Gasworks Arts Park

Gasworks Arts Park: a place of art, ideas and events, where people meet, explore and create.

Gasworks is a not-for-profit community arts centre in beautiful park surrounds, on the site of the former South Melbourne gas plant. Situated in Albert Park, Gasworks is just three kilometres from the CBD , and the precinct houses four hectares of park, two theatres, three gallery spaces, a café, a children’s bookshop, as well as function and workshop spaces.

Pickles Street Entrance

Gasworks has 14 resident visual artists and a small but dedicated staff work to present an annual program which includes festivals and events, seasons within Melbourne’s biggest arts festivals, farmers’ markets, classes and workshops, creative and professional development opportunities for artists, children’s programming and more. In addition, over 70 performing arts events and 40 visual arts exhibitions are presented in the venue each year.

Gasworks’ diverse audiences include the local communities in the City of Port Phillip, plus broader regional and metropolitan audiences and those from the queer, disabled, Indigenous and ethically diverse communities.

Gasworks is becoming more and more a backyard for those who don’t have one and behind the six-metre high red brick wall which still surrounds the park lies an urban oasis in an ever more densely populated area. Gasworks Arts Park is a vibrant community centre producing a range of high-quality arts programs, workshops and activities for every age, ability, interest and audience.