City Gallery catalogues
Some numbers: more than 50 exhibitions held since the gallery opened in 2002; an average of three exhibitions per year; the work of more than 300 living artists shown; considerably more than 1000 artworks, photographs and artefacts displayed.
Besides its symbiotic relationship with the City Collection, the gallery’s hallmark is the quality of its curatorship and design. Many of its curators have spent years working in and around their subject, and the space gives a voice to them and the artists and other city documenters shown. No two shows look the same, and the prize-winning catalogues are coveted records of exhibitions.

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City Gallery installation, 2016
At Dusk, Under the Clocks: The rediscovered photo-archive of Angus O’Callaghan
Curated by Kyla McFarlane
City Gallery catalogue essays and catalogues
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2023 'Desire Lines' by Sean Lynch
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2022 'From Mundane to Friday: The Art of Everyday Melbourne' by Kenny Pittock
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2022 'Off the Grid: Invader and Melbourne Street Art in the early 2000s' by Lachlan MacDowall
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2021 'Dream Factory: GMH design at Fishermans Bend 1964-2020' by Harriet Edquist
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2020 'You are Cordially Invited: 150 years of the Melbourne Town Hall' by Andrew Stephens
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2018 'Emblazon: Melbourne's coat of arms' by Alisa Bunbury
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2018 'We Protest! Demonstrating dissent in the streets of Melbourne' by Malcolm McKinnon
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2018 'Between the street and the sky: A provocation for Melbourne' by Rob Adams
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2017 'Ink in the blood: The life of Melbourne's newspapers' by Andrew Stephens
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2017 'Recentre; sisters' by Kimberley Moulton
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2017 'City Songs' by Zoe Ali, Christos Tsiolkas and Professor Andrew May
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2016 'The Jesus Trolley: 30 years of Desmond Hynes pushing art and Jesus on the streets of Melbourne' by Joanna Bosse
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2016 'A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne' by Clare Williamson
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2016 'Going Viral: Disease in Melbourne’s past, present and future' by Bruce Copland
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2015 'Executed in Franklin Street' by Paola Balla
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2015 'Special' by Robyn Annear
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2015 'At Dusk, Under the Clocks: The rediscovered photo-archive of Angus O’Callaghan' by Kyla McFarlane
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2014 'Page Not Found: The Lost World of the Sands & McDougall’s ‘Directory’ of Melbourne' by Andrew Stephens
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2014 'JetSet Melbourne: When the Tullamarine Airport brought the world closer.' by Simon Gregg
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2014 'Hello Yellow: Melbourne taxis – stories, colours & manners' by Christine Eid
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2013 'Postcode 3000: A city transformed?' by Rob Adams
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2013 'Good Looking: Portraits from the City of Melbourne Collection' by Phip Murray
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2013 'Cluster: Exploring the stories and patterns behind Melbourne street names' by Stephen Banham
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2012 'Melbourne's Parks and Gardens through the Magic Lantern' by Peter Timms
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2012 'Royal Melbourne' by Robyn Annear
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2011 'Paper City: An exploration of symbols and images from the City’s vast archive of historic letterheads' by Stephen Banham, Christine Eid and Prof. Andrew May
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2011 'Crepuscular: The wild animals of Melbourne' by John Kean