Incinerator Gallery - Melbourne - Free art exhibitions on now

New exhibitions web banner update July 2022

Opening hours

Open Tuesday to Sunday
11am to 4pm
Free entry

CFE Boadle & Offsite - 31 August

Azza Zein Artist Talk - 20 Aug

Artist Talk: Azza Zein
Saturday, 20 August, 1-2pm
Free, RSVP essential

Studio Workshops - August

IAA 2022 Shortlist announced

Now showing

HERO

Regen Autonomy

29 July 2022 - 4 September 2022

Thats Sallys Friend

Well Now, Would You Look at Her: Julie Vinci

29 July 2022 - 4 September 2022

Azza Zein Lock Dispersal in Corner Solutions 2019 22 multimedia installation detail.

Lock Dispersal in Corner Solutions: Azza Zein

29 July 2022 - 4 September 2022

Coming soon

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Incinerator Art Award 2022: Art for Social Change

16 September 2022 - 30 October 2022

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Who knew that collage could be public art? 🎨This installation by @aylsa_mchugh was one of our favourites from 2020. When galleries were closed for Covid safety, actively engaging with good public art was so important.

Now we are thrilled to announce that the rather brilliant Aylsa McHugh is running collage workshops (open to all abilities) at the gallery - and yes, we are a little bit excited! Aylsa is going to guide students through analogue cut and paste techniques, focusing on colour, composition, trompe l’oeil, surrealism and photomontage - we’ll be making works to take home.

Learn more and book your spot via the link in our bio 🔝

Image credits:
1. Hero Apartment Building Public Art Commission, 2020. Photograph City of Melbourne.
2. Aylsa McHugh, Figure (Oread), 2020

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Our Art Club workshop this month focuses on art that has the power to inform, engage and inspire action on climate crisis. Consider the role galleries have to initiate change and explore the ideas and art of Lauren Berkowitz, David Buckland, Mel Chin, Olafur Eliasson, Janet Laurence, Mandy Martin, Mary Mattingly, Tomás Saraceno, and others.

Tuesday, 23 August at 10am
FREE, registration required. Find the link in our bio!

Image: ‘Discounting the Future', David Buckland, 2008

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Did you know that many of @mooneevalleylibraries are also exhibition spaces? 👀 Apply to take part in our Offsite Exhibitions program in 2023.

With lots of wall hanging space available in our busy Ascot Vale, Niddrie, and Avondale Heights branches, this is the perfect opportunity for artists and community groups working in 2D media to hold your next exhibition. 🖼️

Applications now open, closing 11.59pm, Wednesday, 31 August 2023.
Link in bio.

Images courtesy of Lucy Foster @lu_spent

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Exhibit Offsite in Moonee Valley in 2023.

Incinerator Gallery presents exhibitions in a range of local and neighbourhood spaces throughout Moonee Valley @cityofmooneevalley each year, including MV Libraries @mooneevalleylibraries and Crown Street Stables.

Offsite Exhibitions are best-suited to artists or community groups presenting solo or small group shows in 2D media. Both first-time and experienced exhibitors are encouraged to apply.

Applications now open, closing 11.59pm, Wednesday, 31 August 2023.
Link in bio.

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Exhibit in Boadle Hall at Incinerator Gallery in 2023.

Incinerator Gallery exhibits work by emerging and established artists, curators, and collectives each year. Boadle Hall is well-suited to solo or group exhibitions in painting, printmaking, installation, textiles, sculpture, or video.

Priority will be given to applicants who demonstrate a consideration of the local area, history, or community through their application.

In 2023, successful applicants receive free exhibition space; a $1,000 artist or curatorial fee; and an exhibition opening, alongside other shows.

Applications now open, closing 11.59pm, Wednesday, 31 August 2023. Link in bio.

Image: Curated by Amelia Dowling, ‘Even more beautiful IRL’, 2022, install view, Boadle Hall. Photo by Janelle Low @janellelow_

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A week ago, at our exhibition opening night! Thank you to all who attended to support our wonderful artists.

'Regen Autonomy', co-curated by Guy Ritani (@taniwha.ritani), 'Well Now, Would You Look at Her' by Julie Vinci (@julievinci) and 'Lock Dispersal Corner Solutions' by Azza Zein (@3azzazein) are now showing until Sunday, 4 September.

Learn more via the link in our bio.

All photos by Lucy Foster @lu_spent

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We’re finally ready to announce our short listed artists for Incinerator Art Award 2022! We're extremely excited about the quality of this year’s shortlist and can’t wait to get these works into the gallery spaces.

Ana Paula Estrada, APHIDS, Ayman Kaake, Ben Hattingh, Bon Mott, Cath Murphy, Christina Darras, Claire Bridge, Dale Cox and Jodi Newcombe, Danica Knezevic, Dans Bain, Deborah Eddy, Dorell Ben, Emma Rani Hodges, J Davies, Jelena Sinik and Nicolette Axiak, Jenny Hickinbotham, Laura Louise and Wills Flaherty, Logan Mucha, Louis Pratt and Rob Beamish, Luciano and George Keats, Luna Mrozik Gawler and Ana Tiquia, Marynes Avila, Nicholas Burridge, Rhys Cousins, Ryan Lee, Sian Harris, Sian Kelly, Soup Collective, Tina Stefanou, Xingyu (Echo) Li.

Exhibition opening and winners announced 16 September!

Images:
1. Ayman Kaake, ‘A proof to our existence’
2. Dorell Ben, ‘The Modern Fa’i’
3. Laura Wills & Louise Flaherty, ‘A Plant Note’
4. Luna Mrozil Gawler and Ana Tiquia, ‘MEEP’

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Take a tour of our gallery as part of Open House Melbourne 2022! 🏠

Saturday 30 + Sunday 31 July
11am to 4pm
Ad hoc tours - no bookings required

Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in conversations about the future of our cities. We're thrilled to have the gallery be a part of this weekend once again. Learn more via the link in our bio.

