Art Galleries

Aboriginal painter Dino Damiani is a focused high achiever.

Also a gifted musician and writer, Dino is driven by an overwhelming passion to create and express.

Throughout his school years Dino was a star tennis player whose idol was John McEnroe. He was destined to be a National Champion, however life had other plans.

It was later in life that Dino picked up the paint brush. Since then Dino has taken great delight and found endless freedom in manifesting his beautiful and magical dreaming on canvas.

ART CONNECTED - For details go to WWW.KEDEM.COM.AU
Sunday 26 March 2017
11am to 5pm
KING DAVID HALL - 520 ORRONG RD, ARMADALE

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Melbourne based artist, writer and free verse poet Benjamin Box is an anathema. Or at least that’s what he believes his latest art buyer thinks of him.

After commissioning his latest work: ‘Forbid Yourself Nothing.’, a large size spray paint and acrylic on canvass; the buyer in question: …”ran for the hills upon completion of the work and didn’t even have the manners to sling me a modest materials fee.”

I thought it may have been a case of sour grapes until Ben showed me the two ‘test prints’ or ‘studies’ he’d sent the buyer before commencing the final picture.

“There’s a special place in hell for buyers like that.” he informed me.

Not only did this ...

Barry Humphries with daughter Emily Humphries, creator and curator of Temperature Vermillion.
Lured from a sojourn in the cool Tasmanian rain forests, national Icon and veteran art collector Barry Humphries who is lovingly known around the world as Dame Edna Everidge housewife superstar did not miss the preview launch of St Kilda’s Temperature Vermillion art gallery; created and curated by his youngest daughter artist, poet and entrepreneur Emily Humphries.

Earmarked to be one of St Kilda’s hottest and most sought after art spaces, Temperature Vermillion’s preview launch hosted the works of three unique and talented artists, Tasmanian born photographer Lucia Rossi, Melbourne’s own painter ...

By Faye Depasquale titled ‘Sturts Desert Peas’

The Toorak Village Art Walkruns for 4 weeks from Monday 19 October until Sunday 15 November 2015. The Toorak Village Traders Association has invited 35 artists to showcase original paintings, drawings and mixed media in the shop windows of Toorak Village businesses.


Toorak Village will become a “Street Gallery” for the 4^th year where businesses offer their front windows to artists from all over Australia to display their gorgeous paintings and artworks on easels of all sizes.

Toorak Village is between Wallace Ave and Grange Road, just east of Williams Road; simply ...

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Staged by William Mora under the Patronage of Georges Mora.

Laughter in The Art Gallery!, not pretentious but pissingly fractured and funny! - John Pinder [RIP].

Location: William Mora Galleries
60 Tanner Street Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Tel: 03 9429 1199

Dates: August 2015 on Fri 28, Sat 29, Sun 30.

Time: 6 - 8pm

Online tickets sale: http://www.trybooking.com/IDVK

Bookings essential as limited seating.

Come and relive some of the magic of ‘Those legendary Art Happenings’ those Dada Cabarets first staged at Tolarno Galleries, Fitzroy ...

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Tim Mckew at St Kilda's Tolarno Galleries in 1979 image by Henry Talbot.

I first met with Tim Mckew for a one on one, in his locale at the Abbotsford Convent the other day.

I had heard about his forth coming Dadaist performance art show, “Come Down With Us” running over three nights in August 2015 on Friday 28, Saturday 29 and Sunday 30, between 6 – 8pm at the William Mora Galleries, and after doing my research the night before, I was very interested to meet the man.

I discovered that Tim Mckew is a vibrant singer, songwriter, playwright and producer, whose successful career has spanned over five decades in show business ...

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Splendour in the Arts
with Jim van Geet

Portrait of Lucy Gale titled
"Somewhere under the Rainbow"
by Jim van Geet

As one of Melbourne’s longtime, unknown, underground inhabitants I have very recently come to know of nationally celebrated Victorian based artist Jim van Geet. My "awakening" came to pass as a result of his portrait of Lucy Gale titled “Somewhere under the Rainbow” which was part of the 2012 “ Hidden Faces of the Archibald “ exhibition at the Hilton at Docklands and in pride of place at the Age’s Media House Gallery from 20^th August till 28^th September.

Awakening, you may ask? Well, it was ignited five minutes into an interview with Lucy Gale ...