GALLERY 1: Developed collaboratively by Agnieszka Golda and Martin Johnson Setting Scenes is a large-scale mixed media installation. Encompassing two rooms Setting Scenes draws on fragmented narratives, immersive and ritualistic modes of installation art, traditional European folklore practices and the contemporary, globalised popular culture of Japanese anime. Bending towards the otherworldly Golda and Johnson harnesses the […]

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GALLERY 2: Developed collaboratively by Agnieszka Golda and Martin Johnson Setting Scenes is a large-scale mixed media installation. Encompassing two rooms Setting Scenes draws on fragmented narratives, immersive and ritualistic modes of installation art, traditional European folklore practices and the contemporary, globalised popular culture of Japanese anime. Bending towards the otherworldly Golda and Johnson harnesses the […]

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GALLERY 3: Untitled Responses is the second part of a body of work in which Liz Henderson examines the linguistic gap between olfaction and language. In Untitled (Blindside, Melbourne, 2013) Henderson asked her audiences to describe a scent through a series of typewritten impressions. Untitled Responses seeks a more analytical rather than sensual approach; Henderson […]

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GALLERY 1: For short flights at least, the window seat is the best on an aeroplane. On a clear day, no other view is like it. The sensory chaos that we wade through on the ground is resolved into a single, pristine surface. This is the seductive illusion of the overview, the god-like perspective which […]

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GALLERY 2: Transformations may evoke the surreal, the mysterious, the poetic, the sinister or the exuberant. Depicting urban scenes often inhabited by ghostly human figures, Richard Knafelc’s paintings explore tensions arising between notions of materialism and happiness. Using altered colours, photographic negative effects and at times double outlines, Knafelc dramatically transforms urban scenes and landscapes. […]

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GALLERY 3: Screenshot! is an exploration of portraiture’s contemporary iterations within digital culture. Sarah Rhiannon’s vivid portraits draw on her own experiences of using the website Chatroulette and mobile application Snapchat. Both Chatroulette and Snapchat promise an ephemeral form of play, yet provide the potential for documentation through screenshots. This tension between the temporary and […]

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GALLERY 1: Captured through and on awnings and glass Krautscheider’s works successfully straddles the border between recognition and abstraction. His photographs transform street life and tourist precincts into transcendent images. In Suburban Abstract the artist explores the subtle distortions of the streetscape reflected on imperfect surfaces. His current series includes multiple reflections from inner and […]

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GALLERY 2: Barbara Bolt’s current series of drawings, Elegy to an Oz Republic, 2012 and Black with No Way Out (after Motherwell), 2012 investigate the entanglement of matter and meaning and how a new materialist framework shifts the focus from signification to force and effect. Bolt’s work allows us to consider not what a figurative […]

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GALLERY 3: Painter Richard Collins returns to red gallery with an exhibition of oil paintings depicting the paraphernalia of his Clifton Hill studio. He paints from life seeking a heightened evocation of the motif under scrutiny. Favouring chance groupings over composed subjects, Collins is interested in translating the shy beauty of mundane objects into the […]

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GALLERY 1: For Primrose Variations, Vaughan presents a series of complex, representational oil paintings, pencil drawings and analogue collages.  Referencing elements from surrealism, pre-renaissance symbolism and photography, Vaughan also draws on personal histories through the use of embedded symbols and objects of significance. “I take snapshots from my past and re-imagine them as symbolic narratives.  I […]

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GALLERY 2:   FATHOM 1. A measure of length containing six feet. Holder. 2. Reach; penetration; depth of contrivance. Shakesp. To FATHOM. v.a. [from the noun] 1. To encompass with the arms extended or encircling. 2. To reach; to master. Dryden. 3. To sound; to try with respect to depth. Felton. 4. To penetrate into; […]

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GALLERY 3:   Falling to sleep last night in a deep crevasse between one rough dream and another, I seemed, still awake, to be stranded on a stony path, and there the familiar enigma presented itself…                                                             Enigma, Anne Stephenson, 2006   Using large scale works with elements of calligraphy, landscape painting, iconography and […]

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GALLERY 1:   Walsh’s painting practice pivots around an investigation of body language and facial expressions that reflect  the dynamics of personal interaction as well as emotional, psychological and spiritual states of being. Her latest series: Cultural Exchange: Business in China, functions as a visual diary that conveys the inevitable communication gaps, negotiations and connections […]

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GALLERY 2:   Utilising aqueous veils of colour interjected with gestural mark making, Pearce explores the vital properties of beauty and the sublime through her latest body of works – Intermezzo  Working intuitively and exploiting the inherent qualities of water and pigment, Pearce employs both chance and accident as well as conscious consideration in her […]

