction of 88 radios that can be ‘played’ by a traditional keyboard (Everything reveals nothing), cacophonies of white noise (Age related hearing loss) and his recurring…

Now Then Painting is a selection of paintings which highlight the significant focus painting has enjoyed in the Collection and WA arts practice over the last forty years. The exhibition includes new acquisitions and works acquired in the earliest days of FAC. The Collection’s focus on Australian prints and works by Fremantle artists reflects the…

Being Eurasian brings together two artists at different stages of their career whose work deals with similar issues of identity, history and ancestry. Abdullah – a highly lauded emerging WA artist who has twice been a finalist in the Archibald Prize – has created paintings that explore the ways in which people of mixed Asian…

Dream Zone is an installation that uses Melbourne artist Karen Casey’s pre-recorded brainwaves to create hypnotic, lattice-like patterns that morph with the undulations of brainwave frequencies. The patterns produced are reminiscent of various forms of sacred art and are intended to invite contemplation and draw the viewer into a deeply meditative state. In 2010 Casey…

The annual Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing is Australia’s premier printmaking award and presents a showcase of Australia’s finest prints and artist’s books. Returning for its 38th year, this award and exhibition reflects the state of printmaking in contemporary Australian art practice. Emerging and established artists submit some 300 entries…

Pristine was an exhibition of printed artworks which drew upon the ‘perfect irregularity’ of the natural world through the interpretation of plants and animals. Pristine included historical prints and contemporary works which tracked the progress of the FAC Print Award and the expansion of digital media and emerging hybrid technologies in the development of printmaking…