October Fitzroy Art

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

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.

🥂 Opening party + film screening Friday, 31 October, 6 to 9 PM

📍 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.

🥂 Opening night Friday, 31 Oct, 6 to 9 PM

📍 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.

🥂 Opening night Friday, 31 Oct, 6 to 9 PM

📍 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.

🥂 Opening night Wednesday, 5 Nov, 6 to 8:30 PM

📍 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

New 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 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
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