GALLERY 1: A magical, paperless means to an end, an app on the iPhone is Hugh Wayland’s tool of choice in Mechanizmo. Hundreds of the artist’s digital drawings have fed a selection of ten works, which are joined by acrylic paintings – works which amplify the colour and luminosity of the surrounding ‘new media’ format. […]
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GALLERY 2: The Living Miracles present Goodbye Cruel World At the present time, The Living Miracles are in lockdown with a legal team, hammering out the nuts and bolts concerning the veracity of the ban on their show Goodbye Cruel World.
Categories: 2017, Currently Showing, Coming Up
GALLERY 3: REFLECTOR | RECEPTOR is part of Radiant Pavilion – Melbourne’s Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial festival. Nicole Polentas’ stunning installation incorporates overlapping large scale projections in an artist-built enclave within gallery 3. This exhibition seeks to examine the ways in which the crafted object can transform lived experience into narrative forms. Polentas – whose work has shown across the […]
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GALLERY 1: Odyssée/Odisea brings together two distinct artists located in Melbourne, whose practices are powerfully informed by the origins of their forebears. Jessie Yvette Journoud-Ryan and Rachel Suarez engage with far-flung worlds that both artists understand through stories from their grandmothers – from France and El Salvador, respectively. The cautionary tales and lore of their […]
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GALLERY 2: Deserted sites / a large-scale swimming pool / unnatural scenery. We found traces of people but we found nobody… The swimming-pool series of Tianshu Zheng explores the therapy of self-cure through contemplation, and seeking one’s inner world. Scenes in the artworks seem as if they are from somewhere unreal or imaginary. Perhaps they […]
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GALLERY 3: The artist’s studio is a place of contemplation, transmutation and breakthrough. It is also a place of struggle, doubt and perseverance. Melbourne based artist, Robert Babic, sees his studio not only as a kind of alchemist’s cell that deals with transmutation but also as a kind of secular chapel that provides relief from […]
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