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GALLERY 3: Disturbance of Direction negotiates three bodies of work where individual and diverse practices are unified in dialogue. Haya Cohen, Virginia Miller and Sonya G Peters share parallels in their approaches; initiated by the conflicts around notions of re-location and dis-location, as well as the tension between the built and natural environment. Cohen’s textile […]

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GALLERY 1:   Artists Statement: The work I create centres around the relationship between humans and animals. Animals are fascinating. I watch different birds in the back yard and know their habits. The black bird runs with his head down and then stops and stares from the corner of his eye before darting out of […]

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GALLERY 2:   The stylistic flair and luminous visual appeal of Lessels’ oil paintings form an unexpected juxtaposition with the far more serious and somewhat poignant issues that inform his practice. Lessels is concerned with the ever-broadening gap between humans and nature and the depreciating relationship with other living creatures that can result in their […]

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GALLERY 3:   Taking Melbourne’s Inner North as inspiration, PESKY has created a series of works that convey her fascination and fondness for the constantly evolving life of our city’s façades. These images provide a unique view of Melbourne, capturing the beauty that is to be found in the geometric structures that are formed through […]

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GALLERY 1:   In this series of photographs Sri Lankan born artist Suresh Jeanel produces atmospheric abstractions through processes of digital manipulation. Conflating the rhythms of wild style graffiti with a Renaissance inspired tonal palette, the formal elements gleaned from this incongruous mix of reference points are then treated with non-linear image warping technologies. Acting […]

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GALLERY 2   This series of bold and irreverent multi media works has allowed the artist to release and confront the subconscious darkness that has been generated through her experience of fear, grief, anxiety and remorse. The result is a body of work that is poignant, emotionally compelling and psychologically provocative. Both in form and […]

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GALLERY 3:   This exhibition brings together the artwork of a father and daughter pair, whose confluent interests in the concepts of interconnectedness and gestalt theory have resulted in analogous practices. Through a shared conceptual framework the work of both artists reflects and extends the practice of the other in a reciprocal exchange. Martin Hunting […]

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  ‘Fin’ is a body of work developed throughout 2013 by graduating students from the Bachelor of Illustration, NMIT. The show celebrates a diversity of practice, covering a broad range of approaches from the hand drawn, to digital illustration, painting, animation, installation, sculpture and sequential artwork. ‘Fin’ showcases a selection of works, expressing notions relating […]

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    ‘Fin’ is a body of work developed throughout 2013 by graduating students from the Bachelor of Illustration, NMIT. The show celebrates a diversity of practice, covering a broad range of approaches from the hand drawn, to digital illustration, painting, animation, installation, sculpture and sequential artwork. ‘Fin’ showcases a selection of works, expressing notions […]

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‘Fin’ is a body of work developed throughout 2013 by graduating students from the Bachelor of Illustration, NMIT. The show celebrates a diversity of practice, covering a broad range of approaches from the hand drawn, to digital illustration, painting, animation, installation, sculpture and sequential artwork. ‘Fin’ showcases a selection of works, expressing notions relating to […]

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33 Carat showcases the creative works of the 2013 jewellery students at NMIT. This year’s exhibition will unveil the unique pieces produced by the diverse makers graduating from the course. 33 Carat is the culmination of two years of intensive hand-skill training and personal investigation of jewellery and silversmithing methods. From dazzling precious gems to […]

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  33 Carat showcases the creative works of the 2013 jewellery students at NMIT. This year’s exhibition will unveil the unique pieces produced by the diverse makers graduating from the course. 33 Carat is the culmination of two years of intensive hand-skill training and personal investigation of jewellery and silversmithing methods. From dazzling precious gems to steel and […]

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33 Carat showcases the creative works of the 2013 jewellery students at NMIT. This year’s exhibition will unveil the unique pieces produced by the diverse makers graduating from the course. 33 Carat is the culmination of two years of intensive hand-skill training and personal investigation of jewellery and silversmithing methods. From dazzling precious gems to steel and bones, […]

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Gallery 1 The exhibitors are both established and emerging artists: defined by the fluidity with which their practices move across the fields of both art and design. This exhibition provides a range of stimulating imagery, incorporating different methods, materials and media. Featuring: Anne Bennett, Simon Bowland, Annie Fitton, Kate Geck, Colleen Morris, Alan Nguyen, Mietta Preston, Stephen Pascoe.

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Gallery 2 In A slow swarm across the surface hypnagogic shapes unfurl amongst clouds of sampled text, layering and intersecting over the surfaces of the artworks to create new forms and figures. The exhibition explores the concept of incidental abstraction, using found fragments that collide in colour-coded arrangements. Common to all works is a processing […]

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Gallery 3 This exhibition explores the form, purpose and significance of the female breast. The complex and challenging experiences of motherhood, femininity, and nurturing are expressed through a series of wood-carvings and drawings. A number of dualities are brought to light in Virgona’s works including; femininity and masculinity, softness and hardness, containment and release, inner […]

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  Interactive structures. Immersive environments. Sensory theatre. Sensorium navigates the various modes of human perception such as sight, sound, touch and scent through interdisciplinary artistic practice. Interact with structures that function as analogue communication devices; engage with generative new media works that use algorithms to explore the relationship between frequency and matter; view optical paintings that promote […]

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Within the curatorial scaffolding of Sensorium, Roundangle presents a live art experience with smell as its central provocation. Pivoting around an olfactory evocation of the seven cardinal vices, audience members are enticed into an interactive dining event entitled Potion, Dining with the Scent of Sins. Upon being greeted by a Maître d’ and ensemble of […]

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Interactive structures. Immersive environments. Sensory theatre. Sensorium navigates the various modes of human perception such as sight, sound, touch and scent through interdisciplinary artistic practice. Interact with structures that function as analogue communication devices; engage with generative new media works that use algorithms to explore the relationship between frequency and matter; view optical paintings that promote […]

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Gallery 3 Everything’s Fine furthers Hook’s exploration of drawing as a storytelling device. The seemingly familiar imagery gleaned from a domestic context, is used to establish an immediate connection with the viewer. However, there is an insidiousness to these works that belies the readings they initially generate and closer inspection will reveal an ominous undercurrent or […]

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Gallery 2 This exhibition documents the life of a mysterious and adventurous old man. John Culver is the life-long companion of the artist’s sub-conscious and his identity has been forged through a mixture of memory, make-believe, heartache and aspiration. For those who have known him he is the ultimate avatar into a world of hope […]

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Gallery 1 Presence and Absence, is a large-scale photographic exploration into ‘Shibui’ and ‘Shibusa’, referring to a particular Japanese aesthetic of simple, subtle and unobtrusive beauty.  Shibusa has been said to have seven attributes: simplicity, implicitness, modesty, tranquillity, naturalness, roughness, and normalcy.  The concept represents an openness to nature and an appreciation of the irregularities […]

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Gallery 1 + 2 Laos born Australian artist Sittoula Sitlakone employs the activist strategies of street art fused with the vernacular of advertising in a discussion around Australian identity. Utilising the tactics of culture jamming or subvertising, Sitlakone takes existing cultural icons and subverts them for the purposes of political critique. National identity, cross cultural […]

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Gallery 3 ‘It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.’ Gaston Bachelard, 1958 Informed by the philosophical theories of Gaston Bachelard, expressed in his seminal work The Poetics of Space, Robertson’s paintings are concerned with the lived experience of architectural spaces and the idealistic desire for perfect surroundings that […]

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Gallery 1 + 2 Laos born Australian artist Sittoula Sitlakone employs the activist strategies of street art fused with the vernacular of advertising in a discussion around Australian identity. Utilising the tactics of culture jamming or subvertising, Sitlakone takes existing cultural icons and subverts them for the purposes of political critique. National identity, cross cultural […]

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Gallery 3 Tinpalit’s surrealist sculptural works explore the intuitive dance of intention, reciprocation and observation that occurs when becoming acquainted with a stranger. There are, to various degrees, always primal motivations within this human facade. False pretense is common and often subconscious and this is represented by the various masks in this series. – PT Tinpalit’s eccentric […]

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Gallery 2 Disarmingly subtle, beautifully detailed and intoxicating in their gentle ferocity, Lester’s invocations of totem creatures take us into a world of animalistic power. The depiction of animal counterparts traced around human heads points towards the physical and mental cohesion attained by identifying an inner beast, which can release and instil a purity of […]

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Gallery 1 Bilimoria’s photographic practice explores the push and pull of opposing polarities, in-between spaces and the cyclical nature of concepts and things. Fragments of text, a solitary fingerprint, the effervescent blur of a butterfly wing are all mined for their poetic and emotive potential as Bilimoria estranges familiar objects from easily recognisable and categorical […]

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Gallery 1 Walsh’s emotionally driven and beautifully sensitive paintings resonate with pathos, as scenes of human connection are rendered in bleeding washes of fleeting fragility. Delicately delineated in ink, watercolour and oil, these deeply psychological portraits and groups convey the subtle dynamics of body language and facial expression. Evoking memories of the past, these odes […]

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Gallery 2 Fabian Rojas’s artistic practice employs an analytical and reflective view of the self within various social, personal and cultural contexts. In my work, I internalize and de-construct the notion of the self and the possible displacement of its existence in a technological world. By engaging and interrogating the subject within the present habitus, Fabian Rojas […]

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Gallery 3 These bold and complex images have been inspired by a deep theoretic engagement with the notion of identity, which is inherently layered. In these beguiling portrayals of alternating presence and absence, tonality is employed to an electrifying degree, resulting in a visual experience that reflects the fluctuating nature of consciousness, subjectivity and selfhood. […]

