The Kingston Arts Precinct is the final stage of the Kingston Foreshore development. It will be a fully integrated precinct including arts facilities, public, commercial and residential areas as well as car parking. The design of the precinct will incorporate the existing heritage buildings from Kingston Foreshore’s rich history which dates to Canberra’s earliest days in 1913. Our oldest buildings located within precinct are now destinations to enjoy art at its best.
The Kingston Arts Precinct presents a rare opportunity to create a significant legacy to inspire, move and influence people for generations to come. The following arts organisations will relocate to the Kingston Arts Precinct: Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra Glassworks, Craft ACT, M16 Artspace, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery and PhotoAccess.
The vision for the arts precinct is one that:
- is dynamic, inspirational, energetic;
- provides a mix of spaces where artists, resident organisations and creative businesses make, teach, exhibit, perform and sell their work;
- is considered a leading destination for exploring contemporary visual arts and culture in the ACT;
- makes visible to new audiences arts practice, activities and content from Canberra, the region and beyond;
- encourages diversity in creating a vibrant and lively precinct;
- respects, incorporates and enhances the precinct’s significant heritage aspects including built form and social history;
- showcases thoughtful design and innovation through activation and place making, with a particular focus on weekday daytime activation, providing a diversity of activities;
- is an inviting destination night and day that appeals to a wide crossâsection of the local, national and international community; and
- integrates approaches in precinct planning, design and construction to create seamless interaction between external and internal public spaces enabling a variety of uses that creates an attractive and safe public domain.
History
The development of the Kingston Arts Precinct follows significant planning over many years, including the Kingston Section 49 Master Plan 
(released on 21 May 2014), the Kingston Arts Precinct Feasibility Study by Stewart Architecture, and the Kingston Arts Precinct Strategy by consultant Susan Conroy.
Image: Kingston Arts Precinct aerial photo