Fremantle Arts Centre (organisation)

The Fremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation located in Fremantle, Western Australia. It is housed in a registered colonial-era historic building, the Museum and Arts Centre, that was originally constructed in the 1860s as a lunatic asylum and which later served as a women's home and a technical school.

Fremantle Arts Centre
Formation1973 (1973)
Headquarters1 Finnerty Street
Location
  • Fremantle, Australia
Director
Anna Reece
Main organ
Fremantle Press
Websitewww.fac.org.au

The Fremantle Arts Centre was established in 1973, and its founding director was Ian Templeman. It was not until 1978 that the organisation received its first operational funding from the state government. Following Templeman's resignation in 1990, June Moorhouse was appointed as Director, a position she remained in for six years. In 2005 Jim Cathcart was appointed as Director and remained in the role for 15 years. He was replaced by Anna Reece in 2020, until she resigned in 2023 to take up a role as Artistic Director at the Festival of Perth.

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