A ground-breaking exhibition of street art, The Outsiders Melbourne, opens this December on the corner of Flinders Lane and Hosier Lane, the street art hub of Melbourne. It will be open free to the public from Thursday 12 December 2024 until 25 May 2025. This world premiere exhibition, which features highlights drawn from The Sandrew Collection, celebrates artists defying the art establishment.

Over the past 15 years, Sandra Powell and Andrew King have amassed the largest collection of street art in Australia, including the largest collection of Banksy artworks in the country. The pair – collectively referred to as ‘Sandrew’ – are renowned for their ongoing support of street art. They have curated exhibitions at home and abroad and are passionate in their advocacy of street art.

TarraWarra Museum of Art, located in the picturesque Yarra Valley in Victoria, will open the doors publicly to its breathtaking new building, the Eva and Marc Besen Centre, from 4 March 2025. The Centre will be a dedicated place of learning and creative inspiration for all ages, utilising flexible and adaptable spaces to deliver a diverse array of events including exhibitions, educational workshops, talks, lectures, performances, classical music concerts and live arts events.

The new Centre will provide visible access to over 300 stored artworks from the TarraWarra Museum of Art permanent collection, providing a panoramic display of iconic artworks gifted to the nation by renowned philanthropists, the late Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AC.

Adjacent to the TarraWarra Museum of Art and embedded within the landscape of the Yarra Valley, the new 2205-square-metre Centre was designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), with landscape design by OCULUS and Wurundjeri horticulturalist and artist Craig Murphy-Wandin.

COMA is set to unveil a new gallery space in the heart of Marrickville, launching on 31 January 2025 with a solo exhibition of new works by New Mexico-based Australian artist Justin Williams.

Inspired by the major warehouse-style galleries of Los Angeles, the 490-square-metre space, located on Chapel Street, has been transformed from a former coffee factory warehouse into a cutting-edge contemporary gallery, featuring an expansive exhibition space, private viewing rooms, on-site storage, and merchandise space.

Bundanon has unveiled bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country, an exhibition of new works created by Walbunja/Ngarigo artist Aunty Cheryl Davison, Gweagal/Wandiwandian artist Aunty Julie Freeman, and Wiradyuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones, open until 9 February 2025.

Celebrating South Coast stories and upholding local Aboriginal values and kinships, this major collaboration between the renowned First Nations artists features a large-scale architectural gunyah structure made from Bundanon’s Turpentine (Syncarpia glomulifera) trees, a 75-metre-long mural tracking the coastline from Sydney to just over the Victorian border, a suite of paintings, and ambitious large-scale screenprints. The season also includes drawings by nineteenth century Yuin artist Mickey of Ulladulla, loaned from key collections across Australia, providing a historical anchor point for the new commissions and connecting South Coast narratives from past to present.