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Established in 2014, Spring1883 is a gallerist-led art fair presented biennially at The Windsor, Melbourne. Ed. IX: 13-16 August, 2025

Spring1883 is an invitational fair was established in 2014 by gallerists Geoff Newton (Neon Parc, Melbourne), Kate Barber & Vikki McInnes (Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne) and Vasili Kaliman (art advisor, NY). The inaugural edition was presented at The Hotel Windsor in 2014. The eighth edition will be presented in Melbourne, from 9-12 August 2023, at The Hotel Windsor.

26/10/2025

For their third participation in Spring1883 in August, (Naarm/Melb) showcased a group exhibition of new and recent works by twelve of the gallery’s represented and associated artists.

Participating Artists:

Sally Anderson
Eleanor Louise Butt
James Drinkwater
Martin George
Kez Hughes
Nicole Kelly
Elyss McCleary
Pia Murphy
Lorna Quinn
Lucy Roleff
Antonia Sellbach
Tai Snaith

📷: NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY
installation views, Spring1883, August 2025, The Windsor
Photography:
Images 1&7
Images 2-6 .mahady

15/10/2025

MARY CHERRY CONTEMPORARY - Naarm/Melb.

made their Spring1883 art fair debut in August, with a group presentation by gallery and guest artists, including .leary who would have received an award for ‘Best use of The Windsor Hotel walk-in robe’ if only we had one...🥇

Current at the Collingwood gallery’s Sibling Architect-designed spaces, you can catch Ruth O’Leary’s solo exhibition, ‘Hidden Mothers’, until 15 November.

Spring1883 Participating Artists:

Jemi Gale
Madeline Simm
Melissa Nguyen
Ruth O’Leary
Rebecca Suares-Jury
Naoise Halloran-Mackay
Steven Bellosguardo
Thang Do

📷: Mary Cherry Contemporary
Spring1883, The Windsor, August 2025
Photography: .mahady

09/10/2025

For their second participation in Spring1883, CHALK HORSE (Gadigal/Sydney) showcased a group presentation, curated by .

Participating artists:

Clara Adolphs
Amber Boardman
Dean Brown
Mechelle Bounpraseuth
Nathan Hawkes
Philly Kemarre
Jasper Knight
Laura Jones
Harry McAlpine
Danny Morse
Madeleine Pfull
Jason Phu
Kat Shapiro Wood
Jodie Whalen
Nicole Zhang

“Strange things happen in a room not your own. New dreams, unfamiliar noises, neighbours you will never see again, tiny bottles. A bed that doesn’t quite know your curves and the merry go round that is to find the right pillow.
Glorious things can happen too. Stolen nights, early mornings, new light falling into view. Just enough for one (or two). Living in the unfamiliar for even a few days can set the axis of life slightly off. We are distracted and we forget. These rooms often hold our possessions after we check out and return home. The things we have left behind.
This time at The Windsor hold on to the things you have fallen in love with, you don’t want to live without, you want to see everyday.
Don’t leave me behind.”

📷 CHALK HORSE, Spring1883
installation views
The Windsor, Melbourne
August 2025
Photography:
Images 1&7:
Images 2-6: .mahady

18/09/2025

SULLIVAN+STRUMPF - Syd/Gadigal, Melb/Naarm & Singapore

For their inaugural presentation at Spring1883 in Victorian Suite 106, premiered a series of works by UK-based Jess Cochrane, alongside new works from Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Michael Lindeman. The curated selection also included works from Polly Borland, Barayuwa Munungurr, Daniel Crooks, Gemma Smith, Glenn Barkley, Yvette Coppersmith, Sam Cranstoun and Tim Silver. The presentation demonstrated an array of practices, and material expertise while traversing subject matter influenced by contemporary conditions and experiences across the Australasian region.

📷: SULLIVAN+STRUMPF
Spring1883, installation views, August 2025, The Windsor

Photography:
Images: 1&3: Carmen Zammit
Images: 2, 4-8: Nicholas Mahady .mahady

06/09/2025

THANG DO - Lady Hoping for Liberty🗽was presented by Thang Do & Victoria Mangano as part of Spring1883’s VIP Preview Day, on Wed 13 August.

mesmerising and moving durational performance — a celebration of and homage to immigrant workers — was accompanied by a soundtrack composed by .wav, featuring a 10-minute spoken word narrative about the immigrant experience.

Thang’s journey moving through historic corridors and descending the grand staircase, was beautifully captured by photography.

Thang Do’s work was also presented during the fair in Room 120 with .

28/08/2025

JEN VALENDER x ALPHA60 [PROJECT ROOM] - 422

We’d like to thank our dear friends - for their generous support of the fair, and the wonderful merch (totes & t’s) they produce for us. Their dramatic and immersive installation, was presented in the Project Room on Level 4 for Spring1883.

