Gallery 101
Gallery 101 supports a diversity of contemporary art practice. Established in 1992, and ideally situated in one of Melbourne’s major landmark buildings, 101 Collins Street, the gallery is at the centre of the city’s most renowned gallery district.
Leading Australian artists are represented in a changing program of exhibitions showcasing painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, sculpture, tapestry and installation.
New exhibitions are open to the public every three weeks from mid February to late December. Integrated throughout the annual program are innovative exhibitions by guest curators that introduce work by new artists and offer a forum for current social and cultural debate.
Address
Gound Level, 101 Collins Street
Flinders Lane Precinct
Victoria
Australia
Postal Address
Gound Level, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
Australia
Gound Level, 101 Collins Street
Flinders Lane Precinct
Victoria
Australia
Postal Address
Gound Level, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
Australia
Opening Hours
Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm
Price
Free
Wheelchair Access
Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm
Price
Free
Wheelchair Access
Yes
Gallery: Gallery 101
Jon Eiseman’s sculpture extends beyond the physical, encompassing notions of time, spirituality and emotion. His figurative sculpture, cast in bronze, has a whimsical and poetic quality. Drawn from the inner landscape of the unconscious, Eiseman’s work carries a loose dream-like quality, creating an intriguing open-ended sense of narrative.
Gallery: Gallery 101
As a foreigner living in Japan, I made sense of a place that seemed paradoxical with symbols and icons. Some of these, such as the Chrysanthemum – the Imperial seal of a increasingly reclusive family – have sacred origins. Others are rooted in pop-culture and its obsession with Cute (‘Kawaii’); the ubiquitous Hello Kitty paraphernalia; the teenage girls parading as characters from Manga.
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Much like the museum, photography is a medium that conflates ideas of preservation and ephemerality, extinction and visibility. Josephine Kuperholz uses the photographic process as a form of enquiry.
Gallery: Gallery 101
Observed with a penetrating and affectionate gaze, her images are beautiful records of Australia’s vast landscape. Each work is an engagingly optimistic view, evoking the mystery and fragility of Australia’s rich environment. This survey of recent paintings concentrates on the tropical Queensland landscapes around Noosa and the Cairns Botanic Gardens.
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Mark Strizic, one of Australia’s eminent photographic artists presents us with nostalgic views of Melbourne and the changing face of the city in rare silver gelatin photographs.
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‘When do we bloom? When do we flower? When do we shine?
In this exhibition, flowers are not only a predominant source of visual inspiration, looking at them also engenders a kind of appreciation and wonder. The fragile and ephemeral flower provokes in me an awareness of the human condition that reveals the true nature of our existence.
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Something old, something new, something borrowed and everything blue.
‘What is blue? Blue is the invisible becoming visible. Blue has no dimensions. It is beyond the dimensions of which other colours partake.’
Yves Klein.
‘What bliss there is in blueness. I never knew how blue blueness could be.’
Vladimir Nabokov
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Heather Shimmen’s extraordinary detailed lino-cut prints deal with themes of migration and land. They tell individual and collective stories of struggle and fancy to expand the sanctioned histories of our colonial past and question the meaning of our national identity.
