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A Love Letter to the Inner North by Emily Soley

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October 23, 2026 • 03:00:19 AM
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Melbourne architectural illustrator Emily Soley is opening her debut solo exhibition, A Love Letter to the Inner North, featuring a beautiful collection of watercolour paintings of the pubs, cafes, bakeries and wine bars that locals know and love.

A Love Letter to the Inner North by Emily Soley

Emily Soley turns the inner north’s most loved venues into art.

What if the corner pub, the bakery you queue at every Saturday, or the shopfront that’s always been there, could hang on your wall as a piece of art?

Melbourne based architectural illustrator Emily Soley, the artist behind Draw My Home , opens A Love Letter to the Inner North , her debut solo exhibition, at Dear Neighbour, 311 Smith Street, from Friday 2 October.

The event intends to celebrate the places that form the neighbourhood.

Image: Courtesy of Bria Rechner

The show brings together an original collection of hand painted watercolours capturing the pubs, cafes, bakeries and wine bars that locals have grown attached to. The corner pub where regulars gather, the bakery queue on a Saturday morning, the shopfront that’s been there for decades. Each piece is a portrait not just of a building, but of a place held in memory.

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