to may 25
Current to May 25:
THE DISTANT EDGE
Leah Teschendorff
John Teschendorff
May 3rd – 25th, 2024
THE DISTANT EDGE | LEAH TESCHENDORFF & JOHN TESCHENDORFF
April 24, 2024THE DISTANT EDGE Leah TeschendorffJohn Teschendorff May 3rd – 25th, 2024 Catalogue L & J Teschendorff The Distant Edge Leah Teschendorff Equanimity. This is what the grids, this is what the colours bring me. The ability to maintain a deep sensation of inner calmness, stillness and even-mindedness when dire external circumstances threaten to over whelm. … Read More
Recent Exhibition:
LACHLAN STONEHOUSE
GRID VARIATIONS
Apr 5th – 27th, 2024
LACHLAN STONEHOUSE | GRID VARIATIONS
March 15, 2024Lachlan Stonehouse Grid Variations April 5th – 27th, 2024 Lachlan Stonehouse, is an artist working across painting, drawing, and collage. In recent works and for his exhibition Grid Variations he explores innovative methods of constructing a canvas support prior to its painting. One such methods involves adhering lengths of roughly cut linen to specifically crafted wooden substrates. Once complete the painting support evokes a … Read More
PROJECT SPACES
Current to May 25:
May 3rd – 25th, 2024
ANTONIA SELLBACH | CONVERSATIONS WITH FORM
April 24, 2024Antonia Sellbach Conversations with Form May 3rd – 25th, 2024 ANTONIA SELLBACH Catalogue Through the method of collage, this series brings together materials such as wood, clay, plaster, hydrostone, sand, acrylic paint and oil pastel to explore serial groupings of abstract form and their intrinsic dialectic qualities. The action of amassing a set of abstract … Read More
BRONWYN MORTON | PUZZLE
April 24, 2024Bronwyn Morton Puzzle May 3rd – 25th, 2024 Bronwyn Morton Catalogue Bronwyn’s recent works continue her ongoing inquiry into the art making process through geometric abstract explorations in a series that she refers to as simply, “puzzle like”. Composing these geometric abstract artworks involves entering a restricted world to undertake a challenge of arrangement and … Read More
EVA STIMSON CLARK | BEYOND CONTROL
April 24, 2024Eva Stimson Clark Beyond Control May 3rd – 25th, 2024 EVA STIMSON CLARK Catalogue The exhibition, “Beyond Control”, features a series of wall pieces where Stimson Clark continues developing abstractions from repurposed materials. This collection of paint on canvas evolves from the artist’s ongoing fascination with processes of dissection and rearrangement, that allows found colour … Read More
ROBIN KINGSTON | EXPERIENCE OF THE EVERYDAY
April 24, 2024Robin Kingston Experience of the Everyday May 3rd – 25th, 2024 Robin Kingston Catalogue Each of the artworks in this exhibition has its genesis in objects and situations from my everyday life whether it is a sequinned evening purse made by my grandmother, rugs in the house, the birch trees through a bedroom window decorated … Read More
PROJECT SPACES
Recent Exhibitions:
April 5th – 27th, 2024
JULIE SHIELS | MAKING STRANGE
March 19, 2024Julie Shiels Making Strange April 5th – 27th, 2024 JULIE SHIELS Catalogue Making Strange is a snapshot of images captured when the selfie function on a mobile phone is turned away from the self and directed at the world around us. When this popular and often narcissistic mode of photography is upended, the familiar becomes … Read More
CAMILLE CHAPMAN | ALL MY FRIENDS AND EVERYONE IN MY LIFE (WHO I LOVE)
March 19, 2024Camille Chapman All My Friends And Everyone In My Life (Who I Love) April 5th – 27th, 2024 CAMILLE CHAPMAN Catalogue Camille Chapman is a Melbourne/Naarm based non-binary artist with a film and painting practice. Graduating from Swinburne University of Technology with a Bachelors of Film and Television (Honours) in 2021, Camille has since turn … Read More
INGMAR APINIS | COMPRESSED, REPRODUCED, RIPPED, REMIXED
March 19, 2024Ingmar Apinis Compressed, Reproduced, Ripped, Remixed April 5th – 27th, 2024 Compressed, Reproduced, Ripped, Remixed considers the idea that life in the digital age, where the virtual/physical binary is breaking down, mirrors the fluidity of the Queer experience. For Queer individuals, long accustomed to challenging and transcending binaries, this dissolution of boundaries is familiar … Read More
JULIE VINCI | INTEREST OF CONFLICTS
March 19, 2024Julie Vinci Interest of Conflicts April 5th – 27th, 2024 JULIE VINCI Catalogue Interest of Conflicts is an exhibition of experimental new paintings. Presenting as abstract oil paintings I see these works as figurative representations of real objects. These objects are based on dirty and stained rags and pieces of cloth. Highlighting the very real artefacts … Read More
FIVE WALLS STOCKROOM
Established in 2023, the Five Walls Stockroom presents a diverse collection of artworks by represented and affiliated artists, with carefully considered works from both local and international artists. Artwork undergoes a biannual rotation, ensuring that the available works are regularly updated. Complementing our ongoing exhibition program, the Five Walls Stockroom presents work with a distinct focus on Abstraction, Reductive, and Non-Objective art.
