Stanley Street Gallery

Stanley Street Gallery is a multi-disciplinary exhibition space situated in the heart of Darlinghurst Sydney. Presenting critical and experimental work, they seek to give space to innovative and diverse practices that contribute to the local and international arts communities.

Founded by Liza Feeney and Merilyn Bailey in 2012, Stanley Street Gallery has developed a reputation for championing early career artists and curators in the commercial gallery sector.

Stanley Street Gallery

1/52-54 Stanley Street Darlinghurst NSW 2010

02 9368 1142

stanleystreetgallery.com.au

Thu to Sat 11am–5pm,
or by appointment.
See our website for latest information.

Feature

Sophie Penkethman-Young’s Scroll Play

Sophie Penkethman-Young dives into the cursed, chaotic and charming depths of the online world to create inquisitive artworks exploring technology, the internet and capitalism with humour.

Michelle Wang

Studio

Monica Rani Rudhar on (be)longing

Step inside Monica Rani Rudhar’s space at Parramatta Artists Studios, where she works across ceramics, sculpture, video, performance, and latterly, public art. Rudhar is working towards her solo exhibition at Martin Browne Contemporary, while reflecting on the value of play, how imitation leads to authenticity, and why she’d be lost without her sketchbook.

Jo Higgins

Feature

Chinese Restaurant Playground: Steffie Yee shares off-menu stories

Steffie Yee spent many years gathering stories and images of her family’s history in the town of Branxton, NSW where her parents successfully ran a Chinese restaurant. Yee’s solo exhibition Chinese Restaurant Playground, which celebrates playfulness and joy, recently opened at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.

Jasmeet Kaur Sahi

News

Julie Fragar wins the 2025 Archibald Prize

Congratulations to Julie Fragar, who has won the 2025 Archibald Prize for Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), her portrait of fellow artist and colleague Justene Williams.

Art Guide Australia

Preview

Gordon Hookey is effecting change

Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey has been creating artwork for more than three decades. Describing his style as pictograms of a scenario, with images and symbols connecting a sprawling narrative, Hookey’s work, which is now showing at Plimsoll Gallery, is imbued with elements of activism, pop culture and lived experience.

Briony Downes

Feature

Generation, making and exchange in Queer Territory

In Queer Territory at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curator Maurice O’Riordan has drawn together diverse works from the 1980s to the present day to present a snapshot of queer practice in the Territory.

Stanley Street Gallery

Stanley Street Gallery

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