Niagara Galleries

Established in 1978, Niagara is one of the leading contemporary galleries in Australia. The gallery represents over 45 artists from around the world including painters, printmakers, sculptors, ceramacists, photographers and multi-media and installation based artists.

Originally located in Niagara Lane in Melbourne’s CBD, Niagara Galleries has occupied 245 Punt Road in Richmond since 1984. Since its inception, the goal of the gallery has been to exhibit outstanding and important contemporary art.

The gallery, through its annual Blue Chip exhibitions has played an important role in rediscovering artists like Ralph Balson, Grace Cossington-Smith, Clarice Beckett, Helen Maudsley, Tony Tuckson and Ian Fairweather amongst others.

Niagara Galleries

245 Punt Road Richmond VIC 3121

03 9429 3666

niagaragalleries.com.au

Wed to Fri 12noon–5pm,
Sat 10am–5pm,
or by appointment.

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The rhythm of creating

In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.

Sally Gearon

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The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect.

Michael Sun

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Scaling new heights

A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.

Michelle Wang

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Ellen Dahl creates a dialogue between places

In her latest exhibition at THIS IS NO FANTASY, Ellen Dahl presents works from an ongoing photographic series that has captured many sites—from the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard to Tasmania—creating a dialogue between works that center place.

Sally Gearon

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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.

Jennifer Yang

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The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

Niagara Galleries