Ex-brothel turns temporary gallery

RMIT partners with STREAT to transform Melbourne’s Cromwell Manor.
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Who’d have thought a brothel, a social enterprise and one of the country’s leading educational institutions would come together on a project that creatively fuses artists, architects and designers?

RMIT is partnering with the STREAT – a social enterprise that provides homeless youth with the life skills, work experience and training they need to start a career in hospitality – to stage the site occupation of a former brothel in Collingwood with an exhibition titled MANORISMS.

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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