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 National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina