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 – Sun: 12noon – 5pm / or by appointment.

Preview

The spirit of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Country

A comprehensive new survey at the National Gallery of Australia pays tribute to Emily Kam Kngwarray and the Country she loved.

Andrew Stephens

Feature

The women raised by wolves

From crones to witches to grandmothers, the feminine monstrosity offered by fairy tales is an antidote to our current, unsatisfying forms of female transgression—as a new exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art reveals.

Neha Kale

Studio

Inside Kirtika Kain’s Sydney apartment, and now studio

Kirtika Kain’s Western Sydney apartment on Dharug Country is crowded with boxes of materials and new canvases. She came back from a residency in Italy in late 2022 and since then she’s been living alongside her work, preparing for her solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 and for the Biennale of Sydney next year. The cohabitation has been intense and sometimes messy, but Kain says studio life is teaching her new confidence.

Jane O'Sullivan

In Pictures

Salote Tawale explores memory, identity, and karaoke

In her first major solo exhibition, now showing at Carriageworks, Salote Tawale brings together painting, sculpture, and karaoke in an expansive installation that explores identity and memory.

Art Guide Australia

Feature

Nathan Maynard’s act of repatriation

For Hobart Current Biennale, Nathan Maynard has created Relics Act—a project involving a volunteer’s willing sacrifice of their future deceased body on Lutruwita Country, which is how Maynard met 71-year-old Tony.

Steve Dow

Feature

The spiritual science of Sundari Carmody

From the dark matter that holds the universe together to the smallest of seeds, Sundari Carmody’s art connects the cosmos with the intimate, as a new exhibition at GAGPROJECTS shows.

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