ELISABETH BODEY | HARMONY
Elisabeth Bodey Harmony June 5th – 27th, 2026 Colour and structure in painting can reflect harmonies of sound. The musician/composer referred to his compositions as ‘being afloat on the waves of sound’. I see ‘being afloat’ as referencing the sense of harmony that can be achieved through the merging of different aspects such as colour, … Read More
EVA STIMSON CLARK | WHEN CHOOSING WHAT TO VOW
Eva Stimson Clark When Choosing What to Vow June 5th – 27th, 2026 This body of work explores stitching on cardboard as both a material process and a way of organising thought. Built from fragments, the surfaces evoke digital glitches, yet remain grounded in tactile labour. Much of the cardboard retains its original printed … Read More
STEPHEN WICKHAM | ON AN IDEOLOGY OF SCHISMS
Stephen Wickham On An Ideology of Schisms June 5th – 27th, 2026 The work in this exhibition draws on the tradition of the avant guard artists of Ukraine and Russia: roughly 1900-1930s. Their formal inventiveness and historical significance continue to engage my attention. The imperatives of Soviet era art being played to an audience and … Read More
SEAN HOGAN | TAPESTRY
Sean Hogan Tapestry June 5 – 30, 2026 Catalogue Sean Hogan Tapestry Tapestry by Sean Hogan draws on Footscray’s rich and diverse community as the foundation for a new series of abstract artworks. Hogan transforms statistical birthplace data into a vivid and poetic visualisation of shared belonging. The work reinterprets data from the 2021 Census, … Read More
ABSTRACTION 2026
ABSTRACTION 2026 May 8 – 30, 2026 ABSTRACTION 2026 CATALOGUE Five Walls Gallery is pleased to present Abstraction 2026, a group exhibition bringing together twelve gallery and invited artists whose practices engage with abstraction and non-objective modes of working. Presenting works by Kubota Fumikazu, Sean Hogan, Daniel Hollier, Franky Howell, Emma Langridge, Keisuke Matsuura, Sarah … Read More
STEVEN TONKIN | ARTWORKS & BOOKWORKS
Steven Tonkin Artworks & Bookworks May 8th – 30th, 2026 Catologue STEVEN TONKIN ARTWORKS & BOOKWORKS In my artwork I draw a creative lineage from the radical experiments with the book form that characterised early 20th century Modernism, specifically Constructivism and Bauhaus graphic design and typography. As a curator and writer, I also have … Read More
GEORGE HUON | SOLARIS
George Huon Solaris May 8th – 30th, 2026 George Huon SOLARIS catalogue These small works were developed intuitively over an extended period, emerging through a process of accumulation, revision, and abandonment. Many began as still life paintings before shifting into more ambiguous, suggestive forms that sit on the surface, baring traces of earlier, unresolved compositions … Read More
MARK MISIC | TRANSIENT LUMINOUS EVENTS
Mark Misic, East / The Most Fierce, 2024, acrylic on board, 46 x 46 cm Mark Misic Transient Luminous Events – Diamond Paintings April 10 – May 2, 2026 Transient Luminous Events brings together Misic’s instinctive use of gesture, texture and colour in a new series of diamond-shaped paintings that continue his exploration of … Read More
CLAIRE MOONEY | SUN PATH
Claire Mooney, Arrow/cycle/light, acrylic paint on wood panel, wood frame, 60 x 70cm, 2026. Image credit: Matthew Stanton Claire Mooney Sun Path April 10 – May 2, 2026 Claire Mooney Catalogue Sun Path A sun path traces the journey of the sun as it moves across the sky. As seasons pass, this arc shifts, … Read More
CHRIS MAY | METROSCAPE
Chris May MetroScape April 10 – May 2, 2026 Cities worldwide never tire of structural change as they aspire to become monuments to human progress. Melbourne is no exception—its skyline dominated by contemporary architecture and expanding infrastructure. Yet, with this transformation comes disruption, a paradoxical space where creation and destruction coexist, leaving a … Read More
DE / FORMED curated by Craig Easton
Image: Fan Zongming, Two Twisted Cubes, 1993, acrylic paint on plywood, 55 x 36 cm De / formed Fan Zhongming (CHN/JP) Hiromichi Ichino (JP) Merric Brettle (AU)Craig Easton (AU/NZ) Curated by Craig Easton April 10 – May 2, 2026 Deformed Catalogue Titles come before words.That’s usually so. Just as paintings come first. Arriving fully … Read More
LIGHT FORMS SHAPE | GROUP EXHIBITION
LIGHT FORMS SHAPE Eve Bracewell Amy-Jean Mitchell Tinieka Page Alexandra Severinsson Matthew Swift March 6 – 28th, 2026 Light Forms Shape reunites five artists, who worked alongside each other amidst the broken structures of an abandoned industrial park in Barreiro, Portugal, during the summer of 2024. Light moved through crumbling concrete and exposed structures, producing … Read More
