For emerging WA artist Jacob Ogden Smith, pottery is a cultural phenomenon that has traditionally explained much about the society it was made in. However, today pottery has been usurped as a purveyor of historical record in favour of mass media and potters have become less a central tenet of artefact making and more reclusive…

Creator of the much loved concrete couch in the grounds of FAC, renowned WA sculptor Peter Dailey presented an expansive exhibition of ten life-size figurative sculptures. Dailey’s ten human figures took residence in FAC’s main gallery which was darkened and specially-lit for this evocative exhibition. In Apparition, Dailey’s figures existed in physical landscapes – both internal and…

Mad About You was a big-hearted, public-led exhibition that celebrated Fremantle Arts Centre’s role as a creative and community hub and reflects on the influence it has played in many people’s lives. In March 2013, FAC made a public callout for artworks, objects, photographs, personal recollections and multimedia that featured the Arts Centre throughout its…

Perth-born sculptor Michael Bullock returned to WA with sculpture triggered by a memory of the smell of sandalwood. Years ago the sculptor stood in a hot landscape in a wheatbelt town alongside a dead sandalwood tree which presented its unique, sweet perfumed smell, so redolent of the temples and markets of Asia. Sandalwood is indigenous…

In her first solo show in WA, Victorian artist Sally-Ann Rowland created work that uses cliché phrases and popular truisms collected in popular culture – self help books, social media, crime novels, sports commentaries and women’s magazines. Responding to advertising, merchandising and the marketplace, Rowland incorporated the phrases into calendars, tea towels, pencils and mugs…

The City of Fremantle Art Collection, established in 1958, is the largest municipal collection in WA with over 1,300 works. The Collection’s focus on Fremantle artists and Australian prints celebrates the enduring importance of the visual arts to Fremantle. Drawing is a fundamental means by which we connect with the world around us through a…

Co-curated by Richard Lewer and Ric Spencer. Inside Running: The Sport of Art brought together nine artists whose passion for sport has bled into their art, in an exhibition of specially commissioned work. Sport takes constant practice and for these artists the discipline and challenges of training and playing has become part of the way…

We don’t need a map brought the lively and enduring culture of the Martu – the traditional owners of a vast area of WA’s Western Desert. This remarkable exhibition included the work of more than 30 artists and explored the Martu people, their way of life, the way they care for country and belong to it. As…

  Developed through a residency at FAC, Melbourne based artists Joel Gailer and Michael Meneghetti, worked with aspects of masculinity, ego and signifiers of social communication. Including print and multi-media installation, Performprint pushed the boundaries of not only print but artist and audience interaction. In 2008 Gailer won the FAC Print Award for the audacious work Hot Process, an advert…

Four award-winning prints by female artists of the last twenty years presented a range of ideas about the representation of womanhood. Works by Rebecca Beardmore, Heather Hesterman, Michelle Hyland and Marion Manifold.