The spark of an idea for a collaborative curatorial initiative began in 2016. By March 2017, Co-Directors Heather Tralaggan and Susannah Smith opened the doors to Collab Gallery, with the generous support of the City of Sydney's Creative Spaces Program.

Beginning as a bricks and mortar gallery space within Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, Collab evolved into a pop-up program of exhibitions, coordinating arts projects and connecting art lovers to emerging artists through an online platform of affordable art.

Heather and Susannah worked closely with Australian artists to promote their work and offer specialist curatorial services to realise arts projects. We focused on emerging and unrepresented artists and aimed to foster arts engagement by connecting artists with the public.

Collab ceased operations in late 2020. An archive of our activities can be found on Instagram @collabgallery