Dark Horse Experiment

On Thursday night I went to an opening at Dark Horse Experiment because it is one of Melbourne’s leading contemporary art galleries where the hippest young artists hang out. There was a crowd of people drinking the home-​brewed beer and clean-​skin wine that was for sale a small bar under the stairwell just inside the front door. Doyle, one of the gallery directors was calling everyone ‘punk’ because he can’t remember names.
The gallery is white walled converted factory space. The cool contemporary art on exhibition was by a young emerging print maker, Joel Gailer — I won’t try to describe the art because the gallery has a new exhibition opening every three weeks.
Outside in the street there were projections on the gallery windows — the projections in the windows are on every night.
When you visit Dark Horse Experiment be sure to see the alleyway a door down the street because it has pieces by many of Melbourne and international street artists: HaHa, Vexta, E.L.K., A1one and Drew Funk. I met E.L.K. in the alley when I was there last time — nice guy just moved down from Canberra. The reason why there is so much street art in the alleyway is that at the back of Dark Horse Experiment there is Blender Studio where a number of these artists work.