Stanley Street Gallery

Stanley Street Gallery Stanley Street Gallery is a platform dedicated to championing some of Australia’s most exciting early-career artists and pioneering contemporary craftspeople.

Stanley Street Gallery is a multi-disciplinary exhibition space showing a diverse range of mediums including Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Wearable Art, Ceramics and Video. Presenting critical and experimental work, the gallery seeks to give space to innovative and diverse practices that contribute to the local and international Arts communities. Founded by Liza Feeney and Merilyn Bailey, Stan

ley Street Gallery has developed a reputation for championing early career Artists and Curators in the commercial sector. Feeney and Bailey met at Sydney College of the Arts in 1980 while studying for a Bachelor of Visual Arts and decided to pursue their passion and commitment to the Sydney Arts by founding the gallery in 2012. Stanley Street Gallery hosts a program of 12 exhibitions a year and community events such as plays, poetry readings and book launches and is the primary coordinator of Sydney East Art Walk, a quarterly initiative supported by 19 galleries in the East Sydney Art precinct. Notable exhibitions have included - 2020 Jackson Farleys ‘Testament XVIIII’, 2019 Amy Dynan’s ‘Water’, Shaun Haye’s ‘I Guess This is Growing Up’, Shaelene Murray’s ‘Kin’; 2017 Baltimore artist Rachel Timmins ‘Unexpected Companions; 2015 Chinese artist Shunzan Fan ‘Between Heaven and Earth’. Stanley Street Gallery acknowledges and pays respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which Stanley Street Gallery is built and operates. We pay our respect to the Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Kenneth Lambert
‘Augmented Intervals’
Until 6 June
Featured: Endurance, 2020, Shoalhaven Silica, pigment, Eucalyptus cel...
30/05/2026

Kenneth Lambert
‘Augmented Intervals’
Until 6 June

Featured: Endurance, 2020, Shoalhaven Silica, pigment, Eucalyptus cellulose (biodegradable glitter) on plywood board, set in custom aluminum frame, 158 x 122 x 8 cm

‘Augmented Intervals’ extends Kenneth Lambert’s investigation into the interval as a condition of change. Grounded in material gathered from Bundanon, the works are shaped through processes of accumulation, displacement, and duration. Sand, pigment, and organic matter are applied and left to settle, allowing form to emerge through time rather than composition. The surface operates as a site where environmental forces and human gesture intersect, each leaving its trace. Suspended between sky and ocean, the works hold a state of flux, where matter remains unsettled and continuously reconfigured. 

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For all enquires please email us at: [email protected] 

Images courtesy of the artist

Kenneth Lambert‘Augmented Intervals’Until 6 June‘Augmented Intervals’ extends Kenneth Lambert’s investigation into the i...
28/05/2026

Kenneth Lambert
‘Augmented Intervals’
Until 6 June

‘Augmented Intervals’ extends Kenneth Lambert’s investigation into the interval as a condition of change. Grounded in material gathered from Bundanon, the works are shaped through processes of accumulation, displacement, and duration. Sand, pigment, and organic matter are applied and left to settle, allowing form to emerge through time rather than composition. The surface operates as a site where environmental forces and human gesture intersect, each leaving its trace. Suspended between sky and ocean, the works hold a state of flux, where matter remains unsettled and continuously reconfigured.

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For all enquires please email us at: [email protected]

Images courtesy of the artist

26/05/2026

Save the Date!!

Victoria Edin and Gretal Ferguson

25 June - 18 July 2026

UNBECOMING

With a shared background in metalsmithing, Victoria Edin and Gretal Ferguson explore the intimate and domestic through their distinct yet complementary practices.

Gretal’s work is expertly hand-forged, evoking the tactile strength and precision of traditional metalcraft. Victoria, in contrast, reimagines domestic metalware, combining found objects with textiles to transform the familiar into something unexpected.

Combining humour and handwork their work traces the porous boundaries between body, material, and the social expectations that shape our lives.

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Click the link in the bio 👇

Artist talk this Saturday at 3pm: Kenneth Lambert in conversation with Rachel Kent at Stanley Street Gallery.Rachel Kent...
22/05/2026

Artist talk this Saturday at 3pm: Kenneth Lambert in conversation with Rachel Kent at Stanley Street Gallery.

Rachel Kent has served as CEO of Bundanon since 2021. Prior to Bundanon, she was Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, where she presented major projects with artists from the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the UK and South Africa.

In this conversation, Kenneth Lambert and Rachel Kent will discuss contemporary art, curatorial practice, material process, place, memory, video art and the shifting relationship between physical and digital.

Kenneth Lambert says:

“Rachel Kent has a rare capacity to hold complexity open. She brings depth, warmth and precision to a conversation, carrying her experience lightly. Her curatorial practice creates pathways for audiences to approach a work more closely while leaving its mystery intact.”

