Fremantle Arts Centre (organisation)

Fremantle Arts Centre
Formation1973; 51 years ago (1973)
Headquarters1 Finnerty Street
Location
  • Fremantle, Australia
Director
Anna Reece[1]
Main organ
Fremantle Press
Websitewww.fac.org.au

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]

  1. ^ "Anna Reece announced as Fremantle Arts Centre's new Director". Mirage. 3 Nov 2020. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  2. ^ Heritage Council. "Museum and Arts Centre, Fremantle". stateheritage.wa.gov.au.
  3. ^ "Founding FAC director Templeman dies". The West Australian. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Exit interview: Jim Cathcart, Director Fremantle Arts Centre". 22 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Our Next Artistic Director is".