Incinerator Gallery - The Incinerator Gallery is the heart of visual arts in Moonee Valley, offering a vibrant and diverse range of arts in the industrial spaces of the iconic Essendon Incinerator.

In line with the State Government’s announcement, the Incinerator Gallery and Clocktower Centre will be closed will reopen once restrictions have eased.
Access to online programs are available via our website.
For further information please visit Council’s website or call the gallery on 9243 1750.

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Gallery Sketchers

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Bright Sparks 2021

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Exhibition changeover

The Gallery is currently closed

In the meantime, please enjoy our online creative activities

Exhibition changeover

Gallery Sketchers - 13 Oct

Gallery Sketchers

Wednesday, 13 October — via Zoom
Tickets free — bookings essential

Gallery Sketchers - 13 Oct

IAA2021

Incinerator Art Award 2021

Art for Social Change

13 August - 31 October

Fireworks - Call for Entries

Fireworks 2021 Call for Entries

For Years 11 & 12 students who live, work or study in Moonee Valley
Applications open 1 – 31 October

Fireworks - Call for Entries

Bright Sparks 2021

Bright Sparks 2021 Call for Entries

Poster exhibition for Moonee Valley students from Prep to Year 10

Bright Sparks 2021

Parul Sen - 8 Dec

Walk to the Café

13 July - 8 December

Parul Sen - 8 Dec

Anne Lawson - 8 Dec

The Worlds Between

14 July - 9 December

Anne Lawson - 8 Dec

Xiang Li - 8 Dec

Moonee Valley Sunshine

13 July - 9 December

Xiang Li - 8 Dec

Marion Couzens - 8 Dec

Dreamtime Wildlife Healing

16 July - 8 December

Marion Couzens - 8 Dec

Market Mural - 9 Aug

Rafaella McDonald

Everage St - Moonee Ponds

Market Mural - 9 Aug

Online programs

Online programs

Creative activities and presentations for all ages to be enjoyed at your own time and in the comfort of your own home

Online programs

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Dreamtime Wildlife Healing: Marion Couzens

16 July 2021 - 8 December 2021

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The Worlds Between: Anne Lawson

14 July 2021 - 8 December 2021

Xiang Li

Moonee Valley Sunshine: Xiang Li

13 July 2021 - 8 December 2021

Coming soon

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Those Who Served: Karen Price

8 November 2021 - 8 December 2021

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Arcadia 2021: Arcadia Art Group

10 November 2021 - 8 December 2021

Sharmayne Grace McLean Cartoon Liquid 2020 digitally manipulated video still.

Garden of Glass: Sharmayne Grace McLean

12 November 2021 - 16 January 2022

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Art Club in October - John and Dominique de Menil and The Menil Collection: Art for Life’s Sake

In this month’s Art Club, get to know John and Dominique de Menil, philanthropists, social activists, and founders of the Rothko Chapel. Consider their lifelong inspiration, some highlights from the collection and their deep passion to share with others.

John and Dominique de Menil believed art is essential to human experience – it is primary like the air we breathe. Described as the Medici of Modern Art and advised by a French Dominican friar and a flamboyant Greek gallerist, the Menils collected art they loved including arts of Africa, the Americas and Pacific Northwest, Ancient World, the Pacific Islands, Drawing, Medieval and Byzantine, Modern and Contemporary, and Surrealism.

Join us over Zoom on Tuesday, 26 October at 10am
Visit here for your ticket and link: https://incineratorgallery.com.au/activities/art-club/

Image: Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas, USA, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons August 2010.

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Fireworks 2021 Call for Entries is closing soon!

Students in Year 11 and 12 who live, work or study in Moonee Valley have the opportunity to showcase their creative works at Incinerator Gallery’s Fireworks 2021 exhibition on Friday, 10 December 2021.

Students are welcome to submit works from any of their Art and Technology subjects. This may include digital art, collage, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, graphic design, video or photography.

Entry is FREE! Follow this link to submit: https://bit.ly/Fireworks2021CFE

Image: Jorge de Araujo, Fireworks 2020, installation view.

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Tama Sharman - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

This mixed-media artwork is a dedication to Kathryn Painter-Whall, friend and fellow artist of Tama Sharman. Painted on a window blind found in Kathryn’s abandoned house before it was demolished, this artwork continues a conversation with a friend, and acts as a reminder that people are always with us even after death.

The painting is portrait of Kathryn, translating experiences of resistance, injustice, and the shared activist initiatives engaged by both artists. A combination of figures and text speak of eliminating barriers and protests to government for change, highlighting issues such as expanded investment in prisons and the comparative lack of public housing funding.

See Tama’s work at this year’s Incinerator Art Award Exhibition, opening soon! To read more, visit https://bit.ly/IncineratorAA2021.

Tama Sharman, Ki waenga, 2020, mixed media on window blind.

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Nina Sanadze - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

Nina’s Sanadze’s experimental short film, Embedded, speculates a glimpse into the future informed by the current debate around corrected commemoration. Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, this experimental short film imagines a decaying studio archive of a prominent sculptor whose monumental works were torn down. It also reveals the Russian Emperor’s marble head, dismantled from a public square 100 years ago by communist authorities.

View the film at this year’s Incinerator Art Award Exhibition, opening soon! To read more, visit https://bit.ly/IncineratorAA2021.

Nina Sanadze, Embedded, 2020, short experimental film.

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Our latest Social Justice Art for Teens video was released this morning!

Using art as a catalyst for expressing thoughts, opinions and ideas, this course focuses on engaging young people in issues that are real and important to them about the world they inhabit.

Participants will learn how to lift their own ideas and transform them into artworks that express their critical voices. The program, led by Facilitator Francine Sculli, is aimed at teens aged 11 to 17 years of age.

Head to our website to access the video! https://incineratorgallery.com.au/activities/social-justice-art-for-teens/

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Call for entries are open for Year 11 and 12 art and design students to showcase their work at Incinerator Gallery’s Fireworks 2021 exhibition! This an opportunity young students and artists won’t want to miss!

Students may submit their art and/or design works created in any of their Arts and Technology subjects, using any medium of choice. This may include digital art, collage, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, graphic design, video or photography.

For more information and to enter, visit https://bit.ly/Fireworks2021CFE

Image: Jorge de Araujo, Fireworks 2020, installation view.

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Jen Rae with Claire G. Coleman - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

Centered on First Nations knowledge and protocols, Refugium is a video essay by Jen Rae and Claire G. Coleman that delves into moral dilemmas of life and death, focusing on child-centered trauma prevention and intergenerational justice.

Via the imagined collapse of another apocalypse, the video asks: what are the conversations that should we be having now that might aid us, our loved ones and our future ancestors? What are we willing to give up and fight for in the greatest challenge facing humanity? What skills and knowledges are at the thresholds of being lost, undervalued or overlooked for future generations due to climate breakdown?

This work of speculative fiction suggests that systematic social change in the form of 're-worlding' is critical for the wellbeing and survival of those yet to be born.

View Jen and Claire’s video essay at this year’s Incinerator Art Award Exhibition, opening soon! To read more, visit https://bit.ly/IncineratorAA2021.

Jen Rae with Claire G. Coleman, Refugium, 2021, short film with audio.

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The Incinerator Gallery Fireworks exhibition is the Moonee Valley's annual art and design award for Years 11 and 12 students who live, work or study in Moonee Valley.

We’re now accepting submissions from students to showcase their work at Fireworks 2021 exhibition! If you're a student and are interested in featuring your work in a professional gallery space, we’d love to hear from you!

If you’re not a student and know of any who would be interested, be sure to notify them of this incredible opportunity.

Call for Entries will close on Friday, 1 October.

For more information and to enter, visit https://bit.ly/Fireworks2021CFE

Image: Jorge de Araujo, Fireworks 2020, installation view.

