Incinerator Gallery - Melbourne - Free art exhibitions on now

Gallery open

Open Tuesday to Sunday
Free entry
11am - 4pm

First Nations Commission - shortlist announced

First Nations
Public Art Commission
Shortlist announced

Art Club - 24 April

Art Club - First Nations Voices
in Artistic Contexts
Thursday, 24 April
Free — Tickets required

Weaving Workshop - 3 May

Weaving Workshop
Saturday 3 May, 12 pm
Ticketed event – Bookings essential

IWBs - 2 May

Incy Wincy Babies
Friday, 2 May
Tickets $14

Yarning Circle: Big Smart, 17 May

Yarning Circle: Big Smart
Saturday 17 May, from 2 pm
Free – tickets recommended

Now showing

Nicholas Currie, to grow is to learn, 2024, acrylic and inkjet photo on canvas crop

Big Smart

12 April 2025 - 8 June 2025

Incinerator Gallery

Karla Dickens Mother's little helpers VI 2019

Mother’s Little Helpers

1 February 2025 - 8 June 2025

Incinerator Billboards

Coming soon

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The Playground Project Melbourne

28 June 2025 - 12 October 2025

Incinerator Gallery

Programs and Events

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Art Club

Thursdays, 10 to 11.30 am

Free – tickets required

24 April | 22 May | 24 Jul | 21 Aug | 18 Sept | 23 Oct

Detail of Arkie Barton work, 'Untitled' 2025

Yarning Circle: Big Smart

Saturday, 17 May, 2pm

Free — tickets required

Photograph of flat and three-dimensional weavings.

Weaving Workshop

Saturday, 3 May 12-3pm

Tickets required

Showing in Moonee Valley

GRPhoto IncineratorMurals HIRES 8

It’s a home to me: David Booth

31 August 2024 - 3 September 2029

Cooper Street Community Centre, 101 Cooper Street, Essendon

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Arcade Way Reserve Public Art Project: Ash Firebrace

15 August 2022 - 16 August 2027

Arcade Way Reserve, Keilor East

Arts Project Indigenous Art Project 2003

Indigenous Arts Project: Paola Balla

1 May 2003 -

FJ Davies Reserve (Centreway) Keilor East

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Jump ➰ Fall 〰️ Imagine 🌟

Our highly anticipated exhibition, The Playground Project Melbourne, promotes mental and physical well-being through interactive art and play, encouraging positive social interaction.

Through play children develop their senses of body, their social skills, sensitivity and creativity.

Taking over the spaces within and surrounding the Incinerator Gallery, The Playground Project is sure to inspire even our littlest art enthusiasts.

Children under 12 are free to attend with accompanying adult (up to three children). Bookings required, more information: playgroundproject.com.au

Find out more via the link in bio

Curated by Gabriela Burkhalter
Exhibition design by @boardgrove
Produced by Incinerator Gallery

With thanks to the following:
Project partner – @kunsthallezurich
Major Partner – @jelliscraig | Jellis Craig Foundation
Education Partner – @monash_uni | @monashada

Image credit: Lozziwurm, photography Michael Pham @phamstapham

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Get to know our Big Smart artist – Dale Collier/Daisy (Wiradjuri and Dharug)

Dale Collier, also known as Daisy, is an artist and writer who embraces the humour and humility of survival and belonging in a schismatic deep-fake post-truth context.

Their expanded practice fuses noise, data, installation and performance in response to the systemic effects and psychopolitics of global conditioning. While critically charged with ecosocial interruption, their work offers sustainable and spirited challenges to the depravities of discipline and the complacent carceral logistics of contemporary art.

Big Smart is open now until 8 June. Read more via the link in bio

Image credit: Teagan Ramsay @cru3lmistress

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Parents and carers, come along to Incy Wincy Babies and engage in sensory play in our inspiring gallery setting.

