John Curtin College of the Arts is named after one of Australia‘s greatest Prime Ministers. The site on which the college is built was used in many ways prior to the construction of buildings in the 1

The first significant use of the site was by the Nyungar people who lived near the Swan River before European Settlement.

Fremantle’s first official cemetery was on land that is now the college oval. The cemetery was established in 1852 and used until 1899 when it was decommissioned.