Showing alongside the 2019 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, And repeat. sees artist Melissa McGrath working intensively in the galleries, collaborating with a group of local print makers through a series of residencies. Together, they’ll produce a portfolio of printed works that unite their respective individual practices, placing them in conversation. And repeat. is part live performance, part immersive installation. Through participatory workshops, fine art printing, digital…

The City of Fremantle Library turns 70 in September. To mark this milestone FAC and City of Fremantle Civic Collection will partner with the Library and community artists to create a reading room of artist’s books made from discarded library stock. Earlier this year, FAC Learning ran a series of community workshops for both adults and kids…

This exhibition presents a survey of the screenprints by senior Fremantle artist Harry Hummerston. The selection of 33 prints showcases the breadth and sophistication of Hummerston’s practice and the versatility, diversity and graphic power of the screenprint technique. Hummerston was a leading exponent and teacher of screenprint in WA for 25 years, is a regular exhibitor at FAC and has been a…

Featuring local, national and international artists who embrace the science fictional imagination, Other Suns focuses on the less familiar underbellies of science fiction: the hybrid, the noisy, the forbidden, and the vernacular. Artists explore the detritus of the future, the ecologies of other spaces, and the polymorphic technologies of tomorrow. Other Suns probes the trajectory of science fiction from its counter culture New Wave outwards, moving…

Stuart Elliott’s Fremantle 1988 is a ‘fakeological’ dig through two hundred years of recent Western Australian history, from the time of invasion to commemoration of the national bicentenary in 1988. Exhibited at FAC for the first time, Elliott’s imposing and interactive cabinet of horrors is a multi-levelled painted assemblage, full of eccentric dramatisations and exotic…

Safe Harbour brings together a selection of artworks and historical and contemporary photography from the City of Fremantle Art and Civic Collections. It provides various points of discovery and revelation about Fremantle’s Harbour, a significant subject for many artists and photographers who have made Fremantle their home. The exhibition includes works which document and reflect upon the story of Fremantle and…

Fremantle-based artist Trevor Richards has been invited to create an interventional work in FAC’s Main Gallery. Richards’ studio practice includes hard-edge abstract paintings and three-dimensional wall mounted works that explore bold colour, geometric shape and pattern. He draws on a wide range of historic and contemporary sources, including Islamic and mosaic tile patterning, architectural modelling and tessellations. He has adapted his…

This exhibition is the first solo presentation of sculptures by James Angus in WA in over a decade. As the title suggests, the objects in this series are the result of several years of experimentation, focused exclusively on paper-based media. This recent work is Angus’ explicitly handmade response to both the influence of digital manufacturing and the tradition of monumental sculpture.…

Taiwanese Artist Dai-Rong Lee is the tenth exchange artist to visit Fremantle for the Asialink exchange between FAC and the Taipei Artists Village. Working in ceramic sculpture, Dai-Rong’s work is often self-consciously sensual and fleshy, focused on the human body as a hybrid form. Trace of Wreckage is a response to the aesthetic and cultural shift from Taipei to Fremantle and…

Pilot Painter is the first survey exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Capt. George A.D. Forsyth (1843–1894). An experienced seaman from humble beginnings, he served in Fremantle’s Water Police before being appointed Fremantle’s Port Pilot and the first Chief Harbour Master for WA. Forsyth was a self-taught amateur sketcher and painter who maintained a pictorial record of the…