Australian Galleries – Derby Street

Since its beginning in 1956, Australian Galleries has continued to showcase significant contemporary Australian artists and their work for 60 years with a vibrant monthly exhibition program and extensive stock gallery.

National Director Stuart Purves, along with his dynamic team, continues to strengthen and diversify the thriving enterprise started in Melbourne by his parents. The success of Australian Galleries is a reflection of the passion and commitment to the artists it represents. Stuart Purves’ personal dedication and enthusiasm to the promotion of the arts in Australia is indicative of his confidence in the important role visual art plays in the national and international psyche.

Australian Galleries – Derby Street

35 Derby Street Collingwood VIC 3066

03 9417 4303

www.australiangalleries.com.au

Open 7 days 10am to 6pm

Exhibitions

Summer Group Exhibition

12 Dec - 27 Jan

Melbourne Stock Room Gallery: Teaspoon Colony

Simon Normand

Group Show

Jenny Rodgerson

John Nixon: A Poet of Prints

Known as a great avant-garde painter, the late John Nixon also created hundreds of prints—which, as those who knew Nixon can attest, exemplify his minimalism, experimentalism, and his interlacing of life and art. John Nixon—Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints is currently on display at Geelong Gallery.

Autumn Royal

Feature

The art books we loved in 2023

Whether scouting the perfect gift or searching for a summer read, our editors have picked their top art books of 2023—spanning everything from a history of ceramics, women and spiritualism, and First Nations practices.

Art Guide Editors

Feature

Tacita Dean’s strange fortune

Since the early 1990s, British artist Tacita Dean has gifted us myriad artworks on the intimacy, unexpectedness, and materiality of film and image making. With a new survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, we look at Dean’s tracing of history and chance.

Isabella Trimboli

Studio

Inside Kirtika Kain’s Sydney apartment, and now studio

Kirtika Kain’s Western Sydney apartment on Dharug Country is crowded with boxes of materials and new canvases. She came back from a residency in Italy in late 2022 and since then she’s been living alongside her work, preparing for her solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 and for the Biennale of Sydney next year. The cohabitation has been intense and sometimes messy, but Kain says studio life is teaching her new confidence.

Jane O'Sullivan

Feature

Women In Still Life

As representations of contemporary life, especially the domestic and intimate, continue to be meaningful, the still life genre endures—as 16 women artists attest in a new show at Bett Gallery.

Briony Downes

Feature

Photography: Real and Imagined at the NGV – a huge and dazzling exhibition that reexamines our thinking

Photography is almost 200 years old and Photography: Real and Imagined at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) can be interpreted as an attempt to make sense of its history.

Australian Galleries – Derby Street