Studio Program

Fremantle Arts Centre has 9 studios in situ as well as 4 studios at Moores Building Contemporary Art Space located within the historic Moores Building on Henry Street in the Fremantle CBD.

Our Studio Program offers artists from all disciplines the opportunity to explore and develop works and ideas. In this artist-led program, artists are matched to one of our beautiful studios best-suited to their practice for set periods of one, three, six or 12 months and join a welcoming, innovative, diverse and collegiate artistic community.

CURRENT STUDIO ARTISTS

STUDIO 1: YUNJU PARK – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

STUDIO 2: MY STUDIO COLLECTIVE

STUDIO 3: DAWN DUDEK

Hailing from Canada, Dawn Dudek’s multi-disciplinary work reflects a contemporaneous awareness of her environment with a tension between the familiar and the unknown. Her animated loops shown in the BLUE MINDS exhibition were made to encapsulate and highlight the mystery and reverence of marine life and our oceans. These images were developed with corresponding messages to help educate and raise awareness for conservation efforts and were developed with the Marine Education and Research Society (MERS), British Columbia, Canada. Dawn has exhibited throughout France, Spain, Monaco, Canada, Italy, UK and twice at the prestigious Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in the Carrousel du Louvre, Paris followed by a solo exhibition of her Filmscapes paintings at the 63rd FESTIVAL DE CANNES. For 6 months in 2020 Dawn was Artist In Residence at the Fremantle Arts Centre and AIR at Sointula Art Shed on Malcolm Island, Canada for August 2022. During both residencies she continued to work on paintings for her project “Distance & Displacement”. The completed works is exhibited at ECU Gallery 25 for Fringe World 2023. Dawn is currently working with AH Studios, London and continues to assist MERS with visual storytelling while creating artwork for a future animated short film project.

STUDIO 4: ENCOUNTER THEARE – COMPANY IN RESIDENCE

STUDIO 5: BENNETT MILLER

STUDIO 6: LEONIE NGAHUIA MANS BRIDGE

STUDIO 7: RHIANNA STEWART

STUDIO 8: DAVID ATTWOOD

David Attwood makes artwork using contemporary commodities. He completed the SOMA Summer Program at SOMA, Mexico City in 2019, and runs the project space Disneyland Paris.

FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE STUDIOS

There are 9 studios located at FAC which are accessible 7 days a week, 9am–5pm.

Studios vary in size and suitability depending on an artist’s proposed activities.

Studios are located on the ground floor as well as the upper levels of the building which are accessible only by stairs.

Studios located at FAC will be granted in 1, 3, 6 or 12 month terms.

MOORES CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE STUDIOS

There are 4 artist studios located at MCAS which are accessible 7 days a week, 24 hours a day however studios are only suitable for activities that do not produce noise or air pollutants. Studio activity is not encouraged before 7am or after 9pm.

Each studio is approximately 20sqm and is located on ground level.

The MCAS studios are granted in 6 or 12 month terms.

MOORES APARTMENT

Fremantle Arts Centre is the custodian of a beautiful residential apartment located at the Moores Building. The apartment is usually granted in durations of up to one month to support artists from international, national, regional and remote areas.

Applications for residencies longer than one month must source their own accommodation beyond the initial month offered by FAC.

APPLYING FOR THE STUDIO PROGRAM

Applications for our Studio Program are now closed. Applications typically open in June for placements during the following year.

CONTACT US

To find out more about the Studio Program or the Moores Apartment please contact [email protected]

Current Studio Artists

Encounter Theatre (WA) is an ensemble theatre company based on Noongar Boodja in Perth. Highly physical and political, ambitious and experimental, Encounter explores big and relevant ideas of our time through intimate human stories. Follow Encounter Theatre on Instagram | Studio 4