Guy Abrahams - Director

Guy has been a Director of Christine Abrahams Gallery since 1987.

In 2006 Guy was elected National President of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association. Christine Abrahams Gallery is a long-standing member of the ACGA, the peak industry body which represents commercial galleries, promotes and lobbies on behalf of the visual arts sector and, in particular, living Australian artists.

Guy has previously held positions as:

..Board Member National Gallery of Victoria Art Foundation
..Board Member Melbourne Art Fair 2000
..Member City of Melbourne Public Art & Acquisition Committee
..Member Peter MacCallum Hospital Art Committee
..Victorian Chair of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association
..Chairperson of the First and Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair
..Committees
..He is also approved as a valuer for the Australian Government's Cultural
..Gifts Program.

Guy holds Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts major) and Bachelor of Laws degrees and practised as a Solicitor specialising in Arts Law (including work for film companies, musicians, visual artists and writers) before joining the Gallery.

Emilly Davis – Gallery Manager

Emilly is an Honours graduate in Art History and Curatorship from the Australian National University and has worked at commercial galleries in Canberra and Sydney as well as with Sotheby's in Sydney and Melbourne.

Christine Abrahams - Founder (1939 - 1994)

"Not all dealers, gallery directors and curators live in the same world as artists. Christine Abrahams' legacy is the example of one who did not regard art as merely a commodity but who valued it as one values the air one breathes and water that satisfies thirst; as a gift to the spirit and a source of pleasure and enlightenment." Lenton Parr, 1994.

Christine Abrahams founded the gallery in 1983. Previously, Christine had been the Manager of Powell Street Gallery between 1976 and 1980 and a Co-Director of Axiom Gallery from 1980 to 1982.

Christine was the initiator of the Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, which continues to this day as the Melbourne Art Fair and was a member of the organising committee for the Fair in 1988, 1990 and 1992. She was on the board of the Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial and was a member of the Visual Art Export Group of the Australia Council and the Craft Council of Victoria.