FAC’s AIR program enables artists to engage in research and development. FAC is committed to supporting local and visiting artists execute ideas and projects while bringing their work into public dialogue. The AIR program has nine studios at FAC and two at the rear of the Moores Building.

How to Apply

Applications for residencies at Fremantle Arts Centre are always open. To apply please follow the guidelines on how to submit a proposal. For further information contact Bevan Honey bevanh@fremantle.wa.gov.au

Current Artists in Residence:

Andrew Daly (WA/China) will be producing paintings influenced by the experience of living in China for the last few years. Artist Studio 8

Anneke de Rooij (WA) is producing a series of avian portraits, working with inlayed pigments on ceramic forms, inspired by observations of FAC’s bird life. Artist Studio 8

Jackson Eaton (WA) will explore ways of physically representing the passage of time and the role of identity through photographic processes. Moores Studio 2

Verena Friedrich (Germany) manipulates time-lapse video recordings of living cells to form legible texts sourced from the advertising industry. Produced in conjunction with SymbioticA, Friedrich’s project Cellular Performance deals with notions of the human body being perpetually redefined by science, technology and commercial objectives. Moores Apartment

Brendan Hutchens (WA) will research and begin to develop a number of documentary series about creative sustainable housing design, and interview based behind-the-scenes video snapshots of artists at work. Artist Studio 4

Ola Johansson and Amanda Newall (Sweden) will conduct lab-based research in a joint residency with SymbioticA. Their project Projektet looks at social conflict and resolution as it translates from the immune system. The artists will work through performative strategies and types of theatre application shaped and informed by observing viral cellular activity. To register your interest in taking part email residencies@fremantle.wa.gov.au.
Artist Studio 7

Loren Kronemyer (USA), inspired by the natural forces of preservation and decay, will transform the studio space into an archaeology lab for the creation of objects that exist outside of traditional time scales. Artist Studio 1

Richard Lewer (AU/NZ) produces drawing, painting and animation marked by a sceptical humour and a focus on the darker sides of human behaviour, place and social identity. Artist Studio 6

Jade Markham (WA/NSW) and Lisa Carrie Goldberg (WA/Canada) use sleep as an artistic medium to develop and design a new performance work entitled The Sleep Social. The artists focus on the notion of collective sleep to find ways of materially crossing over to the other world. Artist Studio 7

Natural Mystery (WA) is directed by artists David Egan and Patrick Miller. Working across exhibitions and residencies as both curators and artists in cooperation with FAC, they will research and develop alternative channels of distribution and communication for the exhibition of contemporary art. Artist Studio 3

Janet Parker-Smith, Karen Ball, Elizabeth Pozega (NSW) draw on themes of isolation and the human need for communication. The collaborators, in residence at different times with paths crossing briefly, will pursue a daily ritual of making and writing a postcard and then posting it to the members of the collaboration who are absent. Artist Studio 6

Clare Peake (WA) continues development of mixed media works that extend her current interests in the ways by which knowledge is accumulated and made sense of, in particular through ideas of discovery and exploration. Moores Studio 1

Tanya Schultz (WA) is developing a new body of mixed-media work first there is a mountain, that investigates the parallels between the illusory nature of imagined worlds, and the promise and allure of material culture. Moores Studio 1

Artist Run Initiative

Every year FAC invites applications for an Artist Run Initiative. The successful applicant is given studio space, mentorship, access to FAC resources and support. The inaugural recipients of FAC’s ARI residency are Rhinoceros (AU). Rhinoceros, a group of ten artists, will collectively negotiate projects that will exist within the architectural spaces of FAC, on the Internet and in off-site exhibitions over the next 12 months. Artist Studio 5