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Revealing the City of Fremantle Art Collection
Andre Lipscombe
Lipscombe, Andre 2019, 'Revealing the City of Fremantle Art Collection', Fremantle Studies, 10: 59-70.
Fremantle’s Art Collection fell to the care of the newly established Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC) in 1973 at which time it had grown little since the first significant donation of 41 Australian paintings, primarily by established Eastern States artists of familiar genres of landscape, still-life and portraiture, by WA art philanthropist Sir Claude Hotchin in 1958. The Council found a ready custodian and ultimately a spiritual home for the paintings at FAC. It was a decision that gave the collection exposure to a supportive audience and the impetus to accrue new works by local artists and craftspeople, many of whom were beginning to reside and work in the port city.
Over four decades, principally through the collection’s relationship with the ‘living studio’ of the FAC, the City has engineered an art collection of over 1400 pieces including a representative mix of paintings, works on paper (primarily prints and photographs) and a holding of Western Australian ceramics. Collectively, many of the artworks both reflect and reveal Fremantle life; its people, work, politics, social rituals, conflict and leisure time. It is through the work of artists which are represented in the collection that audiences can find their own perspectives upon the place in which they live.
The City has maintained its activity in purchasing artworks for the collection, but it is through the principled way in which the Collection has ...
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