Gallery 3 Intersection embraces the wall and explodes the frame, leading the viewer into a line of possibilities.  Fraval pieces together fragments of a world, plotting lines through life, seeking reference points and locating the self within a surrounding space. In the gallery hangs a wall-size, multi-paneled drawing on paper that spreads off the page […]

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Gallery 2 The 17th century practice of collecting was fueled by our fascination for the different, the unknown and the curious. This fascination for ‘the odd’ formed the foundation of museum tradition – the collection of unusual objects. Curio delves into the world of the antediluvian collector. The medium scale works are painted and etched with bitumen on board. The […]

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Gallery 1 Unravelling explores the spaces and intersections between three different artistic media. Liesl Pfeffer’s large scale photographic prints have the edges of an etching, the expression of painting and the gloss of photography. Pfeffer has abandoned the traditional notion of photography and developed a body of photographs without a camera or negative. Each image is […]

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Gallery 3 The lure of pattern lies behind these works on paper by artist Sophie Knezic. Segments of pattern samples are the point of departure for delicate pencil, gouache and watercolour drawings that mimic the format of textile swatch books. Inspired primarily from pre-20th century Japanese textile traditions, the drawings respond in particular to the textile […]

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Gallery 2 Julie Keating’s slow cool world of blue is an errie place.  It is a world drowned, but not dead. Keating marries the incongruous by presenting the inorganic forms of industrial pipes and refuse within the all-encompassing and accepting sea. We are not sure what part people play in this world but it is […]

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Gallery 1 A man sits alone in the park watching the leaves twirl and the occasional bird industriously flitting back and forth. The bleached wooden bench lies softly beneath him. It’s not peak hour in the park right now. The occasional person walks past, the occasional boisterous child throws themselves onto the grass and the […]

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Gallery 3 Lucy Irvine is fascinated by building blocks, the individual units of purpose from which things are made. This becomes evident not only in the materials and processes used to make her sculptures but also in the resulting shapes that evolve. Each sculpture is intricately constructed using cable ties and irrigation pipe. The resulting […]

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Gallery 2 During the Nineteenth Century Scottish Highlanders left their homeland and braved the journey to Australia.  Their values and traditions were repressed in the aftermath of the failed Jacobite Rising of 1745 in Scotland. In the years that followed the failed rebellion, dominant landowners pursued the greater profit to be made from sheep farming, […]

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Gallery 1 Our urban infrastructure is the oppidan clothing that summates our cultural identity and history.  From the imposing corporate headquarters flanked by classical Greek columns, to the dilapidated dockside warehouses; from the uber-cool postmodern apartment block with in-house gym, to the bare and functional boarding room houses… the identity of a city’s inhabitants emanates […]

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Arcane This exhibition brings together four artists who trained in separate disciplines – a sculptor, a printmaker, an architect and a painter. Each investigates elements of the arcane, conjuring poetic personal worlds at once familiar, yet deeply mysterious. There is a sense of nostalgia that permeates the works, often nostalgia for an unknowable past. The […]

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Gallery 1 Following on from her successful exhibition in 2005, Jackie Ralph continues to explore themes of cultural identity and cultural disconnection through her paintings of Japanese Sumo wrestlers. Ralph’s interest in Sumo wrestlers began while she was living in Japan.  The wrestlers live in a world virtually unaffected by modern Japan.  Everything they do […]

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  Gallery 1 + 2 Landslide comprises 300 small scale photographs and 14 large scale prints. Through content and scale, Poynter redefines the notion of traditional landscape photography. Poynter has moved away from the traditional epic representations of the landscape.  The images are presented en masse to give a sense of the overwhelming superabundance of photographs […]

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Gallery 1 Connell has developed an eclectic body of visual poetry through the process of automated collage. Redolent of the surrealist automated writing, Connell has allowed the mind to wonder furtively in the absence of critical intervention. By pulling literary fragments and pictorial images from their original context Connell has developed a body of work […]

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Gallery 3 Outlands is a series of work which celebrate people, place and life through the language of painting.  McHugh’s refined painting technique, together with an assorted collection of ideas ranging from dreams, nature and historiography of the visual arts leads the viewer on a timeless journey into the abstract and the real. McHugh lives […]

