The Best of What’s On at Fitzroy’s Art Galleries

🖼️ GALLERIES + EXHIBITIONS

End of Year Exhibition at RED Gallery

Jake Baglin maps a painter’s path through daily practice in Ten Paintings and a Drawing, capturing Northcote’s familiar corners with a reverent, restless eye. Meanwhile, Gods and Monsters sees Noah Pfister wrestle with creation and destruction, layering instinctive abstraction with philosophical intent. Robyn Blaikie’s Here, There and Everywhere traces fleeting impressions in oil and Mokulito, drawing on memory, light and quiet observation. Finally, House Tour brings together nine artists exploring the fragile idea of home in all its intimacy and impermanence, curated by Sean Holt and Alessia Catalano.

🥂 Opening night is Friday, 12 December, 6 to 8 PM
📍 RED Gallery | Wed 10 to Sun 21 Dec

Last But Not Least at THIS IS NO FANTASY
Last But Not Least reframes endings as the year closes. Neil Haddon’s vivid paintings shift between abstraction and representation, while Ali Tahayori builds spaces of memory and intimacy through light and image. Johnathon World Peace Bush paints with boldness, humour and sovereignty. Rounding out the show, Olivia Chin’s landscapes move with gesture and quiet emotion, tracing what’s seen and what’s felt.

📍 THIS IS NO FANTASY | Fri 5 to Sat 20 Dec

December Exhibition at SOL Gallery

In Companion, Grace Murphy gently unpacks the bonds between people and animals, drawing out familiarity, humour and daily rituals through paintings on wood. Jo Ryan reimagines a historic erotic print in The Pearl Diver’s Dream, a mixed-media narrative of desire, discomfort and reclamation. Shelter In Another Body sees Strokes in Blue delve into surreal inner worlds, asking what it means to find home in another person.

🥂 Opening night is Wednesday, 3 December, 6 to 8.30 PM
📍 SOL Gallery | Tue 2 Dec to Sun 21 Dec

Group Show at Brunswick Street Gallery

Edwina Edwards takes a slow walk through the Australian bush in Along the Bush Track, while Rebecca Kilpatrick’s Wallflower reflects on nostalgia, endings and inner shifts. In Review gathers nine artists in a snapshot of their creative year. Conrad Square’s Happiness Factory asks if joy can be made or must be found. In Breath of Light, Chris Morgan captures the Tarkine’s wild beauty through painterly digital photography. Nadia Valeska’s The Weight of Heirlooms weaves personal and collective memory into layered reflections on resilience.

🥂 Opening night is Friday, 5 December, 6 to 8 PM
📍 Brunswick Street Gallery | Thu 4 Dec to Sun 21 Dec

Puppets? Everybody Loves Puppets at Oigall Projects

The final exhibition of the year at Oigall Projects arrives with no thesis, no agenda and no attempt at behaving. Artists from Australia and abroad have each made a puppet, just because. The result is a small carnival of forms that dangle, blink and pout. Unserious work taken seriously, or maybe the other way around.

📍 Oigall Projects | Wed 3 Dec to end Jan

Group Show at RED Gallery

Four solo shows open this week at RED Gallery, each tracing the edges of memory, identity and transformation. Richard McCoy unpacks beauty and belief through digital distortion, JD Mitchell reclaims found landscapes as sites of resistance and survival, Nicholas Pelekis paints memory as something felt more than remembered, while Pranay Lodhiya’s poetic photographs turn quiet moments into lyrical reflections.

📍 RED Gallery | Wed 26 Nov to Sun 7 Dec

Fitzroy Festivus at Fitzroy Public Gallery
A spirited group show marking the end of the year and Fitzroy Public Gallery’s first birthday. Come along to discover bold, festive and offbeat works across painting, photography, sculpture, video and more, with artists bringing their own flavour to the celebrations. There will also be an art market in the downstairs area for December only during gallery opening hours.

📍 Fitzroy Public Gallery | Fri 28 Nov to Sun 14 Dec

Fliated, Ambience and Encounter at RED Gallery

RED Gallery brings together three solo exhibitions reflecting inner life and sensory connection. Tracy Potts weaves quiet rituals and tangled thoughts into delicate textile bibelots of colour and light. Meanwhile, Robert Brown paints meditative scenes shaped by observation, wonder and the play of light. Connie Wong’s vivid brushwork channels emotion into luminous abstraction, each stroke an expressive, improvised dance.

📍 RED Gallery | Wed 12 Nov to Sat 23 Nov

November Exhibitions at Brunswick Street Gallery

Brunswick Street Gallery unveils six new exhibitions exploring memory, place and personal narrative. Jill Daniels paints a vivid journey to the rodeo through Ngukurr country. Martin Quinlan reflects on space and the distant horizon, while Thea Quinlan captures domestic ritual and the comfort of the everyday. Katie Hayne maps Canberra’s suburban sprawl. Anna Kiparis documents fleeting moments across Melbourne and New York. Martin Hodge and Dr Sevgi Kilic confront state violence and survival through sculpture and watercolour.

📍 Brunswick Street Gallery | Thu 13 Nov to Sun 30 Nov

Ashley Wood and Robert Duxbury at Outré Gallery
Outré Gallery opens two solo showcases exploring deeply personal creative worlds. Ashley Wood, known globally for his comic, toy and game collaborations, returns to painting with richly layered works that bridge pop culture and fine art. Robert Duxbury’s introspective paintings trace memory and emotion through moody symbolism and soft-focus forms, offering a quiet study of the human condition.

📍 Outré Gallery | Fri 14 Nov to Fri 5 Dec

DREAMcreamcreakcrackcrockCLOCK at Sutton Gallery
In this collaborative show, Matlok Griffiths and Dan Moynihan transform language into colour. Starting with the word “Dream” and ending at “Clock”, each shift informed the palette and process behind their paintings. Developed through constraint-based exchange, the works explore how communication, intuition and colour perception collide, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in friction, across surface, form and shape.

📍 Sutton Gallery | Sat 8 Nov to Sat 6 Dec

ESSENCE at BSIDE Gallery

Japanese artists Tetsu Fukumorita and Shigeo Kimura bring a bold new vision to Fitzroy with ESSENCE, a collaborative exhibition exploring contemporary Cubism. Expect layered figures, jagged contours and surreal intensity across large-format paintings and sculpture.

📍 BSIDE Gallery | Thu 31 Oct to Sat 2 Nov

Dark Arts at Fitzroy Public Gallery

Step into the shadows with Dark Arts, an immersive Halloween weekend exhibition exploring the uncanny, the grotesque and the magical. Drawing on ancient practices and psychological unease, this group show conjures beauty and menace in equal measure.

📍 Fitzroy Public Gallery | Fri 31 Oct to Sun 2 Nov

Four shows at Red Gallery

This season, Red Gallery unveils four exhibitions spanning speculative fiction, emotional portraiture, expressive abstraction and gothic aesthetics. Angela Ndalianis conjures a dazzling post-human world of glittering zombie bunnies, Jayne Pickering explores identity and resilience through operatic and swimmer muses, Steve Leadbeater captures energy and emotion in elemental works, and Gothic Romantic brings together nine artists tracing beauty through shadow, decay and light.

📍 Red Gallery | Wed 29 Oct to Sun 9 Nov

Group Exhibitions at SOL Gallery

SOL Gallery presents four distinct shows that navigate memory, materiality and personal narrative. Amanda Lugg’s sculptural vases use repurposed waste to question viability, HIRATANAO reflects on identity across cultures, Shin Koyama honours love and loss through traditional motifs, and Sobrane stitches denim, politics and rebellion into bold visual statements.

📍 SOL Gallery | Tue 4 Nov to Sun 16 Nov

Daniel Butterworth, Fiona Barbetti and StudioWorkings at SOL Gallery

SOL Gallery presents three new exhibitions exploring city life, domestic ritual and collaborative creativity. Daniel Butterworth’s The Race: Human captures urban urgency and isolation with raw brushwork and emotional force. Fiona Barbetti’s Loves the Sun reflects on motherhood, winter light and quiet moments indoors, combining sculpture, drawing and text. In StudioWorkings, six women artists share their first group exhibition, a celebration of weekly studio practice across printmaking, painting, ceramics and collage.

📍 SOL Gallery | Tue 21 Oct to Sun 2 Nov

Group Exhibition at Brunswick Street Gallery

The show features work by Yuṯa Ganydjarr (Artists of Yirrkala via Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka), Nyangulya Katie Nalgood (Friends in Flock), Jessie Rose Ford (Re-Visiting), Samuel O’Malley (Knocking from Below), Nyssa Braid and Dan Go (It’s Mothman’s World, We’re Just Living in It), Myles Burgess (Still Drifting) and Nancy Cover (Flourish). Across media and moods, these shows consider a range of themes from myth-making, memory, movement and connection, using techniques that span bold abstract gestures to slow, sculptural mark-making.

📍 Brunswick Street Gallery | Thu 23 Oct to Sun 9 Nov

Marie-Louise Anderson: Playfulness, Sadness and Joy at North Gallery

North Gallery welcomes artist Marie-Louise Anderson to the Marfa Artist Project with a new body of work shaped by her life in Fitzroy North. Drawing on her connection to the Merri Creek and memories of Tasmania’s landscapes, her paintings explore the theatre of nature, where the natural world becomes a stage for emotion: a space where playfulness, sadness and joy coexist in shifting forms.

📍 North Gallery | Sat 18 Oct to Fri 31 Oct

Greg Mount and Wen Pham at Outré Gallery

Outré Gallery presents two solo shows exploring memory, transformation and emotional depth. Greg Mount captures scenes of solitary figures and weathered vehicles along lonesome highways, summoning nostalgia through bold colour and Americana grit. Wen Pham’s paintings draw from personal change and quiet introspection, blending fluid forms, feline symbolism and emotional nuance. Together, these exhibitions invite reflection on resilience, identity and the beauty in life’s smaller moments.