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Gallery 1 + 2 Steve May’s large scale, unconventional portraits depict an eclectic gaggle of archetypal characters. Often rendered in dramatic chiaroscuro, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, features sharp suited Italian gangsters, tattooists, angelic looking children, and a gun toting bad boy from Neighbours. While executed in a figurative realist style, these works are loaded […]

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Gallery 3 In this body of work, Chang questions the linear conception of time as flowing towards a singular trajectory. Time instead, is conceived as a stratified continuum or a series of layers, a fusion of memory, subjectivity and context. This notion of layering is central to Chang’s practice, as an aesthetic directive, a creative […]

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Gallery 1 Wood allows us to take a moment to appreciate the inherent beauty of this material and to reflect on its unique contribution to human life. Gaunt’s muted tonal drawings delineate a contrast between the organic and the industrial, using wood as a symbol of human intervention in the natural world. That Gaunt has used […]

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Gallery 2 Travis Vella’s bold delivery of surreal and striking imagery takes the viewer into the unfathomable realm of the artist’s subconscious. The disorienting effect is deliberate, as Vella seeks to convey the plurality of meaning that exists within the inter-subjective framework through which we form our understanding of the world and each other. Vella’s […]

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Gallery 3 Georgie Flood’s paintings evoke the sense of an unexpected confrontation, a moment of shock, an unwanted advance or a surprise encounter. They emit a raw immediacy that belies confidence and control. An estranged allure takes hold, oscillating between desire and horror, between image and brushstroke. Flood obsessively combs the Internet for sources. She […]

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Gallery 3 Ngaere Guyatt repurposes the worn dilapidated artifacts of our throwaway consumer culture to produce her latest series – Second Life. Through processes of bricolage, Guyatt creates three dimensional assemblages and wall relief works. Elevated to the status of an art object, the urban detritus undergoes a process of transformation; becoming a transformational object […]

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  Gallery 2 Susie Leahy Raleigh’s vibrant aqueous surfaces are informed by a personal response to atmospheric phenomena, altered states of mind and consciousness. Exploring psychedelic ideas and aesthetics, these abstract works endeavor to stimulate the senses and provoke an intoxicating affect in the viewer. Produced by pouring transparent and metallic inks onto a perpex […]

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Gallery 1 Olivia Pintos – Lopez’s practice is concerned with the fleetingly precious nature of objects, and their ability to briefly contain symbolic meaning beyond their materiality. Using salvaged fragments and found materials that are selected for their transient nature or associative value, Pintos – Lopez assembles figurative objects. Constructed as analog avatars, t he […]

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Gallery 1 In this series of works Stephenson explores her own place in the Earth’s geological timeline, utilising the stratified layering of the landscape as a framework of enquiry for her own personal journey. Combining a diverse array of photographic imagery, mixed media works and artist’s books, and incorporating museological display strategies, Stephenson poses questions […]

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Gallery 2 Dark, gritty, and often imbued with a menacing sense of disquiet, Pellatt’s landscapes and urbanscapes are intended to elicit a connection with the viewer on a more primordial level. Captured during twilight’s cusp or first the light of morning, these scenes signify a time in the theatre of the day, to either awaken […]

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Gallery 3 In Crossroads – Twice Upon a Time, five artistsquestion the trajectory of technological and cultural progression. Using a diverse array of mediums and procedures that range from sculpture and assemblage through to print, photography and new media, the works in this show represent varying responses to a number of sociological evolutions and regressions. Poised at […]

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Gallery 1 The series of works in Kate Wallace’s Moving Still snatch moments in time from the restless circulation of city life. Using imagery familiar to every commuter,Moving Still adopts the train carriage as a device to frame fragments of everyday narrative. In Wallace’s hands, the public space of the train carriage – which is both moving and […]

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Gallery 2 June Chen’s latest body of work is an investigation of the self-portrait. Using a series of glossy, studio photographs of her own face as a starting point, the artist enacts a process of defacement. Making precise, almost surgical, cuts directly into the photographic surface, Chen’s method is as delicate as it is violent. […]

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Gallery 3 In his exhibition You Have Been Loved, Troy Argyros turns his attention to the tokens and treasures in which nostalgia and memory are contained. The small and highly particular items that Argyros depicts hold the imprint of experience. A particular smell, the texture of a certain fabric, a scrap of wallpaper from your childhood […]

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Gallery 2 Cuevas’ practice explores the contrast between apparent chaos; the random, the incidental, and the generated, versus an imposed order that references human intervention and an attempt to observe or control. These works draw on a diverse constellation of subject matter ranging from cellular biology and Buddhism, through to the everyday, as well as […]