Stockroom Featured Artist:
Michael S. L. Vandorpe
HYPHA_E CATALOGUE ESSAY
by Corinna Berndt
March, 2023
Last year, an article suggesting that fungi might communicate with each other using words went viral. British computer scientist, Andrew Adamatzki proposed that mushrooms have their own computational language, comprising of a vocabulary of approximately 50 words, which they transmit in the form of electrical signals via their interconnected mycelium networks……
ABSTRACTION ESSAY
by EMMA LANGRIDGE
February, 2023
In 1968, the National Gallery of Victoria opened its doors on its inaugural exhibition, The Field. This was a landmark event: a comprehensive survey of abstraction in Australia…….
PAST EXHIBITIONS & ARCHIVES
MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2024 | PJ HICKMAN
February 18, 2024PJ HICKMAN MELBOURNE ART FAIR BOOTH H2 February 22nd – 25th, 2024 MAF 2024 PJ HICKMAN Catalogue PJ HICKMAN Extended Catalogue PJ Hickman is renowned for his conceptual approach and witty articulation of a reductive Minimalist aesthetic, combined with a formalist conceptual approach to painting. He uses a playfully sophisticated blend of art historical … Read More
COLLAPSING SPACE | HELEN SMITH & JEREMY KIRWAN-WARD
January 16, 2024Collapsing Space Helen Smith & Jeremy Kirwan-Ward February 2nd – 24th, 2024 Helen Smith and Jeremy Kirwan-Ward Catalogue Main Gallery Historically, concrete and non-objective art have adhered to the notion of non-narrative. Within the conceptual premise for the exhibition, both artists have used layering, stacking and slumping to alter readings of space between planes, on … Read More
mono.poly.chromes
January 16, 2024mono.poly.chromes curated by Misuzu (Missy) Ueda and Aaron Martin February 2nd – 24th, 2024 MONO.POLY.CHROMES Catalogue Project spaces 1 & 2 Adrien Allen (VIC), Raymond Carter (VIC), Richard Dunn (NSW), Kerrilee Dixon(VIC), Craig Easton (NZ), Michael Graeve (VIC), Billy Gruner (NSW), Melinda Harper (VIC), Jason Hartcup (VIC), Zhejun Huang (CHN), Kyle Jenkins(QLD), Sarah Keighery (NSW), Simon Klose (VIC), Tom Loveday (NSW), Aaron Martin (VIC), Sarah Robson (NSW), Stefanie … Read More
LET THE SUNSHINE IN
January 16, 2024Let The Sunshine In Hannah Cooper (NSW), Lucia Dohrmann (SA), Jilly Edwards (UK), Amanda Ho (VIC), Kay Lawrence (SA), Sara Lindsay (VIC), Misako Nakahira (Japan), Robyn Phelan (VIC), Jacqueline Stojanovic (VIC), Cheryl Thornton (VIC) February 2nd – 24th, 20224 LET THE SUNSHINE IN Catalogue Project Space 3 Let the Sunshine In represents 10 multi-generational female … Read More
VOIDS
January 15, 2024VOIDS Aaron Ashwood, John Elcatsha, Rosanne Freak-Poli, Isaac Lizardo, and Lilly Skipper. February 2nd – 24th, 2024 Project Space 4 Voids exhibition contemplates the possibilities of space, through processes of intervention and temporal assemblage. Artwork arrangements and performative gestures will take forms specific to site, embracing translating metaphors of the habitually unobserved. Artists consider notions … Read More
RAYMOND CARTER | IRREGULAR POLYGONS
October 24, 2023Raymond Carter Irregular Polygons October 25th – November 11th, 2023 Raymond Carter Catalogue In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott published his satirical, mathematical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, an adventure narrated by a Square using a world (Flatland) of two-dimensions to describe the social absurdities of Victorian England. He created a land populated … Read More
ANNA HOYLE & FRANKY HOWELL | CHROMAKRILL
