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…

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…

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…

The Revealed Exhibition features works by more than 120 of the best new and emerging WA Aboriginal artists. In the largest Revealed to date, the exhibition this year fills FAC’s South Wing galleries, presenting an expansive selection of new art from remote, regional and metropolitan artists. With paintings, prints, carved objects, photography, textiles, video, weaving and…

To Be Continued is a survey of recent photography from Indigenous Australia. Cinematic vistas of wide-open spaces recall memories of childhood and adolescence and re-enactments of history shed light on horrific frontier violence while restrained yet poignant portraits give face to some of Australia’s more remote communities. With work from remote, regional and metropolitan based…

Idolatry and mythological archetypes are reimagined in the ceramics and wall works of Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Renee So in Idols. Working primarily in figurative ceramics, both artists aim to challenge and overturn old perspectives on gendered power structures and the aesthetics of spiritualities. Nithiyendran creates rough-edged, vibrant, new-age sculptures that are at once enticing and confronting.…

London-based artist David Noonan has made his name internationally as an assembler of black and white photographic images. Collected from found books and periodicals, the images are juxtaposed, edited and collated to conjure a range of possible narratives. For his first exhibition in WA David Noonan has created an immersive installation that invites viewers into an atmospheric…