There's a new art gallery in Fremantle, just down from the Fremantle Arts Centre on James Street. Based on the quality of work collected for this exhibition, one can only predict the place will be around for awhile. Here's hoping so.

Ceramic works by Christopher Sanders are well formed and finely glazed. These clean forms are functional and provide excellent hosts for the vibrant colours. Colour and texture is also well manipulated and appreciated in the works on paper by Michael Knight. Great swipes of the broad brush share the surface with thin lines scratched into the wet paint. These works sing with spontaneous marks and vivid hue, suggestions of imagery and evocative titles, and a sense of freedom and joy.

Richard Easterbrook holds the attention with his fine photography. It would seem no tricks or special techniques are employed, just an excellent eye for seeing interesting images in simple objects. The fascinating textures found in the margins of our world are too often overlooked. One has to appreciate how, in the right light, at a precise angle and from the correct distance 'stuff' such as rust, mould, weather stains and shadows on corrugated iron, can and do, make beautiful patterns. Very fine work.

Kate Elsey also offers fine works of the painted kind. Texture and colour too is exploited to create a mood or suggest a feeling. By employing a variety of media, which is splashed, layered, etched, scraped and painted onto large canvases, the artist evokes half formed objects and ideas for us to extrapolate and formulate our own imagery. I was captivated by Alone, No Dialogue and Peace for its ghostly figure washed in 'white' and echoing colours from a multitude of underlying layers of medium.

Unfortunately we discovered the gallery late in the day and could only quickly cruise through the place. The fact that we were so impressed with just a cursory perusal speaks well for all the work on display. You can be sure Silver Room will be on our 'gallery run' map for more frequent and lingering visits.