Testing Grounds is a place for art, performance and design, with a focus on public art, and education.
Free and accessible, Testing Grounds is committed to supporting all creative projects and ideas. This is a place where creatives at all stages of practice can test, develop and share their work in public. Testing Grounds can be used to present new work, run workshops and community activities, and host festivals and events.
After eight years in Melbourne's Arts Precinct, this new public CBD location provides significant opportunities for artists to show work to an expanded audience and we are excited to be here with you, working with the City's creative communities.
Testing Grounds respectfully acknowledges that there are sites of cultural heritage in and around the Queen Victoria Market precinct, and we recognise the tangible and intangible connection of Aboriginal peoples to place. We wholeheartedly appreciate connection through place to the oldest continuing cultures on earth. Always was, always will be.
