Vicki Lee Gallery is a new multi-sensory art space for Potts Point

• Vicki Lee Gallery has opened to the public in Potts Point, offering a more immersive art experience that requires more participation than just viewing.
• There’s a ground floor Sonic Room that blends art with sound bathing techniques.
• The gallery is part of an artistic revival in Potts Point that may culminate in the reopening of the Metro-Minerva Theatre.

Abstract expressionist Vicki Lee has finally opened the doors to what she calls her “private domain of experiment and upheaval” on Bayswater Road in Potts Point. The 260-square-metre Vicki Lee Gallery isn’t your typical white-walled exhibition space. It’s a multisensory playground where visitors are encouraged to lie down, confess their sins, and surrender to sound vibrations that pulse through the floorboards.

The gallery’s opening marks another significant step in Potts Point’s artistic renaissance, joining a growing cluster of creative spaces that are transforming the neighbourhood into Sydney’s answer to Melbourne’s gallery-dense inner suburbs. Yet unlike the passive consumption encouraged by more traditional galleries, this one requires guests to be active participants, pulling viewers to engage for Vicki’s vision of collective healing through art.

The ground floor Sonic Room operates as both installation and wellness sanctuary, fitted with Genelec subwoofers that channel cymatic frequencies through the concrete foundation. Visitors sprawl across yoga mats while sound artist Stu Turner creates live ambient compositions designed to shift mental states through pure vibration. It’s part art experience, part sound bath; mixing art with the ever-expanding idea of wellness.

The gallery’s industrial aesthetic perfectly suits Potts Point’s rough-around-the-edges aesthetic. Exposed brick walls and concrete floors provide the foundation for Lee’s red, black and brass palette, creating an environment that feels more like entering a sacred space than browsing contemporary art.

For years, Lee used this space as her private studio, creating what she describes as “the biggest mess I could possibly make” while developing the works now on display. Her decision to open publicly represents both artistic evolution and neighbourhood transformation. Potts Point needed spaces that challenge conventional cultural consumption, and Lee has delivered exactly that.

Vicki Lee Gallery

Address: 2/16-18 Bayswater Rd, Potts Point 
Opening Hours: Thursday – Saturday (10am – 4pm)

vickileegallery.com

Photos credited to Vicki Lee Gallery / Elizabeth Macovaz.