Thu 04 May

News

FAC Yeah! It’s Winter!

Fremantle Arts Centre is thrilled to let our choir lovers know that we will continue to run FAC Yeah! throughout winter. Beginning 7th June at the usual time of 7:00pm – 8:30pm, our community choir will be held fortnightly on Wednesday evenings at Sullivan Hall in White Gum Valley. Local music powerhouse, Natalie Gillespie will&hellip
Tue 04 Apr

Media Release

REVEALED 2023 UNVEILS EXTRAORDINARY BREADTH OF ABORIGINAL ART PRACTICE IN WA

Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC) announces the 2023 return of Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists. Opening 5 May and running till 23 July, Revealed features a spectacular floor-to-ceiling display of more than 200 works by over 100 Aboriginal artists from remote, regional and metropolitan WA. This year, artistic storytelling spills off the canvas into&hellip
Fri 17 Feb

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Bazaar 2022: A Celebration of the Handmade lights up FAC in December

Walyalup (Fremantle): Bazaar, WA’s most loved Christmas makers market, returns to FAC from Friday 2 – Sunday 4 December, featuring an extraordinary array of handcrafted homewares, fashion, textiles, jewellery and design from local makers. Set over three days in FAC’s picturesque grounds, the annual shopping extravaganza presents the highest calibre of WA-designed wares, with 50&hellip
Sun 15 Jan

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Other Horizons: A profound artistic exploration of identity and belonging by three eminent women of colour

Walyalup (Fremantle):  A cinematic meditation on belonging in contemporary Australia, from enduring First Nations attachments to Country, to those borne of the colonial adventure or more recent diaspora, Other Horizons brings together three independent projects by nationally renowned artists Atong Atem, Hayley Millar Baker and Jasmine Togo-Brisby. Opening on 3 February as part of Perth Festival, Other Horizons presents a&hellip
Fri 02 Dec

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Your Guide to Bazaar 2022

With Bazaar 2022 just around the corner, we’ve compiled this handy guide of need-to-know tips and tricks to ensure your day at the market is a successful one. Read on and get excited about WA’s favourite Christmas Makers’ Market, which returns to FAC from 2-4 December. Entry Entry is $2 per adult, kids under 12&hellip
Tue 20 Sep

Media Release

Sunday Music: homegrown artists shine in most diverse season to date

From indie darlings to Indigenous storytellers, queer electro pop to West Coast rock royalty, Fremantle Arts Centre’s Sunday Music season is back for summer—treating music lovers to our most culturally and musically diverse line-up in the program’s history. This free weekly live music series returns on Sun 2 Oct, kicking off an epic 6-month summer&hellip
Tue 09 Aug

Media Release

Pop Porn: titillating new exhibition probes at bodily autonomy, gender politics and the commodification of female bodies

Opening on Friday 12 August, Tania Ferrier: Pop Porn explores the representation of women in the commodity culture of the 80s—challenging misogynistic gender ideals, giving voice to feminine authority and prompting deeper reflection on how far, or how little, we’ve come in the last forty years. A City of Fremantle Art Collection exhibition curated by&hellip
Sun 07 Aug

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Studio visit: Mariaan Pugh

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. Taylor and Pugh have worked together to transform Taylor’s Niminjarra paintings, usually seen on canvas or paper,&hellip
Wed 03 Aug

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

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).&hellip
Thu 28 Jul

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

Chinoiserie – the Western appropriation of Asian aesthetics – rose to prominence in eighteenth century at a time when the British Empire was exerting extraordinary dominance over the global market; effectively undercutting the original artisans and commodifying meaningful cultural artefacts. Opening at Fremantle Arts Centre on 12 August, A Gentle Misinterpretation: Australian Artists and Chinoiserie&hellip
Fri 24 Jun

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Check out the Jul–Sep 2022 Program

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.   Keen to attend? Find&hellip