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Our shop FOUND at Fremantle Arts Centre is brimming with beautiful, unique gifts for that last-minute Christmas shop. Filled with the largest range of locally made wares in WA, FOUND stocks jewellery, textiles, woodwork, ceramics, toys, beauty products, prints, books and more.

We’ve put together a Christmas gift guide to inspire those final presents for loved ones. FOUND is open 9am–5pm daily this holiday season.

Fremantle Arts Centre Artist in Residence Manabu Kanai (JPN) enjoys a challenge. The adventurous artist has exhibited across the globe, including Melbourne, Japan and Slovakia and has a PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts (2015).

Ever wandered through a familiar environment and discovered something completely new? Artist in Residence Elyssa Sykes-Smith (NSW) plays with our perception and response to spaces through her Mind Walks series. These meditative, sightless journeys see the artist guide blindfolded participants through Fremantle, encouraging people to explore places purely through touch, sound and smell.

This week we spoke to Kate Weedon-Jones, a much-loved tutor in our art courses program and long-term employee in the FOUND Shop. Kate’s been working in textiles for almost 40 years and has been involved with FAC since the early 1980s. Here she shares the story behind her textile practice and how she first discovered the technique of shibori.