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Gallery exhibitions that took place in 2022.

If you have questions about our past exhibitions or would like information about an exhibition that is not listed, you can email [email protected].

Major exhibitions

Brightly painted scenes of daily life

Tell Me a Story — online exhibition

‘Tell Me a Story’ was a major exhibition showing at Town Hall Gallery, celebrating the ancient art of storytelling.
Looking up at a forest of dense trees and foliage that has a curved perspective around the viewing point, with birds and a cloudy sky in the centre

Above the Canopy — online exhibition

‘Above the Canopy’ celebrates the rich and diverse beauty of the Australian natural environment.
large sheets of canvas painted with bright colours and draped across the walls and piled on the ground

Expanded Canvas — online exhibition

‘Expanded Canvas’ was a major exhibition at Town Hall Gallery exploring the dynamic and innovative nature of contemporary painting.
Detail from Making Kin by Jahnne Pasco–White

Material Reverie — online exhibition

'Material Reverie' was a group exhibition that explored the rich variety of materials contemporary Australian artists use in their practice.

Community exhibitions

Paint artwork depicting a range of Australian animals on a green hill, separated by a river.

‘Through Our Eyes’ by QArt Studio — online exhibition

‘Through Our Eyes’ explored the individual perspectives of artists from QArt Studio, featuring paintings that convey the limitless colours, shapes, subjects, and themes that occupy our lives.
Dabs of different coloured paint on a textured white surface

'Painting Place' by Madeleine Thornton-Smith — online exhibition

‘Painting Place’ by Madeleine Thornton-Smith is a community exhibition examining pre-existing hierarchies between paintings and ceramics.
Building with milk bar and milk signs

‘Streets of Your Town’ by Geoff Cunningham — online exhibition

‘Streets of Your Town’ by Geoff Cunningham was a community exhibition featuring spray paint and stencil-based paintings.
a bee riding a motorbike

‘The Cartoon Chronicles of Sandwich Bag Dad’ by Dave Blumenthal — online exhibition

'Cartoon Chronicles of Sandwich Bag Dad' celebrates Dave Blumenthal's lunch bag artworks that have entertained a growing, worldwide community of dad joke enthusiasts for nearly a decade.
Painting flowers in vases and an opened book

‘Borrowed’ by Carla Tucker — online exhibition

‘Borrowed’ by Carla Tucker was a community exhibition featuring still life paintings that pay homage to existing artworks, including selected pieces from the Town Hall Gallery Collection.
4 images - red, orange and yellow shapes intersecting, then a textured light globe with ridges, then metal looking tubes strung togeth, then red see-through material hanging in front of red circles on a wall

'Parallel Visions' — online exhibition

‘Parallel Visions’ was a community exhibition exploring twentieth century Italian art and design history through contemporary artistic practices and academic research.
Gum leaves painted on a canvas in varied green and brown colours

‘Canvas and Paint’ by Eileen van Bavel — online exhibition

Featuring paintings that explore the art of expression, van Bavel experiments with vivid colours and textural surfaces, layered with compounds, material, and glazes.
A brightly coloured quilt with flowers and a patch in the middle that says 'YAY' and is decorated with flowers

'Common Thread' — online exhibition

‘Common Thread’ is a community exhibition featuring four artists who work with materials from the domestic setting such as needles and thread, children’s school tools, and pieces of paper.
The Rivoli theatre at night showing the red and blue neon lights, the lit entrance, and cars moving past

'Diverse Boroondara' — online exhibition

‘Diverse Boroondara’ was a photo exhibition, showcasing the winners of the 2022 Boroondara Photograph Competition.
Painting of a landscape with houses surrounded by fields and trees

'The Interpreted Landscape' — online exhibition

'The Interpreted Landscape' explores the history of Kew through the eyes of cartographers, artists and photographers, working between 1830 and 1950.
Painting by Donald Bate that is abstract with varying pink shades that swirl across a background with blue and white paint splattered across the canvas

‘The Intrigue of Images’ by Donald Bate — online exhibition

‘The Intrigue of Images’ by Donald Bate was a community exhibition featuring high energy, vibrant paintings inspired by the beauty of the Australian landscape and its myriad forms.
Painting of a woman holding a child to her cheek

‘Between Worlds’ — online exhibition

‘Between Worlds’ was an exhibition that explored the migrant experience in Australia.
Graphite drawing of of a woman wearing a cap and sunglasses. She is drinking a takeaway coffee and has a mask pulled down under her chin.

‘Portraiture in Black and White’ — online exhibition

‘Portraiture in Black and White’ was a community exhibition featuring work by three artists who omit colour from their palette to create portraits rich in tonal complexity, drama, intimacy and mystery.

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