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Factory 49
Factory 49 is an artist run Showroom that presents contemporary abstraction (non-objective) art, showcases solo shows, changing every two weeks.
This artist run initiative is one of many in Sydney. Match Box Projects has created the Sydney ARI Guide, a map and web guide to bring focus to Sydney’s ...
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Carriageworks
The Eveleigh Rail Yards were built between 1880 and 1889, including the now heritage listed Carriage Workshops. These arresting buildings are considered one of the best examples of railway workshop complexes and house within them, the history of Australia's major rail network and the thousands of Sydneysiders that worked ...
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James Dorahy Project Space
Opened in July 2006, James Dorahy Project Space is an exciting art forum committed to the presentation of innovative forms of contemporary art.
The gallery features the work of emerging and mid career artists who present work in a wide range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture and photography that ...
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National Art School Gallery
The NAS Gallery situated on the National Art School campus has a lively exhibition program featuring multi-discipline group and solo exhibitions by Australian and international artists, including the end of year showcase of graduating students.
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Boutwell Draper Gallery
Established in 2001, Boutwell Draper Gallery is committed to the promotion of both emerging and established contemporary artists. The artists shown in the gallery work in a broad range of media, from painting and photography to sculpture, installation, video and digital arts.
Susan Boutwell grew up in Duseldorf (Germany) and ...
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Charles Hewitt Gallery
Charles Hewitt, Director of the Charles Hewitt Gallery has been connected with the art world for over 40 years. During this time he has worked together with collectors, artists and galleries all over Australia. At their premises on South Dowling Street, Darlinghurst, Charles Hewitt Gallery represents a young and emerging ...
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GRANTPIRRIE
Opened by Bridget Pirrie and Stephen Grant in 2002, GRANTPIRRIE has established itself as a leading venue for the presentation of contemporary art in Sydney and Australia. The Gallery’s core exhibition program showcases a broad spectrum of contemporary practice across diverse media, and cultural and conceptual foundations.
GRANTPIRRIE is ...
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Utopia Art Sydney
Utopia Art Sydney is committed to the representation of a small group of Australian artists. These include leading members of Papunya Tula Artists, Gloria Petyarre from Utopia and non-indigenous artists from Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Utopia Art Sydney's reputation as one of the leading Aboriginal art galleries owes much ...
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Wilson Street Gallery
Wilson Street Gallery
30-34 Wilson Street Newtown (near Erskineville Rd)
Wilson Street Gallery sits in the centre of vibrant Newtown, a hub of visual and performing arts. Since 2008, the gallery has shown work by contemporary Australian artists whose skill and intellectual depth reflect their passion. They treat us to ...
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Dominik Mersch Gallery
Dominik Mersch Gallery hosts a programme of exhibitions including works by emerging, mid-career and senior Australian artists, whose works are appear in international collections.
The gallery supports challenging artists that are at the forefront of contemporary art practice. In addition to hosting exhibitions, the gallery programme comprises of lectures, concerts ...
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Brenda May Gallery
Brenda May established Access Gallery in Sydney in 1985 to support emerging Australian artists. The Gallery moved to the Danks Street complex when it opened in 2001 and currently represents a small group of artists with whom it has had a long association, including Robert Boynes, Jim Croke, Sybil Curtis ...
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King Street Gallery on William
King Street Gallery on William maintains a focus on emerging and mid-career Australian artists. They represent a regular stable of artists who exhibit, on average, once every 18-22 months. Theie artists work across all mediums; paintings, works on paper, limited edition prints, sculpture, mixed media and installations.
Additionally, King Street ...
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Annette Larkin Fine Art
Since 2006, Annette Larkin Fine Art has provided specialist services to collectors of contemporary, indigenous and modern art. With unsurpassed expertise in dealing in secondary market contemporary Australian art, Annette Larkin Fine Art provides tailored advice and services in all aspects of purchasing, valuing and collection management.
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Since 1982, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery has been committed to the advancement of the most serious and innovative forms of contemporary art.
Through its exhibition program the gallery has supported work that is challenging and at the forefront of contemporary art practice. The gallery has always featured new work in a ...
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Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) was established in April 2008 as a not-for-profit organisation to champion research, education and exhibitions of significant and innovative contemporary art from Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
The two-decades long experience of developing Sherman Galleries as a respected commercial and educational enterprise within ...
