Formation | 1973 |
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Headquarters | 1 Finnerty Street |
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Director | Anna Reece[1] |
Main organ | Fremantle Press |
Website | www |
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.[2]
The Fremantle Arts Centre was established in 1973, and its founding director was Ian Templeman.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]