ACMI
Fed Square, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
03 8663 2200
Open daily 10am–5pm.
See our website for latest information.
ACMI is your museum of screen culture. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art with us. Located in the heart of Melbourne’s Fed Square, ACMI celebrates the wonder and power of the world’s most democratic artform – fostering the next generation of makers, players and watchers. ACMI’s vibrant calendar of exhibitions, screenings, commissions, festivals, and industry and education programs explore the stories, technologies and artists that create our shared screen culture.
16 December 2022—19 February
How I See It: Blak Art and Film Essie Coffey, Destiny Deacon, Amrita Hepi, Jazz Money, Steven Rhall, Joel Sherwood Spring, Jarra Karalinar Steel, Peter Waples-Crowe
Spanning moving image, installation, documentary, photography and video games, How I See It amplifies the artists and filmmakers’ perspectives on representation, the gaze, colonial archives and knowledge systems. These eight creators consider how First Peoples have been historically represented on our screens as they also imagine alternate realities and futures. The exhibition showcases works that use diverse materials and ideas to disrupt and reimagine, as well as expand the artists’ practice, supporting experimentation with new technologies and mediums.
How I See It, is curated by Kate ten Buuren (Taungurung).
Alcaston Gallery
84 William Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
03 8849 9668
Open by appointment.
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1 February—10 March
All About Art 2023 Annual Collectors’ Exhibition
Anna Schwartz Gallery
185 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
Tue to Fri 12noon–5pm, Sat 1pm–5pm.
11 February—15 April
Inside Out Callum Morton
18 March—15 April
Working Title: Working Models Rose Nolan
Art Gallery of Ballarat
40 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat VIC 3350 [Map 1]
03 5320 5858
Open daily 10am–5pm.
5 November 2022–19 February
Beating About The Bush: A new lens on Australian Impressionism
The Gallery’s amazing collection of paintings by Roberts, Streeton, McCubbin and other Heidelberg School artists are placed alongside works by contemporary Australian female photographers who are challenging traditional views on gender, the bush and nationalism.
Until 5 February
Time traveller Murray Walker
An exhibition featuring collage and assemblage works by one of Australia’s most respected senior artists Murray Walker, documenting his life and travels.
Until 5 February
Streets of your town Bren Luke
Ballarat artist Bren Luke creates extraordinarily detailed pen drawings. This exhibition features some Ballarat landmarks and some hidden corners of the city including laneways, mid-century buildings.
Until 22 January
Under the black flag
A selection of pirate themed works from the gallery collection.
ArtSpace at Realm and Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery
ArtSpace at Realm:
179 Maroondah Highway, Ringwood, VIC 3134 [Map 4]
03 9298 4553
Mon to Fri 9am–8pm, Sat & Sun 10am–5pm.
Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery: 32 Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood, VIC 3134 [Map 4]
03 9298 4553
Mon to Fri 9am–5pm.
26 November 2022—5 February
ArtSpace at Realm: Of Embers
James Tylor and Rebecca Selleck, Katrin Koenning, Isabella Capezio and Tom Goldner.
The Australian bushfires of 2019–2020 are still smoking in the mind. Of Embers brings together photographs, sculptures, videos and ceramics that respond to this episode and the cultural status of fire in Australia. James Tylor and Rebecca Selleck’s Fire Country installation speaks to an awareness that fire has always been here and exists within a totality of deep ecological and cultural time, folded into Indigenous knowledge and experience over millennia. Katrin Koenning’s photographs phrase an earthen poetics seen in the polarities of ash and snow found in Lake Mountain. Tom Goldner’s photographs to visualise the paradoxical status of both brumby and fire in the landscape and human imagination, while Isabella Capezio’s assemblage of photographs, videos, found and made objects addresses the slippage between image and a multi-sensorial experience of fire.
16 January—10 March
Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery: OMISSION
Ciaran Frame and Amber Cronin
Emptiness is generative. In the act of making, space – that which is in between – activates production. OMISSION is a new co-authored collection of works by Ciaran Frame and Amber Cronin, combining the fields of sound, composition and object making. The work explores how ideas of ‘atmospheric engagement’ might become a leitmotif for the conception of a more-than-human future. OMISSION critiques the apparent emptiness of the breathing sphere, and through performative interventions (vocals, breathing, singing, sound objects) interacts with the often neglected medium of air, exploring the materiality, affective agency and intertwining aliveness of the planetary atmosphere.
16 January—10 March
In/Visible Persephone Thacker
Existing while fat is a constant contradiction. It’s a difficult blend of being hyper-visible and completely overlooked. Persephone Thacker’s exhibition of textiles and illustrations draws on the concept of ‘hidden in plain sight’. In/Visible bolsters fat representation and shares the experience of unlearning a lifetime of internalised fatphobia. By creating wearable forms, the artist enacts acceptance and reclamation of their body, space and self; subverting the contradictory nature of fatness and becoming wholly and unapologetically visible.
Ararat Gallery TAMA
82 Vincent Street, Ararat, 3377 [Map 1]
03 5355 0220
Open daily 10am—4pm.
Established in 1968, Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Art Museum Australia) holds a unique place amongst Australia’s public galleries, through its longstanding commitment to textile and fibre art. A curatorial and collection focus that began in the early 1970s. The TAMA Collection is an extraordinary repository that tracks the development of textile and fibre-based practice from this time, through to today.
1 November 2022—19 March
The Lady Barbara Grimwade Collection
1 November 2022—5 February
Carole Mules
1 November 2022—26 February
Notions of Care
A Bus Projects exhibition touring with NETS Victoria.
ARC ONE Gallery
45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
03 9650 0589
Wed to Sat 11am–5pm, Tues by appointment.
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30 November 2022—4 February
On Space Lydia Wegner
8 February—5 March
Group Exhibition
Arts Project Australia
Level 1, Collingwood Yards, 35 Johnston Street, Collingwood VIC 3066 [Map 3]
0477 211 699
Wed to Fri 11am–5pm, Sat & Sun 12noon–4pm
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We are a creative social enterprise that supports artists with intellectual disabilities, promotes their work and advocates for their inclusion in contemporary art practice. Arts Project Australia has aimed high since 1974 when we set out to lead and innovate in the arts and disability sectors. Over Art Project Australia’s history, the quality of our exhibitions and artwork created in our studio has flourished, fed by a range of innovative programs and activities.
4 February—12 March
Still Life
Arts Project Australia presents , bringing together a suite of paintings, drawings,
