You are invited to the opening of [The] An Australian Group Show. Brian Windridge, Jillian Gibb, Virginia Fraser, Fiona Hall. Photographers Gallery, 344 Punt Rd, South Yarra on Thursday July 3 [1986], 6.00 pm.

South Yarra, Vic. : Photographers’ Gallery, [1986]. Invitation, 100 x 210 mm, black on white card, printed recto only; with Virginia Fraser’s revision of the first word of the title in felt-tip pen; a couple of light marks.

The Photographers’ Gallery (and Workshop) was founded in 1973 by Paul Cox, Ingeborg Tyssen, John F. Williams and Rod McNicol at 344 Punt Road, South Yarra. In 1974 it was taken over by Ian Lobb. It was the second gallery devoted to photography to be established in Melbourne after Rennie Ellis’ and Robert Ashton’s Brummels Gallery, which was started in 1972 less than a kilometre away, and before the Church Street Photography Centre run by Joyce Evans in neighbouring Richmond (1976). It eventually closed in 2010.

Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.