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 Catalogue Eva Stimson Clark When Choosing What to Vow 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 … 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
image: Britt Salt and Shannon Slee “Me and the Girls Don’t Want to be Boxed” June, 2025 credit: Astrid Mulder Photography
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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