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Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art
Located in Sydney's art precinct, Paddington, Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art exhibits and represents emerging and established contemporary artists.
The focus of the gallery is to exhibit artists who are both progressive and stimulating, and to curate group exhibitions to demonstrate the high standard of contemporary art today.
The partnership ...
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Australian Centre for Photography
The Australian Centre for Photography is a not-for-profit organization that promotes photomedia-based art in Australia. It is also the longest running contemporary art space in Australia, with over 35 years of exhibiting experience.
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Gallery Barry Keldoulis
At Gallery Barry Keldoulis, contemporary art is a marriage of ideas and aesthetics. The gallery works closely with artists, encouraging their ambitious projects and promoting them around the globe.
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Brett Whiteley Studio
The Brett Whiteley Studio was the workplace and home of Australian artist, Brett Whiteley (1939‑92).
The artist bought the former warehouse in 1985 and converted it into a studio and exhibition space. He lived there from 1988 to 1992, the year he died in Thirroul.
The visitor is offered ...
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MOP Projects
MOP is an artist-run-initiative gallery open since 2003. This artist run initiative is one of many in Sydney. Match Box Projects has created the Sydney ARI Guide, a map and web guide to bring focus to Sydney’s artist run initiatives.
Link here: Artist Run Initiatives Map
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Shapiro Gallery
Andrew Shapiro is Managing Director of Shapiro Auctioneers Australia and Shapiro Gallery. His career in the auction industry spans 30 years, from bases in New York, London and Sydney.
In 1984, Mr Shapiro joined Phillips New York, where he established his reputation as a leading specialist in 19th and 20th ...
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Josef Lebovic Gallery
The Josef Lebovic Gallery in Sydney, specialises in Australian and international vintage works on paper and photographs dating from the 15th to 20th century. With a new exhibition about every eight weeks, the Josef Lebovic Gallery is committed to maintaining the highest professional standards.
Their exhibitions focus on both individual ...
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Peloton
Peloton is an artist run initiative. This artist run initiative is one of many in Sydney. Match Box Projects has created the Sydney ARI Guide, a map and web guide to bring focus to Sydney’s artist run initiatives. Link here: Artist Run Initiatives Map
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Iain Dawson Gallery
Operating since July 2008, Iain Dawson Gallery focuses on presenting the best emerging Australian artists. A boutique, micro gallery, IDG sources exciting, high calibre painters, sculptors, photographers and printmakers from across the country, showcasing only those demonstrating the highest potential for long term success and integrity.
Iain Dawson trained in ...
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UTS Gallery
UTS Gallery encourages UTS students, staff and the public to engage with visual art and design by providing a context for the enjoyment and wider understanding of contemporary practice. UTS Gallery was established in 1995 as a not-for-profit gallery dedicated to exhibiting emerging and established arts practitioners.
The gallery plays ...
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Rex Irwin Art Dealer
Rex Irwin Art Dealer was established in Sydney in 1976. The gallery represents important Australian and international artists, and has an exciting exhibition programme with a new exhibition every three to four weeks. The gallery supports and encourages emerging artists as well as established senior artists.
The gallery has an ...
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Conny Dietzschold Gallery
Established in 1989 in Cologne, Germany, Conny Dietzschold represents emerging, mid-career and established artists. The gallery features painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and new media.
The program of the gallery over the past fifteen years has covered international contemporary art, with a new focus on conceptual, concrete and constructive art.
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Powerhouse Museum
The Powerhouse Museum, part of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, presents exhibitions and programs based on the ideas and technologies that have changed our world, and the stories of the people who inspire and create them. Our purpose is to enable visitors to discover and be inspired by ...
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Martin Browne Fine Art
Martin Browne Fine Art is dedicated to showing the finest in Australian and International modern and contemporary works of art. The gallery combines a programme of new work by its exhibiting artists with curated exhibitions of selected works from the secondary market.
Complimenting its exhibition programme, Martin Browne Fine Art ...
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China Heights Gallery and Studios
China Heights Gallery is an artist run iniative. The third story warehouse venue houses both China Heights Gallery, and the Heights Studio (Several individual creatives working across fashion, fine arts, photography, publishing and design).
Directed and managed by Edward Woodley and Mark Drew, the independent space was built in early ...
