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KINGS Artist-Run is a non-profit contemporary art gallery in West Melbourne that fosters emerging and experimental art practice.

KINGS Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers. KINGS assists with and promotes the development of solo exhibitions, group and thematic projects, along with a program of events that includes performance, film screenings, public gatherings and talks.

02/03/2026

✨ARTIST TALKS SAT 7TH MARCH 2PM✨

Come along this weekend to hear from some of our artists Sherry Quiambao, Ella Pininta, and Thang Do about their exhibitions with us at KINGS, artwork processes and thoughts behind their works 💚

Drinks and snacks will be provided, come along for art talks and a cosy time 🥰

Event is free, link to register in bio.

Exhibitions open this Thursday 5th March 6-8pm with a special DRIVEWAY performance by from 7pm!

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5 – 29 MAR 2026

① GALLERY ONE: 'Subletspace presents: The Lot show #2,' Arthur O’Neill, Clement Lazzaro, Francesca Havelock, Josaia Byte, Leena O’Luu, Michael Kennedy, Mae Czechowski, Nicholas Currie, Reena Luu, Tun Oo Than, and Zuzanna Michnikowska.

② GALLERY TWO: 'Longitude,' Ella Pininta.

③ STRAY VOLTAGE: 'Between Holding and Letting Go,' Sherry Quiambao.

④ DRIVEWAY: '2026 Alphabet,' Thang Do

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Image credit and description:

[1] Sherry Quiambao, 'What Passes Through the Hands Becomes a Way of Knowing', 2026. In collaboration with Ira Fai (movement/performance), and Apurva Gupta (cinematography). Single-channel video.

Ira is dressed in an indigo dress overlayed with a sheer, white blouse. She wears a netted headpiece of beads, strands fallings across her face as she sweeps the sand on a beach with a walis (broom).

[2] Ella Pininta, 'Longitude,' 2026, installation view.

A collage on the wall with the words 'light step,' 'Float-ing Float-ing' emerging from a bold red line that runs off the wall to the left, as a strip of pink tape runs from the right side of the collage.

[3] Thang Do, 'Alphabet 2026,' (portion)

On a black background are four rounded rectangular blocks of text reading:
A IS FOR ABORTION
B ARE THE BOMBS I UNLEASH ON MY ENEMIES
F IS FULL OF S**T
G IS FOR GOONING

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🥂 drinks kindly sponsored by and

In 2026 KINGS is supported by the 'Creative Projects Fund'

20/02/2026

DRIVEWAY TOMORROW SAT 21ST FEB 7.30PM🌠

We're so excited for tomorrow evening's 'Thoughtful Refusals' with Ali Choudhry 🧠 Can't wait to see you there!

'Thoughtful Refusals' is a conceptual performance artwork which investigates the refusal of contemporary surveillance - where surveillance is defined as the invasion of the basic space of the self. The work consists of a performance of a collage of readings which describe or imagine surveillance. These take the form of fictional works, philosophical works, terms of service for technologies, and also legislature designed to protect the rights of ordinary individuals. This reading performance intersects with a brainwave sensor which showcases the electric signals of the performer’s brain. Finally, an audience is included in the performance.

EVENT DETAILS
Saturday 21st February
7.30pm onwards

Event is free, registrations via link in bio 🎊

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Ali Choudhry is a Melbourne-based artist and researcher working with generative systems, sound, and photographic thinking. His practice explores perception, sensing, and the politics of technology through systems that respond to their environments using sensors, data, and code. Interested in how machines see and interpret the world, he uses biosensors, real-time data, and procedural drawing to surface processes beyond human perception.

📸: Ali Choudhry

🍹 drinks kindly sponsored by and

14/02/2026

🎉DRIVEWAY IS BACK🎉

Join us next week for our first DRIVEWAY performance of the year featuring Ali Choudhry with 'Thoughtful Refusals' 🧠

'Thoughtful Refusals' is a conceptual performance artwork which investigates the refusal of contemporary surveillance - where surveillance is defined as the invasion of the basic space of the self. The work consists of a performance of a collage of readings which describe or imagine surveillance. These take the form of fictional works, philosophical works, terms of service for technologies, and also legislature designed to protect the rights of ordinary individuals. This reading performance intersects with a brainwave sensor which showcases the electric signals of the performer’s brain. Finally, an audience is included in the performance.

EVENT DETAILS
Saturday 21st February
7.30pm onwards

Event is free but registrations via link in bio 🌟

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Ali Choudhry is a Melbourne-based artist and researcher working with generative systems, sound, and photographic thinking. His practice explores perception, sensing, and the politics of technology through systems that respond to their environments using sensors, data, and code. Interested in how machines see and interpret the world, he uses biosensors, real-time data, and procedural drawing to surface processes beyond human perception.

