Gallery Information

William Mora Galleries is one of Australia's leading commercial galleries, committed to supporting and exhibiting contemporary Australian art. William Mora Galleries presents monthly exhibitions of emerging and established indigenous and non-indigenous artists and deals in outstanding modern and contemporary Australian art. The artists represented by the gallery work in a range of techniques, including painting, installation, printmaking, photography and sculpture.

After more than a decade in Flinders Lane, William Mora Galleries relocated in early 2000 to a gallery complex in Tanner Street, Richmond, the first purpose-built contemporary art space in Melbourne for many years. This complex combines exhibition and viewing galleries with a residence for the family and a studio for William's mother, prominent Australian artist Mirka Mora (1928-2018). Designed by Melbourne architect Chris de Campo, the complex allows William Mora Galleries to offer a more flexible and relaxed environment in which to encounter works of art.

William Mora was one of only three second-generation art dealers operating in Australia today; his father Georges Mora opened one of the first commercial galleries in Melbourne in the 1960s. He was an accredited valuer of Australian art after 1945, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art after 1970 and European and American prints after 1960. William Mora sat on numerous committees for the support and promotion of the arts, including the National Gallery Society and the Art Committee for the Council of Adult Education. William died in 2023. In acknowledgement of his legacy, the Melbourne Art Foundation created the William Mora Indigenous Art Centre Program. The Heide Museum of Modern Art appointed William as the Heide 2023 Heide Fellow alongside his parents, Georges Mora (1989) and Mirka Mora (2008).

William Mora and his wife Anna Mortley were partners in business for over a decade up until William's passing. Anna is continuing to uphold the traditions of William Mora Galleries as a cultural institution through her creative and community based endeavours within the Australia arts sector, spreading the legacy of William Mora Galleries and its iconic artists both locally and internationally as well as developing the heritage of the Estate of Mirka Mora.

Finding the gallery

William Mora Galleries is located on the corner of Tanner and Wangaratta Streets in Richmond, on the first floor. The gallery is easily accessible from the Richmond train station (take the Stewart Street exit and walk east to Wangaratta Street, then turn left into Wangaratta Street), Punt Road buses (alight at the corner of Swan Street and Punt Road; Tanner Street runs off Punt Road one block north of the railway overpass), the Swan Street tram, and is about a 10 minute walk south down Lennox Street from the Bridge Road tram.