Bus Projects

Bus Projects is an artist-run organisation dedicated to supporting the critical, conceptual and interdisciplinary practices of Australian artists. In addition to its core gallery-based program of exhibitions, events and residencies, Bus Projects collaborates with a range of artists and arts organisations to produce projects off-site and within the public realm.

After twenty-two years of operation, Bus Projects is one of the longest-running artist-run initiatives (ARIs) in Narrm Melbourne and has made a significant contribution to the vibrancy and diversity of the city’s arts culture.

In 2023, Bus Projects relocated to its new home in Brunswick East at 7 Little Miller Street. The new stand-alone space houses two gallery spaces.

Bus Projects

7 Little Miller Street, Brunswick East VIC 3057, Australia

busprojects.com.au

Wed–Fri 12–6pm
Sat 12–4pm

Studio

Monica Rani Rudhar on (be)longing

Step inside Monica Rani Rudhar’s space at Parramatta Artists Studios, where she works across ceramics, sculpture, video, performance, and latterly, public art. Rudhar is working towards her solo exhibition at Martin Browne Contemporary, while reflecting on the value of play, how imitation leads to authenticity, and why she’d be lost without her sketchbook.

Jo Higgins

Feature

Chinese Restaurant Playground: Steffie Yee shares off-menu stories

Steffie Yee spent many years gathering stories and images of her family’s history in the town of Branxton, NSW where her parents successfully ran a Chinese restaurant. Yee’s solo exhibition Chinese Restaurant Playground, which celebrates playfulness and joy, recently opened at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.

Jasmeet Kaur Sahi

Preview

Wang Zhiyuan and our roles as little dictators

In an era of information excess and manipulation, Wang Zhiyuan’s Dictator Training Centre exhibiting at Passage Gallery, reminds us of contemporary art’s potential as an open-ended platform for reflection, dialogue, and shared authorship.

Michelle Wang

Feature

Generation, making and exchange in Queer Territory

In Queer Territory at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curator Maurice O’Riordan has drawn together diverse works from the 1980s to the present day to present a snapshot of queer practice in the Territory.

Josephine Mead

Preview

Pia Murphy’s natural discoveries

Pia Murphy leans into curiosity for her latest exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery. Look What I Found is “referring to that experience in childhood of discovering surprising things in nature.” It’s a methodology Murphy uses in her practice, working with the sole intention of honest discovery.

Sally Gearon

Interview

Julie Fragar on “painting in the first person”

With a current survey exhibition at Rockhampton Museum of Art chronicling 23 years of painting and photography, Julie Fragar talks about creative influences and what it’s like to observe a Supreme Court murder trial.

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