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Gallery 1 Land Where You Fall is a body of work that concentrates on the familiar forms and signs found within our regular surroundings. Moving over the asphalt road like a carpet veiling the land, I am directed by arrows, cordoned by lines, and managed by traffic lights. Roaming through urban spaces I am lead, ushered […]

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Gallery 3 At the heart of the Celtic world is the art of storytelling. In Scottish Folklore there abound stories of imaginary creatures, both benign and malevolent. Some are hybrids neither human nor beast, others are spirits from the supernatural world. Created narratives go back centuries and are part of childhood. They also serve another […]

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  Gallery 1 Someone Somebody Run is an exhibition representing a seven year collaboration between two artists dedicated to the art of printmaking, the artists’ book and a shared interest in Australia’s history. Their artists’ books, prints and mixed media works reveal contemporary responses to two of Sydney’s historical colonial sites where the unwanted and […]

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Gallery 2 ‘Every life leaves a trace’ – Walter Benjamin A seed is the trace of a tree – the one from which it fell, and the one into which it will grow. We live in the present, but are surrounded by signs and traces of what has been and what will be, those who […]

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Gallery 3 Taylor’s artistic practice explores the interstice between representations of the rural and the urban through a visual language that oscillates between abstraction and representation. “The Australian rural landscape has a perceived aesthetic, through my paintings I am exploring how urban development is causing this scenery to change.” The outer urban fringe is a […]

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Energy from stillness harnesses the strength and imagination from 2 and 3 dimensional artworks to create an art exhibition that is truly one of beauty. Each piece deconstructs what we perceive as energy and displays this to the viewer in an almost tangible form. This is achieved through the skillful use of the fundamentals of […]

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Gallery 3 Exhibiting artists and designers defined not by their discipline, but by the fluidity with which their practices move between the fields of art and design. Colleen Morris, Stephen Pascoe, Kate Geck, Alan Nguyen, Anne Bennett, Matt Clare, Adam Lee, Adriane Strampp, Simon Bowland, Mietta Preston, Michelle Gillick.

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Gallery 1 + 2 See Saw celebrates the culmination of three years of innovation, inspiration and hard work from NMIT’s graduating Bachelor of Illustration students of 2012. This show highlights the student’s exciting contributions to the cutting edge of creative illustration. See Saw pushes at the boundaries of visual communication and questions the role and […]

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Gallery 1 Rachel Joy’s latest series examines the Australian colonial project as executed by our pioneering forebears. Using iconic colonial images as a reference point, Joy comments on the complex position of animals, which were originally introduced for food, sport, companionship or farm work and are now regarded as feral, with often devastating consequences for […]

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Gallery 3 Inspired by the aesthetics of the natural world and the dramatic seasonal changes in the Dandenong ranges where she resides, Paula Ewington is enamored with color and texture.Informed by movements such as Impressionism and Post Impressionism, her gouache on canvas works are similarly produced en plein air. Ewington’s landscapes are less about representational […]

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Gallery 2 Banfield’s finely detailed linocuts and artist books examine the transient nature of memories. Delicately executed using layers of Japanese papers and hand stitching, the works provide us with a commentary on the more minute details of our lives. Through the study of forests and detritus, fallen leaves become an artistic motif that evidences […]

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Kate Gorringe – Smith, Suzanne Hutton, Monique Keel, Andrej Kocis, Helen Kocis Edwards, Roz Rogers, Jessi Wong and Maurizio Salvati. Mapmakers seek to walk the paths of dreams and render them tangible. In this exhibition, eight artists take the starting point of The Map’s Vocabulary to explore geographic, domestic, historical or emotional territory through traditional and non-traditional printmaking methods, […]

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Gallery 3 Rebeccah Power executes her latest body of work in a quirky and idiosyncratic painterly language. Using television documentaries based on history and archeology as a starting point, these works celebrate the act of discovery and the processes of uncovering new and unknown territories. In her drawings, Power employs the medium of watercolour on […]

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  Gallery 2 Centered on a mix ‘n’ match Noah’s Ark procession, Kirsty Fletcher’s new exhibition is a mutant safari of cardboard creatures inspired by nursery motifs and children’s toys. Giraffe in tampon box plaid pants exist amongst hybrid rocking horses and strange bird-girls, deer in neon socks cavort next to a fluorescent camel caravan. […]

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  Gallery 1 Julie Bradley’s multi layered compositions evoke symbolic incarnations of plants and animals from the Australian landscape. In Shape Shifting Bradley explores the processes of transformation, creating tableaus where forms emerge, overlap and dissipate. This produces areas of transparency and opacity that conjure up oppositions of absence and presence as well as a sense of […]

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Gallery 3 The artistic works of Ian Wells are primarily concerned with paint and the act of painting as an end in itself. Balancing the notion of risk taking with the certainty that comes from experience is a core tenet in his work. His process oscillates between embracing moments of serendipity, chance and accident and […]

