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Exhibition

City of Fremantle Art Collection (1958 – 2008)

Exhibition

Fertile Soil: 50 Years of the City of Fremantle Art Collection marks a cultural milestone for the largest municipal art collection in Western Australia. From the seeds of the original donation of 41 paintings by Sir Claude Hotchin in1958, Fremantle’s art Collection has largely grown from the exhibition and Artist in Residence program of the Fremantle Arts Centre, which has been a ‘hotbed’ for visual arts in the port city since 1973.

The exhibition highlights the work of twenty two Western Australian practitioners who have lived and worked in Fremantle and made an important contribution to the visual arts culture of the city and Western Australia. It reveals the scale and quality of art held in the Collection which encompasses a range of artistic statements about Fremantle and which provides a significant cultural resource for the community.

A unique and groundbreaking element of the exhibition is an electronic audio exhibition guide. This sixty minute interpretive guide will be available free to visitors of all ages, enabling access to the voice of the artist commenting about their work in the exhibition. The tour of the exhibition is managed by Art on the Move.

Artists

Marcus Beilby, Sandra Black, Susanna Castleden, Pippin Drysdale, George Haynes, Bevan Honey, Christine Gosfield, Jeremy Kirwan – Ward, Theo Koning, Bela Kotai, Eveline Kotai, Brian McKay, Mary Moore, Jánis Nedéla, Kathleen O'Connor, Shane Pickett, Trevor Richards, Brad Rimmer, Megan Salmon, Helen Smith, Holly Story and Jurek Wybraniec.

Yellow Linear Puff Helen Smith (1962– )
Yellow linear puff 2006
oil paint on canvas
150 x 150 cm
no. 1182
© courtesy of the artist and City of Fremantle Art Collection