The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery (MBCAG) is managed by City of Fremantle and located in the historic west-end, adjacent to commercial galleries and Notre Dame University. An intrinsic facet of Fremantle community, the gallery offers six individual spaces creating interplay of history with contemporary visual art and craft.
The (MBCAG) supports exhibition development and partnerships with artists, artist’s organisations and communities and provides subsidised rental spaces, development assistance and information services for exhibitors.

Inner Freedom - Group exhibition

An exhibition from the Freedom School of Painting a group artists practising and promoting an intuitive and open ended experimental approach to painting curated by artist and teacher David Giles.

12 – 21 February 2010

Accidental Secrets - Group exhibition

A body of work which revolves around the themes of function, access and disability/ability. Sam Connor, Christine Elaine and Hayley Bahr curate and create a project involving traditional and contemporary art making processes involving regional artists with disabilities.

David Giles – LANDFORMS 1, 2009
Oil on canvas, 120 x 170 cm

Ocean Calling - Scott Bauer

Scott is an international professional surfing photographer. His images appear in magazines all over the world yet this exhibition is of those other images he chooses to shoot for his own artistic interest.

Scott Bauer – CLOUD 9, 2009
Digital image

Cabbage - Patrick Hyde

This designer and artist has researched wartime Hollywood portraits for his subject matter and carries out a process of re-contextualisation.

Patrick Hyde - BARBARA STANWYCK, 2009
Oil on Canvas. 46 x 36 cm

Without Sun - Group Exhibition

This exhibition will coincide with the release of Without Sun Journal #1. A place for artists working in the photographic medium, bridging the gap between up and coming and established, young and old, not limited to geographical proximity. Artists include: Peter Sutherland, Christian Lycke, Max Pam, Christian Belgaux, Mattias Arehn, Kevin Ballantine, Marcelo Gomes, Wess von Hooton, Marius Nilsen and James Cooper.

19 March – 18 April 2010

FotoFreo - Festival Exhibition

Again FotoFreo takes over the Moores Building as part of their festival with 4 exhibitions featuring the very best in international photography.
Growing Pains features the work of East Timorese, Australian and international photographers who have had an intimate involvement with East Timor in its 10 years since its independence.
Tears in the Congo by Jean Chung documents the incredible resilience of Congolese women and their desire to return to a normal life after war.

From Bhutan to Texas

Viviane Dalles followed the Mainali family from their last days of many years in a refugee camp in Nepal to their first tentative steps on American soil.

Slab City

Photographed by Claire Martin and located in the Colorado Desert, Slab City was created by a small but committed squatters community. It is a place for the broken and desperate and for the fierce defenders of freedom from tyranny.

Claire Martin – LIZ AND DAVE, 2009
Copyright of Claire Martin