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

Parul Sen Walk to the Cafe

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

Atrium call for entries 2021

The Atrium Space

Call for Entries 2022

1 - 30 September 2021

Atrium call for entries 2021

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

Now showing

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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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Arcadia 2021: Arcadia Art Group

25 October 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

Hyphenated Biennial

12 November 2021 - 28 November 2021

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There's only a few days left to apply to exhibit in the Atrium space in 2022!
Call for Entries closes midnight, 30 September.

Apply now at https://bit.ly/Atrium2022

Image: Rushdi Anwar, Patterns of Displacement, 2018, installation view.

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Calling Moonee Valley students from Prep to Year 10! Ever dreamt of having your art and design work exhibited in a Gallery? Then be sure to apply for Bright Sparks 2021 poster exhibition! Posters accepted at Incinerator Gallery in October.

Find out more; https://incineratorgallery.com.au//brightsparks/

Image: Karla Dickens, Looking at you, VI, 2017, inkjet print.

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Are you an art or design student in Years 11 and 12 who is living, working or studying in Moonee Valley?

Showcase your works in a professional gallery space at Incinerator Gallery’s Fireworks 2021 exhibition in December!
This is an incredible opportunity to gain exposure and recognition for your creative masterpieces.
Call for Entries will run from Friday, 1 October until Sunday, 31 October.

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

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

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Desmond Mah - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

This abstract painting by Singapore-born artist Desmond Mah, utilises a vast array of artistic materials, including flora, moving mechanical components and a culinary palette, Desmond draws upon ideas of home and the videogame Minecraft, in which ‘M’ battles marauding monsters. With familiar cultural scents and animated breathing, the monster seeks a momentary connection the audience—to counter discrimination and unprovoked violence targeted against global Asian diaspora.

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

Desmond Mah, Now M Carries That Stone Too, 2021, oil paint, synthetic polymer, pandanus, curry powder, lychee, soya sauce, bubble tea, eucalyptus extract and stickers on board (diptych) with various mechanical components.

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Art Club September - Great Collectors and Their Legacy (28 September via Zoom)

Walter P Chrysler Jnr (1908-1988), heir of the automobile magnate, made his first purchase of art when he was just 14 years old, starting his passion for collecting art over the next seven decades. The paper trail of his purchases is thin, as was revealed in the 1960s art scandal of his “colossal collection of fake works”.

He has been described as “the most underrated American art collector ” in the twentieth century and “the American Maverick”.

Join us for Art Club this month, as we pull the veil back on this elusive individual and great collector, and discover his museum, opened 50 years ago in Norfolk, Virginia, which has a diverse and growing collection of 30,000 works and a world class glass studio.

https://incineratorgallery.com.au/activities/art-club/

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Nikki Lam - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

the unshakable destiny_2101 is a short-film by artist Nikki Lam. As a first chapter of an expansive video trilogy, it draws focus on the tension and misalignment between a number of appositions: history and cinematic imagery; aesthetics and power; colonial gaze and the migrant body. Examining the aesthetics of Wong Kar Wai’s cinema and Asian-Futurism, the work presents an imaginary space where the body is opaque and cyclically reflective.

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

Nikki Lam, the unshakeable destiny_2101, 2021, 16mm film transfer to digital 2K with audio.

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Barking Spider Visual Theatre are a Melbourne based multi-art from company who present our bi-monthly Arty Tales videos aimed at babies and their carers. Babies are shown stimulating artworks and played with in a supportive environment.

Research is proving that positive health and developmental outcomes for babies depends on interactions with caregivers that are responsive, warm and consistent. It is in the spirit of supporting caregivers to develop these bonds through engagement with art that we offer this program.

All of our pre-recorded Arty Tales videos are available online now. Keep an eye out for our next release on October 1.
https://incineratorgallery.com.au/activities/incy-wincy-babies-2/

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Laresa Kosloff - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

Radical Acts is a critical short film by Laresa Kosloff made entirely from corporate stock footage sourced from the internet. The artist has used this footage to create a fantastical tale about a group of frustrated climate scientists who develop a mind-altering pathogen in order to disrupt corporate productivity.

Although the story is fictional, it reflects contemporary realities such as the dire situation of climate crisis, political corruption, fake news, corporate greed and the revolutionary potential of non-violent civil disobedience.

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

Laresa Kosloff, Radical Acts, 2020, video.

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Mohamed Chamas is an artist, game developer and poet based in Naarm/Melbourne who channels the ‘dijital djinni’—a rewired/rewiring agent for practice-based research. Mohamed’s exhibition Baab 02 was presented in our Atrium Space earlier this year. The exhibition was a mixed-reality, comprising of a seven-pointed ceremonial star, Quranic verses, and a virtual reality component that offered viewers a glimpse to the Islamic barzakh – the veil between worlds.

