Established in 2009, St Heliers Street Gallery is an Abbotsford Convent Foundation initiative. The gallery is located on the ground floor of the main Convent building, next to Cam’s Kiosk: a bustling café and local institution for knock-off drinks. The gallery welcomes over 2,000 visitors a week, it is an artistic hub, a natural meeting place and a great space for sharing work with a diverse and growing audience.
St Heliers Street Gallery is managed by the Abbotsford Convent Foundation in partnership with Cams. It showcases work by the Convent’s artistic community, as well as providing an affordable space for emerging artists to exhibit. There is a year-round exhibition schedule, with no commission is charged on any works sold. All sales proceeds go directly to artists.
The gallery presents contemporary arts and cultural works across all art forms. We work collaboratively with artists and in partnership with other arts and cultural organisations to share our unique, multi-arts precinct with a broad audience. We aim to stimulate engagement and cultural exchange through the wonderful and unexpected curiosities of our people and our place—and community spaces like St Heliers Street Gallery are at the heart of that vision.
Melbourne Art Therapy – In Good Company | May 1 – May 23
Simon Swingler – Art Worth Saving | 26 May – 19 June
David Booth/Ghostpatrol – Set Adrift on Garden Bliss | 26 May – 19 June
Angela Rossitto – Midst | 3 Mar – 28 Mar
Kirsten Moegerlein – In Flood | 3 Mar – 27 Mar
Annabel McCourt – Flying the Flag | 25 Jan – 27 Feb
Annie Edney and Iris Marie Bergmann – re-earthing
Oscar O’Shea – Rubberneck
Jess Jarvie – Among the Leaves, Among the Shadows
Annie O’Rourke – Work of Reclamation
Isabel Koslowsky – Dreamscapes of the Natural World
Amelia Dowling, James Hale and Allison Taplin – Public | Private
Eugenie Kawabata – Second Life
David Helmers – How Things Make You Feel
Arts Project Australia – Common Thread
Ghost Wares – Aggregate
Helga Salwe – Three weeks in Morocco
Jo Condon and Nadin – The Light Within
Jacqueline Claire Smith – Water Burial
Sarah Tracton – Hearing for Silence
NGV Melbourne Design Week – How Much Can a Koala Bear
University of Melbourne Early Learning Centre – Sticks and Stones and Feathers
Linda Oy Ho – Cellular to Stellar
Rebecca Thomas and Natasha Sutila – It Could Go Either Way
Jacqueline Felstead – All Angles Forever
Rosi Griffin – Fractured Dwellings
Casey Schuurman – Brave Face