Meat Market’s Stables

Meat Market has come a long way since its early days as the centre of Melbourne’s wholesale meat trade in 1880. Now a hub for creative arts and cultural events, Meat Market houses a list of talented creative industry professionals and facilitates Melbourne’s hottest events.

Boasting a variety of versatile spaces, Meat Market houses the hottest creative events in Melbourne. Located just north of Melbourne CBD, we’re a hub for arts, performances, exhibitions, festivals, markets and fairs.

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Meat Market’s Stables

2 Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne VIC, Australia

03 9329 9966

meatmarket.org.au

Opening hours determined by current exhibitions and events.

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New year, new Artspace

Three years and $19m later, Sydney’s newly redeveloped, and much beloved, Artspace opens with a new look, and a new focus on artist residencies and studio programs.

Andrew Stephens

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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

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The art books we loved in 2023

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Art Guide Editors

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The women raised by wolves

From crones to witches to grandmothers, the feminine monstrosity offered by fairy tales is an antidote to our current, unsatisfying forms of female transgression—as a new exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art reveals.

Neha Kale

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Unboxing the cultural impact of sneakers

Sneakers are a cultural phenomenon made up of paradoxes. Some see them as an accessible and inclusive force in fashion that serve as an outlet of self-expression for many; yet to others they are a symbol of out-of-control consumerism. Two Queensland exhibitions are embracing these dualities, though from contrasting angles: Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street at HOTA on the Gold Coast, and Torsion at Brisbane’s Metro Arts.

Barnaby Smith

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Nathan Maynard’s act of repatriation

For Hobart Current Biennale, Nathan Maynard has created Relics Act—a project involving a volunteer’s willing sacrifice of their future deceased body on Lutruwita Country, which is how Maynard met 71-year-old Tony.

Meat Market’s Stables

Meat Market’s Stables

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