This exhibition presented the six shortlisted designs for a proposed new public artwork in Fremantle. In celebration of the experiences & contributions of women to Fremantle, the city funded the consultation and design process to redress the under-representation of women in the city’s public monuments and artworks.

2011 marked the 20th anniversary and final year of the Mark Howlett Foundation (MHF), a subscriber-based philanthropic group which each year selected a mid-career artist to support. MHF20, the group’s final exhibition, showcased twelve of its participant artists with new work specially commissioned for the celebration. Curated by Andrew Gaynor, MHF20 included painting, sculpture and…

This exhibition was named after the Noongar word for the warming months of September and October, Kambarang presented prints which ran alongside the FAC Print Awards. This exhibition took cues from the righteous colour of spring wildflowers and included works from Peggy Griffiths, Mary Moore, Sally Morgan, Elizabeth Nyumi & Shane Pickett.

Daniel Bourke (WA) and Clare Wohlnick (WA) launched the inaugural issue of Avant-Garden, an irregular journal published by their printing studio Benchpress. Concerned with representations of nature in contemporary art, Avant-Garden featured new Interviews, essays, articles and projects from ten Australian and international artists. Avant-Garden was displayed in a custom-designed reading room, alongside a lithographic…

Fremantle Arts Centre was proud to present the blockbuster touring exhibition PRIMAVERA 2010, from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. In this unique partnership, MCA’s annual survey of bright young artists was presented at Fremantle Arts Centre. PRIMAVERA 2010 marked the first time this exciting initiative has toured to Western Australia. PRIMAVERA 2010 was curated by Katie…

… The Artist has entered the building is an exhibition that shows work from artists in residence at FAC since 1974.   This exhibition shows the history of artistic practice at FAC drawing upon acquisitions and loans from artists who have participated in the Artist in Residence (AIR) program.   The AIR program, a core…

Kaye and Terry are Perth based interactive web artists who typically put audiences in their large scale digital projections.   …from a passenger list gives you the rare opportunity of seeing yourself in the artists’ work. For a truly displacing experience, become part of seafaring history, literally, as an immersive video work puts you in…

WA artist Eva Fernandez has attacked furniture to develop a series of exquisite, surreal and still photographs based on the symbolic power inherent in objects.   The images in (terra) australis incognita show couches and chairs pulled apart to various stages of destruction, some with fauna growing out of them. Seductive and witty, the photos…

Benevolent Asylum follows the course of the historical relationship between asylums and rivers. Blending documentary and fiction, Benevolent Asylum examines the story of exile and confinement in Australia while questioning the asylum practices that continue today.   The films, photographs and archival material from local collections reveal a secret history of confinement in Australia. Benevolent…

Interdisciplinary collective Hold Your Horses (HYH) have created new video work to be shown on the big screen at FAC. Working with WA composer Tim Cunniffe the anticipated The Soloists (a case study) is a ‘choral’ adaptation of Freud’s famous case study ‘Dora’, in which Dora’s loss of voice is diagnosed as hysteria due to…