KINGS Artist-Run is a contemporary art gallery and studio complex located in the west end of the Melbourne CBD. The gallery was formed in 2003 by Annie Wilson, Frank Guarino, Brendan Lee and Brie Trennery, and continues to be communally driven by a collective of artists, writers, curators and academics. KINGS program encompasses a range of distinct experimental performances, publishing initiatives and exhibitions. These include a range of projects presented across three exhibition spaces in which artists, collectives and curators are provided with an opportunity to form new work. In addition, KINGS presents a program of singular ‘one-off’ events through its FLASHnight program. In 2015 KINGS developed an Emerging Writers’ Program to support and mentor early career writers through the development, editing and publishing of writing in artistic contexts.

KINGS Artist-Run committee:
Gallery coordinator: Jeremy Eaton
Media and communications manager: Georgia Mill
Black_Box coordinators: Ashley Perry & Tara O’Conal
Studio manager: Megan Kennedy
Gallery Liaisons: Jessica Row, Zainab Hikmet, Katie Ryan

For information on how to apply to participate in the KINGS Artist-Run program please go here

Katie West, One Square Metre, tarp, soils, plants endemic to Naarm, 2018. Simone Slee, Rocks happy to help #20, red scoria, glass, plinth, 2018. In Dissident Assemblies. Photos: Chris Bowes Maddison Kitching, At the end of the rainbow #1, #2, #3, oil and acrylic paint on page from Steve Parish’s book Australia: The Gift