Empty Space Projects
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New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
NEW SOUTH WALES
Anyplace Projects works with local government and landlords to provide space for community groups, emerging artists and the surrounding residents to produce and develop their interests and practices.
Website Contact Liam O'Donoghue : anyplaceprojects@gmail.com
The Arcade Project, Sydney is an initiative from Gaffa, in Sydney's CBD, which gives mid-career makers and designers the chance to have their work displayed across three-month blocks in a creatively driven retail space.
Website Facebook Group Contact: info@gaffa.com.au
Art In The Heart, Lismore is led by Lismore City Council, in partnership with the business and wider community, to create a more vibrant Lismore City Centre, seven days a week.
Website Contact Stephen Nelson: stephen.nelson@lismore.nsw.gov.au
Create, Innovate Gosford City is a creative industry hub with a steering committee that includes business owners and artists, Gosford City Council, the Gosford Business Improvement District, the Gosford Chamber of Commerce, community and cultural organisations and real estate agents.
Website Contact Paul Brasch:
Crows Nest Pop-up Culture is a not-for-profit collaboration between local residents, small businesses and Crows Nest Mainstreet to fill Crows Nest's empty retail spaces with local and emerging creative practitioners.
Website Contact Sophie Greenfield: sophie@crowsnestpopup.org
Pop Up Parramatta is using vacant spaces as sites for temporary creative enterprise and growing the creative networks of the area. The project is led by Parramatta City Council with fundng from Arts NSW.
Website Facebook Contact Merryn Spencer:
Pop-up Wollongong is a partnership with local artists and Wollongong City Council staging pop up exhibitions and events during the 2011 Viva la Gong Festival.
Queen Street Studio, Sydney a member-based, non-profit organisation which provides studio space run by artists for artists. The organisation manages FraserStudios; a new multi-disciplinary art space in the inner-Sydney suburb of Chippendale for Frasers Property.
Website Facebook Contact: space@queenstreetstudio.com
Renew Newcastle finds short and medium term uses for buildings in Newcastle's CBD that are currently vacant, disused, or awaiting redevelopment.
Website Facebook Contact: hello@renewnewcastle.org
The Rocks Pop Up is an ongoing program by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority to activate low cost creative spaces in Sydney's historic Rocks district.
Website Contact Anique Vered: anique.vered@shfa.nsw.gov.au
Beautiful Art Spaces, Cairns is designed to reinvigorate the Cairns CBD by creating partnerships between property owners and local creative industries.
Gold Spaces is a Gold Coast urban renewal entity that aims to revive vacant and under-used spaces by connecting property developers and space owners with creative individuals and groups.
Website Contact: mariamarcilla@gmail.com
Renew Townsville finds short and medium term uses for buildings in Townsville's CBD that are currently vacant, disused, or awaiting redevelopment.
Website Facebook Contact Donna Sutherland: hello.renewtownsville@gmail.com
Renew Adelaide is a non-profit, artist run initiative which aims to fill empty spaces and disused buildings in and around the City of Adelaide with artist and community run ventures with the minimum possible cost to those involved.
Website Facebook Contact: info@renewadelaide.com.au
Creative Spaces helps artists to find suitable and affordable spaces across Victoria to develop, exhibit or perform work.
Website Contact Eleni Arbus: eleni.arbus@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Made in Geelong is an independent, non-profit that finds artists, cultural projects and community groups to temporarily use and maintain vacant retail spaces in the Geelong CBD.
Website Facebook Contact: info@madeingeelong.org
Surface Pop are a 'low brow' pop-up concept Gallery and Exhibition space with no fixed abode in Melbourne working with artists/designers starting out.
Acseller8, Mandurah supports emerging artists and designers to get their product to market via a CBD retail incubator provided by the City of Mandurah.
Montage Collective, Perth are designers and artists who produce original handmade goodies and pop-up shops all over the city.