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Gallery 2 Essentially a figurative practice, my interest is in its relationship to space; where the figure ‘fits’ into its physical environment. These ideas lead to more abstract explorations into the nature of drawing and the representation of form. For many years I have collected ideas, concepts and drawing notations in the pages of cheap […]

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Gallery 1 Tasmanian based artist Mark Clemens explores the coast line and in more detail the metaphor of ‘the land’s edge’ in these new works entitled Edge of Tasmania.  In his earlier work Mark focused inward to the land, mostly working in Australia. A transition occurred for him after retuning to Tasmania, suddenly struck by the […]

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Gallery 1 Richard Collins’ exhibition Anecdotal Evidence presents a selection of oil paintings and works on paper in the traditional genres of still life, landscape and interior with figures. For Collins, one role of painting is to return us to the daily facts of our lives with a heightened attentiveness.  “In my painting I am trying to notice […]

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Gallery 3 Jiri Tibor Novak’s practice is characterized by whimsical and poetic juxtapositions that result in childlike and enchanting imagery. Frequently his works are informed by a myriad of literary sources that result in a dialogic exchange between image and text. In his latest series of watercolour paintings and pen and ink drawings, Novak explores […]

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Gallery 2 Rhys Parkinson’s artistic practice deals with themes such as human connection and nostalgia while retaining a strong sense of materiality. These works investigate the notion of the human condition which can be defined as “inescapable features of being human in a social, cultural, and personal context.” This can also be understood as the […]

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Gallery 1 “The work of Art born of the Artist in a mysterious and secret way” Wassily Kandinsky In this collection of woodcuts and dry point we see landscapes punctuated with abstraction, the variation creates a dialogue between the two styles. It is reflective of the artist’s observations, of an inner/outer world or matrix that sits […]

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Gallery 3 Nature is always informing us of life, growth, transition, ending and death. Alexia Wheeler observes nature as a comfort to the reality of our mortality. These observations are then transformed into watercolour drawings and sculpture. “There is something about this process where I am arresting a transitional stage of decay in space that […]

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Gallery 2 Using lost and found images, words, language, colour and pattern Robyn Dansie works use things that already exist. Her desire to reflect on culture, past and present, produces compositions which are both provocative and whimsical. In this series of works Don’t we all love to Dream Dansie explores the impact of our dreams. Dreams represent […]

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Gallery 3 “Finally, I became a stranger here in Australia. How can I say that I know this world which is seemingly quite unreal?” Born in South Korea Jaedon Shin explores the ideas of the stranger, an outsider, the experience of living in another country and isolation. Along side that he explores the notion of […]

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Gallery 1 The definition of the word “Island” has multiple meanings: a landmass or something detached or isolated; the obvious and the hidden. Islands historically have associations of isolation, surrounded by water they represent the unattainable or imagined. An escape and transition for people, from one state or place to another where all things imagined […]

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Gallery 2 The Tower is a signifier of mythological and symbolic presence and power. We have towers appear in our dreams, aspirations and indeed on our streets because its archetype is integrally part of our observed and imagined landscape since ancient times. It’s presence in contemporary society projects an assertive manner that can be over […]

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Curated by Poppy Greenham, this exhibition examines the ridiculous, yet beautiful state of modern culture and how it affects our perceptions of people and place. Still Living brings together 6 artists who depict altered spaces, imagined landscapes or obscure the use of still life. Their observations are affected, their imagery heightened, a response to their environment, […]

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Gallery 2 A landscape has no language, no vocabulary of specific meanings. It communicates in lines, hues, tones, light, shadows, symbols, and empty spaces…Nor does a landscape have its own voice. It has many tongues; it has centuries of accumulated knowledge, memories. A landscape provides no answers. It only suggests where to look or discover, […]

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Gallery 3 Kate Gorringe-Smith is a printmaker and illustrator.  Her works have explored the notions of mapping, journey, traversing and the migrations of people and animals, since the time began. In these new works An Instinct for Mapping we see an inquiry into the Bar-tailed Godwit through etchings and lino cut. A Bar-tailed Godwit was recorded travelling […]

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Gallery 1 This exhibition is about change.  It explores the transformative processes so integral to the experience of making a painting, and in viewing a painting.  The works in this show also refer to the irrevocable alterations that come with the progress of time; changes in self perception, and in the world around us. Anne […]

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Gallery 3 Robyn Rich Fascinated with where we find beauty and what we find beautiful? Robyn Rich explores a charm in the contrast between the functional and the delicate. Why is it that an old meat plate that has been handed down and treasured or an old tap no longer in use that is left […]

