10 Art Galleries in Melbourne That You Shouldn't Miss

Printism offers a unique collection of Australian vintage posters and Australian landscape art as affordable museum-quality prints and canvases. Our Moorabbin gallery, conveniently located en-route to the Mornington Peninsula, is the best place in Melbourne to look for up-market souvenirs of Australia. You can take your art home as hand luggage in a compact tube or have it sent to your door anywhere in the world.

Blender Studios is an art complex with 24+ resident artists. Over the years there have been many Blender artists working in a variety of mediums, who have achieved major critical success. The Blender incorporates artist studios, Dark Horse Experiment Gallery, Melbourne Street Tours, and our workshop programs through The Blender Institute. The Blender is an ideas factory where nearly anything goes. It is self- sustainable and tries to bring art to everyone. It is not elitist and everyone is always welcome.

About Silver K was founded in 1979 with the aim of bringing art to the Australian market that had not been previously seen in this country. Over the years we have come to specialize in two major areas. Animation Art Original Rock n Roll Photography Rock n Roll photography has been one of the special highlights of Silver K gallery. The gallery owns one of the largest collections of original negatives by famous photographer Dezo Hoffman. Dezo is one of the first photographers to work with the Beatles in the early 1960s and his iconic shots are now famous throughout the world. We print all these images from the original negatives and each one is individually hadn retouched as Dezo did in his studio all those years ago. We also stock an extraordinary collection of photographs from Robert Freeman, Astrid Kirrcherr, Yurgen Volmer, and many others. In the world of animation we have represented all the major studios and featured art from such classics as Disney, Warner Bros, Hanna-Barbera, Fox Studios and many, many others. We have had many major exhibitions and had famous animators including Chuck Jones, Bill Hanna, Iwao Takamoto, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnson, Paul Carlson and others as special guests at exhibitions which started in 1987 and are ongoing. We have one of the largest stock holdings of animation art in the world, so please take time to view our website.

Craft Victoria is a national leader in the craft and design sector, promoting a cutting-edge vision of hand-crafted practice in the 21st century. For 50 years Craft Victoria has supported the growth of thousands of makers, nurtured hundreds of small creative businesses and challenged the boundaries of craft practice. Craft has built a vibrant and sustainable contemporary craft and design community by supporting, showcasing and celebrating all craft disciplines. Craft is the only organisation within Victoria which provides curatorial, public program and professional development opportunities for craft practitioners. Craft’s headquarters in Melbourne has become a hub for audiences and makers working across ceramics, furniture, jewellery, textiles, fibre and glass to gather, view, discuss and celebrate works by many of Australia’s most highly regarded craft practitioners.

Buxton Contemporary opened in 2018 at the University of Melbourne’s art school, the Victorian College of the Arts. Designed by renowned architects Fender Katsalidis, the museum is comprised of four public exhibition galleries, teaching facilities, and the largest outdoor screen in Australia dedicated to the display of moving image art. The museum is located in the heart of the Melbourne arts precinct where it provides a creative forum through which the University engages local, national and international audiences with the best of contemporary Australian and international art.