Join us this Saturday at 3pm.
Stanley Street Gallery

Please join us this Thursday to celebrate the opening of Augmented Intervals, a new exhibition by Kenneth Lambert.Drawin...
20/05/2026

Please join us this Thursday to celebrate the opening of Augmented Intervals, a new exhibition by Kenneth Lambert.
Drawing on material gathered from Bundanon, Lambert’s works unfold through accumulation, erosion, and duration — allowing environmental forces and human gesture to leave their trace across the surface.

Opening with the artist
Thursday 21 May
5.30–7.30pm
21 May — 6 June
RSVP via bio encouraged but not required.


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03/05/2026

KENNETH LAMBERT: AUGMENTED INTERVALS

21 MAY - 6 JUNE

JOIN US WITH THE ARTIST FOR THE OPENING

THURSDAY 21ST MAY 5.30 - 7.30PM

RSVP’s via bio is encouraged but not required.

Augmented Intervals extends Kenneth Lambert’s investigation into the interval as a condition of change. Grounded in material gathered from Bundanon, the works are shaped through processes of accumulation, displacement, and duration. Sand, pigment, and organic matter are applied and left to settle, allowing form to emerge through time rather than composition. The surface operates as a site where environmental forces and human gesture intersect, each leaving its trace. Suspended between sky and ocean, the works hold a state of flux, where matter remains unsettled and continuously reconfigured.

Aotearoa Jewellery: Unmapping & Remarking
Until 2 May, 2026

Feature: Brendon Monson () 

“My work as a jeweller is root...
02/05/2026

Aotearoa Jewellery: Unmapping & Remarking
Until 2 May, 2026

Feature: Brendon Monson () 

“My work as a jeweller is rooted in memory of place, of craft, and of inheritance. Using CNC technology, I carve repurposed native New Zealand and Australian timbers into wearable objects that speak to both personal and collective histories. Each piece reflects my deep connection to Aotearoa’s landscapes and my own whakapapa, shaped by generations of carpenters in my family line. Drawing inspiration from Victorian colonial architecture, I explore the tension between ornament and structure, legacy and loss. The intricate fretwork, turned balusters, and decorative trims of that era are reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. Miniature relics that speak of a complex past.”

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Brendon is a Dunedin based artist that has exhibited throughout New Zealand internationally. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2013 at the Dunedin school of Art, where he currently works as a technical teacher and night class tutor.

 

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Aotearoa Jewellery: Unmapping & Remarking
Until 2 May, 2026

Feature: Renée Pearson ()

“These works are both a celebrat...
29/04/2026

Aotearoa Jewellery: Unmapping & Remarking
Until 2 May, 2026

Feature: Renée Pearson ()

“These works are both a celebration and a mourning. Calling on the familiar rituals and rhythms of a shared cup of tea they allude to a story of personal identity. They explore the history of the artist’s ancestors on the tea plantations in South India, a story with many missing parts. They speak of the joy of sharing stories, over many hours and innumerable cups of tea, the sense of connection and belonging storytelling can create. But also, there is an aspect of mourning, for all the stories that have been lost, that have faded from memory or have been intentionally obscured.

The works incorporate patterns adapted from kolam designs, traditionally drawn as ritual with rice flour in front of entranceways in Southern India. Fragmented and worn, they suggest the erasure that time can bring.”

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Renée Pearson is a visual artist, stone carver and jeweller. Born in Ōtautahi, Christchurch in 1991, Renée grew up in a small village in the southern alps of New Zealand. These formative years, exploring the surrounding landscape, fostered a passion for the land that grew alongside her, and continues to be an important influence in her work.
Renée completed a Certificate in Design at Christchurch Polytechnic in 2012 and a Bachelor of Applied Arts at Whitireia Polytechnic in 2018. She has had work exhibited throughout New Zealand and internationally and was the recipient of the Talente award for emerging artists in 2018.

 

Images: Courtesy of the artist &



Aotearoa Jewellery: Unmapping & RemarkingUntil 2 May, 2026ONLINE ARTIST TALKWednesday, 29 April 20265:30 ~ 6:30pm* Acces...
24/04/2026

Aotearoa Jewellery: Unmapping & Remarking
Until 2 May, 2026

ONLINE ARTIST TALK
Wednesday, 29 April 2026
5:30 ~ 6:30pm
* Access link in bio

‘Aotearoa Jewellery: Unmapping & Remarking’ is curated by Peter Deckers and Hilda Gascard () who lead the project-based initiative MAKERS 101 Ltd, dedicated to advancing contemporary jewellery in Aotearoa New Zealand through national and international engagement.

We are delighted to have Peter & Hilda host a roundtable with the exhibiting artists this coming Wednesday. This is a rare oppourtunity to hear these Aotearoa artists discuss their work with each other and us in Australia.

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The gallery will be closed on Saturday 25 April 2026 for the ANZAC Day public holiday. The gallery will reopen on Thursd...
24/04/2026

The gallery will be closed on Saturday 25 April 2026 for the ANZAC Day public holiday.

The gallery will reopen on Thursday 30 April 2026.

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