Backwoods Gallery

Backwoods Gallery opened in the back streets of Collingwood in 2010 with the purpose of exhibiting contemporary art by emerging artists from Australia and around the world. Backwoods was founded by members of the Everfresh Studio and 25 Easey St community.

Over the last 14 years our founders and the collective of artists we represent have grown in their artistic practises – from beginnings in the local graffiti and street art scene into the contemporary art world shown in galleries and public spaces around the globe.

Backwoods Gallery

level 1/25 Easey Street, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia

03 9041 3606

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Thu to Sun 12noon–6pm.
See our website for latest information.

Exhibitions

Return of the Time Bandit

Matt Blue

7 Feb - 7 Mar

Featherbed

Morgan Blue

13 Dec - 2 Feb

Book Reviews

65,000 Years brings truth telling to art history

65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.

Jane O'Sullivan

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Oslo Davis reimagines art terms

In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.

Oslo Davis

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The major exhibitions open in each capital city this summer

With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.

Art Guide Australia

Preview

Emma Phillips on the building blocks of a practice

Emma Phillips has a knack for catching moments of unbridled humanity. In her latest exhibition at ReadingRoom, she shines a light on the breadth of her practice, amalgamating several projects from the last decade.

Josephine Mead

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NGV’s Reko Rennie retrospective asks whether he should be considered Australia’s Keith Haring

First Nations artist Reko Rennie possesses the gift of creating memorable images that are simultaneously puzzling, intriguing and entertaining.

Sasha Grishin

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Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.

Backwoods Gallery

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Exhibitions