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As FAC’s first recipient of the Artist in Residence Exchange program with Indian multi-arts organisation Art Ichol, Anjani Khanna has created imagined figurative sculptures, each with their own story. Coming to the end of a four week residency at Fremantle Arts Centre, Anjani sat down to chat with us about her time in Fremantle.

Everything you need to know about Bazaar, WA's Best Christmas Market.

Fremantle Arts Centre and City of Fremantle collect awards at the inaugural State Arts and Culture Partnership Honours.

Submissions for are now open for Revealed 2018, WA's annual event for new Aboriginal art.

The new What's On has landed and you can now read it online. Find out all about the exhibitions, concerts, events and art courses coming up at FAC over the coming months.

Midnight Oil have added a special benefit concert at FAC to their current Australian tour. One For The Oceans will see the band play their iconic album 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 in its entirety for the first time ever in this country, along with an hour of other Oils classics. This one-off gig will happen in the intimate setting of our South Lawn on Sunday 29 October. Every cent of profit from the show will go to various charities that work in the areas of reef protection and climate change including AMCS.org.au.

Sydney artist Evan Pank has won this year's FAC Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing for his work Keeping the Bastards Honest. He takes home $16,000 with the work acquired for the City of Fremantle Art Collection. Melbourne artist Valerie Sparks was awarded second prize. All 56 finalists' work can now be viewed in the exhibition, running until Sun 12 Nov.

Ahead of the launch of their new range Sunny Cities at FOUND, we caught up with Beau Est Mien's Johanna Acs and Alina Tang to chat about the collection, their studio and what's next for these much-loved WA printmakers.

Triple j favourite and one of Australia’s fastest rising stars, Tash Sultana returns home with a handful of her biggest shows to date. Sailing in the wake of her recently sold-out world tour, her FAC show on Thursday 7 December will be the last chance to witness her mercurial talents until the end of 2018, as Tash bunkers down to write and record her debut album.

Meet Erin Coates. Erin is a massive part of our exhibitions team and an artist in her own right. As our Special Projects Coordinator, not only does she curate, install and manage unbelievably large art projects – she also has a passion for climbing public art sculptures across the globe. We got the inside scoop on what drives her ahead of her upcoming exhibition Open Water opening at Moana Project Space on Friday 7 July.