Backwoods Gallery

Backwoods Gallery Then and now, our focus is to assist artists connect with their community, without limitations. Director/ Curator - Tom Groves

Permanently closed.

Backwoods Gallery opened in the back streets of Collingwood in 2010 with the purpose of exhibiting contemporary art by emerging artists from Australia and around the world. Since Backwoods Gallery opened in the back streets of Collingwood in 2010, we’ve played an integral role in the development and promotion of the once fledgling Australian street art scene; produced 80+ exhibitions, countless pu

blic arts projects, murals and publications while remaining fiercely independent and self funded; nurtured maverick artists into MONA celebrated and NGA collected artists to form a world-class family of talented, high profile and (occasionally) hard to access artists; and gained a global community of like-minded followers.

“Girlfriends”Aretha Brown2026Acrylic on canvas123cm W × 92cm H × 4.5cm DAvailable - Link in Bio Follow Girlfriends - co...
10/04/2026

“Girlfriends”
Aretha Brown
2026
Acrylic on canvas
123cm W × 92cm H × 4.5cm D

Available - Link in Bio
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Girlfriends - considers love, queerness, and femininity through the lens of urban Aboriginal identity. The composition captures a quiet moment between two women and their child, drawn from Brown’s recent animated short film A Story About Love, extending her visual language across film and painting.

This is a one-off original from Brown’s
Melbourne studio.

Aretha Brown is currently exhibiting in the National Gallery of Australia’s After the Rain Triennial. A major exhibition bringing together leading First Nations artists from across the country

TONIGHT 6PMTake It EaseyWIP 03.04.2026 colors art
03/04/2026

TONIGHT 6PM
Take It Easey

WIP 03.04.2026

colors
art

Take it EaseyApril 4th from 6pm until lateWIP art colors ewfaer
03/04/2026

Take it Easey
April 4th from 6pm until late

WIP
art

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Take It Easey This Saturday from 6pmWIP 01.04.2026makatron ewfaer
02/04/2026

Take It Easey
This Saturday from 6pm

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01/04/2026

Backwoods Merch
Hoodies, T-shirts and Tote bags
Available this Saturday

Take it Easey
The 25 Easey St aend off
April 4 from 6pm

25 Easey St Collingwood

Take It Easey This Saturday from 6pmWIP ewfaer
01/04/2026

Take It Easey
This Saturday from 6pm

WIP

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Kyle Hughes-Odgers’ practice moves between studio-based work and public art, exploring how interventions at any scale ca...
28/03/2026

Kyle Hughes-Odgers’ practice moves between studio-based work and public art, exploring how interventions at any scale can foster identity, memory and a sense of belonging.

His work examines the intersection of people, nature and place through bold geometric forms and stylised figurative imagery. Across murals, three-dimensional installations and studio paintings, he constructs visual narratives that invite viewers to connect with both the work and its underlying story.

Through a distinctive use of colour and scale, Hughes-Odgers transforms spaces from expansive public sites to more intimate exhibition settings, creating immersive experiences that engage both the physical and emotional senses.

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Available works > visit the artists section of our website
Exhibition Catalogue: Link in bio or DM the gallery

Jasmine Crisp (She/Her) is a Painter and Muralist born and based in Adelaide, Australia.Her detailed narrative-driven pa...
26/03/2026

Jasmine Crisp (She/Her) is a Painter and Muralist born and based in Adelaide, Australia.

Her detailed narrative-driven paintings can be found both in the gallery and in the open streets. Her practice features figures, spaces and belongings from her lived experience that are combined to create playful genre paintings of the imagined familiar.

Her visual tales are crafted in reference to past traditions of portraiture, often directly adopting symbolism from notable paintings of history. Long established symbols are inserted into domestic, or nostalgic versions of the present to form fantasised landscapes of the human experience.

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Exhibition Catalogue: Link in Bio or DM the gallery
Available Works > Visit the Artists section of our website

Photo: Jenn Garo

Taj Alexander’s works explore the shifting nature of perception through colour, familiarity, and quiet moments of observ...
25/03/2026

Taj Alexander’s works explore the shifting nature of perception through colour, familiarity, and quiet moments of observation. His intuitive approach to painting opens a space for introspection, where light, shadow, and the emotional resonance of everyday environments are carefully considered and reimagined.

Grounded in a deep sensitivity to materiality, Taj elevates the ordinary in to the aesthetic, transforming industrial surfaces such as corrugated iron into sites of painterly complexity and nuance. Through this process, his works move between familiarity and ambiguity, inviting viewers into a contemplative space that is at once visually seductive and subtly disorienting.

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Exhibition catalogue: Link in Bio or DM the gallery
Available works > visit the Artists section of our website

After 15 years on Easey St, we’re moving… but not before one last proper send-off.TAKE IT EASEYSaturday April 4 from 6pm...
25/03/2026

After 15 years on Easey St, we’re moving… but not before one last proper send-off.

TAKE IT EASEY

Saturday April 4 from 6pm
�Bar’s open. DJs playing. Merch on hand. Walls getting painted

We’re saying goodbye to the space (not the gallery) and kicking off the next chapter the only way we know how — by letting artists loose on the walls one last time.

This is the final send-off for Backwoods Gallery on Easey St.
�Come celebrate, cause a little trouble, and Take It Easey with us.

Don’t miss it.

ARCHIVE Group Show 18.03.26 ~ 31.03.2026Open daily 12 to 6pmFeaturing new and archive works by:
17/03/2026

ARCHIVE Group Show
18.03.26 ~ 31.03.2026
Open daily 12 to 6pm

Featuring new and archive works by:














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