Australian artist-run initiatives

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Australian artist-run initiatives and galleries are found in many places around the country. A few key ones include Firstdraft, MOP (Sydney), KINGS ARI, Clubs Project inc, West Space, Seventh Gallery, Platform artists group (Melbourne), Downtown Art Space (Adelaide), and Breadbox ARI (Perth). Other important non-gallery artist initiatives include NUCA (Network of UnCollectable Artists), The Invisible Inc., the Artist Funded project, and the Sydney Ladies Artists Club.

[edit] Victorian artist-run initiatives

Early examples of artist run initiatives include The Queensbery Street Gallery operated by Melbourne artist Peter Graham in association with Victorian Printmakers' Group between 1973 and 1978.

Artist-run initiatives in Melbourne, Victoria, are promoted by VIA-n, the Victorian Initiatives of Artists Network, a volunteer network that includes more than twenty ARI organisations spread across metropolitan and regional Victoria. In April 2007, VIA-n will be releasing a publication on the history of ARIs in Victoria in conjunction with simultaneous artist-run events across the state.

The Australia Council for the Arts has also produced a comprehensive list of Australian artist-run intitiatives in operation in 2006.

[edit] References

"West Space Editorial" West Space, 2007.
"Last chance to see" By Sunanda Creagh, Sydney Morning Herald, January 13, 2006.
"Taking the Initiative" By Angus Hohenboken, The Program, 10 February 2004.
"Melbourne artist-run spaces: fighting fit" by Daniel Palmer, Real Time 45, October-November 2001.
Germaine, Max 'Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand' (1979) ISBN