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 Catalogue Structured Visions II presents twelve artists from … Read More
KATE HENDRY | FERMATA
Kate Hendry Fermata November 15th – December 14th, 2024 Kate Hendry FERMATA 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, … Read More
FINN GOLDSTRAW | TEST PATTERN
Finn Goldstraw Test Pattern November 15th – December 14th, 2024 FINN GOLDSTRAW TEST PATTERN Catalogue 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. … Read More
SEAN HOGAN | NEVERMORE
Sean Hogan Nevermore November 15th – December 14th, 2024 SEAN HOGAN NEVERMORE Catalogue 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 … Read More
TOM LOVEDAY & LISA JONES | THE PORTABLE HOLE
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
PETER BROOK | KALEIDOSCAPE
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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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
MULTIPLE TRUTHS | TIM JOHNSON & DAVID SEQUEIRA
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
THE ORANGE PATH | AC4CA
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 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 Catalogue PAINTING OBJECTS 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, … 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
COLLAPSING SPACE | HELEN SMITH & JEREMY KIRWAN-WARD
Collapsing Space Helen Smith & Jeremy Kirwan-Ward February 2nd – 24th, 2024 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 both a visual and metaphoric … Read More
mono.poly.chromes
mono.poly.chromes curated by Misuzu (Missy) Ueda and Aaron Martin February 2nd – 24th, 2024 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 Schulte (ACT), David … Read More
LET THE SUNSHINE IN
Let 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 Project Space 3 Let the Sunshine In represents 10 multi-generational female visual artists, from Australia, … Read More
VOIDS
VOIDS 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 … Read More
SIMON KLOSE | TO NOW
Simon Klose To Now November 15th – December 2nd, 2023 Painted or laid in on a flat surface, a table, unless applying spray paint. Nearly always masked off with tape, the colours and patterns, contrasting and complimentary, work together to build images alive to the moment, stimulating to see. Additionally, at first, the compositions … Read More
ELEANOR SUESS | PROJECTIVE ARTEFACTS
Eleanor Suess Projective Artefact November 15th – December 2nd, 2023 Eleanor is an artist and architect whose wider practice spans across a variety of media, including artists’ film, installation, model-making, photography, and cyanotype photograms, exploring the nature of spatial and temporal representation. For Projective Artefacts, Eleanor has included a range of work from the last … Read More
RHONDA BAUM | ASSUAGE
Rhonda Baum Assuage November 15th – December 2nd, 2023 RHONDA BAUM Catalogue A subtitle for this show could well be ‘not business as usual’. Current sensibilities—in light of ongoing global conflicts—are fractured and disparate. The exhibition endeavours to work with this disparity and proffers cohesion in subtle placement and surface. Exhibited works continue the … Read More
CATHERINE CLOVER | BIRDS OF THE FOOTSCRAY DISTRICT
Catherine Clover Birds of the Footscray District November 15th – December 2nd, 2023 CATHERINE CLOVER Catalogue In my multidisciplinary art practice I use sound and language as a means of unlearning, as a way to consider knowledge heirarchies in terms of our relationship with other species such as common urban birds. I assemble works using … Read More
RAYMOND CARTER | IRREGULAR POLYGONS
Raymond 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
Anna 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
Thalia 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
Scott 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
FOUR 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
Ian 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
Jessie 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
Nicholas 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
Peter 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
Christian 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
PERIMETER III
