Police say a Melbourne artist is likely to be charged with producing and possessing child pornography, after officers seized several of his works at a gallery in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda on the weekend.

Police say Paul Yore, 25, has been interviewed in relation to the works and has been released pending summons.

Detectives raided the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art on Saturday and removed a number of works from Yore's installation.

The images allegedly depict sexual acts with children's faces superimposed on them.

Yore's installation is on display as part of an exhibition designed to pay homage to Australian artist Mike Brown.

The Linden Centre for Contemporary Art website describes Brown as a person who challenged the art world with pornographic collages, political satire and an anything-goes approach to making art.

Yore's installation, entitled Everything is F*****, uses poster collages, plastic toys and throwaway items to create a colourful and cluttered space.

In promotional material on the gallery's website, Yore says his artistic aim is to unify dislocated elements such as fountains, colourful detritus and decorated objects to create a symbolic space.

"I want my work to reflect the ways in which one experiences the world, as a distorted, fragmented, fluctuating set of systems, signs and codes," he wrote.

In an interview on the website Yore says the installation is designed to sarcastically point out the ideas of excess and spectacle in our society.

"I wanted to talk about the phallocentric nature of our culture ... especially in relation to the natural world, the way our society of civilisation has this very destructive relationship with the natural world," he said.

Tamara Winikoff, of the National Association for the Visual Arts, says there is a range of things artists consider when producing controversial works.

"What he's producing is obviously intending to be art. It's being exhibited in an art space. People's access to the art is discretionary," she said.

Ms Winikoff says she has not seen the work but is concerned about censorship issues.

"We would have to make a judgment based on seeing the work and the context in which it was shown. Because as I understand it, the work is part of a larger installation, its not just images sitting by themselves."