Fremantle’s enduring role as home and favourite subject matter for artists is celebrated in an exhibition marking 50 years of the City of Fremantle Art Collection. The City’s Collection, comprising more than 1200 works, reflects the port town’s particular artistic heritage, making it one of the most significant municipal collections in the country.

The exhibition Fertile Soil highlights the strengths of the collection, ranging from painting, drawing, printmedia, assemblage, textiles and ceramics. Fertile Soil presents 68 works by 50 of Western Australian leading artists, including Kathleen O’Connor paintings and past winners of the Fremantle Print Award.

Curator: André Lipscombe

Artists:

• Ray Arnold
• George Baldessin
• Marcus Beilby
• Merrick Belyea
• Sandra Black
• Pat Brassington
• Paul Brown
• Rupert Bunny
• Joan Campbell
• Susanna Castleden
• Jan Davis
• Elizabeth Durack
• Pippin Drysdale
• Cordula Ebatarinja
• Neil Emmerson
• Christine Gosfield
• Audrey Greenhalgh
• Peggy Griffiths
• Richard Gunning
• George Haynes
• Hans Heysen
• Bevan Honey
• Tony Jones
• Jeremy Kirwan–Ward
• Theo Koning
• Bela Kotai
• Eveline Kotai
• Colin Lanceley
• Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
• Akio Makigawa
• Jane Martin
• Brian McKay
• Mary Moore
• Sally Morgan
• Albert Namatjira
• Jánis Nedéla
• Kathleen O’Connor
• Shane Pickett
• Trevor Richards
• Stewart Scambler
• Arthur Streeton
• Brad Rimmer
• Megan Salmon
• Helen Smith
• Holly Story
• Paul Uhlmann
• Ken Wadrop
• Judy Watson
• Karl Wiebke
• Jurek Wybraniec

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