ROSANNE FREAK-POLI | BETWEEN SQUARES
Rosanne Freak-Poli Between Squares March 6 – 28th, 2026 This body of work comprises a series of large-scale paintings on canvas, stretched over pine frames and rendered in a restrained, monochromatic yellow palette that at times borders on green. Each composition is structured through a grid, with every square bisected diagonally to form a … Read More
KITTY HORTON | AUTUMN INTIMATES
Kitty Horton Autumn Intimates March 6 – 28th, 2026 Brisbane-based artist Kitty Horton completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at Queensland College of Art. She has exhibited solo shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, along with group shows throughout Australia. Kitty’s artworks are held in private collections in Australia, New Zealand and France. She … Read More
CHRISTIAN CAPURRO | MIMIC’S TURN
Christian Capurro Mimic’s Turn March 6th – 28th, 2026 Mimic’s Turn brings together works from Christian Capurro’s enclasticine and Disport series, presenting two distinct yet interconnected approaches to the abstracted other lives of figures, tools and pictures. The enclasticines are scanner-derived photographic works exhibited as inkjet prints. Produced by the misapplication of dust and scratch removal … Read More
MELBOURNE ART FAIR | 2026
Image: Keisuke Matsuura, Jiba pek15, 2020, magnets, acrylic on canvas, 63 x 53 x 5cm Keisuke Matsuura Since the 1990s, Kyoto-born, Düsseldorf-based artist Keisuke Matsuura has developed a practice that explores geometry through its relationship to natural and environmental phenomena. Beginning with simple structural forms, Matsuura constructs works that reveal how material systems respond to … Read More
DANIEL HOLLIER | BENT STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT BEND
Daniel Hollier Bent Straight, Straight Bend February 6th – 28th, 2026 Daniel Hollier Catalogue | Bent Straight, Straight Bend Bent Straight, Straight Bend brings together a body of paintings shaped by a deliberate tension between control and release. Although the works may initially read as precise, even machine-like, each is made outdoors, where conditions … Read More
ALL THAT RETURNS | GROUP EXHIBITION
All That Returns Joanna Buckley Laura Dubsky Rebecca Jones Jacinta Maude Elif Sezen February 6th – 28th, 2026 All That Returns brings together five Naarm (Melbourne)-based artists – Joanna Buckley, Laura Dubsky, Rebecca Jones, Jacinta Maude and Elif Sezen – whose practices connect through abstraction and a shared sensitivity to the poetic nature of … Read More
MAX CONLEY | INSULAR
Max Conley Insular February 6th – 28th, 2026 The works in this exhibition are fragments of suburban exteriors and cladding. Typically received in a state of distraction, quotidian façade profiles are isolated as ready-made compositions and reconstructed with subtle interior modifications. In their everyday context, these materials function to insulate building interiors from the … Read More
YUTONG CHEN | CITY SKIN
Yutong Chen City Skin February 6th – 28th, 2026 City Skin: Placing Traces is a photographic installation that explores the fragile relationship between urban transformation, human presence, and memory. Through black-and-white photographs overlaid with a heat-responsive surface, the work transforms viewing into a tactile encounter, where images are activated through touch and temporarily altered by … Read More
TXT XXV | Curated group exhibition
image: CHRIS BOND, Vor mir vell ect, 2016, oil on canvas, calico, board, 47 x 31 x 6 cm TXT XXV November 14 – December 13, 2025 Five Walls Gallery is proud to present TXT XXV, an exhibition exploring the presence and potential of text within contemporary painting. For the third iteration of this … Read More
JULIE SHIELS | PIECEWORK
Julie Shiels Piecework November 14th – December 13th, 2025 Renaissance art is an unlikely catalyst for a photographic series of incidental abstractions. In Piecework, the drapery often painted in Masters’ workshops by anonymous assistants becomes a new resource. Initially snapped on a mobile phone, these detailed studies are untethered from the grand narratives and technical … Read More
LINDA JUDGE | THE REMNANTS OF JOHANNES CARDIGAN
Linda Judge The Remnants Of Johannes Cardigan November 14th – December 13th, 2025 Johannes’ cardigan was intended to be an exploration of colour based on the theories of Johannes Itten. Initially, I worked with contrasting hues pushing the paint through hand knitted swatches that I had made over a period of six months … Read More
