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Moving Galleries

In 2005, the Committee for Melbourne gathered a team of volunteers who created a project to foster young and emerging Victorian artistic talent and make creativity accessible in Melbourne’s public spaces.

The first Moving Galleries featured parallel programming of both student artwork, and public poetry on the Melbourne train system and saw 480 artworks travel around Melbourne on 20 Connex trains. The inspiration for Moving Galleries came from public transport art and poetry initiatives from other countries.

Overwhelming community appreciation and support for Moving Galleries subsequently attracted funding to the project. In 2007, the project secured long-term funding enabling it to evolve from a ‘one-off’ exhibition to into an ongoing non-profit initiative dedicated to promoting creativity in Melbourne’s public spaces.

Visit the Moving Galleries website.