Darebin art collection

Darebin City Council has a significant and ever-growing public contemporary art collection, known widely as the Darebin Art Collection. The focus areas of the collection include:

• By culturally and linguistically diverse artists.
• By Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and other First Nation artists.
• By artists living in Darebin.

As part of this robust collection, we also commission and maintain a diverse number of public artworks situated throughout the shire.

View the Darebin Art Collection here (via the Victoria Collections website).

Read the Darebin Art Collection Policy 2023-2026.(PDF, 282KB)

About our collection

With the Darebin Art Collection inspire, inform and engage. We connect the community through an appreciation of the visual arts and local heritage.

We help artists contribute to a vibrant municipal culture. The Collection belongs to you, the Darebin community, and provides a diverse visual record of the thoughts, actions and ideas which influence us all.

We work with curatorial staff to guide and shape the Darebin Art Collection Policy and assist with acquisitions. Our Acquisition Advisory Panel is made up of leading arts experts. They provide advice for new acquisitions and make sure each work meets the guiding principles of the Darebin Art Collection Policy.

We display the Collection all over Darebin, including Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. Our public artworks are displayed in the streets and parks throughout the municipality.

Image: Yhonnie Scarce, N000, N2359, N2351, N2402 2014. Blown Glass, archive photographs. Photograph by Janelle Low. Darebin Art Collection