BRENT HALLARD | COLOUR ORBS
Brent Hallard Colour Orbs November 14th – December 13th, 2025 Why call them Orbs? Though made of nested squares, these paintings carry the presence of an orb: something luminous, concentrated, and otherworldly. The square acts as the structure, the container, while the colour fields create the sense of depth and radiance we usually … Read More
SEAN HOGAN | THE DISCONNECT PAINTINGS
Sean Hogan The Disconnect Paintings September 19th – October 18th, 2025 A pigment sprayed. A colour looking for a friend. A painting unseen. A language spoken backwards. Five Walls Gallery is pleased to present Sean Hogan’s new exhibition, The Disconnect Paintings. Hogan begins with a single word, image, or gesture—a poetic kernel that sparks … Read More
PETER BROOK | THE SPACE BETWEEN
Peter Brook The Space Between September 19th – October 11th, 2025 The Space Between reflects my ongoing investigation into colour as a spatial and perceptual force. I am interested in how colour can generate the illusion, and at times the sensation, of dimensional space within the confines of the painted surface. Colour can be an … Read More
SUSAN ANDREWS | THREE, NINE, TWELVE
Susan Andrews Three, nine, twelve September 19th – October 11th, 2025 These object-based paintings question traditional pictorial conventions by treating the surface and its support structure as integral components in the development of the work. Three, nine, twelve celebrates the physical reality of painting as constructed object, where painted edges, gaps, and support systems … Read More
TRACEY LAMB | TAKE THE STAIRS TO THE INSIDE OUT
Tracey Lamb Take the Stairs to the Inside Out September 19th – October 11th, 2025 I began sculpting with steel when studying at the VCA. It reminded me of when I used to sew; you cut out your materials and tacked them together, which quickly gave a sense of how a garment would … Read More
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY | 2025
September 11 – 14th, 2025 Carriageworks image: Keisuke Matsuura Jiba pek 40, 2025, magnet, acrylic on canvas, 63 x 53 x 5cm, Courtesy of Five Walls Gallery KEISUKE MATSUURA Since the 1990s, Japanese artist Keisuke Matsuura has been developing a practice that explores geometry and natural phenomena. Born in Kyoto in 1970, he studied … Read More
5 Abstractions
5 Abstractions curated by Aaron Martin August 8 – 30, 2025 5 Abstractions brings together five artists – Melbourne-based Lachlan Stonehouse, Emma Langridge, Aaron Martin, and John Aslanidis, alongside Belgium-based Michael Vandorpe – whose practices each reflect a rigorous engagement with abstraction as both method and language. In contrast to serial or thematic presentations, … Read More
RAYMOND CARTER | FOLDED
Raymond Carter Folded August 8th – 30th, 2025 Finding a new use for an everyday common material has always interested me. The leap between the mundane or practical use, to that bewildering transformation into something meaningful, possibly even profound, was brilliantly defined in the early collages by Picasso, where newspaper, rope, fabric and … Read More
ABORA – 4
ABORA – 4 Australian Biennale of Reductive Arts August 8th – 30th, 2025 Five Walls Gallery and West Projects is pleased to announce ABORA-4, the latest iteration of a biennial exhibition exploring the evolving terrain of post-formalist and reductive art practices. Featuring artists from across Australia and internationally, with a particular focus on Sydney, Melbourne, … Read More
FIONA SCHOER | INVOCATIONS
Fiona Schoer Invocations August 8th – 30th, 2025 Invocations explores the role abstraction plays in our understanding and portrayal of, the human condition. It examines the way memory manifests within the body seeking to acknowledge the body’s immense capacity to store and contain those memories. Initially prompted by personal narratives the works are wholly … Read More
SPRING 1883 ART FAIR IX
Spring 1883 Art Fair Room 322 | Hotel Windsor, Melbourne August 13 – 16th, 2025 For SPRING1883 IX, Five Walls Gallery thoughtfully considers the Victorian-era furnishings and historical setting of the Hotel Windsor. In dialogue with the ornate interiors, the gallery introduces a compelling mix of painting and sculpture that both complements and contrasts … Read More
MAX LAWRENCE WHITE | THE CHALLENGE OF BIASES