October 24, 2023Anna Hoyle & Franky Howell Chromakrill October 25th – November 11th, 2023 Anna Hoyle & Franky Howell Catalogue Franky Howell and Anna Hoyle present new works on wood and paper from 2023. Both artists share a love for flat, high chroma colour and simple but often complicated shapes. Both work near each other and Franky … Read More
THALIA ROBERTSON | SYMBIOSIS
October 24, 2023Thalia Robertson Symbiosis October 25th – November 11th, 2023 Thalia Robertson Catalogue This series of paintings demonstrates my ongoing interest in emergence and morphogenesis. Influenced by my recent work in horticulture I have shifted from emblematic landscapes to the abstract and molecular as imagined with this exhibition. The art practice in congruence with botanical studies … Read More
SCOTT ANDERSON | WALK AROUND THE MONUMENT ONE MORE TIME
October 24, 2023Scott Anderson Walk Around the Monument One More Time October 25th – November 11th, 2023 SCOTT ANDERSON Catalogue Walk Around the Monument One More Time is a deeper dive into a reductive process through a “what’s on offer” mentality. Repurposing old works, utilising found objects, non-art materials and subsequently drawing on memory, architectural and sign … Read More
FOUR SQUARE
October 24, 2023FOUR SQUARE Aaron Martin Craig Easton Emma Langridge PJ Hickman October 25th – November 11th, 2023 FOUR SQUARE Catalogue Four Square is a curated group show presented in Gallery Four, by four artists and considers all things square.
IAN WELLS | NEXT
October 4, 2023Ian Wells Next October 4th – 21st, 2023 Next is an exhibition of new artworks by Ian Wells. These multi-panel works explore different ways of painting with irregular colour, and broken surfaces. Varying opacity is used as a compositional device, as are interrupting and inscribed lines, and colour washes. Painted in the past year, … Read More
JESSIE STANLEY | DIATOM
October 4, 2023Jessie Stanley Diatom October 4th – 21st, 2023 Jessie Stanley Catalogue _A window into the abyss of deep time _Anti-monuments to the universe in an eternal state of change _Transitory arrangements of ancient fossilised remains This series of anti-monuments are proposed as momentary suspensions of the eternal and universal state of change. Drawing on 15th … Read More
NICHOLAS MELLEFONT | WALL-SPACE
October 4, 2023Nicholas Mellefont Wall-Space October 4th – 21st, 2023 Nicholas Mellefont’s art is site generated. His work consists of two gestures that act together as the engine for the work. One, an architectural intervention and two, a painted projection. Through a receptive encounter with the site, Mellefont selects a particular characteristic of the space and constructs … Read More
PETER LEIGH | THE NEW WILDERNESS
October 4, 2023Peter Leigh The New Wilderness October 4th – 21st, 2023 PETER LEIGH Catalogue This body of work forms part of an ongoing investigation into the use of internet search metrics as the basis for making non-objective paintings. The paintings are generated from fragments of visualised data based on global internet search activity for trending news … Read More
CHRISTIAN BOK | MONA LISA MUJI
October 4, 2023Christian Bök Mona Lisa Muji October 4th – 21st, 2023 CHRISTIAN BOK Catalogue ‘Imagine a painting that smiles just once in a billion years.’ — Yoko Ono Christian Bök, the fabled author of Eunoia, has turned his attention to Art, taking inspiration from the playfulness of Fluxus (particularly the conceptualism of Yoko Ono). Mona Lisa … Read More