Melbourne Art Crawl: Seven Openings, 15km, One E-Bike
On a Friday evening, art enthusiast James Norman from Melbourne utilized Charles Lai's online schedule to embark on an e-bike journey through seven gallery openings in six different suburbs, spanning 15 kilometers. The tour commenced at MOM Gallery in Thornbury, where Jack Staley presented his exhibition Earth 2 Earth, Ashes 2 Ashes. Following this, at OK Violet in East Brunswick, Debbie Pryor showcased her ceramic-framed drawings in Shadows as Witness. At Abbotsford's Cafe Gallery, Oscar Elmes exhibited art crafted from recycled materials. Collingwood's Jacky Winter Gallery featured Yoko Georgiou's Paper Binoculars. Abyss and Louis Moore's A DOG EAT DOG WORLD was on display at Everfresh Studio. Outré Gallery presented Greg Mount's Everything Is on the Table, while Hair Ari gallery highlighted Rosie Isaac's Preservation Machine. Norman returned to St Kilda after 8 PM.
Key facts
- James Norman visited seven art shows across 15km and six Melbourne suburbs on an e-bike on a Friday night.
- Charles Lai has run a free art openings calendar for more than a decade and is active on Instagram.
- MOM Gallery in Thornbury, behind Candy Cafe, showed ceramicist Jack Staley's Earth 2 Earth, Ashes 2 Ashes with 50 items.
- OK Violet gallery in East Brunswick, a former postwar lending library, opened a year ago and hosted Debbie Pryor's Shadows as Witness.
- Cafe Gallery in Abbotsford sold $5 beers from a garbage bin of ice during Oscar Elmes's opening.
- Jacky Winter Gallery in Collingwood hosted Yoko Georgiou's Paper Binoculars, featuring tufted rugs shaped as sea creatures.
- Everfresh Studio in Collingwood opened A DOG EAT DOG WORLD by Abyss and Louis Moore, with co-curator Tom Civil emphasizing its gritty industrial soul.
- Hair Ari gallery opposite Queen Victoria Market showed Rosie Isaac's Preservation Machine, using iron filings on fridges to visualize magnetism.
Entities
Artists
- James Norman
- David Lee Pereira
- Charles Lai
- Jack Staley
- Oscar O'Shea
- Kirsten Perry
- Debbie Pryor
- Arjuna Das
- Isobel Campbell
- Claira Mitchell
- Oscar Elmes
- Yoko Georgiou
- Abyss
- Louis Moore
- Tom Civil
- Greg Mount
- Cristea Nian Zhao
- Jincheng Deng
- Rosie Isaac
- Fikaris
- Niqui Toldi
- Bill Cunningham
Institutions
- Everfresh Studio
- MOM Gallery
- Candy Cafe
- OK Violet gallery
- Cafe Gallery
- Jacky Winter Gallery
- Outré Gallery
- Hair Ari gallery
- Monash University
- The Guardian
Locations
- Melbourne
- Australia
- Collingwood
- Thornbury
- East Brunswick
- Brunswick East
- Abbotsford
- Fitzroy
- St Kilda
- Berlin
- Neukölln
- Germany
- South Australia
- Belfast
- Northern Ireland
- China
- Queen Victoria Market