Max Lawrence White A Challenge of Biases July 11th – August 2nd, 2025 A challenge of biases presents a body of new work that uses chance to dictate the creation of new paintings. In this collection the artist explores the possibilities of palette and composition through taking decision out of their hands. 210 colours from the artist’s … Read More
IT IS WHAT IT IS | SARAH ROBSON & JULIAN GODDARD
Sarah Robson & Julian Goddard It is What it Is July 11th – August 2nd, 2025 This exhibition is a collaboration between Sarah Robson (Sydney) and Julian Goddard (Melbourne). Both share an interest in perception and the way it plays out through everyday experience – including within contemporary art. The title refers to an … Read More
MITCHEL BRANNAN | HOTT FLUSHE
Mitchel Brannan Hott Flushe July 11th – August 2nd, 2025 These works are new plays of hott lashings and micro-aggressions, cable-tied by polite, discrete forms. Heat, friction, conflict and eroticism – each work embodies the struggle to both bind and embrace morass in the hott dank of the swamp of abstraction. A torsion of … Read More
JOHN ASLANIDIS | SONIC NETWORKS no.25
John Aslanidis Sonic Network no.25 June 6 – 28th, 2025 My intention is to create imagery where there is no starting or finishing point, capturing a fragment of infinity. In this regard my work has a strong correlation with emergence theory, were complex patterns emerge out of simple interactions The vibration created by … Read More
BRITT SALT & SHANNON SLEE | ME AND THE GIRLS DON’T WANT TO BE BOXED
Britt Salt & Shannon Slee Me and the Girls Don’t Want to be Boxed June 6th – 28th, 2025 Me and the Girls Don’t Want to be Boxed takes its name from a song by Melbourne punk band Amyl and the Sniffers. To be “boxed” is to be concealed, categorised or controlled by … Read More
ELIF SEZEN | ATMOSPHERES
Elif Sezen Atmospheres June 6th – 28th, 2025 Atmospheres explores the interplay of space, colour and light in experimental landscapes that reflect on perception, memory and place. Featuring works from Elif Sezen’s ongoing series, Presence, the exhibition draws on various sources of inspiration including Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘heterotopias’—worlds within worlds—to evoke ethereal, alternate realities that … Read More
THALIA ROBERTSON | THE THIRD ELEMENT
Thalia Robertson The Third Element June 6th – 28th, 2025 The works comprising the exhibition The Third Element focus on process and include preliminary sketches, exploratory paintings and works as an end result of experimentation with form, colour, tone, and composition. Oscillating between abstract form and known indicators, images suggest letters or numerals in … Read More
PJ HICKMAN | ADD TO CART
PJ Hickman Add To Cart May 2nd – 24th, 2025 ADD TO CART is an ironic commentary on the way the internet has affected aesthetics and the commodification of art and design. In the exhibition, PJ Hickman continues to pursue an increasingly reductive aesthetic and conceptual approach, using a playfully sophisticated blend of … Read More
FRANKY HOWELL | FORMLINE
Franky Howell Formline May 2nd – 24th, 2025 Franky Howell’s latest body of works, Formline build on his bold visual language explored in ‘Chromakrill’ at Five Walls Project space 2023. The works consist of a range of large, wooden multipaneled pieces, with the remnants of these becoming the starting point of the sculptural … Read More
IN PLAIN SIGHT | PETALIA HUMPHREYS | WILMA TABACCO | STEPHEN WICKHAM
In Plain Sight Petalia Humphreys, Wilma Tabacco, and Stephen Wickham May 2nd – 24th, 2025 Stephen Wickham and I have exchanged ideas, curated group exhibitions and exhibited together over so many years that neither of us wish to enumerate them. Petalia Humphreys’ works we have only recently and happily discovered. Obviously, each of … Read More
ANNA FINLAYSON | UNTITLED
Anna Finlayson Untitled May 2nd – 24th, 2025 For over three decades Anna Finlayson’s art practice has incorporated drawing, painting, wall and floor based sculptural forms and assemblages together with site-specific installation. Finlayson’s recent studio explorations have resulted in several new bodies of drawings as well as returning to her roots as a … Read More
LOUISE BLYTON | MULOONING
Louise Blyton Mulooning April 4th – 26th, 2025 Louise Blyton’s practice integrates method and meaning through a meticulous engagement with reductivist techniques. In her exhibition Muloooning, her handcrafted works occupy a nuanced space between painting and sculpture, where form, colour, and texture are considered with equal weight. Blyton constructs her pieces by first creating … Read More
