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Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery – online exhibition

'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery' is a major exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of Town Hall Gallery. Significant artworks from the Town Hall Gallery Collection have been grouped within the themes of 'People', 'Places' and 'Perspectives', showcasing the vital role of the gallery in reflecting a sense of community and shared history in Boroondara.

Featuring some of Australia’s most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery' recognises the breadth of talent living, working, or studying in the municipality. Magnetic examples of portraiture, vivid depictions of man made and natural places, and contemporary art forms translating unique ways of seeing the world, create a version of recent art history that celebrates 20 years of life and art in this place.

Featuring: Yvonne Audette AM, Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, John Brack, Sir William Dargie CBE, Emily Floyd, Tony Lloyd, Helen Maudsley, Lin Onus, Selina Ou, Kylie Stillman, Fred Williams OBE, Dora Wilson, John Young AM and others.

Image credit: John Brack, 'The Yarra at Kew', 1946, oil on board, 46.5 x 57.5 cm, Town Hall Gallery Collection.

Download the catalogue

  Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery exhibition catalogue 4.13 MB [PDF] 2 November 2023

Audio Described Artworks

A selection of works from the Town Hall Gallery Collection have been audio described for art lovers who are blind or have low vision.

Tony Lloyd 'Here is Everywhere' video transcript
Selina Ou 'Untitled 3' video transcript
Samara Adamson Pinczewski 'Around the Corner 5' video transcript
John Brack 'The Yarra at Kew' video transcript

Upcoming events

An oil painting of houses on a hill in Kew, above the Yarra River. The shrubby riverbank, and the road above it, wind around to the left. Above the road, white and clay-red houses line the streets of a hilly suburbia. Bushy trees are dotted all over the scene. Overhead, a blue sky with wispy clouds.
John Brack, ‘The Yarra at Kew’, 1946, oil on board, 46.5 x 57.5cm, Town Hall Gallery Collection.
An oil painting of brown trees, without leaves, that line either side of a suburban street. The street travels downhill, and in the distance, another hill rises, dotted with houses and trees. Overhead, a blue sky with long clouds.
Judith Perrey, ‘Dight Ave’, 1964, oil on canvas, 46 x 40cm, Town Hall Gallery Collection. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program in memory of Judith Perrey.
An abstract artwork comprised of floral and plant-like shapes and motifs, coloured with faded blues, purples, greens, yellows, greys and whites. To the left of the artwork, the profile of a face, comprised of a series of light fittings.
Helen Maudsley, ‘The wonderful diversion’, 1958, mixed media on paper, 50.8 x 91cm, Town Hall Gallery Collection.
A predominantly yellow painting that appears to be an abstracted arial view of a landscape. Squares of yellow, circles and childlike scribbles are scattered across the work.
Yvonne Audette, 'Southbound Flight', 1986, oil on board, 91.5 x 122cm, Town Hall Gallery Collection
An installation in a white-walled art gallery of 49 black and white photographic prints and chalk drawings, each measuring 100cm by 70cm. The photos variously depict architectural elements, ships, street scenes, historical figures, neon signage, and chalk scrawls.
John Young Zerunge, installation view of ‘1866: The Worlds of Lowe Kong Meng and Jong Ah Siug’, 2015, 49 works on paper (digital prints on photographic paper and chalk on blackboard-painted archival cotton paper), 100 x 70cm each, and two single thread hand-sewn embroideries, Town Hall Gallery Collection.
A highly detailed, hand-drawn, black and white lithograph depicting a street scene. The road and footpath run across the foreground, in front of a small brick and wood panel building. A bike and a pram lean against the wall. In the background, brick factories.
Robert Clinch, ‘Limited Additions’, 2007, hand drawn lithograph on Somerset 100% cotton paper, edition 10 of 40, 24.5 x 47cm, Town Hall Gallery Collection.
A metal sculpture, about a metre tall, standing in a white-walled gallery. It consists of a hollow orange cylinder, on top of a hollow blue and orange straight-edged structure. A collection of small books and magazines are placed in the hollows.
Emily Floyd, installation view of ‘Field Libraries’, Town Hall Gallery, 2017. Town Hall Gallery Collection.
A pastel on paper artwork of a seated woman. She has a short curly black bob and a fringe, and wide brown eyes. She is wearing a red short-sleeved dress, covered in a repeating blue diamond pattern, with a white collar and cuffs. She is clasping her hands together and looking directly at the painter.
Dora Wilson, ‘Portrait of a Young Woman in a Red Dress (Peg Williams)’, c. 1930, pastel on paper, 70 x 54cm, Town Hall Galler Collection.
A photograph of a woman and a man in a tender, standing embrace, in front of a white wall. Their right legs are wrapped around each other’s thighs, and their arms are wrapped around each other’s torsos. The woman has her head turned away from us, and the man’s eyes are closed.
Selina Ou, ‘Untitled #6’, 2010, chromogenic photograph, 60 x 40cm, Town Hall Gallery Collection.
view across the gallery to the exhibition title on the wall
Installation view, 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.
a series of metal sculptures made up of circles, half circles and straight bars. They are stacked against each our making new shapes.
Installation view, 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.
a wall of black and while images hung close together. on the far wall are two small paintings.
Installation view, 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.
A plinth with an abstract geometric black and pink sculpture on it. in the background 4 artworks are hanging on the wall. The closest artwork is an abstract painting in black and pink, like the sculpture.
Installation view, 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.
two frames with photos of people giving piggybacks. A wall of black and while indistinguishable images all hung close together
Installation view, 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.
mayoral robes including a hat. Paintings on the walls behind of previous municipal mayors wearing the robes
Installation view, 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.
A display case holding a boomerang and ceramic bowls. On the wall is a woven circle with grass and feathers
Installation view, 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.
a black and white image of a snowy mountain. A person far off in the background look at artworks
Visitors at the official opening of 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.
A group of people facing a long wall of large black and white images. Images include landscapes, portraits, text and abstract shapes
Visitors at the official opening of 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.
A large group of people standing in a narrow gallery space. It is so crowded that the artworks on the walls are hidden
Visitors at the official opening of 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.
two people looking into a display case containing a bag.
Visitors at the official opening of 'Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery', Town Hall Gallery, 2023.

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