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In the lead up to the 44th Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, we're getting to know some of this year's 56 finalists. We recently caught up with WA artist and graphic designer Tim Meakins to find out more about his practice and his entry to this year's award.

With an artistic career that has spanned 40 years, we are looking forward to prominent WA artist Stuart Elliott's Artist Talk on Sat 7 Sep. We recently caught up with Elliott to find out more about his practice and the works on display in Fremantle 1988.

As we prepare to launch the 44th Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, we're getting to know some of the 56 finalists selected in 2019. We recently caught up with VIC artist Sarah McConnell to find out more about her practice and her entry in this year's award.

Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award returns for 2019 with a spectacular showcase of works from established, emerging and cross-disciplinary artists from across Australia. Now in its 44th year, Australia’s richest print award presents the very best in prints and artists’ books.

Join us to hear this year’s winner announced at the opening of the exhibition on Thu 19 Sep.

As we prepare to launch the 44th Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, we're getting to know some of the 56 finalists selected in 2019. We recently caught up with NSW artist Raimond de Weerdt to find out more about his practice and the entry he submitted to this year's award.

The finalists have been announced for the 44th Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Australia's richest and most prestigious print prize. The award is known for celebrating traditional printmaking techniques alongside boundary-pushing works which look towards the future of the medium. This year 56 finalists were selected from 280 entries received from emerging and established artists from all over Australia.

Get lost in an endless wormhole, board a spaceship of desire, take in sweeping space landscapes and experience a monumental echo at Fremantle Arts Centre when the exhibition Other Suns: Cult Sci-fi Cinema and Art opens on Friday 26 July. In partnership with Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Other Suns features a line-up of 20 local, national and international artists.

Fremantle Arts Centre has an exciting program of events and exhibitions in the coming months. If you can't get your hands on a copy of the latest What's On program, read it online.

Renowned Australian artist James Angus will present his very first papier mâché sculptures in the upcoming exhibition Papier Mâché for Beginners. Opening 6:30pm Friday 7 June at Fremantle Art Centre, this is Angus’ first solo show in WA in over a decade and will debut 12 never before seen works.

Don’t miss the opportunity to view a collection of recently unearthed artworks by one of Fremantle’s most fascinating and unheralded maritime figures, 19th Century Harbour Master, Captain George A.D. Forsyth. Opening 6:30pm Friday 7 June at Fremantle Arts Centre, Pilot Painter unveils 14 rarely-seen paintings and drawings created between 1870 and 1893, offering a glimpse of Fremantle Port and Rottnest as they were in the late-1800s.