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Gallery 2 Pam Jackson and Steph Bolt explore similar themes in their art practice. Both investigate the commonplace and everyday experiences. Steph Bolt photo-documents daily life to produce work that incorporates both print and sculptural media. She is interested in the common person in their local environment and examines universal human gesture. Pam Jackson also uses printmaking […]

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  Linda Shuhin Linda Shuhin explores ideas on the human condition, her practice is an exploration of the complexity of our lives, the essence of ourselves – indeed our very state of being. Through figurative imagery, gestural mark making and the use of recurrent symbolism, she investigates the human condition, in particular ideas about the […]

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Gallery 3 Glenys Bryant Glenys Bryant looks at the importance of the tree in today’s urban landscape: not only does it have aesthetic qualities but it is a haven for wildlife and humans alike.   Jan Synot Jan Synot uses vibrant colour and semi-abstract forms to show the beauty of trees as she sees them […]

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Gallery 2     Sophie Skarbek With a love of drama and colour Sophie Skarbek uses her affinity for life drawing to portray glamorously dressed women appearing from the shadows or composed with red roses. Brooding dark hues in contrast to warm reds or energetic oranges mix her use of abstraction and realism. Sophie paints […]

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Gallery 1   Judith Bennett Judith Bennett sees trees as places of refuge and nurturing. Her works portray trees that have given her a source of spiritual strength. Patsy Bush Trees provide homes and refuges for countless tiny creatures, creeping, crawling, curled up and camouflaged. These have inspired a variety of artworks including linocuts, etchings, […]

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Gallery 3 ‘Sometimes the power isn’t in the story but in how it is told’ In this exhibition Josh Hook explores the idea of how a narrator impacts a narrative, and also by extension the audience. The works examine a narrative involving two characters, and the events that lead to an ambiguous conclusion.  A story […]

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Gallery 2 This recent series of work stems from surveying aerial images of cities, suburbs and country.  Capturing forms and presenting them in isolation using a limited colour palette. All works contain geometric forms from rural landscapes carpeted with paddocks and roads, tightly packed city buildings, large factory buildings and suburban houses with networks of […]

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Gallery 1 James Bonnici’s work explores the modern, urban environment we have created for ourselves, and how this impacts on us psychologically. His work suggests that within the everyday locations that consistently surround us, there is little consideration for beauty and contemplation. Instead, we find ourselves in highly functional settings where the spaces are enclosed, […]

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Gallery 3 Life bombards us with information, how we process this and what is real to us is selective. In order to understand the world around us we mentally categorize information to process it. In these works Hao is conscious that the way in which he processes information is unique and heightened. He uses painting […]

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  Gallery 2 We can never know the future and yet we move forward through the world guided by something more than our five senses. This exhibition explores the ideas that whilst in every moment we make choices when we look back we can “see how the dots connect” a desire to present what has […]

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Gallery 1 Delicate, smooth, round ceramic vessels that suspend precariously between wooden and metal robust pillars or cubes. A dialogue created between the differences of material in Erin Dixon’s work is reflective of her ideas around the status of materials and how these ideas and boundaries can be changed or perceived in a new way. The volatile […]

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Gallery 2 Dislodged from narrative and explicit agenda, these paintings propose a space where  subjective considerations can be drawn within broken analogies, material dynamics and  bodily suspension.

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Gallery 1 Inspired by her ‘specimen collections’, Jess Hall’s paintings combine studies from life with invented hybrids, referencing scientific illustration and collection.  This exhibition consists of a series of swarm paintings and a series of works on paper.  Techniques used in Swarm Seriesinclude thinly applied oil paint, which resembles watercolour and densely layered passages with visible brush […]

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Gallery 3 Susie Leahy Raleigh paintings endeavour to stimulate the senses and provoke an intoxicating affect in the viewer. A dynamic energy is portrayed, psychedelic and iridescent inks are poured onto Perpex without constraint. The paintings are informed by the artist’s personal response to atmospheric phenomena, altered states of mind and consciousness. Returning to red […]

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Carolyn Hawkins The 2011 RMIT Printmaking Graduate Exhibition RESOLVE talks to multiple elements that make up the nature of an individual artistic endeavour. The many mediums and techniques that assemble under the banner of printmaking itself have been explored to delivers a diverse array of print based art works. This year the graduating group present […]

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Gallery 3 Part painting, part sculpture, part installation Attraction is a sensual and dreamy exhibition, exploring and celebrating objects and ideas that entice the senses. Sarah is well known for her quirky, witty and playful style that infuses all her creations ranging from painting to alternative comic art, animation, and kinetic sculpture. Now based in Melbourne, she […]

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Gallery 2 The impact of science and introduced species on the landscape is an uncertain world. Does the acceleration in human existence give us the knowledge and right to change the natural world? Sara McPherson paintings conjure up a world of contrast which is simultaneously beautiful, garish and clashing. These paintings explore ideas of environment, […]

