Fireworks Gallery

It’s not often you find an art gallery on nestled in between a gym and a warehouse on an industrial street, but Fireworks Gallery is an exception. And an exceptional exception at that!
The space itself is huge and perfect for the purposes of the gallery. It’s a little messy but it’s also used for art storage so that’s understandable. However if they were to find an alternative for the storage and clean up the space a little bit it could easily double as a function centre with the rustic warehouse feel it has to it.
I saw the Kudditji Kngwarrey exhibition on my recent visit and loved the play with combining typography and traditional indigenous landscapes and colours. The two largest pieces were particularly moving and definitely worth a look. If this is the calibre of the works that Fireworks Gallery exhibits then I will definitely keep tabs on what they’re showing.

Does anyone have $ 9000 they want to give me to purchase Laurie Nilsen’s Blondie art piece? It’s a two metre high print of an imposing emu staring cockeyed at the audience that I found at the Fireworks Gallery.
This impressive arts hub nestled in Doggett Street hosts a variety of contemporary exhibitions as well as having a large stockroom full of indigenous and Islander art for serious collectors. Their large open shed is the perfect space to house their collection of sculptures, weavings, prints and paintings.
It was refreshing to see contemporary Indigenous artists such as Kudditji Kngwarreye working in an acrylic medium and presenting the landscape in a style different than the traditional dots and patterns associated with indigenous art. So before their next exhibition in February, I strongly recommend art students, collectors or anyone interested in a bit of culture, take a detour to Fireworks to check out their current exhibition.