Fremantle is a city that values and venerates the arts. This is evidenced by the sheer number of galleries and exhibitions that exist within its streets. Art is everywhere within the port town. Apart from the numerous galleries, many cafés and restaurants also contain fabulous artworks. Allow the online exhibitions below to inspire your creativity as you experience wonder and art from the comfort of your home.
WA'S BEST EMERGING ABORIGINAL ARTISTS: REVEALED ONLINE
The 2020 Revealed Exhibition, launched by the Fremantle Arts Centre, is one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the year. This is the place to experience a generous and varied collection of artworks by 120 of the most exciting new and emerging Western Australian Aboriginal artists. With paintings, prints, carvings, photography, textiles, weaving and more, this captivating and engaging online catalogue presents the work of artists from remote areas as well as those from metropolitan Perth. The catalogue includes beautiful artwork images and information about each artist and art centre. Each piece is available for purchase with 100% of the profits returning to the artists.
Image: Fremantle Arts Centre
Various blown glass works by Ninuku Arts' artists Selinda Davidson, Rita Watson & Cassaria Young-Hogan. Paintings L-R: Nola Bennett, Tjarlirli Art, Irriya Nola, 2019. Sally Butler, Tjarlirli Art, Wangurnu Sally, 2019. Myra Giles, Tjarlirli Art, Minyma Tjukurla, 2019. Cassaria Young-Hogan, Ninuku Arts, Bush Trip, 2020. Rita Watson, Ninuku Arts, Ilrupa, 2019. Nola Bennett, Tjarlirli Art, Irriya Nola, 2019. Sally Butler, Tjarlirli Art, Wangurnu Sally, 2019. Lorna Linmurra, Martumili Artists, Untitled, 2019.
Western Australia’s only organisation dedicated to touring contemporary visual art exhibitions across the regions, interstate and beyond, ART ON THE MOVE is based in Fremantle. Each of their exhibitions is accompanied by a program for those not able to visit in person:
- Yagu Gurlbarl (Big Secret) by Julie Dowling
- Pujiman by Spinifex Hill Artists and Martumili Artists
- Preppers
- There Were Moments of Transformation
- How Did I Get Here?
Image: From Pujiman by Spinifex Hill Artists and Martumili Artists
Sustainable Housing for Artists and Creatives (SHAC) is a unique creative community space in Fremantle. The SHAC Incubate Artists program celebrates the land we live on, the communities who live here now, and those who have lived here in the past. The program includes three weeks of collaboration including online workshops for artists and the general public. There will be performances streamed live via the SHAC Facebook Group and a curated exhibition of the collaborative work produced which is available in a virtual online gallery.
Image: SHAC Freo
Japingka is a specialist Aboriginal art gallery in Fremantle. Their upstairs exhibition space is dedicated to showcasing indigenous emerging and established communities and artists with twelve exhibitions a year and each is available to view online. So until you can visit in person scroll through the website to find something new for your own walls at home. There are some great videos of artworks on their Facebook page too.
Image: Teresa Baker - Minima Marlilu Tjukurrpa
The PS acronym stands for Project Space / Performance Site / Present State / Pakenham Studios / Port Stores and so much more... PS is a project space for the experience of contemporary art which presents a curated program of exhibitions and events by Australian and international artists, in the heart of Fremantle's West End. You can explore the PS archive of past exhibitions, performances and events since their inception in 2012.
Image: PS Art Space Facebook page
Credit banner at the top of the page: Mowanjum Art & Culture Centre. L-R: Malcolm Jungine, Wandjina and Ungud, 2019. Curtis Barunga, Wandjina and Ungud, 2019. Curtis Barunga, Wandjinas, 2019. Curtis Barunga, Three Tribes, 2019. Curtis Barunga, Rimmijbudda and Ungud, 2019 | Kira Kiro Arts Project. Matilda Oxtoby, The First Rain #3, 2020. Matilda Oxtoby, The First Rain #1, 2020. Matilda Oxtoby, The First Rain #2, 2020. Matilda Oxtoby, Wandjina and the Wunju #2, 2020. Matilda Oxtoby, Wandjina and the Wunju #1, 2020. Matilda Oxtoby, Wandjina and the Wunju #3, 2020. Veronica Djanghara, Wandjina and the Spirit People, 2020. Veronica Djanghara, Wandjin and Gwion Gwion, 2019. Veronica Djanghara, Wandjina and the Spirit People, 2020. Veronica Djanghara, Wandjin and Gwion Gwion, 2019. Materials & dimensions variable