ADRIAN CORKE | BEAUTY AND FOREBODING
Adrian Corke Beauty and Foreboding April 4th – 26th, 2025 Artists over centuries have faced the enduring struggle for representation against the flat canvas. It is this space itself — the world within — in which an artist frames their point of view for you, the viewer. Pensive arches, the eerie discord of … Read More
ON PAPER | ELISABETH BODEY & MARK WINGRAVE
On Paper Elisabeth Bodey and Mark Wingrave April 4th – 26th, 2025 In recent times technology and digital platforms have inspired artists to reassess the physical nature of the papers they work on. Drawing, assemblage and collage have enabled the exploration and extension of Bodey’s and Wingrave’s drawing processes: for Wingrave, in language translation and … Read More
IAN WELLS | BLOCKED
Ian Wells Blocked April 4th – 26th, 2025 Each new work in Ian Wells’ latest exhibition continues his formal exploration of composition, surface, colour, and line. Opacity, interruption, and irregular colour remain key tools of investigation. The physical scale has expanded, and new techniques have been introduced—not in response to external chaos, but … Read More
A THIRD SPACE | CATHY MUHLING & NANOU DUPUIS
A Third Space Cathy Muhling & Nanou Dupuis March 7th – 29th, 2025 A Third Space is an exhibition by Cathy Muhling and Nanou Dupuis. It reflects on the artists conversing side by side but remaining true to their processes – exploring paint through layering and dissolving of paint Dupuis challenges the perception of … Read More
KATE STEWART | INTERMISSION
Kate Stewart Intermission March 7 – 29th, 2025 Five Walls Gallery & Projects is thrilled to announce the launch of our inaugural RMIT Graduate Art Award, an award that celebrates excellence and innovation in painting, drawing, and sculpture among graduating students. We are pleased to congratulate Kate Stewart as the recipient of the 2025 Five Walls … Read More
MELBOURNE ART FAIR | LACHLAN STONEHOUSE
Melbourne Art Fair Lachlan Stonehouse Booth L2 February 20-23rd, 2025 Five Walls Gallery is thrilled to announce our participation in the Melbourne Art Fair from February 20–23, 2025. For our second entry, we will present a solo exhibition by Melbourne-based, Tasmanian-born artist Lachlan Stonehouse. If you are attending the MAF we invite you to visit … Read More
MINIMAL \ REDUCTIVE
image: Keisuke Matsuura, jiba_pek24, 2020, magnet, acrylic, on canvas, 63 x 53 x 5cm Minimal \ Reductive curated by Aaron Martin February 7th – March 1st, 2025 (1st edition)March 7th – 29th, 2025 (2nd edition)MINIMAL REDUCTIVE Catalogue Minimal \ Reductive is part of a larger series of Minimal exhibitions initiated by Art Collector and … Read More
DAVID WALLAGE | MATTER
David Wallage Matter February 7th – March 1st, 2025 Peer out of an airplane at 30,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean and project the overlay of meridian, latitudinal and longitudinal, lines onto the incalculable body of water below. This is reminiscent of David Wallage’s recent body of work, ‘Matter’. There are no definable objects being … Read More
SAMUEL WOODMAN | SELF-REPLICATION
Samuel Woodman Self-Replication February 7th – March 1st, 2025 Self-replication is a series fusing abstract diagrammatic iconography with the aesthetic judgement of watercolor. The series explores a specific longing which emerges from asking; Where did life come from? Why do we need to know? Is it not lonely? Drawing inspiration from chaos theory, speculative … Read More
STRUCTURED VISIONS II
STRUCTURED VISIONS II Daniel Argyle John Aslanidis Marieke Dench Louise Forthun Mit Jai Inn Emma Langridge Jane O’Neill Salvatore Panatteri Be Takerng Pattanopas Giles Ryder Alex Spremberg Jurek WybraniecCurated by Cathy Blanchflower with an essay by Kirsten Rann. November 15th – December 14th, 2024 Structured Visions II presents twelve artists from Australia and Thailand … Read More
KATE HENDRY | FERMATA
Kate Hendry Fermata November 15th – December 14th, 2024 Fermata presents a series of artworks developed from my interest in symbols that direct us to pause, providing a space for interpretation and nuance. A fermata used within a symphony can direct an orchestra of hundreds to sustain a note or silence, producing a … Read More
FINN GOLDSTRAW | TEST PATTERN
Finn Goldstraw Test Pattern November 15th – December 14th, 2024 Test Pattern takes its name from the visual calibration patterns once displayed on television screens between broadcasts. The exhibition features works created at various times, across different mediums, and with diverse intentions, all brought together through instinctive and playful curation. Drawing from both unfinished … Read More
