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

www.niagaragalleries.com.au

Wed to Sat 12am – 5pm
or by appointment.

Exhibitions

Paul Boston

15 Nov - 16 Dec

Melbourne Art Fair: Ebony Truscott

22 Feb - 25 Feb

Julia Ciccarone: Lifting the Veil

21 Feb - 16 Mar

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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

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

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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

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It’s a Horror Show

Horror is where the marginalised can see themselves—as a horror-themed exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art reveals.

Sally Gearon

Opinion

When being an artist is a working title

What happens, asks artist Caitlin Shearer, when the starving artist trope becomes all too real, alienating artists from their practice, health and happiness?

Caitlin Aloisio Shearer

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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.

Niagara Galleries