Hand Held Gallery

My Gallery, Hand Held,

is a small gallery in the centre of Melbourne. The gallery focuses on the hand held object including the artist book- an innately hand held object that requires the viewer to touch in order to view. Alongside books, zines, posters, artist cards and postcards are other hand helds such a… Continue

Hand Held Gallery (Melbourne) Presents Tangent Man Turns Left by Julian Chapple: an anthology of graphic works from recent travels. Opening tonight! The exhibition continues until December 5th. Also on show 'Travel Notes' a collection of artis

t books inspired by Travel. Gail Stiffe, Helen Malone, Judy Bourke, Jane Simon.

Hi All,

Hand Held Gallery(Melbourne) will host its 2nd annual Bill Posters Poster and Postcard exhibition in December. Artists are asked to submit posters, prints or images in poster format ( how you interpret that - mounted, folded, rolled, loose, bound, one off or multiple, unconventional in shape and size- it's up to you!). Fee is $10 per image/item + 10 (A6) Postcards of the item (can be a detail - which will be collated into groups and sold by the gallery as part of fee).
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Hand Held Gallery is hosting an exhibition of photographic objects and small books by Jane Simon. Jane is a Sydney based artist who specialises in beautifully crafted miniature books and objects of a photographic nature. This exhibition involves a series of photographic objects documenting win… Continue

'Palm Reader',Hand Held's 1st Birthday Exhibition is in it's last week so if you get a chance, come on in to the gallery and take a look at this lovely book and object based exhibition which asked artists- object and book makers- to interpret the term Palm Reader. The respons… Continue