NotFair Returns in 2026
Dontate to NotFair through the Australian Cultural Fund
NotFair returns in 2026 — help us make it happen
Be part of NotFair 2026
Support emerging artists this AusArt Day
NotFair returns in 202618–23 February, 83 High Street Prahran — alongside Melbourne Art Fair
NotFair is a curated art event dedicated to presenting the critical voices of emerging and under-represented artists.We foster connections between artists, curators and collectors, creating a space for new ideas and conversations in contemporary art.
This AusArt Day, we’re raising funds through the Australian Cultural Fund to help bring the next edition to life — from preparing the exhibition to supporting the artists who make it possible.
Your contribution directly supports artists and keeps NotFair independent and accessible.
Support levels:
$50 – Supporter of NotFairYour name listed on our website as a supporter.
$100 – Friend of NotFairAcknowledgement on our website and updates from behind the scenes.
$200 – Super Friend of NotFairAcknowledgement + helps fund one artist’s participation.
$500 – Major DonorAcknowledgement + supports one artist’s involvement, freight and installation.
All donations are tax-deductible and go through the Australian Cultural Fund.
(Clicking the button above will take you to the Australian Cultural Fund website)
Thank you for helping us support artists and independent practice.
NotFair Art Foundation: 18–23 February 2026, 83 High Street, Prahran
NotFair
“Representing those without gallery representation, NotFair is a platform for emerging and independent artists to exhibit their works."
proclaimed Annabel Ross in The Age newspaper in 2016.
"It’s the antithesis of trade art fairs such as the Melbourne Art Fair, dominated by galleries and gallery-backed artists.”
For just on 15 years the NotFair (as in Not the Art Fair) has continued to reappear like a guerrilla army. With no central physical base, it reconstitutes itself in shells of deserted buildings ranging from Richmond to Collingwood to the CBD. With its rag-tag brigade of brilliant, but largely under-exposed, artists it has converted an abandoned margarine factory and then a deconsecrated church in Windsor in quick succession. A foray in a gutted mechanics garage in Richmond and a tattoo parlour in Armadale. Somehow it works, launching careers and introducing new names into the scene. But it is an unusual beast. Often anarchic in appearance, it is in fact, assiduously conceived and curated. An experimental pot pouri of video, drawing, painting, sculpture and events.
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