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News: August 07 2022
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Studio visit: Mariaan Pugh

7 August 2022 News Featured News

A Boorloo-based visual artist and designer working across textiles and fashion, Mariaan Pugh has teamed up with Martu artist Desmond Taylor to create Jila Kujarra: Two Snakes Dreaming, an exciting cross-cultural collaboration which opens at 6:30pm on Fri 12 Aug.

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Jila Kujarra: ancient Martu creation stories reimagined in contemporary craft collaboration

3 August 2022 Media Release

Opening on Friday 12 August, Jila Kujarra | Two Snakes Dreaming is a dynamic cross-cultural collaboration between Warnman artist Desmond Taylor and Boorloo-based textiles practitioner Mariaan Pugh. Taylor and Pugh have worked together to transform Taylor’s Niminjarra paintings, usually seen on canvas or paper, into ten large-scale textile works, reanimating the important Niminjarra Jukurrpa (Dreaming).

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A Gentle Misinterpretation: thirteen artists reveal the complex history of Chinoiserie and its legacy of cultural appropriation

28 July 2022 Media Release

Opening at Fremantle Arts Centre on 12 August, A Gentle Misinterpretation: Australian Artists and Chinoiserie is a contemporary exploration of this problematic practice, presenting thirteen artists whose works reflect on notions of cultural thievery, colonisation, exoticisation, and excess.

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Check out the Jul–Sep 2022 Program

24 June 2022 News

Have you been curious to learn what's coming up at FAC over the next few months?
Wonder no more because our Jul–Sep 2022 Program has just been released! This is your comprehensive guide to all our upcoming exhibitions, insightful talks, late night events, gigs, art courses, studio artists and more.

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Meet Studio Artist Hannah Gregory

21 June 2022 News

Hannah Gregory is an Australian leaded stained-glass artist who is currently in residence at Fremantle Arts Centre. After dedicating years to honing her craft working in glass studios across Australia on larger public works and lengthy restorations, Hannah is now solely focusing on her own practice, commissions and autonomous works. Returning to her hometown of Perth after attending residencies in Austria and Wales, Hannah is experimenting with sandblasting, painting, leading, plating and kiln forming. We caught up with her to find out more about her practice and what she hopes to get out of her time in the FAC studio.

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FAC Studio Artist – Jay Emmanuel from Encounter

14 June 2022 News

An ambitious new theatre company dedicated to “making invisible stories visible”, Encounter was founded in 2021 by theatre-maker, writer and director Jay Emmanuel. Currently in-residence at Fremantle Arts Centre, Encounter specialises in storytelling that embraces diversity, creating space for people of migrant, refugee and queer communities to speak their truth while revealing universal experiences of identity, community, and the search for belonging. With a number of new projects on the horizon, we sat down with Jay in the studio at FAC to learn more about his vision for Encounter.

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Groundwork: Six WA artists selected for FAC’s inaugural incubator

25 May 2022 Media Release

Six Western Australian artists have been selected as the inaugural participants in Fremantle Arts Centre’s Groundwork program, a unique new career-bolstering initiative which supports artists to develop their career pathways and realise bold new work.

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Artist in Residence | Jacky Cheng

19 April 2022 News

A recent Artist In Residence at Fremantle Arts Centre, Jacky Cheng is an artist and an art educator based in Broome, Western Australia. A finalist in the 2022 Blake Prize and the John Stringer Prize, her work is fundamentally about identity and awareness through cultural activities and memories of home; country and relationships. We recently caught up with Jacky Cheng to find out more about her practice and the body of work that caught the attention of the Blake Prize, one of Australia's longest-standing and most prestigious prizes.

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April–June Program just announced

1 April 2022 News

Fremantle Arts Centre's April – June 2022 program has just been released. Read the online version to catch up on all FAC's upcoming exhibitions, evenings of discussion, special events, gigs, art courses and more.

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Fremantle Arts Centre secures $100,000 Australia Council Grant for Groundwork

31 March 2022 Media Release

Fremantle Arts Centre has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to implement Groundwork, a new initiative which will bolster the careers of Western Australian artists, supporting them to develop new career pathways for the realisation of bold new work.

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Learning Program Update

11 March 2022 News

In consideration of the continued increase in community cases of COVID-19 and that cases are anticipated to peak at the end of March and into April we have made the following decisions regarding our Learning Classes for April – June 2022: school holiday classes have been cancelled for April 2022; and the commencement of Term 2 classes will be delayed.

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Fremantle Arts Centre is situated at Walyalup on Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodjar. We acknowledge the Whadjuk people as the traditional owners and custodians of these lands and waterways and extend our respect to their Elders, past and present.

We offer our heartfelt gratitude to the Whadjuk community and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to care for Country and share their knowledge – this generosity and wisdom helps us to understand and navigate Country safely and respectfully.