Sculptural forms encounter, endure and imagine bodies of water—from shower stalls and hotel loos to storm-washed shores—tracing the uncanny journeys between place, material and memory.

The installation featured filmic works alongside sculptural elements and photographs, with the hotel room fixtures and fittings dressed in copious black fringing. Valender’s ‘Stormborne’ immerses audiences in the rising drama of Australia’s changing coastal climate. Made during a winter residency, Valender’s film captures the season’s rising turbulence and the elemental theatre of a changing climate. It is a portrait of exposure. Like infectious disease, environmental collapse offers no exemption—status, wealth, and borders fall away. We are equally porous to air, to atmosphere, to what comes next.

Presented in the bathroom, ‘Shower Opera, Prince Cover’, 2025, was filmed in situ in the shower of Room 422 at the Windsor Hotel. This single-channel, three-minute film captures a performance of Purple Rain by the Artist formerly known as Prince. The work merges shower singing with operatic delivery, staged through a refurbished 1970s Japanese audio-visual unit enhanced with contemporary digital technology. The unit serves as the singer’s head, with its fringing forming the body, presented as a continuous loop.

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📷: Images 1-3, 7
Jen Valender x Alpha60,
Project Room 422, installation views, Spring1883, The Hotel Windsor, August 2025
Photography: Simon Strong

Images: 4&5
Georgie Cleary
Photography:

Image 6:
Photograph: Tom Noble

20/08/2025

😈Spring has definitely Sprung😈 That’s a Wrap! Thank you to everyone involved with delivering - who ensured that our ninth edition was such a resounding success - and to those who visited & acquired work, supported us and contributed to the energy.

We couldn’t have done it without the magnificent team who have embraced this fair and all the creative chaos it brings to a working historic hotel.

We want to thank our small & dedicated Spring1883 team and acknowledge we couldn’t have delivered the fair without the energy, love, goodwill, belief and sheer hard work of the following:

👏🏼Gallery Liaison: Agnes Delany

👭FOH Team: Anaïs, Florence, Hermione, Inez, Jasmine, Lola, Olivia, Sharni, Zoe

👨🏼‍💻Branding & Design:
Paul Mylecharane .office

👿Spring1883 Logo:

🦄Totes & T-shirts:

😎VIP Liaison: Bernadette Alibrando

📣Media Manager: Elizabeth Graham

💅🏼Social Media Manager: Alice Asia Bergagnin

📰Media Partners:

🚛Art Transport Partner:

Performances & DJ Talent:
🗽Thang Do -
💃🏽Lucreccia Quintanilla -
🕺🏻Ezz Monem -

And most importantly of all - the participating galleries and their artists. Spring1883 doesn’t exist without your passion, creativity, risk taking, sheer bloody mindedness and unwavering commitment:

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gallery

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👏🏼 from Kate & Geoff xx

📷: Nicholas Mahady

12/08/2025

VOID_Melbourne - Naarm/Melbourne

Established in February 2022, is an independent commercial art space presenting a
vibrant program of exhibitions from the gallery’s ever expanding artist stable. Situated within a heritage listed Bourke Street building, the exhibition space allows for experimental and formal presentations whilst exploring the boundaries of visual language. The gallery’s program is structured around monthly exhibitions with a focus on introducing new and under-represented artists to a wider
community.

Participating Artists:

Sam Bloor
Nick Devlin
Sarah Goffman
Mark Hislop
Suzie Idiens
Christopher Koller
Jane O’Neill
Louise Paramor
Elvis Richardson
Robbie Rowlands
Adam Stone
Leah Teschendorff
Justin Trendall
Oliver Wagner
Alex Walker
Vincent Ward
Wei Weng
Sam Vawdrey
Teona Yamanidze

For Void_Melbourne’s second presentation at Spring1883, the gallery is pleased to offer a thoughtfully curated pairing of objects & wall works presented in situ. Enhancing this visual experience, a renowned New Zealand filmmaker will contribute a moving image work, creating a juxtaposition against the historical backdrop of the Hotel Windsor. This carefully considered presentation brings together a selection of represented & guest artists, showcasing their unique approaches and voices.

📷1. Alex Walker
Echo & Trace, 2024
Archival pigment print
50 x 33 cm each

2. Tenoa Yamanidze
A matter out of place: After Kyiv Frescos, 2024Oil on wood panel
40 x 30 cm

3. Justin Trendall
News from nowhere #4, 2025
Unique state screen print and stencilling on fabric
40 x 30 cm

4. Elvis Richardson
Settlement in Relief #5, 2025
Digital print on archival paper
60 x 48 cm

5. Adam Stone
Untitled ( yellow, white, blue, pink, 2020
Polyurethane resin, concrete, enamel paint
45 x 60 x 30 cm

All images courtesy the artists & Void_Melbourne

10/08/2025

THIS IS NO FANTASY - Naarm/Melbourne

Established by Dianne Tanzer and Nicola Stein, is a boutique gallery offering representation to a select group of artists shaping Australia’s art discourse locally and internationally.
Resolutely committed to keeping our gallery small and rigorously curated, the gallery draws on decades of experience to strategically champion artists, building their profiles internationally. Central to our vision is a focus on international art fairs, off-site projects and exhibitions both in Australia and abroad.