SEAN HOGAN | NEVERMORE
Sean Hogan Nevermore November 15th – December 14th, 2024 Nevermore continues my exploration of system theory and complexity science, which underpin the concepts of my artistic practice. By employing system-based processes and self-imposed structured sets of rules that utilise formal aesthetics such as geometry, colour theory, proportion, and materiality, these works interrogate the … Read More
TOM LOVEDAY & LISA JONES | THE PORTABLE HOLE
Tom Loveday Lisa Jones The Portable Hole October 4th – 26th, 2024 The Portable Hole, artists Tom Loveday and Lisa Jones explore the relationship between art, space, and perception through the concept of portals and thresholds. Inspired by the whimsical idea of “portable holes” from cartoons and theoretical wormholes in science, the exhibition … Read More
PETER BROOK | KALEIDOSCAPE
Peter Brook Kaleidoscape October 4th – 26th, 2024 This new body of work is a confluence of recent influences and challenges to my practice, including a January reread of Frank Stella’s mid 1980’s lecture compilation ‘Working Space’, in April observing the crystalline structures of iron meteorites in the Museum of Central Australia and … Read More
STEVEN TONKIN | FOLDS
Steven Tonkin Folds October 4th – 26th, 2024 In my artistic practice I draw a creative lineage from the radical experiments with the book form that characterised early 20th Century Modernism, specifically Constructivism and Bauhaus graphic design and typography. I also find inspiration in the intersections of geometric abstraction with graphic design, posters, … Read More
LISA STONHAM | EVERYDAY WONDER
Lisa Stonham Everyday Wonder October 4th – 26th, 2024 Lisa Stonham is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is driven by photography, leading to the creation of two- and three-dimensional works that explore space, light, and time. Her work extends the boundaries of photography into physical space through experimentation with surface, volume, light and … Read More
ARIELLA FRIEND | FICTIONAL FLORA
Ariella Friend Fictional Flora October 4th – 26th, 2024 This exhibition ‘Fictional Flora’ presents a new body of work in which Ariella Friend further explores her relationship to nature in a digital world. Researching the natural landscape of Footscray surrounding the gallery through online text based prompts and image searches, plants such as … Read More
BIANCA DURRANT | THE COLLECTION
Bianca Durrant The Collection August 30th – September 21st, 2024 Based on creative development during a GlogauAIR Berlin residency in 2024, The Collection continues the artist’s focus on how museum objects function, the politics of display and institutional ontologies. Using generative AI tools – that are trained on inherently biased content – as a … Read More
ANNA CAIONE | TEMPIETTO
Anna Caione Tempietto August 30th – September 21st, 2024 In this exhibition, I am particularly interested in how the placement of artworks within a space influences the way one can engage and relate to them. This interplay between the artwork and its environment may encourage reflection on nature, culture the human condition, and … Read More
ANNELIES JAHN | DRAW TO FORM
Annelies Jahn Drawn to Form August 30th – September 21st, 2024 In my work I investigate ideas of space, relationship and temporality, as experienced through objects and place. The contingency of these perceptions is observed via the agency of measure to become the process of my art making. For me, all the stages … Read More
MELANIE JAYNE SANCHO TAYLOR | ITEM LEVEL
Melanie Jayne Sancho Taylor Item Level August 30th – September 21st, 2024 The catalogue is an essential tool for any archive, in making its contents findable and accessible. But how does one create the descriptions and metadata for photographic material that has endless manifestations, formal and narrative connections? Drawing on the evocative imagery from … Read More
DAVID PALLISER | FALLING SETS FORWARD
David Palliser Falling Sets Forward August 30th – September 21st, 2024 David Palliser is an artist based in Naarm,Melbourne. His work possesses an uncanny oscillation between sensations of abstraction and figuration. Driven by a particular sensitivity to colour and space, it is also informed by his long standing practice as an improvising musician. With … Read More
MULTIPLE TRUTHS | TIM JOHNSON & DAVID SEQUEIRA
