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In Fremantle Arts Centre’s exhibition I WAS HERE the world is flipped upside down, long held beliefs are disproved and fact replaces fiction as seven artists grapple with what’s real, imagined or forgotten over time. Comprising photographic and sculptural works, I WAS HERE is a fascinating commentary on history itself and our relationship to the past.

Fremantle Arts Centre presents the world premiere of internationally acclaimed artist Ian Strange’s latest exhibition ISLAND. Born and bred in the Perth suburbs, Strange is known for his subversive, site-specific interventions on suburban houses. Based in New York since 2009, Strange returns home to debut his most in-depth exploration of home. Created in the wake of the American housing crisis, ISLAND offers a provocative and unsettling look at our deep psychological relationship to home.

Art lovers will be generously rewarded at Fremantle Arts Centre’s winter exhibitions which span elegant painting by revered Fremantle realist Marcus Beilby; otherworldly fleshy figures by internationally acclaimed artist Jess Johnson; the in-your-face, street-inspired style of local duo Trevor Bly and Patrick Doherty; and a diverse showcase of contemporary Australian video art.

Step inside one of the most controversial and outwardly hedonistic religious movements to arrive in Australia in Fremantle Arts Centre’s provocative new exhibition Orange: Sannyas in Fremantle. Featuring newly commissioned multimedia works, including an absorbing virtual reality experience based around the group’s daily meditation practices – the exhibition investigates the legacy of the ‘Orange People’.

Returning to Fremantle Arts Centre in 2017, Revealed is an annual program that provides valuable public exposure for new and emerging Aboriginal artists from all over the state. Revealed comprises an art market, exhibition and artist talks and features artists from 25 WA Aboriginal art centres.

Fremantle Arts Centre’s iconic façade will be blanketed by a life-size print of Fremantle Port’s passenger gangway as five leading WA artists examine a world full of movement, consumption and control in a thought-provoking exhibition for Perth International Arts Festival.

Fremantle Arts Centre and Art Ichol are pleased to announce a new partnership that will see Western Australian and Indian artists engage in an Artist in Residence Exchange Program. FAC will select one WA artist to travel to the rural city of Maihar in Madhya Pradesh, India to live and work at Art Ichol during September 2017.

In Cahoots: artists collaborate across Country is a major new creative project which sees artists from six Aboriginal art centres partnered with leading independent artists from around the country to produce significant new collaborative works through a series of artist residencies. Presented by FAC, the project will culminate in an exhibition in November 2017 which explores the exciting and challenging nature of collaboration between art centres and both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists.