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

Looking for a reason to step inside and soak up something thoughtful, bold or quietly beautiful? Fitzroy’s gallery scene is full of rotating exhibitions showcasing emerging and established artists across painting, photography, sculpture and mixed media. Whether you’re a seasoned gallery-goer or simply in the mood to soak up some inspiring works of art, there’s always something worth taking the time to explore. After all, we all know a little art is good for the soul. Below, we’ve rounded up the best of what’s showing now — and we’ll keep this list updated to help you plan your art outings. 🎨
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🖼️ GALLERIES + EXHIBITIONS

🧪September Exhibitions at SOL Gallery.

SOL Gallery presents four thoughtful exhibitions this September. Bricolage reinterprets mid-century photography through intuitive abstraction. Pichutaan reflects on migrant identity and emotional entanglement. Living on Mute expresses transformation and liberation through delicate paper butterflies. Glass Collab 5 features emerging glass artists exploring sculptural forms inspired by geology, memory and nature.

🥂 Opening event is Wednesday, 24 September from 6 to 8:30 PM.

📍 SOL Gallery | Tue 23 Sep to Sun 5 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. 

🥂 Opening event is Friday, 19 September from 6 to 8 PM. 

📍 Outré Gallery | Fri 19 Sep to Sun 12 Oct

 🖼️ September Exhibitions at Red Gallery

Red Gallery presents four solo and group exhibitions this September, each exploring distinct approaches to memory, identity and landscape. The Butterfly Effect bridges botanical beauty and environmental urgency. Constant Keening to Whispered Laments captures grief in pigment and gesture. Assimilations questions conformity through painting and video. Here and There brings together artists with personal connections to local and global landscapes through oil painting. 

🥂 Opening event is Friday, 19 September from 6 to 8 PM. 

📍 Red Gallery | Wed 17 Sep to Sun 28 Sep

🌸 Group Exhibitions at Brunswick Street Gallery

Five new exhibitions explore memory, symbolism and transformation through painting, photography and mixed media. James Riches evokes suburban nostalgia in Between Light & Shadow, while Grace Kelly’s debut IF imagines alternative futures. Irina Nazarova’s Mythical Flowers conjures emblematic flora. A Way Through traces a creative return to light, and group show Oeuvre presents curated works from emerging and established artists.

🥂 Opening event is Friday, 12 September from 6 to 8 PM.

📍 Brunswick Street Gallery | Wed 11 Sep to Sun 28 Sep

🧭  Noppadon Viroonchatapun, Colours of Bangladesh, Thosaphorn Sutham, Vayupad Ruttanapet at SOL Gallery

SOL Gallery introduces four upcoming exhibitions exploring travel, culture, abstraction and the human form. Noppadon Viroonchatapun’s The Travel Notes captures moments and encounters from life’s journeys. Thosaphorn Sutham creates abstract, minimalistic works of vivid colour and texture while Vayupad Ruttanapet presents sculptures balancing realism, tradition and personal expression. Finally, the group exhibit, Colours of Bangladesh, celebrates the vibrant traditions and landscapes of Bangladeshi artists.

📍 SOL Gallery | Tue 9 Sep to Sun 21 Sep

🎨 Sammy Veall at North Gallery

Quotidian by Sammy Veall captures the slow beauty of Mediterranean life. Striped figures hold flowers, fish, cigarettes and each other in scenes of ritual and leisure. The works evoke shared afternoons in sun-drenched places, with references to sea creatures, zucchini flowers, coffee and wine. These poetic stills elevate daily gestures into something quiet, colourful and oddly tender.

📍 North Gallery | Sat 13 Sep to Sat 27 Sep

🐉 The Unusual Art of Monoprinting at PG Gallery

Step into PG Gallery for The Unusual Art of Monoprinting, a dynamic group exhibition curated by Chris Lawry. Ten contemporary artists explore the spontaneity of monoprinting, drawing on myth, landscape, portraiture, abstraction and the human figure to create unique works where process and intention converge in unrepeatable moments.

📍 PG Gallery | Tue 2 Sep to Sat 13 Sep

✒️ Rebecca Bresnahan, Sean Claney, Moon Ramone, Hilmi Baskurt at Red Gallery

Red Gallery hosts four new exhibitions exploring perception, presence and the creative process. Rebecca Bresnahan delves into the themes of life, death, renewal and spiritual presence, Sean Claney blends imagination and technique in striking compositions, Moon Ramone’s Interbeing uses meditative line and fluid paint to investigate body and psyche, and Hilmi Baskurt’s The Seen and The Seeing captures figures suspended between appearance and memory, reflecting on vision, intimacy and the digital gaze.

📍 Red Gallery | Wed 3 Sep to Sun 14 Sep

📷 Ali Tahayori at THIS IS NO FANTASY

THIS IS NO FANTASY features Archive of Longing by Ali Tahayori, a striking series exploring love and intimacy within an inherited family archive. Rephotographed, cropped and printed on glass, the images are shattered and reassembled into sculptural reliefs that shift with the viewer’s movement, reflecting on history, memory and queer diasporic experience.

📍 THIS IS NO FANTASY | Thu 4 Sep to Sat 4 Oct

🎨 Raafat Ishak at Sutton Gallery

Sutton Gallery has a new show by Sore Sun by Raafat Ishak, a multidisciplinary exhibition spanning painting, sculpture and installation. Ishak’s work examines architecture, statehood and communal experience through abstraction and seriality, blending structure and chaos while tracing recurring symbols and motifs that reflect the interdependency of culture.

📍 Sutton Gallery | Sat 30 Aug to Sat 27 Sep

📸 Annika Kafcaloudis at Oigåll Projects

Oigåll Projects hosts ARTEFACT by Annika Kafcaloudis, an exploration of memory, materiality and the emotional resonance of objects. Building on her previous work in Family History, Kafcaloudis traces the subtle power of everyday artefacts, revealing how even the most ordinary items carry traces of human experience. Each photograph captures not only the object itself but the layered histories and feelings it evokes, transforming relics and fragments into intimate echoes of life. Through this body of work, Kafcaloudis invites viewers to reflect on the delicate interplay between the personal and the universal, and to consider how meaning accumulates in objects over time.

📍 Oigåll Projects | Thu 28 Aug to Sun 14 Sep

💐 Lisa Han, Miriam Frank, Shoko Ishida, Courtney Brims at Outré Gallery

Outré Gallery showcases four exhibitions celebrating curiosity, imagination, and the natural world. Lisa Han reflects on quiet companionship and fleeting moments of joy, while Miriam Frank explores immersive, dreamlike encounters with untamed landscapes. Shoko Ishida transforms simple forms into expressive, poetic narratives, and Courtney Brims uncovers the hidden beauty and subtle danger within nature through playful, magical realism.

📍 Outré Gallery | Fri 22 Aug to Sun 14 Sep

 

📸 Images courtesy of Jen Selmore, Sarah Wolf, Sammy Veall, Irina Nazarova, James Riches, Moon Ramone, Ali Tahayori, Courtney Brims, Andrew Fyfe, Jarek Wojcik, Tabitha Hocking, Lisa Han, Ellana Bobenko, Michelle Harvey, Tracie MacVean.
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