Scratch Art Space

Scratch Art Space provides a platform for recent fine art graduates & early career artists to build careers through professional practice opportunities, exhibitions, and network support. We have a Gallery, Art Studios, and an Atelier for skills-based art workshops and courses.

We’re here to cultivate community and artist networks through creative engagement opportunities through our education and exhibition programs. In return the community provides sustainable employment, sales and valuable networks for artists working in Sydney’s Inner West.

Located in Marrickville we’re close to Sydenham Train Station and the Inner West bus routes, with plenty of street parking.

Scratch Art Space is an artist initiative founded and managed by Artist Carmel Byrne.

Scratch Art Space

67 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville NSW, Australia

9557 0582

https://www.scratchartspace.com

Thu to Sun 12noon–5pm or by appointment.

Preview

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

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Stranger than fiction: Magritte and Cao Fei

In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.

Sally Gearon

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The undeniable power of Josina Pumani’s Maralinga

Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.

Jessica Alderton

In Pictures

A conversation between past and present

An exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane sheds a new light on Brisbane’s history, presenting a significant historical archive of photography alongside contemporary artists responding to the original source material.

Art Guide Australia

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Present moments at the Gold Coast Triennial

Now showing at Home of the Arts (HOTA), the sophomore Gold Coast Triennial, Here and Now, brings together 42 contemporary artists to represent the depth and dynamism of the city’s artistic community.

Sally Gearon

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Self reflections with Jack Ball

In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.

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