Perimeter III PJ Hickman Craig Easton Aaron Martin August 30th – September 16th, 2023 PERIMETER III Catalogue PERIMETER III is the second iteration of Perimeter, with the first exhibition taking place in 2016. This curated exhibition endeavors to explore the abstract concept of the outer edge, boundaries, framing, cartography, and mapping through the lens of … Read More
FIONA SCHOER | FIXED OBJECTS
Fiona Schoer Fixed Objects August 30th – September 16th, 2023 This body of work examines the primary function of the object; to support the human body, and presents an alternative in which the discarded object is given agency. Continuing investigations into body object relations, it seeks to establish associations between the body, the object and … Read More
BENJAMIN SHEPPARD | SCRIBBLED GEOMETRIES…
Benjamin Sheppard Scribbled Geometries… August 30th – September 16th, 2023 Benjamin Sheppard Catalogue ‘…like a boiling soup of under and over reactions’ PD 2023 Scribbled Geometries… experiments with the geometric resonance between complex chaotic systems and their significations. Born from the four-part-rotary-pivots of shoulder, elbow, wrist, and ultimate release from the finger-thumb pince, these seemingly … Read More
SUSAN ANDREWS | MID-LINE
Susan Andrews Mid-Line August 30th – September 16th, 2023 Susan Andrews Catalogue This exhibition of work continues my ongoing enquiry and explorations into seriality, measurement, and perceptions of space in object-based painting. The formal simplicity of the work pays homage to modernist abstraction while the wooden supports, protrusions and extensions create gaps and spaces that … Read More
MICHAEL GRAEVE & STEVEN RENDALL | MUD & CLARITY
Michael Graeve & Steven Rendall Mud & Clarity August 30th – September 16th, 2023 Steven Rendall & Michael Graeve We will use these items of sub proposals to structure the work – akin to an employee’s performance plan. (The first few are missing) 19a. We audit the space for moisture with Michael’s Crommelin® Moisture Meter. … Read More
ADRIAN CORKE | NOTE TO SELF
Adrian Corke Note to Self August 9th – 26th, 2023 Note to Self invites participants into a world defined by COVID. In Melbourne we had the highest number of days of lockdown; our spaces and places were constrained to our homes, and a five km radius. Our perceptions of our world at that time … Read More
PETER BROOK | TRUTH AND LIES
Peter Brook Truth and Lies August 9th – 26th, 2023 Brook’s current body of paintings draws on visual languages found in our online and urban environments. They are a response to both the pervasive digital algorithms and predictive systems that influence our current Western social and economic cultures, and the ordered abstract patterns found … Read More
CARLO GOLIN & BILL MCDONALD | NO KNEW GROUND
Carlo Golin Bill McDonald NO KNEW GROUND KNOW NEW GROUND KNOWKNEWGROUND NO NEW GROUND August 9th – 26th, 2023 Artist Carlo Golin and musician Bill McDonald have been working together for over 40 years. They first collaborated in 1981 at The Australian Sculpture Triennial, Latrobe University, Bundoora. Using the working name for their collaborations … Read More
EVA STIMSON CLARK | A PROVENANCE OF SOMETHING GATHERED
Eva Stimson Clark A Provenance of Something Gathered August 9th – 26th, 2023 Art based in materiality involves waiting for an easy rhythm and to abandon any notions of control. Eva Stimson Clark’s art practice continues to relate to chance encounter, and extends to making do with what is at hand while pursuing a … Read More
STEPHEN WICKHAM | START LIGHT…GO DARK
Stephen Wickham Start Light…Go Dark August 9th – 26th, 2023 This small exhibition includes several working drawings from 1980’s -1990’s and recent paintings. Over the years, the little drawings have informed larger works on paper, etchings and paintings. They reflect my long-standing interest in Suprematism, Constructivism and the work of modernist Dutch artists. The … Read More
MICHAEL S. L. VANDORPE | PEPPER ON THE TONGUE
Michael S. L. Vandorpe Pepper on the Tongue July 19th – August 5th, 2023 Michael Samuel Lucifer Vandorpe lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Already in his early work, the fascination for the linear visual language dominated. Painting is an investigation into what, according to the painter, is the essence of oil on canvas. … Read More
ELISABETH BODEY | THE COEXISTENCE OF THINGS
Elisabeth Bodey The Coexistence Things July 19th – August 5th, 2023 I make these colours. I hear them. I carry these sounds and I see them. Touch is the intermediary.