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Gallery 2 Kir Larwill has found exquisite beauty in the simplicity of a bowl. The resulting exhibition home is a quiet homage to the vessel. Bowls are associated with the familiarity, contentment and warmth of home. It is a recongnisable and timeless object symbolising the universal gestures of containing, holding, gathering, feeding and sharing. Through Larwill’s exploration […]

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Gallery 1 Having worked for a number of years as a researcher in the biological sciences, Nicholas Kallincos’ image making has filtered through a scientific platform. His resulting exhibition growth axis is concerned with the clinical aspects of the human experience. Kallincos explores how one navigates the real world with the imagined world and how cognitive decisions […]

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Gallery 3 Bodytide is a quirky collection of small scale drawings. Through graphite and pigment, Virgona explores the sensation of water and its metaphoric connotations in relation to the subconscious. Virgona describes in a visual language the unseen elements that surround the human experience. Through the process of relinquishing control of the mind and suspending aesthetic […]

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Gallery 2 The transient fissure is a glimpse into a temporary space. A brief interlude from the impositions of reality, The transient fissure lures the viewer with a seductive offer of the bizarre. Through the medium of drawing Fagan and Jenkinson offer the contents of a different space.  The constraints of universal axioms have been abandoned and each […]

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Gallery 1 Ian Wells’ exhibition is a collection of medium scale abstract paintings. Wells paints with soft stains, abrupt lines and polished surfaces. By painting in the abstract Wells has captured life’s non tangibles, the experiences that can not be expressed verbally or possibly by any other media. Caught in his paintings are slivers of […]

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Gallery 3 With advances in technology, society and our daily interactions have become increasingly artificial. Through various modes of telecommunications one can participate in the community all day without the need to actually see or touch another being. Despite the ‘virtual’ environment in which we play and communicate, there still exists a distinction between our […]

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Gallery 2 Space in the inner city is commonly viewed in terms of its financial value. The aim is to redevelop or renovate with minimum input to maximize output. Make it shiny, tall and appealing. Make it appear spacious yet be compact, make it fresh, light and airy. Take this old structure and make it […]

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Gallery 1 Line is an exploration of the European relationship with the natural environment. Stevenson draws his inspiration from Australian history, particularly that which relates to the geography and rural culture of his birthplace in the New England highlands. Through his unique study of the local flora, Stevenson has become a post colonial Joseph Banks. The […]

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Gallery 3 I want… is a series of drawings on items that were once desired enough to be bought and used but have since been discarded. Sharon Billinge has drawn with oil charcoal and silverpoint onto recycled canvas and wood. Exquisitely rendered fine silk and soft folds of fabric contrast with the rough timber. Twisted figures […]

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Gallery 2 Boundary Between Self and Other is a quiet collection of sculptures and drawings. Since 2000 Goldring has been refining a weaving technique that utilises copper wire. Goldring draws from the repetition found in nature for the foundation of her forms. The result is an organic collection of woven wire. These elaborate structures tendril through […]

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Gallery 1 Naomie Sunner’s multiple self portraits see her playing the corporate high flyer bound by ergonomic chairs, computers and folios. The characters have been extracted from their corporate environment, yet earnestly they strive on, oblivious to their surrounds. An ensuing urban Fight Club is battled out in the dense scrub of the Australian wilderness. Give up […]

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Gallery 3 These works are about things not going smoothly – the way our lives are beset by glitches, interruptions and other things out of our control. They embrace both the random and precise: lines don’t meet, spaces are mismatched. And yet despite these disjunctions, patterns seem to emerge: the repetition of shapes and lines appear code-like […]

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Gallery 2 A collection of obscure and ambiguous photographs makes up Penelope Hunt’s latest solo exhibition quiet works. Hunt has used the camera as a drawing tool and captured transient moments and gestures. The fleeting and seemingly unimportant has been translated into digital photographs. Each image is a rescued snippet of conversation, a moment of play […]

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Gallery 1 Sonia Clerehan’s recent work is a quiet collection of oil paintings. Each painting is an unearthing of a childhood filled with furrowed fields and cultivated hills.  The contour, structure, colour and pattern of the land is translated from an aerial view. Although void of houses, livestock and humans each image holds an indentation […]

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Gallery 3 Victoria’s coastline is littered with shipwrecks from a time before adequate shipping charts and navigation equipment.  Stories of sunken treasure, survival and loss, are part of what makes the sea a place of mystery and danger. Siobhan Punshon is interested in the connection between the romance of the sea, and the practical aspects […]

