About

KINGS Artist-Run is a contemporary arts organisation supporting a range of artists, writers and performers in the early stages of their careers. KINGS was originally formed as a gallery to exhibit experimental video work on King Street in Melbourne in 2003 by Annie Wilson, Frank Guarino, Marcel Cousins, Brendan Lee and Brie Trennery, and continues to be communally driven by a collective of artists, writers, curators and academics. The KINGS program evolved to encompass a range of distinct experimental performances, publishing initiatives and exhibitions.

In early 2020, KINGS vacated our multi-level premises in Melbourne’s CBD. The organisation operated a mobile model for the following year commissioning writing, digital works, and public projects. In 2021, KINGS established a new wheelchair-accessible gallery space in West Melbourne. This venue opened to the public in May 2021.

KINGS Artist-Run Committee

Organisation Coordinators: Katie Paine and Amy May Stuart
Emerging Writers’ Program Coordinators: Beatrice Rubio Gabriel and George Criddle
STRAY VOLTAGE Video Program Coordinators: Aaron Rees and Katie Paine
Photographer: Sebastian Kainey
Programming Committee: Ashley Perry, Matt Siddall, Sophie Cassar, Beatrice Rubio Gabriel, George Criddle, Aaron Rees, Sebastian Kainey, Oliver Hull, Katie Paine and Amy May Stuart

1. Jennifer Mathews: The Sun Ceases to Give without Receiving and Victoria Pham: Domestic Venus and Esther Carlin: Mothers’ Mothers

2.Chris Hill: A Do Ocean

3. Thea Jones: She let her body sway with the movement of the train

4. Christina May Carey: Hypnagogia

5.Accumulates in the throat, emerges from the mouth: Abbra Kotlarczyk, Alice McIntosh, Briony Galligan, Cameron Gresswell, Grace Culley, Jazz Money, Michelle Kong, Nunzio Madden, Sarah Ujmaia, Soroush Abbasi nejad haghigh

6. Endless, Sightless: Nhà Sàn Collective: Do Van Hoang, Le Xuan Tien, Nguyen Duc Huy, Nguyen Phuong Linh, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Ta Minh Duc, Truong Que Chi, Tuan Mami

7. Living in a mirrored sphere, Anatol Pitt, Ariane Jaccarini, Mia Middleton, Joseph Flynn, curated by Jeremy Eaton, 2019