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Explore online versions of our gallery exhibitions that took place in 2023.

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

Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery

'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery' is an exhibition of significant artworks from the Town Hall Gallery Collection celebrating the 20th anniversary of Town Hall Gallery.
An artwork of a village showing the simple 2 story homes spread out over rolling hills

Collection Exhibition: 'MARKED'

‘MARKED’ features highlights from the publication ‘Marker: 10 Years of the Town Hall Gallery Collection’.
Photograph of a postman on a red Australia Post motorcycle. Orange mailbags are attached to the bike, and the postman is wearing a high-vis vest and white helmet. He is stopped in the middle of the street with one foot on the ground to steady the bike looking directly at the camera. The background shows a tree-lined street with wheely bins out for collection.

Light Sensitive

‘Light Sensitive’ showcases the narrative potential of light and its innovative application in art.
A mirror reflecting the image of a red triagle with a black line through the centre, next to a bright red lit rectange and a hanging 3D black pyramid in front of it.

Romancing the Streetscape

‘Romancing the Streetscape’ celebrates the streetscapes and buildings of the great city of Melbourne.
A painting of a cornershop on a quiet but modern street, with bikes parked outside and a blue intricate mural of a spaceship on the wall beside in

'The Memory Palace: Cyrus Tang'

'The Memory Palace' features highlights from Cyrus Tang’s multidisciplinary art practice.
Print artwork of a series of blurry and grey multi-storey buildings with a clearer upside-down reflection. The background is black.

Community exhibitions

‘Love the One You’re With’ by Celia Moriarty

‘Love the One You’re With’ by Celia Moriarty features large-scale paintings transporting viewers into the lush landscapes of Boroondara.

Boroondara Summer Salon 2023

Town Hall Gallery is delighted to present the inaugural Boroondara Summer Salon, a curated group exhibition celebrating the creativity and diversity of the Boroondara community.
Group of people milling around artworks in a gallery

'When a Moment Becomes a Memory’

‘When a Moment Becomes a Memory’ features artworks inspired by lived experience of the Holocaust and personal memories of a vanished world.
Woodcut statues of people playing string instruments

‘Questionable Ancestry Club’ by Dustin Voggenreiter

'Questionable Ancestry Club' by Dustin Voggenreiter, celebrates the ambiguous and unknown.
Ceramic sculpture of a white egg on a light green mound.

Celebrate Boroondara

‘Celebrate Boroondara’ features the winners of the 2023 Boroondara Photograph Competition.
Front of Rivoli Cinema building at night, with first 3 letters of Rivoli lighting up.

From Nature

'From Nature' examines the world around us through materiality and process.
An artwork using strips of bark to divide the square canvas in two, with a gap inbetween where rings interlock around a small spear-like shape

'A Sense of Place' by Caroline Calway

‘A Sense of Place’ by Caroline Calway bears witness to Dalmanyi (Bell Gorge) in WA's Kimberley region.
Landscape painting with water at the bottom, shades of green to the right and shades of light brown in the background.

‘Light Years’ by Camberwell Camera Club

‘Light Years’ features a variety of themes captured through immersive photography by members of the Camberwell Camera Club.
A man sits in a camp chair beside a campfire in a small drum

'Out of Reach' by Amy Cohen

'Out of Reach' showcases a fascination with natural forms that has informed Amy Cohen's work for over 20 years.
Crop of an abstract leaf print in greens and yellows

Collections of You

'Collections of You' was a community exhibition where artists HuaCun Chen, Liz Johnson, and Susan Lowe exhibit works that reinterpret a piece in the Town Hall Gallery collection through their own lens.
An artwork featuring geometric shapes that depict the front of buildings close together in bright blues, reds, and yellows

‘Banana’ by Vanessa Bong

‘Banana’ by Vanessa Bong explores what it means to be Asian Australian.
A chinese character in light yellow over a background of drawn yellow flowers

‘Nowhere to Here’ by Brian Osborne

‘Nowhere to Here’ by Brian Osborne examines the impact of bushfires on the Australian landscape, communities, and in collective memory.
An artwork of a desert landscape featuring a large collapsed structure of corrogated iron on the red dirt

'Healing'

‘Healing’ features 4 artists who explore the human psyche and how artmaking can benefit physical disabilities and mental health.
Painting of a kitchen table. The table features pink roses in a vase, four mugs of tea, a plate of pastries, a bowl of pistachios, and a smaller bowl for the pistachio shells.

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