Designed for little ones aged 0-24 months and their carers, the upcoming session on Friday, 2 May will explore colour, texture, shape, life cycles and the environment through autumn leaves 🍂🌿

Incy Wincy Babies - Friday, 2 May
10.45 to 11.45 am for babies 12—24 months
12 noon to 1 pm for babies 0—12 months

Learn more and book your place via the link in our bio.

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First Nations artist Nicholas Currie @nicholascurrie (Mulunjali and Kuku Yalanji) has curated an exclusive reading list to accompany the exhibition Big Smart now showing at Incinerator Gallery until 8 June 2025.

Nicholas says his reading list is “curated from a personal love for these pieces of literature. The through line of the texts are that they have been pivotal to my understanding of contemporary Indigenous art and perspective.”

Both the exhibition and the titles in the Big Smart reading list explore the diverse modes of pedagogy within, and from the understandings of, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

These titles are available to loan through Moonee Valley Libraries, and when you visit Incinerator Gallery you can reserve these titles via the iPad in the exhibition’s Knowledge Centre.

See the full list via the link in bio

Image credit: Nicholas Currie portrait, Photography by Kyle Archie Knight
Book covers, supplied

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Get to know our Big Smart artist – Arkie Barton @arkie.com.au

Arkie Barton is an artist, fashion and textile designer whose practice is deeply rooted in connection and community engagement.
As a proud Kalkadunga and Bidjara queer woman, her arts practice draws from her connection to land and culture to engage in cultural practice through multiple disciplines.

Barton works across painting, textile, fashion design, and public art murals. Through further study and work experience, Arkie has developed a strong interest in how we can utilise art and creativity to support mental wellbeing and self determination within health and wellbeing spaces.

Big Smart is open now until 8 June. Read more via the link in bio

Image credit: Teagan Ramsay @cru3lmistress

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Please note, we will be closed over the Easter break, reopening Tuesday, 22 April. We look forward to welcoming you to the Gallery next week.

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Get to know our Big Smart artist – Ari Mills @ari.jills

Ari Mills is a proud Kuku Yalanji Bama and Murrinh Patha writer and poet. They incorporate their love for community, Queerness and Black liberation in their writing to come to explore Black Queer love stories in truth telling.
Ari aims to create love spaces for mob to share and grow with each other in showcasing our mobs’ creativity and innovation.

Big Smart is open now until 8 June. Read more via link in bio

Image credit: Teagan Ramsay @cru3lmistress

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Explore the world of art with Arty Tales, designed for little ones aged 2-4. Our next session is taking place on Friday, 2 May and the theme is autumn leaves and sensory play! 🍂🌿

Children and carers will enjoy a imaginative journey through the gallery, discovering art, architecture, and nature.

Be sure to dress your little one for comfort and mess!
Arty Tales
9:30am-10.30am

Book via the link in our bio.

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Join us on Saturday, 3 May, for a Weaving Workshop led by Aboriginal artist and weaver Tarsha Davis (Kuku Yalanji and palawa) @tarsha_davis_, whose artwork is presented in the exhibition Big Smart.

This hands-on workshop invites participants into a culturally respectful space to learn foundational weaving techniques. Grounded in process over product, the session focuses on mindful making, shared learning, and connection through creating. Participants will explore weaving not just as a creative skill, but as a way of listening, storytelling, and engaging with Country.

Whether you're new to weaving or returning to it, you'll leave with practical skills, cultural insight, and the confidence to keep creating.
Places are limited, book now via link in bio

Image credit: Tarsha Davis, Weaving Workshop at Koori Heritage Trust, March 2025. Photography by Hyggelig Photography. Courtesy of KHT.

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What is The Playground Project Melbourne? ➰

The Playground Project is an exhibition where creativity, play, and art collide to transform public space into a vibrant cultural experience that everyone can enjoy.
Led by Board Grove Architects @boardgrove, architects and exhibition designers, the project blends innovative design with participatory installations, creating a playground experience that not only engages children in physical play but also fosters social interaction and connection.

