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Art Exhibitions

Our many spaces feature both established and emerging artists as well as group exhibitions from the community. If you are interested in viewing and potentially hiring a gallery space, please click here.

Entry: FAC Open Exhibition

Until SAT 15 JUL: The FAC Open Exhibition is a call out for submissions across all visual art mediums to explore the 2023 theme 'Renewal'.

Entry: Famous Faces - FAC Kids Art Competition

Until SAT 12 AUG: Are you a young artist aged 4-12? Experience being part of a professional art show and enter your A3 artwork on the paper with frame supplied.

Jenny Zhe Chang: South Side Festival

FRI 5 MAY to SAT 27 MAY: Sharing, Protection, Unity with Hope:
A site-specific installation that consists of 77 symbolic lanterns reflecting the 77 cultural and ethnic groups living in the Frankston municipality.

Skunk Control: South Side Festival

Until SAT 10 JUN: Three linked works by famed White Night creative group Skunk Control, explore light and darkness, the interface between them both and a possible deviation from their dynamic equilibrium.

Shaun Tan: South Side Festival

FRI 5 MAY to SAT 17 JUN: Rules of Summer is an exhibition from Australian artist, writer and film maker Shaun Tan, featuring original paintings made for the picture book of the same title.

Eleesa Howard: South Side Festival

FRI 5 MAY to SAT 22 JUL: Eleesa Howard uses paint, paper, and photography to express her view of the world in an abstract manner and to celebrate the beauty of the Frankston community within the urban environment and natural landscape.

Life-Gate

THU 15 JUN to SAT 1 JUL: A Hope and a Future is the theme of works produced by Frankston youth in the 10th Annual Colour of Hope Exhibition.

Ceberio Johnson

THU 22 JUN to SAT 19 AUG: FAC Open Winner 2022. Ceberio Johnson is an indigenous, blind photographer and asks his audience to be his eyes. “I take the photo of my moments, then they see the moment for me”.

Opening Event: Ceberio Johnson - Your Eyes, My Heart.

THU 6 JUL: Ceberio Johnson, Your Eyes. My Heart. FAC Open Exhibition Winner 2022

For Our Elders

THU 22 JUN to SAT 7 OCT: Inspired by the 2023 NAIDOC theme, Nairm Marr Djambana’s gathering place celebrates the wisdom, strength and resilience of their Elders with a series of works on paper by local Aboriginal community members.

Chisholm

THU 6 JUL to SAT 29 JUL: Small Works, Winter Series is a show of big ideas. Works will be for sale, and are created by current Chisholm Art and Design Students.

FAC Open Exhibition 2023

FRI 4 AUG to FRI 25 AUG: An annual open exhibition of submissions from all visual art mediums that explore the theme "Renew'

Opening Event: FAC Open Exhibition 2023

THU 3 AUG: Opening Event: FAC Open Exhibition 2023.

Famous Faces

THU 31 AUG to SAT 30 SEP: Portraits of Famous Faces by kids aged 4 to 12 years old for the FAC's annual kids art competition. Votes open for People's Choice!

FAC Design Store

FAC FOYER TUE to FRI 10-5, SAT 9-2. Shop unique gift ideas from Able and Game, Pop Jewels, Geline, Emma Davies, Til Foley, Kate Rohde, greeting cards and guest jewelry designers.

Salt Landscape Artwork

FAC FACADE: 'Salt Landscape' is an original artwork by artist Peter Biram which features on the exterior wall of the Frankston Arts Centre. It was installed in February 2020 and will be exhibited for three years.