‘When property owners have vision’: the artists bringing a derelict hotel back from the dead

A former sailors’ haunt has been reimagined by more than 40 creatives for the closing weekend of the Fremantle biennaleGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailMaking my way up a creaky, carpeted staircase, I step into what feels like a different world – a building I’ve passed hundreds of times, yet never set foot in. I am standing on the first level of Fremantle’s former P&O hotel, and am immediately taken aback by its weathered, almost cinematic beauty: tall stain