World Music was exhibited by local artist Andrew Varano for the first time at Fremantle Art Centre. The exhibition featured kinetic sound sculptures, video installations and Zen fountain prototypes. The artist questioned our seemingly inherent desire to set up relationships and narratives between things. Varano used the ‘memory palace’, a technique to organise memories, to…

The Irregular Correct: New Art from Glasgow presented a line-up of significant contemporary artists from Glasgow, Scotland; showing painting, sculptural installation, performance and video. From a gritty port town, Glasgow has evolved into an internationally renowned artistic hotspot and a major influence on British and European art. With several biennales to their names, and including artists…

Everything Old Is New Again presents recently donated early ‘en plein air’ paintings by Kathleen O’Connor. Everything Old is New Again continues, including a new selection of iconic historical and contemporary works by WA artists Mandy Browne, Richard Gunning, Theo Koning, Lesley Munro, Frank Norton, Jane Tangney and Ken Wadrop.

Academy Award winner and favourite local son Shaun Tan came to FAC with a collection of never before seen large scale paintings, small oil sketches, drawings, preparatory video work and personal sketchbooks. For the first time Shaun Tan: Suburban Odyssey charts the journey of Shaun Tan’s work from carefully observed yet lyrical paintings of Perth’s suburbs to…

City of Fremantle celebrated the opening of a new and dedicated Collection gallery in the newly refurbished North Wing. The Collection Gallery is a larger ground floor space directly adjacent to FAC’s new reception. Everything Old Is New Again presented recently donated early ‘en plein air’ paintings by Kathleen O’Connor alongside other iconic historical and contemporary works…

Projektet presented  the notion of the immune system as a bio-artistic blueprint of personal and cultural changes. In a joint residency with SymbioticA, Amanda Newall and Ola Johansson conducted lab-based research along with applied performance work in local communities in the metropolitan Perth area. SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory at UWA dedicated to the research, learning,…

Photo with the Artist is a site-specific performance combining the traditions of performance art and sculptural practice with side-show and street performance. Dressed in appropriate ‘artistic’ attire, Brown Council hit the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour to buck for money. Brown Council invite members of the public to have their photo taken with them and for…

Side x Side presented artworks by students from Fremantle’s John Curtin College of the Arts, alongside those works from the City’s Collection that inspired them. John Curtin’s senior students responded to a previous exhibition Not Dead, a selection of still lives from the City’s Collection. Side x Side marked a milestone in a successful six…

FotoFreo was a month long biennial festival of photography that showcased the work of Australian photographers alongside leading photographers from Asia, Europe and North America. The Portrait: Contemporary Indian Photography Group Exhibition There is an intimacy about portraits that speaks of individuals but yet they can encompass a larger view of India and Indians. –…

This exhibition explored the relationship between globalisation and local identity with imaginative and stimulating works in sculpture, photography, painting, installation and multi-media. The culmination of a two-year cycle of residencies, this ground-breaking project involved 22 Australian and international artists spending time in 16 regional Western Australian communities to consider their social and physical environments. The…