Visual Arts

It’s a rare thing to have a space dedicated to LGBTIQ+ culture and it is with immense excitement and pride that we launch the visual arts program at the Pride Centre. The Pride Centre provides opportunities for visual arts and archival exhibitions and displays that focus on art by LGBTIQ+ artists and/or art that focuses on LGBTIQ+ issues. See our current exhibitions and an archive of past works below.

Visual arts activations and exhibitions at the Pride Centre are determined through an Expressions Of Interest process, assessed by a Visual Arts Selection Panel of volunteer arts professionals. Please keep an eye on the website and socials for information about the next round of EOIs. For further information, please email contact@pridecentre.org.au

Current Exhibition

Beguiling

‘Beguiling’ – by acclaimed artist Professor Dr. Lisa Anderson. The exhibition is an evocative, multimedia exploration of changing landscapes and environmental collapse.

November 2023 - January 2024

Past Exhibition

Rainbow Bridges

The Rainbow Bridges art project brings together the voices of young lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people and older members of the LGBTIQA+ community of the Macedon Ranges.

September - November 2023

Past Exhibition

If the World Was Just

As part of resident organisation Thorne Harbour Health‘s 40th anniversary, ‘If the World Was Just’ is a photographic exhibition exploring LGBTIQ+ human rights around the world through a series of portraits of local LGBTIQ+ community members.

July - September 2023

Past Exhibition

#AllAboard Dress and Exhibition

To celebrate the #AllAboard Pride Tram design competition the Pride Centre is displaying entries from last year’s #AllAboard design competition this winter, along with the iconic ‘tram fabric’ dress designed by Gaetano Contarino for local drag artist Frock Hudson.

June - August 2023

Past Exhibition

The Queer Gaze

The exhibition features a stunning collection of images from the iconic lesbian magazine Wicked Women, which was launched in 1988 and played a pivotal role in disrupting the rigid political climate that dominated the lesbian scene at that time.

April - June 2023