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Platform Artists Group Inc. turns 20 years!
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7 January 2011
For all the many people who conduct tours in Naarm / Melbourne, Platform is a regular on the itinerary.
Platform is the hidden underground path of window boxes that over the past 20 years has displayed:
- group shows
- solo exhibitions
- installation
- even performance shows.
Melbourne would not be the same without these hidden public art spaces that are occupied by talented artists.
Platform has a continuos flow of traffic every day from Flinders Street Station and is a perfect art space for an emerging artist to showcase their body of work to a larger audience.
Platform Artists Group Inc. was established by artists Andrew Seward and Richard Holt in 1990 as a non-profit public art organisation.
Twenty years on and, as Melbourne's longest running artists-run initiative and public art project in the CBD, Platform continues to provide an engaging contemporary art program to public audiences at its 2 main locations:
- Campbell Arcade, the pedestrian underpass linking Flinders Street Station to Degraves Street (view location on Google Maps)
- the nearby Majorca Building in Centre Way Arcade off Flinders Lane (view location on Google Maps)
Funding partners – Platform is supported by the City of Melbourne, Arts Victoria and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

The current birthday show runs from 10 December 2010 to 29 January 2011.
Artists include: AND, Kate Cotching, Adam Cruickshank, DAMP, Michael Graeve, Brad Haylock, Richard Holt, Ash Keating, Simone LeAmon, Bridie Lunney and Meredith Turnbull, Simon Pericich, Tape Projects and Andrew Seward.
The event will also launch the publication "What Art, Which Public: Platform Artists Group 1990–2010", which captures just some of the history, events and exhibitions from this period. Edited by Angela Brophy, featuring an introductory essay by Zara Stanhope, interview with former directors and short story by Richard Holt.
Details on how to purchase the book will be coming soon on Platform's website.
Happy birthday, Platform!