The gallery is recognised for discovering and managing the careers of a small, select and diverse group of artists shaping Australia’s art discourse, both locally and internationally. Our artists’ practices are characterised by rigour, critical engagement and a strong personal aesthetic. Central is examination of entrenched historical narratives and power structures, and a vision for change. Our presentation of contemporary practice, including AI based works, reflects this intersection of art and history.

Participating Artists:

Jackson Farley
Johnathon World Peace Bush
Ellen Dahl
Simon Degroot
Olivia Chin
Oliver Watts

📷: 1. Jackson Farley
every kingdom was born to die pt. iii, 2024 (installation view)
dye sublimation on suede
160 x 143 cm

2. Johnathon World Peace Bush
Queen Victoria II, 2024
locally sourced ochres on linen
150 x 120cm

3. Simon Degroot
Simultaneous Disguise 288, 2022Oil on linen, framed
183 x 127 cm
Photography: Simon Strong

All images courtesy the artists & THIS IS NO FANTASY

05/08/2025

ROSLYN OXLEY9 GALLERY - Gadigal Country/ Sydney

We are delighted to welcome Gallery back to Spring1883, where they will be presenting a curated group exhibition in Windsor suite (124) , featuring:

Mia Boe
Mikala Dwyer
Dale Frank
Louise Hearman
Linda Marrinon
Dhambit Munuŋgurr
Renee So
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
Patricia Piccinini
Jenny Watson

Established in Sydney in 1982, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery has a rich history of supporting contemporary art, having fostered the careers of some of the most influential Australian artists working today. With a strong presence at international art fairs and major survey exhibitions, the gallery is known for its commitment to championing ambitious practices and presenting a dynamic program of Australian and international artists.

📷: 1. Renee So
Woman IV, 2018
stoneware
45 x 23 x 20 cm.
Photograph: Luis Power

2. Vivienne Shark LeWitt
Zephyrus, 2023
from the series The Wind Cries Mary,
water-based paint on linen
71 x 56 cm
Photograph: David Suyasa

3. Patricia Piccinini
The Loafers, 2018
silicone, resin and hair
26 x 25.8 x 25

4. Louise Hearman
Untitled #1155, 2005
oil on masonite
39 x 42

Images courtesy the artists & Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.

24/07/2025

PROJECT8 - Naarm/Melbourne
gallery is thrilled to announce our participation in Spring1883 . Combining with the décor of our suite ‘Shapeshifters’ is a group exhibition by artists from Project8 with a shared interest in material and form, presenting new and historical works by selected artists.

Participating Artists:

Ghosts of Nothing (aka Sean Lowry & Ilmar Taimre)
Claire Lehmann
Rohan Schwarz
Fu Xiaodong
Chaohui Xie
Zamara Zamara
gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Melbourne’s CBD committed to expanding aesthetic languages of speculative poetic and material innovation through curated exhibitions and related events. The gallery also promotes exchange, collaboration and partnerships for Australian artists, researchers and communities actively engaged in contemporary art and discourse.

📷: 1. Zamara Zamara
2024
Moans
Stoneware
10 x 40 x 20cm

2. Claire Lehmann
2024
Disk 12
ceramic
Diameter 28.5cm

3. Ghosts of Nothing (aka Sean Lowry & Ilmar Taimre)
2025
Sounds of Clouds (Stacked Artist Books), detailArtist books arranged in stacks
Variable

All images courtesy the artists & Project8 Gallery
Photography: Lucy Foster

22/07/2025

NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY - Naarm/Melbourne

is a contemporary art gallery on Langridge Street, Collingwood, celebrating ten years of operation in 2025. The gallery represents Australian painters and runs an annual exhibition program, including regular participation in Australian art fairs. The 2025 edition of Spring1883 marks the gallery’s third participation in the fair.

In August in their Windsor suite (324), the gallery will present a group exhibition of new and recent works by twelve of the gallery’s represented and associated artists.

Participating Artists:

Sally Anderson
Eleanor Louise Butt
James Drinkwater
Martin George
Kez Hughes
Nicole Kelly
Elyss McCleary
Pia Murphy
Lorna Quinn
Lucy Roleff
Antonia Sellbach
Tai Snaith

📷: 1. Kez Hughes
2024
Tangara, 325-300 BC, Louvre Museum, Paris
oil on board
25 x 20 cm

2. Martin George2024
Moon accordionacrylic on cotton canvas
102 x 153 cm

3. Lorna Quinn
2025
Columns of smoke
oil on board
35 x 28.5 cm

All images courtesy the artists & Nicholas Thompson Gallery.

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