Interested in exhibiting in the Atrium in 2022? Entries are now open, apply here: https://bit.ly/Atrium2022

Image: Mohamed Chamas, Baab 02, 2021, mixed reality experience.

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Online Creative Family Workshop: Spring Photograph it, Sketch it!

Multidisciplinary designer and educator Miranda Sims of the Zingy Studio invites your family to participate in a creative workshop you can complete at your own pace and in the comfort of your home.

Participants will be inspired by the art from the Middle Ages through to Baroque paintings whereby light appears to radiate from objects, strong use of primary colours (red, yellow, and blue), and gold from material or light.

Learn how to apply techniques of modern still life photography and simple line drawing to capture the essence of form, a moment in time, and a sense of spring.

The pre-recorded video is now available:
https://incineratorgallery.com.au/activities/spring-2021/

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Carly Fischer and Edwina Stevens - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

Conversation Piece is a collaborative two-channel audio-visual work between Carly Fischer and Edwina Stevens.

Together the works speak of place-responsive practices, exploring how more open encounters with environments might create alternate narratives that question broader, colonial perspectives. Conversation Piece explores is presented as two videos and a soundscape that intersect and overlap in a continual dialogue.

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

Carly Fischer and Edwina Stevens, Conversation Piece, 2021, two-channel video with audio soundscape.

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Are you a social-minded artist? 👩‍🎨

Do you want to create works that will be embedded into the architecture of the new Flemington Community Hub? If yes, then submit an Expression of Interest by Sunday, 26 September.

https://mvcc.vic.gov.au/flemington-community-hub-expression-of-interest-for-visual-artists/

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Liss Fenwick - IAA 2021 Shortlisted Artist

Subverting colonial and nationalistic depictions of rural landscape and people, Nuptial Flight belongs to a series of photographs by Liss Fenwick called 'Back Out' created in Australia’s Northern Territory. This project depicts scenes of the community where artist Liss Fenwick was born, and continues to work and belong.

The photographs build an increasing sense of nihilism, boredom, and decay, altogether examining the perceived outsider status of rural people from their metropolitan counterparts.

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

Liss Fenwick, Nuptial Flight, 2019, pigment print on platine paper.

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HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH IDEAS FOR EXHIBITIONS? ⁣
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When developing ideas for exhibitions I like to consider how we can make and hold space for caring, healing and transformation. With its Latin root, curare, meaning ‘to take care of’, I believe ideas underpinning exhibition-making should facilitate community, co-authorship and collaboration that open up pluralistic discourse.⁣
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This may begin with an object, which serves as touchstone to times, places, and states of mind beyond our present ones—I keep a myriad of objects that I consider as ‘echoing vessels’ in my collection. Or it may originate in the form of a dream, coded with rich symbolism tethered to the collective unconscious—I keep a dream journal for this reason as an endless source for ideas. ⁣
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Or it may be sparked through deep listening and conversation, sharing an ecology of research and knowledges—keeping a notebook of words and phrases can germinate and nurture ideas.⁣
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A strong curatorial thematic will invite visitors to consider their lived experiences in a meaningful and poetic way, where an arrangement of artworks may encourage sympathetic gestures and enact social change. Looking beyond the gallery, you may consider boarder social, economic, and ecological climates that speak of a zeitgeist, or a spirit of the times. ⁣
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I am interested in ideas that inspire new ways of seeing, inviting innumerable ways through which we can collectively re-world, re-shape, and debate tradition.⁣
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Group exhibitions can play a big part in this endeavour and grant the opportunity for many curators, non-mainstream and mainstream alike, to showcase a wide assortment of works, representing a multiplicity of voice, under the aegis of a curatorial thematic. ⁣
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—Jake #askacurator ⁣
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Image credits in comments.

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE OBJECT IN THE MVCC COLLECTION?
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How do you pick a fave?⁣
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I am always captured by two early depictions of Moonee Valley by Robert Hoddle from 1847. ‘Main’s Bridge, Moonee Ponds’ and ‘Sketch from Main’s Station’. He was a surveyor famed for how accurately he depicted the landscape and they are great examples of how meanings in pictures change over time.⁣
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In these illustrations you can see how neat and ordered the trees are, and how evenly spaced they are across the grassy plains. This is the work of the Wurundjeri Woi wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. They had created and conserved a productive, and ecologically rich environment that continually sustained them for thousands of generations. ⁣
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Much of this is now under the concrete and asphalt of Melbourne’s North-western suburbs. While Hoddle was probably trying to capture European ‘progress’ in 1847, we look back and see a very different story.⁣
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Always was, always will be ⁣
- Richard #askacurator