Standing alone in the desert or forest can provoke an awareness of our own ‘smallness’ and insignificance in the greater world. It is this idea, and the sense that our physical impressions on the ground are lasting records of our existence that is explored in ceramicist Stewart Scambler’ Parched: Australia Is A Dry Land. Scambler is…

Stone & Floating Steel is the culmination of a month-long residency at FAC by Alice Springs-based painter Neridah Stockley. During her stay here in 2013 Stockley enjoyed painting outdoors throughout Fremantle, capturing scenes that will be familiar to many locals. The artist has an interest in port cities and how their evocative imagery becomes stitched…

An exhibition of production ware and domestic ceramics from the City of Fremantle Collection by artists associated with FAC’s learning and exhibition program from 1973-90. Featuring international, national and local artists including Guy Grey-Smith, Stewart Scambler, Sandra Black, Joel Smoker and Jean Robins. Weight of Evidence Floorsheet

David Attwood and Jurek Wybraniec will create, with some help from their friends, an Emu Export wizard stick that will snake throughout the entire gallery space. Green & Gold is both a monument and a protest – a reflection on an outdated, outmoded icon and a refusal to let go. The wizard stick is a…

Structures have a tendency to measure, delineate, regulate and mark bodies. In Boundaries of Beige Marzena Topka uses textiles such as office clothing and string in unusual ways to explore organisational structures and how they work their way into our daily lives. Whether this happens through duty, responsibility and necessity, or through self imposed routines…

Crossing paths at Claremont Technical College and regular exhibitors at FAC in their formative years, Ashley Jones and Helen Taylor were both represented in the 1978 Perth Festival exhibition Ten Western Australian Printmakers. Sunrise Bluebird draws upon the Collection to track the development of these two important WA print makers. Read the exhibition floorsheet

Tropaeum, the Latin word for a monument erected to commemorate victory, has over time morphed into our modern word ‘trophy’. This idea and the statement of power implied by trophies is explored by seven Western Australian and one Victorian artist in this thought-provoking exhibition of sculptures. Through a series of new works, the artists tackle…

Thirty-four years on from their watershed exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA, Fremantle Realists brings together the work of three significant artists who turned their gaze toward the port city and local subject matter. Ray Beattie, Marcus Beilby and Ken Wadrop operated out of a shared studio in High St, Fremantle, during the late…

An exhibition developed in concert with the John Curtin College of the Arts Gifted and Talented Visual Arts Program, Light and Shade draws upon the Collection to articulate a broad range of conceptual, technical and material approaches to the representation of tone and tonality. Light and Shade will be supported by a program of floortalks…

Globetrotting performance, art, music, fashion and new media provocateurs Chicks on Speed roll into to FAC this April with a typically genre-defying and mind-bending show. An immersive and interactive exhibition, SCREAM features a giant sculptural structure on which Chicks on Speed project a visually chaotic collage. The exhibition also invites audience members to use iPads…