Gallery sights in Melbourne
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City Lights Projects
Melbourne’s rep for street art is not just a recent thing. The City Lights Project has been shining away for over a decade. Lightboxes are installed in a small alcove off Centre Place (look for the creperie, then down the alley opposite) and along Hosier Lane (also famous for its densely applied stencil work). Local and international artists make use of the illuminated minigalleries; view them 24/7. The project’s main man Andrew Mac has also opened a more traditional gallery space, Until Never; it highlights underground artists and is an interesting bridge between the two scenes.
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Christine Abrahams Gallery
This airy commercial gallery shows a mix of well-established, interesting local and national artists. These include iconic photographer Wolfgang Sievers and ceramicist Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, as well as midcareer sculptor Bronwyn Oliver and painter Matthew Johnson. There is a works on paper and ceramics room, and a large stockroom with a rack storage system that allows additional works to be viewed by visitors.
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Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi
Gabrielle Pizzi, one of Australia’s most respected dealers of indigenous art, ran this Flinders Lane stalwart from the 1980s until her death in 2004. Her daughter has continued her work and shows contemporary city-based artists such as Julie Gough and Leah King-Smith, as well as traditional artists from the communities of Balgo Hills, Papunya, Utopia, Maningrida, Haasts Bluff, and the Tiwi Islands.
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Alcaston Gallery
Set in an imposing boom-style terrace, the Alcaston’s focus is on living indigenous artists. The gallery works directly with communities and is particularly attentive to cultural sensitivities; it shows a wide range of styles from traditional work to contemporary artists. There’s also a space dedicated to works on paper.
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Uplands Gallery
Uplands space is hard to find, but that’s part of the appeal. The gallery shows both emerging and established artists, and while being taken increasingly seriously by collectors, loves to push boundaries. With past shows entitled Big Dirty Love and The Fucking Weird Show, you get the picture.
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National Design Centre
The rather ambitiously named NDC (it’s actually a privately run affair) comprises a retail shop and the ShowBox gallery space, and showcases excellent work from local and international designers. The centre also hosts workshops and events, including the annual Melbourne Design Festival, held in July.
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Westspace
One of Melbourne’s oldest artist-run galleries, Westspace has a varied exhibition program. It’s on the 1st floor of a 1940s’ light-industrial building and features young and emerging artists working in a range of mediums from traditional forms to digital technologies and installation.
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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
The ACCA is one of Australia's most exciting and challenging contemporary galleries. Shows include work specially commissioned for the space. The gallery shows a range of local and international artists. The building is fittingly sculptural, with a deeply rusted exterior evoking the factories that once stood on the site, and a slick, soaring, ever-adapting interior designed to house often massive installations. From Flinders Street Station walk across Princes Bridge and along St Kilda Rd. Turn right at Grant St then left to Sturt St.
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Anna Schwartz Gallery
Redoubtable Anna Schwartz keeps some of the city’s most respected contemporary artists in her stable, as well as representing midcareer names from around the country. The gallery is your standard white cube – the work is often fiercely conceptual.
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Utopian Slumps
One of the newest nonprofit art spaces, the Slumps has a recherché backstreet location and loads of attitude. Installation is king here, plus the gallery hosts dance parties and other events; check the website for details.
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Sutton Gallery
This gallery is housed in a simple, unassuming warehouse space entered off Greeves St. It’s known for championing challenging new work and represents artists such as Nick Mangan, Helga Groves, Gordon Bennett and Lindy Lee.
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Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
This is one of Melbourne’s most exciting galleries. Sixteen studios promote emerging contemporary artists and the temporary exhibitions regularly provoke critical debate.
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Über Gallery
This commercial contemporary gallery exhibits work in a variety of mediums. A cerebral pit stop on the hedonist’s highway that is Fitzroy St.
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Linden Art Centre & Gallery
The Linden Art Centre & Gallery has contemporary art and a sculpture garden for children.
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