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Gallery 2 Daniel Dorall’s 3 dimensional mazes are full of murder, mahem and mischief. Like characters in a short story, the viewer can follow the drama played out by the tiny figures, but the narrative is often irrational. Drawing on his skills as an architect, Dorall has constructed this curious collection of miniature mazes from […]

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Gallery 1 Snapshot is an observation of daily rituals. It captures fragments of banality within the ways people interact in cities. These works depict moments and gestures that are intrinsically found in human nature. Using plates of flat glass as her ‘canvas’, Kennedy has meticulously engraved snapshots of commonplace scenes. Drawing on the technology of the […]

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Gallery 3 Minute Possibilities presents the work of two artists, each teasing out their own idiosyncratic connotations from formal geometric structures. Contemplating the significance of pattern and repetition in the context of the natural and the cultural, this exhibition explores ways in which abstraction can expand, and formalism can be extended. Claire Mooney Claire Mooney creates paintings […]

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Gallery 2 The hand written word has become disembodied by cyberspace. The scribbled personalised font of hand written text is in danger of becoming a nostalgic relic from a romantic period.  Annie Green dusts off long forgotten scripts and anthropologically explores their author. From old notebooks, diaries and correspondence, words and letters have been found […]

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Gallery 1 Linda Pickering’s new paintings are an exploration of executed decisions. As a line is followed and a form constructed there is an infinite number of choices that need to be made. Pickering explores the aesthetic variations possible in the context of abstract painting. Using the basic elements of line, shape and colour, each […]

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Gallery 3 Brandawear is a series of black and white children’s portraits.  Children of various ages pose for the camera. Tattooed across innocent skin are well known brands that target the minor market.  Hotwheels® and McHappy Meals® wrap around a child’s surface. These brands are a concept, a sale, an artificial identity embedded into the skin. […]

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Gallery 2 FORM-WORK is an investigation into form and line. The result is a collection of minimalist geometric wall and floor constructions.  Pure forms cascade down the canvas and domino into structural abandonment. The gallery becomes a backdrop to the unfolding and expanding mixed media works. Hockey has captured the architectural offerings of the city […]

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Gallery 1 Places is a photographic collection of randomly encountered places such as walls, steps, doors and objects.  Jeffcott continually wanders the urban landscape capturing the changing environment. Using the found street environ she constructs images like a plein air painter. By focussing on the colour, design and shape of the street scape, no one object […]

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Gallery 3 Daniel Gorzadek’s recent body of work explores the cult of celebrity.  Taking scenes from popular Hollywood films, Gorzadek breaks up well known narratives and reconstructs them displaced from their original environment. Gorzadek depicts contemporary images yet presents them using a traditional medium. The scenes are meticulously rendered in oil paint, timelessly caught on […]

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Gallery 2 Bundit Puangthong’s work is an amalgamation of his traditional Thai art training and his western based art practice. Having recently completed a Masters Degree in Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, Puangthong has been able to explore, in depth, the cultural differences between Thailand and Australia, particularly in relation to […]

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Gallery 1 Savages is a whimsical yet thought-provoking series of digital prints that challenges the viewer’s preconceptions about race and identity.  Based on 19th Century lithographs of Maori by Western ethnographers, Kirsten Lyttle has constructed highly artificial dioramas where the “noble savage” Maori have been disconcertingly replaced by Chico jelly babies with the smiling black faces associated […]

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Gallery 3 Jane Gollan has glimpsed the everyday object and shifted it seamlessly onto the surface of the canvas.  The result is a quiet collection of paintings, unobtrusive, yet grand in scale. The smooth and layered application of oil paint allows the work to mimic her initial scan of the source material. Gollan extracts the […]

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Gallery 2 No Limits is collection of 7 life size photographs of Helen Sullivan. Georgia Metaxas documented the appearance of Helen Sullivan for one week. The result is an honest exploration of the human condition. Metaxas examines the question of visual representation as it relates to personal identity. Metaxas’ work tests the boundaries and purpose of […]

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Gallery 1 Untitled is a flirtation with abstract expressionism.  Alizon Gray’s large scale paintings are a celebration of colour.  The repetitive layering of enamel paint builds to a rich and lustrous surface.The result is an unfathomable depth and palpable silence. Minimal mark makings on the surface ornament the canvas. Bold reds and wafts of green streak […]

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