Creative Hub for the Arts. Explore the gallery, purchase locally made artwork, attend an event or become a member!
YAVA is a not-for-profit arts organization that fosters creativity and community by providing accessible spaces, resources, and opportunities for local Yarra Valley artists of all backgrounds to collaborate, exhibit, and grow.
Donate below to help us deliver our programs designed to support those who participate in the Arts within our community.
YAVA Art Fair
The perfect opportunity to buy yourself a piece of artwork from an artist you have been admiring for ages, or as a lovely gift for a special person.
For more information, click here.
YAVA at Steels Gate with Jane Fitzherbert
Jane Fitzherbert was an artist who had an eye for colour and form, drawing from the natural world to create her figurative abstract works. Explore the texture of each gestural mark up close at Steels Gate Wines.
Open: Thursdays 11am to 4pm and Friday to Sundays 11am to 5:00pm
Steels Gate Wines, 1974 Melba Highway, Dixons Creek
Discover our Artists
Each YAVA artist has a beautiful profile including a sense of what makes them tick, examples of their artwork and links to videos, exhibitions, artworks for sale, and more
Love the Arts? Join Us!
BECOME A MEMBER
We welcome art lovers and artists alike.
Membership brings both benefits and opportunities. It also supports the Arts in our community, which enriches us all.
See more: www.yava.org.au/membership
YAVA at Tokar Estate with Gwendal Guery
Gwendal Guery has brought his dramatic, illustrative paintings to Tokar. The perfect opportunity to drink a glass of wine as you are enamoured by Victoria’s mountainous beauty.
Now showing in Tokar’s beautiful Cellar Door.
Tokar’s Cellar Door is OPEN 7 DAYS 10:30am-4:30pm
6 Maddens Lane, Coldstream. 03 5964 9585
Happy Birthday Yarra Valley Arts
Members, friends, supporters, partners. We celebrated the 30th Birthday of Yarra Valley Arts in November. Thank you for all the support!
Help Us Do Something Great.
As a not for profit initiative of Yarra Valley Arts Inc, we rely on funding and donations to support the operations of YAVA Gallery & Arts Hub and provide the Yarra Valley community with opportunities for creative development.
Thank you to all those who have made donations, provided sponsorship, volunteers and those who have supported us in the past. To learn more about more projects we have achieved, see our donations page here.
Help us support our creative community today. All donations $2 and over are tax deductable.
YAVA at De Bortoli with Mary Newham
YAVA is proud to partner with De Bortoli Wines as YAVA moves beyond the gallery walls and curates spaces in some of the special places of the Yarra Valley. YAVA now has a beautiful curated space at De Bortoli Yarra Valley Cellar Door. This Spring/Summer you can sit amongst and enjoy the landscape paintings of Mary Newham.
Open Daily 10am-5pm
De Bortoli Wines, 58 Pinnacle Lane, Dixons Creek
After visiting YAVA
To view more artworks by emerging and established Australian artists please visit and support our friends in the Yarra Ranges:
Hearth Galleries for contemporary Australian Indigenous Art
Yering Station Art Gallery at the historic Yering Station winery
TarraWarra Museum of Arts
Yarra Ranges Council Cultural Venues incl: Memo Healesville, Arts Centre Warburton, Burrinja Cultural Centre, YR Regional Museum Lilydale
