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3 Aug 2025

Saturday, 2nd August, 2025: Andrew King, The Outsiders Melbourne: Celebrating Artists Defying the Art Establishment

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Saturday, 2nd August, 2025: Andrew King, The Outsiders Melbourne: Celebrating Artists Defying the Art Establishment

Sally and Macca talk to Andrew King, Art collector about ‘The Outsiders Melbourne’ exhibition.

Sandra Powell and Andrew King – collectively known as Sandrew – are Melbourne-based art aficionados who have been collecting local and international street art for more than 15 years. They have amassed the largest collection of street art in Australia, including the most artworks by Banksy in the country. Sandrew is dedicated to championing the underdogs of the art world. You can learn more about them on https://sandrew.com.au/, or follow them on https://www.instagram.com/sandrewmelbs

A ground-breaking exhibition of street art, The Outsiders Melbourne celebrates artists defying the art establishment.

Over the past 15 years, Sandra Powell and Andrew King have amassed the largest collection of street art in Australia, including the largest collection of Banksy artworks in the country. The pair – collectively referred to as ‘Sandrew’ – are renowned for their ongoing support of street art. They have curated exhibitions at home and abroad and are passionate in their advocacy of street art. Open to the public for the first time, The Outsiders Melbourne reveals an insider’s view of fabulous, iconic and rare works from this acclaimed private collection.

The exhibition will open with over 100 works by street artists, including locals Rone, Adnate, Vexta, Kaff-eine, Fintan Magee, Sofles and MEGGS, as well as internationals such as Banksy, Barry McGee, Vhils, Invader, Swoon, Hush, Shepard Fairey, Ron English and ELLE.

Highlights will include an entire room of Banksy artworks, featuring a new work, Firewall, seen for the first time in Australia; Matt Adnate’s Echoes of a Teenage Superstar, his portrait of Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns, a finalist in the 2023 Archibald Prize; a never-before-seen canvas by Rone, titled Red Planet; various works by the world’s most accredited female street artist, Swoon; Shepard Fairey’s portrait His Holiness, the Dalai Lama; Ron English’s masterpiece, Kiss and Make Up; E.L.K’s portrait of Saul Williams, which won Australia’s inaugural Stencil Art Prize; and a magnificent, important painting by Barry McGee, painted circa 1990.