No Vacancy Gallery

No Vacancy is your local gallery, cafe and events home in Melbourne.

Established in 2008, No Vacancy is an independent gallery, cafe and events space located in the heart of Melbourne, who offer a platform for artists and creators at all stages of their careers.

No Vacancy support and deliver a diversity of creative projects including, but not limited to exhibitions, festivals, fashion shows, performances, workshops and product launches.

The No Vacancy Gallery and Café are wheelchair accessible.

No Vacancy Gallery

34-40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne VIC, Australia

info@no-vacancy.com.au

no-vacancy.com.au

Mon to Fri 8am–4pm
Sat 10am–4pm

(coffee till 3:30 on days where open)

Preview

Time scales

The theme for the 10th iteration of Parrtjima, the Aboriginal festival of light that takes place annually in the Northern Territory, is ‘timelessness’. The festival aims to reflect Indigenous culture and beliefs: both ancient knowledge and contemporary concerns.

Barnaby Smith

In Pictures

Inside the heart of African-Australian communities

In a new photography exhibition at the Immigration Museum, Nigerian-Australian photographer Dr Ayooluwatomiwa ‘Ibukun’ Oloruntoba is exploring what it means to be African-Australian, while highlighting the importance of culturally safe spaces for diasporic communities in Australia.

Art Guide Australia

Opinion

Of art and appetites

Artists have long been consumed with what we eat, seen appetites as a metaphor for nourishment and vulnerability. But as Lee Tran Lam finds out, the new wave of collaborations between the worlds of art and food signals a growing cultural desire to break down barriers—and forge new connections in unexpected ways.

Lee Tran Lam

Feature

Creating Culture: introducing the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair

The Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair debuts in partnership with the Melbourne Art Fair this weekend, offering a special preview of new and recent artworks from 37 Koorie artists and designers.

Maya Hodge

Feature

Amanda Bell makes light work

Amanda Bell’s poignant new commission for the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts transforms the heaviness of history and unsettles hierarchies of place.

Claire G. Coleman

Preview

Colour mapping

The National Gallery of Australia’s latest Know My Name exhibition presents the work of Australian fashion pioneers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson alongside pieces by Sonia Delauney, tracing the French artist and designer’s influential use of colour and light.

No Vacancy Gallery

No Vacancy Gallery

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