📍 Outré Gallery | Fri 17 Oct to Sun 9 Nov

October Exhibitions at Red Gallery

Red Gallery opens four shows exploring memory, identity and quiet moments of transformation. Dylan Jones captures the rhythms of Vietnamese street life with painterly restraint in Any Second Now. In a shared exhibition, Shelley O’Keefe and Philip Senior reflect on gendered narratives and the passage of time. Olivia Hamilton’s Uncanny Doubles brings conceptual depth through sculpture and spatial design. Still Life, a group show curated across six artists, reimagines the genre with fresh perspectives and forms.

📍 Red Gallery | Wed 15 Oct to Sun 26 Oct

From The Ruins at THIS IS NO FANTASY

Ancient ruins meet imagined futures in Kevin Chin’s luminous new paintings, shaped by time in Spain and Italy. In his twentieth solo exhibition, Chin explores collapse and renewal through global landscapes that blur history and place. From desert scenes to Roman arches, each canvas carries quiet moments of resilience and light amidst the debris.

📍 THIS IS NO FANTASY | Wed 9 Oct to Sat 1 Nov

Relics at PG Gallery

Samer Hatam explores how fiction and truth intermingle in our understanding of the past. Working with limited-edition etchings, he questions the authority of relics and the stories we inherit, asking how much of history is fact, and how much is constructed. Hatam draws on his background in architectural printmaking to invite reflection on the fragility of historical memory and the way we tell our stories.

📍 PG Gallery | Tue 7 Oct to Sat 18 Oct

October Exhibitions at SOL Gallery

Four artists bring deeply personal perspectives to SOL Gallery this month. Olivia O’Connor’s life-sized timber sculpture captures a cheeky seaside moment. Jen Rodger’s mixed media paintings celebrate emotional freedom through intuitive process. Linda Oy Ho reimagines Tarot archetypes in a call to reconnect with the divine feminine. Anette Chang and Pimpisa Tinpalit honour collective resilience in The Journey We Take Together, a tribute to the breast cancer community.

📍 SOL Gallery | Tue 7 Oct to Sun 19 Oct

Here It Is at Sutton Gallery

Spanning four decades of practice, Stephen Bush’s Here It Is brings together forty-seven artworks, including oil paintings, pencil drawings and studio artefacts that reflect his cyclical approach to image-making. Working within self-imposed constraints, the artist reconfigures recurring motifs to question memory, perception and time. The show includes a new version of an early 1980s painting, now revised to include a reflection of the artist himself.

📍 Sutton Gallery | Sat 4 Oct to Sat 1 Nov

Cause & Effect at BSIDE Gallery

Linda Radosinska’s raw, emotionally charged solo show grew from a time of deep personal pain into a meditation on radical healing and hope. Cause & Effect tells the story of how a “dark night of the soul” was transformed into something beautiful, radical and true. The exhibition blends visual storytelling with themes of resilience, surprise and human connection.

📍 BSIDE Gallery | Thu 2 Oct to Sun 13 Oct

October Exhibitions at Brunswick Street Gallery

Brunswick Street Gallery presents six exhibitions exploring memory, abstraction, transformation and the power of reflection. Featured artists include Amy Wright, Tom Simmo, Lisa Banks, Cecilia Jacobs and Mickey Mason, alongside the group exhibition Reflect, which brings together a diverse collection of works that encourage viewers to pause, look closer and consider what lies beneath the surface.

📍 Brunswick Street Gallery | Thu 2 Oct to Sun 19 Oct

October Exhibitions at RED Gallery

Four new shows open this week at RED Gallery, exploring abstraction, material memory and the limits of perception. Silke Raetze distils playful forms into minimalist compositions in Quiet Play. Paul Robinson’s Growth Boundary reflects on sprawl, fire and suburban transformation. Sandra Espinoza’s Simplify uses intuitive oil painting to examine communication and connection, while Keith Mason’s Perfect Machine blends sculpture, sound and simulation in search of authentic experience.

📍 RED Gallery | Wed 1 Oct to Sat 12 Oct

🎨 VANGUARD International Invitational at Outré Gallery

VANGUARD returns to Outré Gallery with a powerful showcase of over 50 international artists pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. From surrealism and pop culture to experimental illustration, this group show brings together cutting-edge work from visionary talents at the top of their field.

📍 Outré Gallery | Fri 19 Sep to Sun 12 Oct

📸 Images courtesy of JD Mitchell, Nicholas Pelekis, Strokes in Blue, Thea Quinlan, Martin Quinlan, Connie Wong, Nathan Markham, Sobrane, Steve Leadbeater, Alexandra Ann Minchin, Angela Ndalianis, Francesca Goldspring, Tetsu Fukumorita, Andy Mcintyre, Paula Jasmine, Will Elika, Tony Fuery, B-Side Gallery, Marie-Louise Anderson, Dylan Jones, Fiona Barbetti, Daniel Butterworth, Greg Mount, Lisa Banks, Kevin Chin, Jules Bulleid, Marian Quigley, Sandra Espinoza, Jen Selmore and Sarah Wolf