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Sammaneh Pourshafighi - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

Like a Persian is a short video essay directed by Sammaneh Pourshafighi and made in collaboration with Road to Refuge, an organization that aims to centre stories of refugees and asylum seekers for their Shifting the Story project.

This video reveals another side of the pandemic, where refugees are provided the opportunity to reimagine new possibilities of a post-pandemic world and visions of the future. Combining collage, comedy, essayistic presentation, and performance, the artist speaks of a refugee experience in their own words, including conversations on universal basic income, decarceration and equality.

View Sammaneh’s video at this year’s Incinerator Art Award Exhibition, opening soon! To read more, visit https://bit.ly/IncineratorAA2021.

Sammaneh Pourshafighi, Like a Persian, 2021, video with audio.

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Claudia Phares - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

Claudia Phares’ artistic process seeks to challenge the current socially and historically constructed image of the mother. It is framed by mother-centred or matricentric feminism. Motherwork addresses the invisible labour entailed in raising children.

Nurturing, protecting, and training children define motherwork. Through this image, artist Claudia Phares outlines that mothers need to be fully supported for their valuable contribution to society in bringing up the next generation.

Claudia’s work will be displayed at this year’s Incinerator Art Award Exhibition, opening soon! To read more, visit https://bit.ly/IncineratorAA2021.

Claudia Phares, Motherwork, 2021, C-type photograph.

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Calling all young creatives from Prep to Year 10! Enter your art or design posters into the Bright Sparks 2021 poster exhibition! Posters can be created from any medium; paint, felt tipped pens, ink, photography, digital print to name a few.

This year, the theme is ‘environment’. Works will be displayed in Boadle Hall at Incinerator Gallery throughout December and January.

Posters accepted at Incinerator Gallery during October. For more information and to enter, visit; https://incineratorgallery.com.au//brightsparks/

Image: Chloe Condon, 1.5m separation, 2020, pen on paper

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Join us for a live Gallery Sketchers session on Zoom next Wednesday, where the weight and properties of line as mark making will be utilised as our starting point. 🖋

Using artworks and ideas from the Incinerator Art Award 2021: Art for Social Change as inspiration, participants will use drawing as inspiration and the basis for their drawings.

Wednesday, 13 October at 10am.
Register for your FREE spot here: https://incineratorgallery.com.au/activities/gallery-sketchers/

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*Spring Studio Workshops and History Tours Postponed*

Due to the gallery being closed and limitations on attendee numbers, we will be postponing these face to face programs to 2022. All current ticket holders will be contacted about refunds or credits.

We look forward to welcoming you back to Incinerator Gallery soon!
If you have any questions, please email the Gallery at incinerator@mvcc.vic.gov.au.

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Ezz Monem - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

These images have been created by Ezz Monem in response to the tenth anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 during 18 days of protest in Cairo. These images have been revised from the artist’s archive and re-photographed.

An acid wash has erased parts of the emulsion from the film surface before the photograph is manually developed. The final results are located between re-photographs and deliberate erasures. Conceptually marking the passing of the revolution from a lived experience into the realm of a historical event.

Revolutionary Failure reflects a process of remembering the past whilst simultaneously attempting to forget historic events.

Ezz’s photographs will be displayed at this year’s Incinerator Art Award Exhibition, opening soon! To read more, visit https://bit.ly/IncineratorAA2021

Ezz Monem, Revolutionary Failure, 2021, photography.

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Incinerator Gallery is inviting Moonee Valley school students from Prep to Year 10 to enter their art or design posters into the Bright Sparks 2021 poster exhibition!

This year, the theme is ‘environment’. Students may submit works that express their thoughts, concerns or love for the world we live in.
Free to enter and posters will be displayed at Incinerator Gallery during summer.

Posters accepted at Incinerator Gallery during October. For more information and to enter, visit; https://incineratorgallery.com.au//brightsparks/

Image: Lucas Jett Scalise, Hidden Resistance 2020, pencil and ink on paper