Fremantle Arts Centre

Fremantle Arts Centre, one of Western Australia’s major arts organisations and best-loved local facilities, offers a rich cultural program of exhibitions, artist residencies, art courses, music and events. FAC is an ambitious organisation with high quality programming that is recognised on a local, national and international level. Housed in a neo-Gothic style building constructed by convicts in 1860 and set in beautiful gardens, FAC is also an important heritage site.

The Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Australia’s leading printmaking award, is an annual feature of the curated exhibition program while Sunday Music, the free summer music series is an enduring favourite with the local community.

There is also a café and gift shop, FOUND at Fremantle Arts Centre, filled with the finest WA-made wares.

Free Admission.

Fremantle Arts Centre

1 Finnerty Street Fremantle WA 6160

08 9432 9555

fac.org.au

Daily 10am - 5pm.
Free admission.

Exhibitions

Desperate Measures

9 Nov - 27 Jan

The Huxleys: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams

9 Nov - 26 Jan

Preview

Janine Combes’s material stories

In her latest exhibition at Plimsoll Gallery, Janine Combes uses her background as a jewellery maker to create a body of work inspired by abandoned towns once marked for settlement in Tasmania.

Briony Downes

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Poetic relations at the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

Bringing together 70 artists from 30 countries, the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art fosters connections across cultures and borders, and translates cultural knowledge for the present day.

Steve Dow

Preview

Julie Mehretu and the new contemporary

Julie Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in the southern hemisphere, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to harness the urgency and energy of the Ethiopian-born New Yorker’s multilayered painting practice.

Courtney Kidd

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Ecological art can bring us closer to understanding nature. How does this look in the era of climate change?

Two exhibitions in Sydney are showcasing interdisciplinary research on climate change communicated in artistic ways.

Alexandra Crosby

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A stitch in time

Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.