Multiple Truths Collaborations by Tim Johnson & David Sequeira August 2nd – 24th, 2024 Although visually disparate, the imagery of Tim Johnson and David Sequeira reveals their shared interests in the relationship between art and the cosmos. Fusing their distinctive iconographies, their new suite of collaborative paintings, Multiple Truths points towards an interconnectedness of … Read More
THE ORANGE PATH | AC4CA
AC4CA The Orange Path and Selected Works August 2nd – 24th, 2024 The Australian Centre for Concrete Art – Orange Path and Selected Works The AC4CA was founded in 2001 to ‘establish a national/international foundation which promotes artistic activities relating to the guiding principles of the international movement known as Concrete Art. The general … Read More
PREVIEW | EMMA LANGRIDGE & LACHLAN STONEHOUSE
PREVIEW EMMA LANGRIDGE & LACHLAN STONEHOUSE August 2nd – 24th, 2024 Opening this Friday is our Sydney Contemporary preview show, “Preview”. This exhibition presents an opportunity for a Melbourne audience to view the work of Emma Langridge and Lachlan Stonehouse before we make the long trek north in September. Emma Langridge Emma Langridge is a Melbourne-based … Read More
ELKE VARGA | ADAPTATIONS & RECONFIGURATIONS
Elke Varga Adaptions and Reconfigurations August 2nd – 24th, 2024 Elke Varga is an artist who lives and works in Perth. Her practice explores ideas associated with colour, and includes painting, sculpture and artist books. Her work is influenced by art history, sociology, colour theory, colour science, colour-modelling systems and psychology. Adaptations and Reconfigurations … Read More
PAINTING / OBJECTS
painting / objects Melinda HarperZhejun (Joyce) HuangHannah MaskellJackson McLarenGiles Ryder Masato Takasaka curated by Craig Easton and Aaron Martin July 5 – 27th, 2024 There’s a line in that title somewhere and I don’t just mean the oblique. Ok maybe it is oblique. But where does a painting, specifically an abstract painting, sit in … Read More
ANNA STEELE | REDACTED
Anna Steele Redacted July 5 – 27th, 2024 This body of work is a translation of my experience of the urban landscape. Watching a city change and evolve over time presents us with a layered environment of past and present. In thinking about the transformation of a space, the constructed and deconstructed, I wanted … Read More
KERRIE WILSON MCCONCHIE | VAGUE GREY CLOUD
Kerri Wilson McConchie Vague Grey Cloud July 5 – 27th, 2024 With a practice focusing on drawing, installation, video and projection, I create work addressing themes of instability and unknowing. Drawings and material fragments transform through digital processes and form the basis of animated choreographed sequences. Personal memory and aspects of the human condition … Read More
KENDAL HEYES | TIME AND THE OCEAN
Kendal Heyes Time and the Ocean July 5 – 27th, 2024 This exhibition brings together three major works from a series of exhibitions called Time and the Ocean, held over four years at Articulate Project Space in Leichhardt, Sydney. This is the first time the three major works have been shown together. The work … Read More
WENDY KELLY | VARIATIONS: ONE PLUS ONE
Wendy Kelly Variations: One Plus One July 5 – 27th, 2024 These works continue to explore the visual themes of abstraction and geometry through the immediacy of the linocut technique. Using twelve plates, either singularly or in a multiple over-printing format, these unique state prints develop a strong graphic geometrical quality of structure and … Read More
STEFANIE SCHULTE | CAREFULLY PLANNED INTUITION
Stefanie Schulte Carefully Planned Intuition June 7th – 29th, 2024 Navigating between control and surprise, between rational planning and spontaneity, between colour theory and intuition, I try to explore a parallel to the idea of emotion and poetry shining through the almost mathematical approaches to music of baroque composers. I like to see my … Read More
GABRIEL COLE | LOVE LETTERS FROM PERUGINA
Gabriel Cole Letters from Perugina June 7th – 29th, 2024 Love Letters from Perugina explores the relationship between the industrial component of spatial design and the quantitative spirit of human emotion. In his new body of work, Gabriel Cole seeks to distil passing moments of wisdom into physical objects. Through humour and poetic gesture, … Read More
DANNY JARRATT | TEMPORAL CRASH
Danny Jarratt Temporal Crash June 7th – 29th, 2024 Temporal Crash explores the relationship between time, humans, and success. This research uses time travel to explores preconceived notions of time and how humans are policed by time. We have cultural timelines for almost any task we undertake. Aren’t you too old to be playing … Read More
