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2025 exhibitions
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2024 exhibitions
- 'Coming Home’ by Marina Floreancig' – online exhibition
- 'Explore Boroondara' – online exhibition
- 'Look Up' by QArt Studio – online exhibition
- 'Nostalgic' by Bradley Flood – online exhibition
- 'Resting Places in Boroondara' by Elgin Artists – online exhibition
- 'Sparkling Moments' by Tiffany Wan – online exhibition
- 'The Future is Interest-spective' by Autism Spectrum Australia – online exhibition
- 'Vivid Reverie, a Symphony in Still Life’ by Penelope Lau - online exhibition
- Aspects of Abstraction: Charles Nodrum Collection – online exhibition
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- DISH – online exhibition
- In the Neighbourhood – online exhibition
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- Pattern Recognition – online exhibition
- The Long Way: Kevin Chin – online exhibition
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2023 exhibitions
- ‘Love the One You’re With’ by Celia Moriarty
- 'A Sense of Place' by Caroline Calway – online exhibition
- 'Celebrate Boroondara' – online exhibition
- 'Healing' – online exhibition
- 'Out of Reach' by Amy Cohen – online exhibition
- 'The Memory Palace: Cyrus Tang' – online exhibition
- 'When a Moment Becomes a Memory’ – online exhibition
- Boroondara Summer Salon
- Collection Exhibition: 'MARKED '
- Collections of You – online exhibition
- Light Sensitive – online exhibition
- Our Place: 20 Years of Town Hall Gallery – online exhibition
- Romancing the Streetscape – online exhibition
- ‘Banana’ by Vanessa Bong – online exhibition
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- ‘Light Years’ by Camberwell Camera Club – online exhibition
- ‘Nowhere to Here’ by Brian Osborne – online exhibition
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2022 exhibitions
- 'Common Thread' – online exhibition
- 'Diverse Boroondara' – online exhibition
- 'Painting Place' by Madeleine Thornton-Smith – online exhibition
- 'Parallel Visions' – online exhibition
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- Tell Me a Story – online exhibition
- ‘Between Worlds’ – online exhibition
- ‘Borrowed’ by Carla Tucker – online exhibition
- ‘Canvas and Paint’ by Eileen van Bavel – online exhibition
- ‘Streets of Your Town’ by Geoff Cunningham – online exhibition
- ‘The Cartoon Chronicles of Sandwich Bag Dad’ by Dave Blumenthal – online exhibition
- ‘The Intrigue of Images’ by Donald Bate – online exhibition
- ‘Through Our Eyes’ by QArt Studio – online exhibition
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2021 exhibitions
- 'Nature within 5km' by Joe Blundell – online exhibition
- 'Residential' by D.M. Ross – online exhibition
- 50 Years as a Sculptor by Michael Meszaros – online exhibition
- Light Gestures: Samara Adamson-Pinczewski – online exhibition
- Local Summer – online exhibition
- Out Back by Lyn Guy – online exhibition
- Reconfigured/Rediscovered – online exhibition
- Shelter in Place – online exhibition
- ‘From Muddy Roots, Beauty Grows’ – online exhibition
- ‘Let’s Go!’ by John Romeo – online exhibition
- ‘Natural Constructs’ – online exhibition
- ‘Nature in Art’ by the Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre – online exhibition
- ‘Portraiture in Black and White’ – online exhibition
- ‘Renaissance Goes Surreal’ by John Ashcroft – online exhibition
- ‘Working Under the Shadow of Happiness’ – online exhibition
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2020 exhibitions
- A Family Album – online exhibition
- Creepy Crawlies and Coffee Zombie – online exhibition
- Do I have to spell it out for you? – online exhibition
- Kylie Stillman: Not fully or properly either of two things – online exhibition
- Portraits of Boroondara – online exhibition
- Resemblance by Hawthorn Artist Society – online exhibition
- The Good Cups – online exhibition
- Tracing Her Steps – online exhibition
- ‘Boroondara Faces in Everyday Places’ by the Boroondara Visual Art Teachers Network – online exhibition
- You Are Here – online exhibition
- John Young Zerunge: The Lives of Celestials – online exhibition
- Sounds Like. – online exhibition
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2025 exhibitions
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