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Flinders Quarter

Citylights - public art in Hosier Lane

Highlights

  • Indigenous and contemporary art and craft galleries
  • Edgy, local designers.

Once the home of the city’s rag trade, the chunky façades of Flinders Lane now house groovy bars, apartments, and artisans and designers producing and selling eccentric to exquisite fashion and accessories.

Flinders Lane is the shopping destination for the hip and happening. The stretch between Swanston and Elizabeth streets is lined with distinctly Melbourne boutiques like Christine (selling fashion and accessories) and Alice Euphemia (experimental designs by young and emerging designers), and it's just a few steps to Cathedral Arcade (edgy fashion), and the Nicholas Building (shops, galleries and studios). And if you think heaven is waiting for a bite, make your way to Compleat Angler and Compleat Flyfisher, between Queen and Market Streets.

Flinders Lane is also the city’s key commercial gallery precinct and houses Australia’s densest concentration of commercial galleries. There are a number of galleries that specialise in indigenous art, as well as Craft Victoria, a gallery that showcases the work of the state’s finest craftspeople.

Head to Centre Place, Scott Place and Degraves Street for atmospheric hole-in-the-wall cafes and eateries. At night follow the 'in crowd' down one of the alleys to disover some of the best bars in town.