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Works on paper including Prints, Drawings, Watercolours and Photographs represent over 60% of the City’s collection and is testimony to the strength of paper based arts practice in its own right. The key holding of prints contains over 450 works, the majority of which have been acquired since 1976 following the establishment of the Shell Fremantle Print Award and the impact in Australia of international developments in printmaking since the late 1960’s. Many senior national artists are represented with suites or included in portfolio editions. Historical and traditional print holdings contrast with recent acquisitions, adding to the volume of contemporary Indigenous work, large-scale and multiple sheet installations, digital prints and artist books.
Balanced against the wealth of contemporary works on paper is Fremantle’s Collection of paintings. A body of some 250 works which provides an insight into painting practice of the 1980’s to present in Perth and Fremantle is underpinned by substantial historical donations of realist painting, including works by important Western Australian practitioners Kathleen O’Connor and Guy Grey-Smith. Recent acquisitions continue to recognise traditional realist genres, in particular Fremantle subjects and build upon holdings of contemporary practice with acquisitions by artists including Gloria Bliss, Shane Pickett, Trevor Richards and Jurek Wybraniec.
The City’s ceramic collection is defined by production ware and outstanding exhibition pieces, principally drawn from Fremantle Arts Centre exhibitions, studio and Artist in Residence programs. Ceramics were strongly identifiable with Fremantle in the decade 1975 -1985 with many artists living, working and exhibiting in the city. Currently there are 140 works representing Fremantle artists like Sandra Black, Joan Campbell, Bela Kotai and Jo Reid which compliment excellent examples of work by other significant Australian practitioners like Jeff Mincham, Milton Moon and Gwyn Hanssen-Pigott.
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