Ground floor
Convent building
Wednesday – Saturday
9am – 11pm,
Sunday – Sunday
3pm – 9pm
Confluence by Ralf Kempken and Katheryn Leopoldseder, 2019. Photo by Anne Moffat.">
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A Birrarung Story, 2019. Photo by Fabio Segatori.">
A Birrarung Story, 2019. Photo by Fabio Segatori.">
Ground floor
Convent building
Wednesday – Saturday
9am – 11pm,
Sunday – Sunday
3pm – 9pm
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 Cam’s. 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 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.
Noah Spivak – meer | 22 May – 16 Jun
BlakDance & Abbotsford Convent – PLATFORM | 8 – 18 May
Edwina Badgery – Vessels For You And Me | 20 Mar – 13 Apr
Colin Hopkins – 84 Days in Shigaraki | 20 Feb – 16 Mar
Rick Matear – Freecycling and Art Class Exhibition | 24 Nov – 12 Jan
Samantha Sederof – Haldee | 26 Sep – 20 Oct
Arabella Strachan & Jess Hall – On the Surface | 4 – 28 Jul
Kirsten Moegerlein – Everything Standing Up Alive | 6 – 30 Jun
Jo Lloyd – 13 Selects | 9 May – 2 Jun
Anna Walker & Collaborators – Collect | 19 Apr – 5 May
Jana Hartmann (PHOTO24) – Mastering the Elements | 1 – 24 Mar
Miss Martha (Maya) & Melbourne Art Therapy Studio – The Art of Corsage and Masking | 1 – 28 Feb
Jess Lyons – Anhedonia | 16 Nov – 3 Dec
Sora May – The World As I See It | 19 Oct – 12 Nov
Melanie Thewlis – Midnight in the Garden | 21 Sep – 15 Oct
Sophia Mundi Steiner School – Metamorphosis: a practise of art and reflection | 7 – 16 Sep
Caitlin Klooger – Forage | 15 – 27 Aug
Convent Made Showcase | 13 Jul – 14 Aug
Jamie Grant – As Far As The Eye Can See | 22 Jun – 9 Jul
Schizy Inc – Send It | 25 May – 18 Jun
Jacqueline Claire Smith – Out of One, Many | 27 Apr – 21 May
Isabel Koslowsky – Dreamscapes of the Natural World – Becoming One | 30 Mar – 23 Apr
David Helmers – Oddities | 2 – 26 Mar
Brittany Shemmeld – FLOW | 9 – 26 Feb
Helga Salwe and Cate Kennedy – Return | 1 – 22 Dec
Anna Moegerlein – Close In | 8 – 28 Nov
Britt Salt – The Middle Distance | 10 – 27 Nov
Marcel Feillafe – Journal | 13 Oct – 6 Nov
Katie Sfetkdis – Feminism for the 99% | 13 Oct – 5 Nov
Convent Made Showcase | 15 Sep – 9 Oct
Beatrice Wharldall – Paintings for Thinking With | 15 Sep – 9 Oct
Sophie Bullen – FILL THEM WITH SKY | 8 Aug – 13 Sep
Zoe Irving – Earth and Industry | 18 Aug – 12 Sep
Arabella Strachan – Soft Touch | 23 June – 17 July
Simon Swingler – Art Worth Saving | 26 May – 19 June
David Booth/Ghostpatrol – Set Adrift on Garden Bliss | 26 May – 19 June
Melbourne Art Therapy – In Good Company | 1-23 May
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