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BREENSPACE
BREENSPACE is a contemporary art space in Sydney that connects Australian contemporary artists with curators, collectors and architects locally and internationally.
BREENSPACE responds to the shifts in contemporary art by supporting a range of artists who position processes as a central to their practice. Gallery artists include Ash Keating, Beata ...
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Australian Galleries: Roylston Street
Australian Galleries was established in Melbourne by Tam and Anne Purves in June 1956. Anne and Tam pioneered the professional exhibiting and marketing of contemporary art in Australia. From the beginning, their gallery developed a reputation for representing prominent Australian artists such as John Brack, John Olsen, Fred Williams and ...
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Australian Galleries: Glenmore Road
Australian Galleries was established in Melbourne by Tam and Anne Purves in June 1956. Anne and Tam pioneered the professional exhibiting and marketing of contemporary art in Australia. From the beginning, their gallery developed a reputation for representing prominent Australian artists such as John Brack, John Olsen, Fred Williams and ...
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NG Art Gallery
Situated in Chippendale's gallery precinct, NG Art Gallery provides a showcase for the very best in Australian contemporary art. Nicky Ginsberg has developed a thriving art dealership in Sydney, nurturing young talent and promoting the works of mid-career and established artists.
A tireless and enthusiastic supporter of the arts ...
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Harrison Galleries
Harrison Galleries is in Paddington, the art district of Sydney. The gallery was established in 2000 and has quickly developed into a dynamic and reputable commercial contemporary art gallery.
They are committed to the advancement of Australian contemporary art forms and theirmonthly exhibition program supports established and emerging artists in ...
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Chalk Horse
Chalk Horse is a contemporary emerging art gallery based in Surry Hills in Sydney, Australia. The gallery is run by four Directors and support staff, and works to produce an ongoing program of exhibitions and projects featuring artists from Sydney, interstate and overseas.
Chalk Horse also produces an annual catalogue ...
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S.H. Ervin Gallery
The S.H. Ervin Gallery is one of Sydney ’s leading public art institutions housed in the historic National Trust Centre on Observatory Hill, The Rocks in Sydney. The Gallery’s exhibition program is designed to explore the richness and diversity of Australian art, both historical and contemporary, and present ...
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4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is an initiative of the AsianAustralian Artists Association Inc. Since 1996, 4A has operated as a not for profitorganisation committed to promoting contemporary Asian art in Australia.
4A is dedicated to exploring the artistic dialogue that has evolved asAustralia’s cultural, political and economic ...
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Robin Gibson Gallery
Robin Gibson Gallery was established in 1976 and exhibits Australian painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography and drawing.
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Darren Knight Gallery
Darren Knight Gallery opened in Melbourne in September 1992 and relocated to Sydney in February 1997. The gallery is located on the corner of Elizabeth and Short Street, between the Sydney airport and the CBD.
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Damien Minton Gallery
Damien Minton Gallery is a commercial contemporary art gallery located in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern. The gallery exhibits artists who engage with the Australian cultural landscape.
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Tim Olsen Gallery
Tim Olsen Gallery’s move into the purpose designed premises on Jersey Road Woollahra marks a new an exciting chapter in the evolution of the gallery. After operating out of two significant galleries in Paddington and Woollahra the consolidation of the exhibition programme into one large venue allows our many ...
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Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay
Michael Reid Gallery has relocated from Redfern, to a large semi detached, four storey, double-fronted late Victorian terrace at 44 Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney.
With four storeys of a grand terrace at their command, they offer collectors a strong mix of rotating painting, sculpture and photography exhibitions—approximately eight ...
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Firstdraft
Firstdraft re-opens in March after closure for renovations with four new exhibitions from emerging artists and an amazing new gallery space. New Exhibition opens: Wednesday 3 March 2010, 6-8pm and continues to 21 March 2010.
Firstdraft is a non-profit gallery run on a voluntary basis by a group of practising ...
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Liverpool Street Gallery
Established in September 2003, Liverpool Street Gallery is a commercial gallery, exhibiting Australian and International contemporary art.
Directors James Erskine and Basil Scaffidi bring over four decades of collective expertise, knowledge and a shared passion for collecting contemporary art to Liverpool Street Gallery. The gallery also has a strong association ...