PETALIA HUMPHREYS | TEND
Petalia Humpheys Tend July 19th – August 5th, 2023 To tend means to care for something, or, to go or move in a particular direction. Tend is an installation of two-dimensional and three-dimensional paintings. As active objects the cube paintings present an illusory game of shifting dimensionality, posing sequences of iterative patterns to be … Read More
SIMON RANKIN & DALE NASON | YOUR ORDER HAS BEEN DELIVERED
Simon Rankin & Dale Nason Your Order Has Been Delivered July 19th – August 5th, 2023 Simon Rankin and Dale Nason combine individual works in a gallery installation examining the present moment of supply & demand. Simon’s work digs into a fresh set of visual exploration and production constraints. This show sees Simon manufacturing … Read More
STEFANIE SCHULTE | COLOUR EXPERIMENTS
Stefanie Schulte Colour Experiments July 19th – August 5th, 2023 The colour experiments are a combination of architecture in two dimensions and an analysis of the interactions of colour, very much in the spirit of Josef Albers. Within these works, the role of the canvas boards is not just to “carry” the painting: the … Read More
REBECCA DIELE | A SERIES OF FALSE SUMMITS
Rebecca Diele A Series of False Summits June 7th – 24th, 2023 A Series of False Summits explores the tension, contradiction and synthesis of opposing forces: order/disorder, randomness/control, rule/freedom and strength/vulnerability. A sequence of patterns is methodically stitched into paper with cotton thread, moving from one predetermined point to another along a fixed path. … Read More
THE NOTE TAKERS | PETER BURKE, VIN RYAN, TARA GILBEE
The Note Takers Vin Ryan, Peter Burke, Tara Gilbee June 7th – 24th, 2023 Vin Ryan, Peter Burke and Tara Gilbee are three artists who occasionally collect found, handwritten notes from their surroundings. Each collection represents a series of communications between people but also a gathering of ephemeral objects. In this project, the artists … Read More
ALEX HAMILTON | SKETCHES OF EMPTY
Alex Hamilton Sketches of Empty June 7th – 24th, 2023 “pardon my dust” “reimagining in progress”. Google office mottos, Silicon valley. The most pervasive new art forms are the screens we see everyday. In a drawing style reminiscent of late Rococo and mid-career Disney, Sketches Of Empty links screens, road traffic, monoxide, unseen heating … Read More
NICHOLAS ELLIOTT | RANDOM BEGINS
Nicholas Elliott Random Begins June 7th – 24th, 2023 Recent non-narrative painting My current approach to painting is to begin randomly and quickly, move towards a feeling, reach into dark waters and fathom touch, register marks, seize ambiguity, linger only long enough in order to establish a field of energy and then abandon when … Read More
HENRY HU | THE HIVE ITSELF A TEACUP
Henry Hu The Hive Itself a Teacup June 7th – 24th, 2023 The Hive Itself a Teacup, an exhibition of new paintings and photographs by Henry Hu. This focused presentation spotlights the artist’s continued interest in abstraction as a force that might signify life without directly defining it. Engaged with notions of mysticism, central … Read More
PETER DE LORENZO | SUB-LIMINAL
Peter De Lorenzo SUBliminal May 17th – June 3, 2023 Liminal – adjective, defined as occupying a position at, or on both sides of a boundary or threshold; relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process. In these square pictures, surface is defined and then questioned through a strategy of repeated horizontal, … Read More
STEVEN TONKIN | BOOKWORKS
Steven Tonkin Bookworks May 17th – June 3rd, 2023 In my artistic practice I draw a creative lineage from the radical experiments with the book form which characterised early 20th Century Modernism, specifically Constructivism and Bauhaus graphic design and typography. Conceptual art in the 1960s and Australian Post-Object practice of the 1970s provide theoretical … Read More
FINN LESLIE-GOLDSTRAW | FERNVERKEHR
Finn Leslie-Goldstraw Fernverkehr May 17th – June 3rd, 2023 Fernverkehr, a German word, translates to long-distance traffic or long-distance travel and, for me, represents many journeys. It represents my journey with art, with engaging in a world that is dictated by journeys of time, exertion, self-belief, and acceptance. Within photography, it represents my self-imposed … Read More
SIX by FIVE
SIX by FIVE curated by Aaron Martin May 17th – June 3rd, 2023 BRETT COLQUHOUNSIMON KLOSEEMMA LANGRIDGEAARON MARTINFIONA SCHOERIAN WELLS Six by Five is a follow-up to our 2020 exhibition Five by Five. Six by Five is an exchange of ideas between artists and their circles. It is an effort to expand the dialogue around abstraction, reductive, and non-objective … Read More
SIMON DE BOER | A TELESCOPE POINTED AT TIME
Simon De Boer A Telescope Pointed at Time May 16th – June 3rd, 2023 The silence dispersed among the deep green and blue waves of the sea connects diverse stories, experiences and perspectives beyond comprehension. An understanding that will never fathom the impact on the lives of individuals that those waves helped shape over generations, … Read More