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It’s been a busy fortnight of installation at the gallery, and tonight, we’re thrilled to be opening our new exhibitions.

Join us from 6pm for conversations with artists, friends and community members. Food and drinks provided. FREE entry.

Learn more about the incredible exhibitions via the link in our bio.

Image 1: ‘Well Now, Would You Look at Her: Julie Vinci’ (@julievinci)

Image 2: ‘Lock Dispersal Corner Solutions: Azza Zein’ (@3azzazein)

Image 3: ‘Regen Autonomy’, co-curated by Guy Ritani (@taniwha.ritani)

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‘Regen Autonomy’, co-curated by Guy Ritani (@taniwha.ritani) opens this Friday, 29 July. It’s a community consultation art exhibition focussed on visioning a new future.

The exhibition features a series of workshops to facilitate, in community, the experience of ‘Regenerative Autonomy’: the combination of: ‘Regenerate’ (verb) to bring new & more vigorous life; and, ‘Autonomy’ (noun) the right or condition of self-government.

Join us at the gallery from this weekend for:

〰️ Permaculture & Queer Regenerative Design
Saturday, 30 July, 11am-3:30pm
What is Queer Regeneration? A workshop on how can we use Permaculture design & queer theory to transform our pathway forward.

〰️ Kōrero reGENERATION
Sunday, 31 July, 12-3:30pm
Kōrero REGENERATION is a workshop, Rauhi, a gathering, a Talanoa, a skill sharing on the art storytelling through podcast.

〰️ Mycelial Bloom
Tuesday, 2 August, 11am-2pm
Mushrooms & Mycelium, our greatest regenerators! A workshop on their amazing functions and learn to make mushroom paper!

〰️A Labour of Love: A Teen Mother's Reflection on Abortion, Adoption, Access and Authority
Tuesday, 9 August, 1-3pm
A Regenerative workshop on a teen mother’s reflections: abortion, adoption, access and authority

Details and booking links in our bio! Don’t forget to come along to our opening night on Friday, 29 July from 6-8pm.

Images courtesy of @perma.queer

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Join us this Friday night from 6pm for the opening of our new exhibitions 'Regen Autonomy' co-curated by Guy Ritani, 'Lock Dispersal in Corner Solutions’ by Azza Zein and 'Well Now, Would You Look at Her’ by Julie Vinci. Come along and enjoy conversations with artists, friends and the whole community. Food and drinks provided.

👀 Here's a closer look at what's to come:

Regen Autonomy
(Showing in the Main Gallery)
Co-curated with Guy Ritani, this exhibition is an expression of a 2-week program uplifting regenerative culture within marginalised communities. ‘Regen Autonomy’ presents an intersection of arts and activism supporting the direct micro-changes that individuals and communities require to disengage from degenerative over-systems.

Lock Dispersal in Corner Solutions
(Showing in The Atrium)
‘Lock Dispersal in Corner Solutions’ is an artistic response to the three main components observed and encountered locally and globally as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns: exposed precarious economy; the aggravated distance of events; and the dematerialisation of relationships.

Well Now, Would You Look at Her: Julie Vinci
(Showing in Boadle Hall)
An exhibition of curious characters known as ‘Grotesques’ depicted through abstracted figurative sculptures and oil paintings by feminist multidisciplinary artist, Julie Vinci.

Exhibition dates are Friday, 29 July-Sunday, 4 September.

Image Credits:
1. PermaQueer, Regen Autonomy, 2022
2. Azza Zein, Lock Dispersal in Corner Solutions, 2019-22, multimedia installation (detail)
3. Julie Vinci, That's Sally's Friend, 2022, oil on board

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TOMORROW!

Join artist Mira Oosterweghel for a FREE closing event of 'Soiled feet rammed dirt', where a performance activates the Atrium installation through movement, sound and spoken word. An accompanying artist talk with Incinerator Gallery curator Jake Treacy will further ruminate themes of the exhibition.

If you haven't already, register your interest to our Facebook event, via the link in our bio.

Sunday, 17 July from 2-4pm

Photo by Lucy Foster @lu_spent

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There are only a few days left to view the group exhibition ‘Call me home’, now showing in Boadle Hall at the gallery.

Artists Ali Choudhry, Sevim Dogan Ozkan and Max Iannantuono explore ‘home’ and the instability of the concept as confined within the traditional constructs of geography, race, or international borders.
@sevimdoganphotography @ali.choudry.photo @max.ianna

Now showing until Sunday, 17 July.
Read more via the link in our bio.

Photo by Lucy Foster @lu_spent

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There’s only a week left to view ‘Centre for Reworlding presents: Resurgence’ in the Main Gallery.

Don’t miss this incredible exhibition by curators Claire G.Coleman and Jen Rae. @clairegcoleman @jenraeis

Now showing until Sunday, 17 July.
Read more via the link in our bio.

Photos by Lucy Foster @lu_spent

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For our current exhibition ‘Call me home’, memory is employed as a tool for sharing oral and visual histories, which are extracted from personal archives and repurposed into artworks spanning installation, video, photobooks, and text.

Each of our exhibiting artists draw from a deeply familial and personal position on culture, identity, and nostalgia, collectively, they are each conscious of the limits and possibilities of representing home as neither locality nor ideal.

Don’t miss this though-provoking exhibition, now showing in Boadle Hall until Sunday, 17 July.

Read more via the link in our bio.

Photos by Lucy Foster @lu_spent