Federation University Post Office Gallery

The Post Office Gallery is committed to providing an outstanding educational resource and presenting an innovative exhibition programme, encouraging diverse audiences while creating strong links with the local and broader community.

The Gallery’s changing exhibition program features a broad range of work by Federation University’s Arts Academy students and staff, local, emerging and internationally recognised Australian contemporary artists and recent acquisitions from Federation University’s extensive Permanent Art Collection.

Post Office Gallery is a a vibrant, evolving centre for the creation and presentation of contemporary art, and a unique learning and teaching facility, which also provides the opportunity for mentoring of visual arts students in professional gallery and museum practice.

Admission: Always free
Disabled access

Federation University Post Office Gallery

Federation University Australia Library, Camp Street campus, Cnr Sturt & Lydiard Street Nth, Ballarat,

03 5327 8615

federation.edu.au/pogallery

Mon to Sun 10pm–5pm,
Tue by appointment.
See our website for latest information.

Federation University Post Office Gallery

Exhibitions

Reveal: Works from the Permanent Collection

Reveal: Works from the Permanent Collection

65,000 Years brings truth telling to art history

65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.

Jane O'Sullivan

Oslo Davis reimagines art terms

In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.

Oslo Davis

The major exhibitions open in each capital city this summer

With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.

Art Guide Australia

From here to infinity with Yayoi Kusama

Ahead of the National Gallery of Victoria’s major retrospective on singular Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, we invited four artists to respond to the influence of Kusama on their own practice—and meditate on what her work means to them.

Art Guide Australia

The immersive storytelling of Leah King-Smith

rhythm wRites, a new exhibition at QUT Art Museum, spans 30 years of Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith’s manifold art practice, covering painting, photography, sound and animation.

Briony Downes

Julie Mehretu and the new contemporary

Julie Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in the southern hemisphere, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to harness the urgency and energy of the Ethiopian-born New Yorker’s multilayered painting practice.

Courtney Kidd