Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre
Convict-built colonial gothic asylum turned artist studios, galleries and courtyard concert venue.
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This guide to Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre in Fremantle traces the building's earlier life as the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, opened in eighteen sixty-five by convict labourers under a Victorian belief that order and architecture alone could cure a broken mind. It follows architect Edmund Henderson's design through the overcrowding of the eighteen nineties gold rush years and the newspapers and inquiries that followed. Stand in the courtyard and look up at the same gothic arches that once framed a very different kind of care.
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