📸: Ali Choudhry

🍹 drinks kindly sponsored by and

22/11/2025

🥂OPENING CELEBRATIONS TONIGHT 🥂

KINGS is open this weekend and we're celebrating our exhibitions tonight! We hope to see you soon 🥰

OPENING CELEBRATIONS
Saturday 22nd November
4 - 6pm 🥃

Exhibitions run Thursday 20th November - Sunday 14th December.
KINGS will be open from 1 - 5pm this weekend 🌟

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Tonight will also be the first of a series of guided walks with co-worm-ing🪱

Whilst in-residence, they have made the gallery mobile by kitting out the KINGS Wheelie Bin with a video screen, powered by their car battery 🚶‍♂️Working offsite at the they have been exploring composting as a method for collective curation.

Teaser Session: 4 – 6pm, Saturday 22nd November – bin activation during exhibition opening 🗑️

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① & ③ ': as listening', 2025 KINGS Emerging Curators Program cohort

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② 'call-forwarding', Fiona Macdonald

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📷: co-worm-ing, Public Art Park '23, Testing Grounds.
Photo:

[ID]: There is a TV monitor resting on top of an orange milk crate, carried together on a black trolley through the street. The screen displays an image of shredded paper for compost inside a round bucket. In the milk crate are wires and cardboard boxes.

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🍹Drinks kindly sponsored by and

In 2025 the KINGS Emerging Curators Program has been done in warmth and partnership with 🩷

20/11/2025

💮 NEW EXHIBITIONS OPEN THIS WEEK💮

We're so excited to be closing out the year with and some of the curators our sweetest ECP cohort, come celebrate with us this weekend!

Please note KINGS has ✨amended trading hours✨ this week. We will be open:
12 - 4pm Thurs 20th Nov
12 - 5pm Fri 21st Nov
1 - 5pm Sat & Sun 22nd-23rd Nov

OPENING CELEBRATIONS
Saturday 22nd November
4 - 6pm 🍷

Exhibitions run Thursday 20th November - Sunday 14th December

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① & ③ ': as listening', 2025 KINGS Emerging Curators Program cohort

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② 'call-forwarding', Fiona Macdonald

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📷:

[ID]: a brown and yellow vase (almost in the shape of a cut oval), with what appears to be red grass growing out of the top and green fruit, encircled by long, thin branches.

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🍻Drinks kindly sponsored by and

17/11/2025

🌟NEW EXHIBITIONS OPENING + PUBLIC PROGRAMS🌟

Join us for a series of guided walks with co-worm-ing🪱

Whilst in-residence, they have made the gallery mobile by kitting out the KINGS Wheelie Bin with a video screen, powered by their car battery 🚶‍♂️

Working offsite at the they have been exploring composting as a method for collective curation.

Drawing from the ethos of a community garden working bee, these sessions invite you into shared investigations. Each ‘walking bee’ will offer a different collective practice, including video making, embodied research, and writing.

Teaser Session: 4 – 6pm, Saturday 22nd November – bin activation during exhibition opening 🗑️

Walking Bees:

• 2 – 4pm, Tuesday 25th November – led by Emily Simek
• 2 – 4pm, Tuesday 2nd December – led by Grey Dear
• 10am – 12pm, Tuesday 9th December – led by Joy Zhou
*please arrive on time at KINGS ARI

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OPENING CELEBRATIONS
Saturday 22nd November
4 - 6pm 🥂

Exhibitions run Thursday 20th November - Sunday 14th December

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① & ③ ': as listening', 2025 KINGS Emerging Curators Program cohort

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never.girlfriend

② 'call-forwarding', Fiona Macdonald

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📷: co-worm-ing, Public Art Park '23, Testing Grounds.
Photo:

[ID]: Emily and Joy walking through the fresh produce aisles of the Queen Vic Market with rows of vegetables to the left and neat rows of fruit to the right. Together they are pushing a TV screen mounted on a milk crate on a trolley.

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🍷Drinks kindly sponsored by and

In 2025 the KINGS Emerging Curators Program has been done in warmth and partnership with 🩷

14/11/2025

🌸 FINAL EXHIBITIONS OF THE YEAR OPENING NEXT WEEK🌸

Wow it's finally that time of the year and we're coming in with our last round of exhibitions! Please join us next SATURDAY 22ND NOV 4-6pm for our last opening of the year with and our most wonderful Emerging Curators Program cohort 🩷

OPENING CELEBRATIONS
Saturday 22nd November
4 - 6pm 🥂

Exhibitions run Thursday 20th November - Sunday 14th December

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① & ③ ': as listening', 2025 KINGS Emerging Curators Program cohort

dear
never.girlfriend
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② 'call-forwarding', Fiona Macdonald

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📷:

1. Fiona Macdonald, Call-forwarding, 2025

[ID]: a brown line drawing of what appears to resemble overlapping rectangle spirals.

2. Co-worming, Emerging Curators Program install workshop 7 Oct 2025

[ID]: a wheelie bin covered in graffiti with a metal grate strapped to the front with neon green and orange ropes.

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🍷Drinks kindly sponsored by and

12/11/2025

✨️ POP-UP OPENING TOMORROW ✨️

We’re so excited to celebrate the first volume of our KINGS Community POP-UPs, where each year we showcase the works of our amazing volunteers and beautiful studio artists 🥰

OPENING CELEBRATIONS
Thursday 13th November 6-8pm 🍻

Exhibition runs: 13–16 November (Thu–Sun)

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① - ③ ‘the rhythm between us’, ANGEL MAGGOT, George Peters (Guided Impulse Artistry), Henrik Haukeland, Malie Muir, Simone Scandrett, Lily Holmes, DRM, Sam Meekan

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📷:
1. ANGEL MAGGOT, SUCK MY GLITCH (2025), MetaQuest 3s VR HMD (360 video, stereo audio)

2. George Peters, Breathe (2024), glitter paint, acrylic paint/markers on canvas

3. Henrik Haukeland, Purity/Ritual (2025), photographs prints

4. Malie Muir, Deep Heat (2025), image transfer on ply

5. Simone Scandrett, The Tourist (2025), polyester, aluminium frame

6. Lily Holmes, Bull (2025), oil on canvas

7. Sam Meekan, Untitled (2025), mixed media

8. DRM, Icon of St. George (2024), oil on beeswax on found plyboard

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🍹Drinks kindly sponsored by and 🍹

10/11/2025

✨️ NEW POP-UP OPENING THIS THURSDAY! ✨️

We're so excited to celebrate the the first volume of our KINGS Community POP-UPs, where each year we showcase the works of our amazing volunteers and beautiful studio artists 🥰

OPENING CELEBRATIONS
Thursday 13th November 6-8pm 🍻

Exhibition runs: 13–16 November (Thu–Sun)

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① - ③ 'when things meet', ANGEL MAGGOT, George Peters (Guided Impulse Artistry), Henrik Haukeland, Malie Muir, Simone Scandrett, Lily Holmes, DRM, Sam Meekan

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📷: Lily Holmes, Bull (2025), oil on canvas

[ID]: an oil painting with a pointed arch window in the centre. Leaning out from this into the foreground is a great red and maroon bull. Resting on the bull is a small pale figure. The edges of the painting are pale, but through the window we see bright green trees.

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Drinks kindly sponsored by and 🍹

07/11/2025

🔸EXHIBITIONS FINAL WEEKEND🔸

It's always hard to say goodbye 🥹 If you haven't seen these shows yet, it's your chance before they close this Sun 9th November!

KINGS is open this weekend:
Sat & Sun 1-5pm

+ join us tomorrow Sat 8th November from 1 - 4.30pm for a very special performance in collaboration with featuring and .magic 👑

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① 'TRAVELLER HUB CITY,' Luka Rhoderick

② 'ohno again (sad song),' sam george
with Sophie Di Tempora, Andrew Kershaw and Jackson McLaren

③ 'The Artist Stands,' Nicholas Tossmann

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Image: sam george, 'ohno again (sad song)', 2025

[ID]: a green metal structure (like seating stands) with wooden seats is in the back-centre of the space. Behind it is a silver metal cube prism with a tartan fabric draped over it. On the back, mounted on the brick wall, is a plywood drawing. High up in the right corner of the adjacent white wall reads 'ohno:'

🍷 drinks kindly sponsored by and

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06/11/2025

🌟 PERFORMANCE THIS SATURDAY 🌟

While preparing for a talk presented as part of our ‘Other Body Knowledge’ programme on art and ableism, artist Fayen d’Evie unearthed a 1930 speech by William Jones, Inspector General for the Insane in Victoria, promoting eugenics. After moving last year into the former Kew Asylum for Lunatics, d’Evie began to feel her way through the language of the Victorian eugenicists, their ‘progressive’ politics, and the early history of asylums in Victoria. She invited a temporary, disability-led collective of artists, writers, performers, designers and architects from so-called Australia, the US and the UK to gather. Together, the Language of Lunacy (LoL) collective have been reimagining an asylum as a place where people who refuse normalcy can individually and collectively hallucinate, perform, and construct temporary communities within which to live, dream, luxuriate in rest, and co-create.

Through performances and a creative captioning workshop, Fayen and fellow LoL artists Jon Tjhia and Nelly Kate will share a few loose threads from LoL’s recent investigation of the fortnightly lunatic balls at the Kew Asylum. Within a provisional architecture featuring a new textile work by Chelsea Clarke, and paintings by Luke D King, Fayen and Jon will introduce a citational performance lecture, enfolding inter-sensorial contributions from some of the LoL collective: Joseph Rizzo Naudi, Poppy Levinson, Zena Cumpston, Adam Deusien, Justin Looper, Hen Vaughan, Ebony Wightman, Jenny Hector, Jordan Valageorgiou and Liam Benson.

This event is presented in collaboration with La Trobe Art Institute. It arises from a creative exchange hosted by Access Lab and Library, MIT Spatial Sound Lab and We Are Studios, supported by an Arts House Warehouse Residency, City of Melbourne Arts Grants and Creative Australia 💟

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EVENT DETAILS:
Sat 8th November
1 - 4.30pm

Free event ✨️ RSVP now via link in bio!

For any access requirements please contact [email protected]

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