Current Exhibition:

The Portable Hole

Tom Loveday & Lisa Jones

October 4th – 26th, 2024
TOM LOVEDAY & LISA JONES | THE PORTABLE HOLE

TOM LOVEDAY & LISA JONES | THE PORTABLE HOLE

September 21, 2024

Tom Loveday Lisa Jones The Portable Hole October 4th – 26th, 2024 Tom Loveday & Lisa Jones The Portable Hole   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 … Read More

Recent Exhibition:

DAVID PALLISER

FALLING SETS FORWARD

 Aug 30th – Sep 21st, 2024
DAVID PALLISER | FALLING SETS FORWARD

DAVID PALLISER | FALLING SETS FORWARD

August 14, 2024

David Palliser Falling Sets Forward August 30th – September 21st, 2024 DAVID PALLISER Catalogue 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 … Read More

Offsite Exhibition:

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

Emma Langridge & Lachlan Stonehouse

September 5th – 8th, 2024

Recent Exhibition:

Multiple Truths

 Tim Johnson & David Sequiera

August 2nd – 24th, 2024
MULTIPLE TRUTHS | TIM JOHNSON & DAVID SEQUEIRA

MULTIPLE TRUTHS | TIM JOHNSON & DAVID SEQUEIRA

August 2, 2024

Multiple Truths Collaborations by Tim Johnson & David Sequeira August 2nd – 24th, 2024 Catalogue TIM JOHNSON & DAVID SEQUEIRA  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 … Read More

PROJECT SPACES

Current Exhibitions:

October 4th – 26th, 2024 
PETER BROOK | KALEIDOSCAPE

PETER BROOK | KALEIDOSCAPE

September 17, 2024

Peter Brook Kaleidoscape October 4th – 26th, 2024 PETER BROOK Catalogue   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 … Read More

STEVEN TONKIN | FOLDS

STEVEN TONKIN | FOLDS

September 17, 2024

Steven Tonkin Folds October 4th – 26th, 2024 STEVEN TONKIN Catalogue   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 … Read More

LISA STONHAM | EVERYDAY WONDER

LISA STONHAM | EVERYDAY WONDER

September 17, 2024

Lisa Stonham Everyday Wonder October 4th – 26th, 2024 LISA STONHAM Catalogue   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, … Read More

ARIELLA FRIEND | FICTIONAL FLORA

ARIELLA FRIEND | FICTIONAL FLORA

September 17, 2024

Ariella Friend Fictional Flora October 4th – 26th, 2024 ARIELLA FRIEND Catalogue    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 … Read More

PROJECT SPACES

Recent Exhibitions:

August 30th – September 21st, 2024 
BIANCA DURRANT | THE COLLECTION

BIANCA DURRANT | THE COLLECTION

August 18, 2024

Bianca Durrant The Collection August 30th – September 21st, 2024 BIANCA DURRANT Catalogue 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 – … Read More

ANNA CAIONE | TEMPIETTO

ANNA CAIONE | TEMPIETTO

August 18, 2024

Anna Caione Tempietto August 30th – September 21st, 2024 ANNA CAIONE Catalogue   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 … Read More

ANNELIES JAHN | DRAW TO FORM

ANNELIES JAHN | DRAW TO FORM

August 18, 2024

Annelies Jahn Drawn to Form August 30th – September 21st, 2024 ANNELIES JAHN Catalogue   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 … Read More

MELANIE JAYNE SANCHO TAYLOR | ITEM LEVEL

MELANIE JAYNE SANCHO TAYLOR | ITEM LEVEL

August 18, 2024

Melanie Jayne Sancho Taylor Item Level August 30th – September 21st, 2024 MELANIE JAYNE SANCHO TAYLOR Catalogue 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 … 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:

Zhejun (Joyce) Huang

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

BIANCA DURRANT | THE COLLECTION

BIANCA DURRANT | THE COLLECTION

August 18, 2024

Bianca Durrant The Collection August 30th – September 21st, 2024 BIANCA DURRANT Catalogue 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 – … Read More

ANNA CAIONE | TEMPIETTO

ANNA CAIONE | TEMPIETTO

August 18, 2024

Anna Caione Tempietto August 30th – September 21st, 2024 ANNA CAIONE Catalogue   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 … Read More

ANNELIES JAHN | DRAW TO FORM

ANNELIES JAHN | DRAW TO FORM

August 18, 2024

Annelies Jahn Drawn to Form August 30th – September 21st, 2024 ANNELIES JAHN Catalogue   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 … Read More

MELANIE JAYNE SANCHO TAYLOR | ITEM LEVEL

MELANIE JAYNE SANCHO TAYLOR | ITEM LEVEL

August 18, 2024

Melanie Jayne Sancho Taylor Item Level August 30th – September 21st, 2024 MELANIE JAYNE SANCHO TAYLOR Catalogue 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 … Read More

THE ORANGE PATH | AC4CA

THE ORANGE PATH | AC4CA

August 2, 2024

AC4CA The Orange Path and Selected Works August 2nd – 24th, 2024 AC4CA Catalogue 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 … Read More

PREVIEW | EMMA LANGRIDGE & LACHLAN STONEHOUSE

PREVIEW | EMMA LANGRIDGE & LACHLAN STONEHOUSE

August 2, 2024

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 | ADAPTATIONS & RECONFIGURATIONS

August 2, 2024

Elke Varga Adaptions and Reconfigurations August 2nd – 24th, 2024 ELKE VARGA Catalogue 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 … Read More

ANNA STEELE | REDACTED

ANNA STEELE | REDACTED

June 24, 2024

Anna Steele Redacted July 5 – 27th, 2024 ANNA STEELE Catalogue 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, … Read More

KERRIE WILSON MCCONCHIE | VAGUE GREY CLOUD

KERRIE WILSON MCCONCHIE | VAGUE GREY CLOUD

June 24, 2024

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

June 24, 2024

Kendal Heyes Time and the Ocean July 5 – 27th, 2024 KENDAL HEYES Catalogue 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. … Read More

WENDY KELLY | VARIATIONS: ONE PLUS ONE

WENDY KELLY | VARIATIONS: ONE PLUS ONE

June 24, 2024

Wendy Kelly Variations: One Plus One July 5 – 27th, 2024 WENDY KELLY Catalogue 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 … Read More

STEFANIE SCHULTE | CAREFULLY PLANNED INTUITION

STEFANIE SCHULTE | CAREFULLY PLANNED INTUITION

May 21, 2024

Stefanie Schulte Carefully Planned Intuition June 7th – 29th, 2024 Stefanie Schulte Catalogue 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 … Read More

GABRIEL COLE | LOVE LETTERS FROM PERUGINA

GABRIEL COLE | LOVE LETTERS FROM PERUGINA

May 21, 2024

Gabriel Cole Letters from Perugina June 7th – 29th, 2024 Gabriel Cole Catalogue 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 … Read More

DANNY JARRATT | TEMPORAL CRASH

DANNY JARRATT | TEMPORAL CRASH

May 21, 2024

Danny Jarratt Temporal Crash June 7th – 29th, 2024 Danny Jarratt Catalogue 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 … Read More

DALE NASON | POSITION DESCRIPTION

DALE NASON | POSITION DESCRIPTION

May 21, 2024

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