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Steered by founders Jane and Simon Hayman with director Samantha Barrow, leading Melbourne art gallery STATION is breaking out of the white cube mould with a new Sydney space that embraces its historic bones and verdant outlook.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE STATION’S APPROACH?

Simon Hayman: We are dedicated to presenting a diverse, conceptually driven program fostering critically engaged contemporary art practices. What began as the merging of two galleries has grown over eight years into a dynamic organization supporting artists to achieve the highest level of acclaim and producing museum-quality exhibitions in a commercial context. We also strongly believe in art publishing. This year we partnered with Perimeter Editions to produce Tom Polo’s first major publication and [another] by Laith McGregor.

WHAT INFORMED THE OPENING OF STATION IN SYDNEY?