MELBOURNE’S AUSTRALASIAN CULTURAL ARTS EXCHANGE (ACAE GALLERY) – TAASA Review December 2022

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This article was originally found in the December 2022 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 22).

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Damian Smith T he 30 April 2022 launch of the new and privately funded Australasian Cultural Arts Exchange (ACAE Gallery) in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood is a timely development in the cultural life of the city, especially so as Melbourne emerges from one of the longest COVID-19 lockdowns on record. My Identity 1 – 4, 2003, Gonkar Gyatso (b.

1961), C-type print, 29 x 41.5 cm each.

Image courtesy of the artist ‘Australasia’ features in our name as a statement of regionality as much as a way of rethinking Australia’s cultural connections to Asia...