Australian artist-run initiatives

Australian artist-run initiatives are a series of artist-run initiatives and galleries found throughout Australia. A few key spaces include FELTspace (Adelaide); LEVEL and Boxcopy (Brisbane); The Walls Art Space (Gold Coast) BUS Projects, KINGS ARI, TCB, Clubs Project inc, West Space, Seventh Gallery, Blindside and Trocadero Art Space, Exit Strategy Studios (Melbourne); Free Range, Moana and Paper Mountain (Perth); Firstdraft, MOP and Serial Space (Sydney); and Project Contemporary Artspace (Wollongong).

Brisbane is home to many currently active and innovative artist-run initiatives, including Boxcopy, The Wandering Room, Diagram, and ArtWorld Studio Gallery (Norman Park).

BNE ART is an independent digital visual arts guide, live-archive resource and access point for the online public wishing to learn more about Brisbane’s visual arts sector.

Constance, formerly known as Inflight is currently the only artist-run initiative based in Hobart. Inflight began in 2003 and celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, re-launching early February 2013 as Constance ARI.

6a was a significant artist-run initiative based in North Hobart from 2007-2011.

Sawtooth ARI is a gallery based in Launceston, showcasing contemporary and experimental art by local, interstate and international artists at various stages of their professional career.

PRAXIS was an early artist-run initiative which had a fifteen-year history of producing an important program of visual arts exhibitions, publications and special projects Artists included Brian McKay, Paul Thomas. The Verge/KURB is another, which also produced a publication that documented it and many others from the 1970s through to the 1990s. Terminus= group was another active in the later 1990s.

The oldest, currently operating artists studios is Gotham Studios has been a dedicate art making studio since 1987. The second oldest is Robertson Park Artists Studio which was originally the Wellman Street Studio (1994-2000). In 2014 Paper Mountain produced a limited survey exhibition of emerging artist-run initiative.

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