DALE NASON | POSITION DESCRIPTION
Dale Nason Position Description June 7th – 29th, 2024 Dale Nason presents artefacts from critical making processes exploring relief printing of fonts and other typographic gestures. Holding the position of teacher, student and technician simultaneously whilst rematerializing a place for graphic design learning, more-than-human discourses emerge problematizing his everyday workflow. Observing and participating in … Read More
MARK GALEA | STANDARD
Mark Galea Standard June 7th – 29th, 2024 Standard is a response to a series of paintings that were made during the Victorian Covid 19 lockdown and later exhibited at Occasional Space, Carlton. The earlier series was called, untitled, incidental format, referring to the support on which the paintings were made, either found sections … Read More
THE DISTANT EDGE | LEAH TESCHENDORFF & JOHN TESCHENDORFF
THE DISTANT EDGE Leah TeschendorffJohn Teschendorff May 3rd – 25th, 2024 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. As forests burn, ancient trees are felled, … Read More
ANTONIA SELLBACH | CONVERSATIONS WITH FORM
Antonia Sellbach Conversations with Form May 3rd – 25th, 2024 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 fragments, elements … Read More
BRONWYN MORTON | PUZZLE
Bronwyn Morton Puzzle May 3rd – 25th, 2024 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 disentanglement, and … Read More
EVA STIMSON CLARK | BEYOND CONTROL
Eva Stimson Clark Beyond Control May 3rd – 25th, 2024 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 to influence the … Read More
ROBIN KINGSTON | EXPERIENCE OF THE EVERYDAY
Robin Kingston Experience of the Everyday May 3rd – 25th, 2024 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 with coloured … Read More
JULIE SHIELS | MAKING STRANGE
Julie Shiels Making Strange April 5th – 27th, 2024 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 strange, drawing … Read More
CAMILLE CHAPMAN | ALL MY FRIENDS AND EVERYONE IN MY LIFE (WHO I LOVE)
Camille Chapman All My Friends And Everyone In My Life (Who I Love) April 5th – 27th, 2024 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 their focus … Read More
INGMAR APINIS | COMPRESSED, REPRODUCED, RIPPED, REMIXED
Ingmar 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
Julie Vinci Interest of Conflicts April 5th – 27th, 2024 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 that result … Read More
LACHLAN STONEHOUSE | GRID VARIATIONS
Lachlan 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
EMMA LANGRIDGE | AS IS.
Emma Langridge AS IS. March 1st – 23rd, 2024 The singular motif of these paintings is the ruled line. In cartographic and meteorological diagrams, lines are an indication of contour and continuity, denoting uniformity and equal value along their length. In this case, the line is repeated ad infinitum, amassing to fill the picture … Read More
every(n)one | group show
every(n)one group exhibition March 1st -23rd, 2024 project space Michele Fountain, Rebecca George, Jen Hubert-Beresford, Juliet Jones, Elissa Sadgrove every(n)one looks for the threads or hard lines or sharp interruptions between the soft places, the old places – and finds voice in the spaces between the conceal and reveal, the embodied and alienated. Fragment, … Read More
DENISE HONAN & EVA STIMSON CLARK | RIDICULOUS
Project Space exhibition Denise Honan & Eva Stimson Clark Ridiculous March 1st – 23rd, 2024 Ridiculous is the second collaborative exhibition bringing together the work of Denise Honan and Eva Stimson Clark, artists working on Euro-Yuroke land and the land of the Yalukit Willam people. Both have an ongoing creative practice grounded in engaging … Read More
CAITLIN RIGBY | LANDSCAPE.ESCAPE
Project Space exhibition Caitlin Rigby Landscape/Escape March 1st – 23rd, 2024 Landscape/Escape, invites a visual immersion into abstract landscapes expressed through a distinctive and limited palette of deep blue hues. The paintings’ symbolism of archways, night-scapes and open horizons are washed over, layered and diluted to offer suggestions of gestural forms. Within the transparent … Read More
MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2024 | PJ HICKMAN
PJ HICKMAN MELBOURNE ART FAIR BOOTH H2 February 22nd – 25th, 2024 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 references, wit, and contemporary revisionism, while simultaneously extending the … Read More