MICHAEL MARK | NEW WORKS
Michael Mark New Works April 26th – May 13th, 2023 I am continuing to investigate light and space through the materiality of oil paint. My compositional decisions are informed by the results of dragging linseed oil and pigment around canvasses and panels using gloved hands, palette knives and rags. The colour and viscosity, too, … Read More
LISA STONHAM | LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING THROUGH … FUTURE PERFECT
Lisa Stonham Looking Forward, Looking Through … Future Perfect April 26th – May 13th, 2023 Lisa Stonham’s Artworks capture the temporary, the ephemeral, the momentary through the immovable, and constant landscapes of the man-made. Exploring the ever evolving relationship between light and time in the context of architectural space, to produce sensory and evocative … Read More
AMELIA GILL, ALEXI CORDES, DARREN COVENTRY | ABACUS
Amelia GillAlexi CordesDarren Coventry Abacus April 26th – May 13th, 2023 Abacus is an experiment in closed fantasy and close relations. Functional models of composition are pretty prevalent at the moment- web page organization, heads-up-displays, etc. When you play games as a kid, you slowly learn to ignore grass and clouds, feel out the … Read More
MICHAEL MARK & DAVID WALLAGE | LOST & FOUND
Michael Mark & David Wallage Lost & Found April 26th – May 13th, 2023 As artists we understood during COVID-19 that making a connection(s) beyond our own ‘bubble’ was not only healthy, but helpful in growing our practices. This understanding led to our first collaboration, Dualism, in 2021. Following that success, we decided to … Read More
IOANNA SAKELLARAKI | THE SEVEN CIRCUITS OF A PEARL
Ioanna Sakellaraki The Seven Circuits Of A Pearl April 26th – May 13th, 2023 The Seven Circuits of a Pearl is a journey through the early Australian pearling industry; one of pioneers, explorers, piracy, shipwrecks, cyclones, death, wealth, secrecy and power. Positioning photography as ontological proposition within the nexus of collage, embroidery and the … Read More
TINA DOUGLAS | HYPHA_E
Tina Douglas Hypha_e March 15th – April 1st, 2023 Hypha_e is a visual score performance project, consisting of a network of scores, recordings, sound and music performances, as well as the presentation of multiple sound machines. The project is an expansion of a collaboration that began in 2018 with Berlin musician Magda Mayas, who Douglas … Read More
KAREN WELLS | UNRAVELLING
Karen Wells Unravelling March 15th – April 1st, 2023 Unravelling is a body of work that continues my exploration of lived spaces, the conscious and unconscious mind and the practice of painting. These works are responses to viewing outside space from within a built environment. Looking from windows or doorways, through frames, evokes an … Read More
HOLLY GOODRIDGE | AT THE CELESTIAL THRESHOLD
Holly Goodridge At the Celestial Threshold March 15th – April 1st, 2023 Holly Goodridge expresses ideas of associating the self with systems connected to her lived experience. Using practice to escape the constrictions of neurotypicality, the works created represented metaphorical portals through the process of using an ‘automated-self’ to create a preferred space apart from … Read More
JO MOLONEY | THE RETURN
Jo Moloney The Return March 15th – April 1st, 2023 THE RETURN stems from a curiosity around the relationship between the mod fashion movement and early to mid-20th-century geometric abstraction. I’ve taken as my influence the mod fashion pioneer Mary Quant – a devotee of the geometric fantasies of Kandinsky and Mondrian – … Read More
MAIRIN BRIODY | YOU AND ME AND THE PAINTING
Mairin Briody You and Me and the Painting March 15th – April 1st, 2023 Mairin Briody is influenced by the history and potential of painting as a vast idiomatic practice. Through her painting projects, Briody engages with the potential for painting to gain agency, in doing so her work moves into realms of … Read More
TROY RAMAEKERS | PATAFLAFLA
Troy Ramaekers Pataflafla February 22nd – March 11th, 2023 This exhibition presents a new iteration of drumhead paintings that draw upon the structure, energy, repetition and minimalism of post-punk drumming, conceptual painting systems, recursive processes and practices of rehearsing, recording and performing music, common time, four on the floor, first takes, retakes, snare spill, … Read More
STEPHANIA WINDHOLZ LEIGH | AREN’T YOU GOING TO EAT YOUR GEFILTE FISH ?
Stephania Windholz Leigh Aren’t You Gonna Eat Your Gefilte Fish? February 22nd – March 11th, 2023 Windholz Leigh’s solo exhibition, Aren’t You Gonna Eat Your Gefilte Fish?, is a poignant exploration of her Jewish heritage and the importance of continuing her cultural lineage for future generations. Gefilte fish, a traditional Jewish dish composed … Read More