Watters Gallery

It was influential and well-known, hosting exhibitions and works by some of the most prominent non-mainstream artists in Australia of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Tony Tuckson, James Gleeson, Richard Larter, Robert Klippel, and Garry Shead.

As a gay man in an era when coming out of the closet was dangerous, Watters had painted a picture titled He's a Queer!, but never shown it in the gallery, keeping it turned to the wall in his bedroom instead.

[1] The gallery also represented Marr Grounds, co-founder of the Tin Sheds in Sydney, whose first solo exhibition, Morphological structures, was held at Watters in 1975.

Presentations and discussions were held by Watters Gallery artists Euan Macleod, Chris O'Doherty (aka Reg Mombassa), Ann Thomson, Joe Frost, as well as curator and art writer Glenn Barkley, and Sonia Legge, who discussed the future of the gallery.

[5] Before the gallery closed, Watters offered two senior curators from AGNSW to pick any works from his collection that they wanted.