Find out more via the link in bio

Curated by Gabriela Burkhalter
Exhibition design by @boardgrove
Produced by Incinerator Gallery

With thanks to the following:
Project partner – @kunsthallezurich
Major Partner – @jelliscraig | Jellis Craig Foundation
Education Partner – @monash_uni | @monashada

Image credit: Lozziwurm, photography Michael Pham @phamstapham

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the opening night of Big Smart.

The exhibition is open now until 8 June.

Read more about Big Smart and guest curator Nicholas Currie @nicholascurrie via the link in bio

Image credit: Teagan Ramsay

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Karla Dickens is an artist of Wiradjuri, Irish and German heritage whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, photography, video, collage, sculpture and installation.

Karla (@karla_dickens @stationgalleryaustralia) brings a dark humour to her unflinching interrogation of subjects such as race, gender and injustice. Described as a ‘found-object’ virtuoso, her practice often places overlooked or discarded objects into new contexts to interrogate Australian culture, contest histories and agitate for change.

See her latest work at the Incinerator Gallery Billboard space, on now until 8 June.

Read more at the link in our bio

Image credit: Gianna Rizzo (@meaty)

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Join us at this month’s Art Club, our free creative conversation series for our first of two First Nations series of presentations. For April, we are pleased to introduce our Guest Presenter Kayla Clinch (Badimia). Kayla is Tutor of Indigenous Art and Culture Wilin Centre, The University of Melbourne.

First Nations Voices in Artistic Contexts

Art serves as a powerful tool for political expression by layering symbology and iconography to convey meaning in ways that are both subtle and explicit, cathartic and repressive. Many First Nations artists, including Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens, skillfully evoke these complex and contradictory emotions.

In April’s Art Club, our guest presenter, Kayla Clinch (Badimia) will explore how First Nations artists use their creative practices to amplify their own and their communities’ voices on political and social issues. The discussion will then centre on Karla Dickens’ billboards Mother’s Little Helpers on display at Incinerator Gallery, to consider how her work aligns with the broader context of First Nations art.

Thursday 24 April at 10am
Free — Registrations preferred
Book now via our website. Link in bio

Book now via the link in our bio.

Image credit: Karla Dickens, 'Mother's little helpers II', 2019, inkjet print reproduced as vinyl billboard at Incinerator Gallery. Courtesy of the artist and STATION Gallery. Photo taken on opening night at Incinerator Gallery by Gianna Rizzo @meaty.

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〰️TONIGHT 〰️
Join us from 6pm for the official opening of Big Smart, guest curated by Nicholas Currie @nicholascurrie (Mulunjali and Kuku Yalanji).

Opening speeches and Welcome to Country from 6:30pm. And a live-action painting performance from 7pm.

We hope you can join us and the exhibiting artists in celebration of this new exhibition that foregrounds First Nations knowledge and artistic practice.

We look forward to seeing you at the Gallery.

Read more about Big Smart and Currie at the link in bio

Image credit: Nicholas Currie, to grow is to learn, 2024, acrylic and inkjet photo on canvas

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Pencil in some time to join us for Gallery Sketchers next week!

In this month's session, we will delve into collage and drawing to create a mixed-media artwork. Learn how to assemble various textures, shapes and colours to create a strong composition and how to overlay these visual elements with drawing.

Taking inspiration from the breadth of works in the exhibition, 'Big Smart', where First Nations artists have employed a variety of techniques and materials in their artwork, you will use collage and drawing as a way to describe the works that resonate with you, creating a montage of visual impressions.

Please bring a sketchbook if you have one and a variety of grey lead pencils. Incinerator Gallery will provide collage materials.

Gallery Sketchers
Thursday, 17 April at 10am
FREE, registrations preferred (linked in bio).

Sessions are free, but please register through our website.