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Arthouse Gallery
Arthouse Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition of work by contemporary artists. The gallery was created with the intention of investing in the future of Australian art and supporting a dynamic group of artists.
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Aboriginal and Pacific Art
With over thirty years experience as a dealer in Aboriginal and Oceanic art, Gabriella Roy focuses on presenting contemporary art of the highest quality from communities in Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands, Western Australia and South Australia. She also specializes in sourcing rare historical bark paintings and sculptures
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Cross Art Projects
Cross Art Projects works collaboratively with artists, writers, curators and activists to cultivate contemporary art and curatorial practices that cross establishment grids and enable small-scale investigations.
Cross Art Projects work to the trope of crossing: artistic currents, disciplines, art and public issues and local affairs. The inflection is on shared ...
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Locksmith Project Space
Locksmith Project Space is a not-for-profit, artist-run initiative located on the border between Redfern and Alexandria in Sydney, Australia. The directorial committee consists of five young and emerging artists; Kenzee Patterson, Samuel Villalobos, Kenzie Larsen, Yasmin Smith and Rachel Fuller.
The program includes exhibitions, as well as experimental sound and ...
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Stills Gallery
STILLS is a leading Australian gallery with a focus on contemporary photography and multimedia art. The gallery, established in 1991, is housed in a converted warehouse with a large exhibition and printroom space in Paddington, Sydney's main gallery precinct. STILLS represents both emerging and established artists, and has a ...
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Artspace
The Artspace Sydney Visual Arts Centre is a leading international residency-based contemporary art centre, devoted to the development of new ideas and practices in contemporary art and culture. Each year, Artspace presents between 24 and 30 gallery projects, hosts over 50 artist residencies, initiates a range of public program and ...
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White Rabbit Collection
Australia’s largest private art museum, the White Rabbit Gallery was founded to share with the public the personal collection of Judith Neilson, one of the world’s most significant collections of 21st century Chinese art. Over four spacious floors, it contains works ranging from 25-centimetre-square abstracts to a four-ton ...
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Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern Gallery
Maunsell Wickes is in Sydney's historic quarter of Paddington. Located in three 1840's terrace houses the gallery has nine different exhibition spaces and an impressive sculpture courtyard.
The gallery continues to show estabilished as well as mid-career and emerging artists with changing monthly exhibitions and the gallery's ...
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Watters Gallery
Watters Gallery has been one of the most important and innovative private galleries in Sydney since it first opened in 1964. It remains at the forefront of contemporary art in Australia, refusing to follow art-world fashions and adhering to a policy of showing only those artists who are totally committed ...
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Sydney Non Objective
Housed in an ‘Arts and Crafts’ style building in Marrickville, Sydney Non Objective is located in one of Australia’s most culturally diverse areas. Easily found via public transport, SNO lies 6kms from the Sydney CBD (see the map in CONTACT for details). The SNO Program is supported Marrickville Council ...
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Kaliman Gallery
Kaliman Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition of work by contemporary artists. It was opened by Vasili Kaliman in March 2001 in a warehouse space in Cecil Street, Paddington. In 2006, Kaliman Gallery moved to its current location at 56 Sutherland Street, Paddington. This building was purpose-built by a gallerist ...
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Annandale Galleries
Director’s Bill and Anne Gregory opened Annandale Galleries in 1991, in what was a converted Masonic Hall. The large space that the Galleries provide, stem from the building’s initial function, having originally been a Methodist church.
Through a plethora of varying styles and contexts, the aim of Annandale ...
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Flinders Street Gallery
Flinders Street Gallery is contemporary space in Sydney representing a dynamic stable of emerging and established artists across a broad range of media.
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Christopher Day Gallery
The Christopher Day Gallery was established in 1979, dealing in 19th and 20th Century traditional and Modern Art. Over this time they have advised and helped form many collections. They also purchase paintings outright or sell on a commission basis.
The Gallery is situated on the corner of Elizabeth Street ...
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Stella Downer Fine Art
Stella Downer Fine Art was established in 2001 by Stella Downer. The gallery represents over thirty contemporary Australian artists who work across many mediums, including painting, works on paper, sculpture, ceramics and mixed media.
Stella Downer Fine Art represents emerging, mid-career and established artists. The gallery has a commitment to ...
