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Warehouse galleries succumb to changing times

After 15-years, an Australian arts institution has fallen to gentrification. The cluster of galleries is being forced to rethink the warehouse complex model.

17 Feb 2016 12:00

Gina Fairley

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Inside 2 Danks Street gallery complex in Sydney suburb of Waterloo; Photo ArtsHub

An article in 2013 reported as news: ‘The warehouse era begins in the Los Angeles Art World’. It was a curious headline given that some twenty years earlier American art collector Tom Patchett financed the development of Bergamot Station in Santa Monica in 1994, reputed to be the first complex of large-scale art galleries in a semi-industrial area. It housed 20 galleries that ringed its own parking lot.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina