About
The George Paton Gallery is a contemporary art gallery presenting projects by University of Melbourne students. We encourage experimental, collaborative, and education-focused approaches to contemporary art and related projects and provide a supportive platform for student artists, writers and curators.
Our ethos emerges from a significant history of experimental arts practice, with the George Paton Gallery (est. 1974) becoming the first institutionally supported space of its kind in Australia, and a model for subsequent centres of contemporary art. Within our histories lie forecasts of critical and emerging shifts across the arts landscape in Australia, including feminist practice, the use of new media, the phenomenon of the “Curator” and the return(s) of painting.
