About
Kings Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
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KINGS Artist-Run acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate.
We offer our respect to Elders both past and present and extend this offer to all Australian First Nations people.
Emerging Writers’ Program
In 2015, KINGS Artist-Run commenced an Emerging Writers’ Program aimed at providing opportunities for emerging arts writers to have their work published in a public forum and to further critical dialogue between writers and artists exhibiting in the KINGS program. Throughout the program each writer is mentored in the development of a text to be published within the gallery.
As of 2018 the KINGS Artist-Run Emerging Writers’ Program has partnered with un Projects to develop short-form critical reviews to be published on un Extended.
un Projects publishes writing that emerges from art making, providing an independent platform for critical discussions about local artistic practice. With a focus on artists, writers and independent practice, un Projects publishes essays, artists’ work and reviews, in print and online.
Through the program KINGS and un Projects are committed to working with emerging writers to develop written skills, critical voices and creative approaches to arts writing.
2025
Annabel Brown
Gabe Tejada
Leo Purnomo
Tom Stoddard
2024-25
Meenal Khare
2024
2023
2022–23
Anna McDermott
La Fielding
2021–22
Celine Saoud
Charlotte Kerr
Luna Mrozik Gawler
Matt Siddall
2020
Angela Glindemann
Clare McLeod
Thomas McCammon
2019
Nadia Niaz
Harriet McInerney
Miranda King
Corinna Berndt
Olga Bennett
2018
Henry Law
Michaela Bear
Loni Jeffs
Elyse Goldfinch
Josephine Mead
2017
Christine McFetridge
Gareth Morgan
Hayley Haynes
Madeleine Russo
Anatol Pitt
Rebecca McCauley
2015
Abbra Kotlarczyk
Kenny Pittock
Diego Ramirez
Catherine Read
Joe WT Scott
Jess Williams
un Extended Reviews
May 2024: Kaijern Koo, First things, Brunswick Street Gallery: Sarah Low, A Wild and Fragile Coast
May 2024: Tara Grace, tender effacement, become undone, FUTURES Gallery: Alice Ramsden, Murmurations
Dec 2023: Tom Campbell, Alex Hobba – Cockfighter’s Ghost, BLINDSIDE: Alex Hobba, Cockfighter’s Ghost
Nov 2023: Madison Pawle, Flesh Boundaries, FUTURES Gallery: Sarah Drinan, Flesh Boundaries
Oct 2023: Uswa Qureshi, A Language of Craftism, Rubicon ARI: Sophie Cox, Protest and Survive
May 2023: Wen-Juenn Lee, Sometimes holiness is a room; sometimes, a door, Arts House: Okkoota ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ
Jun 2022: Lara Fielding, Sirens are sung by gentle Sissy/ Engcanto, The Art Gallery of New South Wales: Justin Shoulder, AEON †: TITAN ARUM
Oct 2021: Matt Siddal, Salt + Loving; Halophile, BLINDSIDE: Grace Ferguson, Emma Phillips, Trevor Santos and Annika Koops, curated by Josephine Mead
Sept 2019: Michaela Bear, Hannah Gartside: Fantasies, Ararat Gallery TAMA
Sept 2019: Henry Law, Martin George, Box of Stamps, Haydens Gallery
Sept 2019: Loni Jeffs, Winter Sun, Daine Singer Gallery
April 2019: Miranda King, DARK KNIGHT: Jill Orr, Magdalen Laundries, Abbotsford Convent
April 2019: Harriet McInerney, WOOLWORTHS ORCHID: Sophie Penkethman-Young, AIRspace Projects
April 2019: Olga Bennett, Katie West: Clearing, TarraWarra Museum of Art
Sept 2018: Josephine Mead, The Eyes That Saw Her Were Closed, Incinerator Gallery
Sept 2018: Elyse Goldfinch, Sense, Cement Fondu: Emily Parsons Lord x Laure Provoust
About
Kings Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
More information ›
KINGS Artist-Run acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate.
We offer our respect to Elders both past and present and extend this offer to all Australian First Nations people.