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Gallery 1 Sarah Gully asks the question; what makes us individual? What sets us apart from other people? Nature or fate makes some people stand out in a crowd, others consciously choose to embrace a life less ordinary, often in the form of exaggerated self ~adornment or extravagant performance. Sarah Gully strikes the balance between […]

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Gallery 3 Apple on a Stick is an exploration of childhood clapping games using combinations of drawing, video and animation. Clapping games are played in the school yard and beyond. By an informal process they are passed from child to child and generation to generation, mostly between girls. Some songs alter as they are passed-on, […]

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Gallery 2 In this series of works Cameron Bishop has concentrated on three types of space: the zoo, museum and the art gallery. Envisaged as heterotopias (from the combined Greek literally meaning other spaces), the three spaces are where time, represented in stratified objects, never stops accumulating. They are spaces of display in which objects […]

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Gallery 1 Landslide presents a study of the natural world and explores geological time and process. Each of the works attempts to reconfigure the landscape physically and metaphorically by challenging the viewers’ conceptions of space. These works on canvas present a potential future or past in which the sense of how we perceive landscape spatially […]

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Gallery 3 The point in which something comes into existence is described as the origin. This body of work investigates a fascination with life’s origins, the point of creation and how things come “to be”. The natural progression of these ideas has lead to a multitude of ideas and research into a range of theories […]

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Gallery 2 Shifting Ground is an exhibition by Geraldine Berkemeier and Gary Shinfield consisting of four large-scale collaborative works and several individual works from each artist. After several journeys taken along the Hunter River in NSW, the collaborative works in this show are a direct response to the landscapes of that area and journeys taken […]

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Gallery 1 Climate is the most vital subject of our time. More than at any other stage in human history, it is the epic backdrop for everything going on in human experience and discourse. Powerful tides and storms are tremendous forces with the ability to erase and erode land, life and livelihoods on a scale […]

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Gallery 2 Andrea McCuaig paints in response to her connection with movement. Acting as a metaphor of life’s journey, the sense of ones being that is triggered in the physical and emotional energy of dance and yoga is the foundation of these works. Through the artist’s personal knowledge, movements and muscle memories inspire and translate […]

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Gallery 1 Amelia Lackmann’s recent paintings investigate abstraction through variances in line, shape and color and through the formation of specific relationships between these components. Lackmann’s ideas are centered on dimensions of space, inspired by architectural design elements which act as a platform to create works. The smooth, precision-like surface quality in these works echo […]

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Gallery 3 I find discarded things. Things people have sold, lost, forgotten, or merely handed on. Boxes that were posted, suitcases people traveled with, crates they received or sent, bags they filled then emptied and ammunition containers that were once used. I take things apart making a wreckage of history’s own wreckage. This way of […]

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Gallery 2 ‘Widow Series’ explores the fear spiders inspire in people via detailed representational drawings captured in negative space. The widow spider is renowned for eating her partner after they have mated, while this is an accurate description of the widow spider’s behaviour it does not happen in every instance. Spiders conjure fear in a […]

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Gallery 3 I’ve always painted. I studied art at school but I didn’t go to art school however I’m always learning off my friends who did. In these paintings using oil paint on linen, with brushes and more often than not with gloved fingers I’m exploring and documenting relationships using color and form. There are […]

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Gallery 1 ‘Crossed legs, fat legs, scrawny legs, broken legs, sexy legs…I quite like legs’. Kim Wall’s work explores the wonders of the human form, its bumps and curves and her love of legs. The use of line in Wall’s drawings and prints are free and unbound by the need to portray the accuracy of […]

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Rod Gray Curated by artist Rod Gray, Capriccio will bring together red’s three galleries as a singular space of 21st century introspection featuring thirteen of Melbourne’s finest established and emerging artists. Divided into the Wunderkammer’s latin terms of classification, Naturalia [the natural], Artefacta [the cultural], and Scientifica [the scientific] the exhibition will reveal the surprising relevance of […]

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Gallery 3 “Conjuring the spirit of the ‘psychedelic’ experience remains critical to the aesthetic, and the idea of expanding consciousness – finding a bridge between inner and outer worlds – is central to all of the artworks in the exhibition.” Sebastian Moody The work consists of abstract paintings that endeavour to stimulate the senses and […]

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Gallery 2 In this exhibition four artists explore the notion of liminality in their respective photographic practices. Each seeks to express personal representation, subjective or objective interpretation of a symbolic or meaningful moment, celebrating the process from one defining juncture to another. Callum Linsell Pure distortion of individual personality manifests within the restrictions of society.  […]

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Gallery 2 And God said “Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth over the earth”.  Genesis 26 From the beginning, in the […]

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Gallery 1 The giant lizards are about to rumble… Crocodiles fight dragons in a battle to the death. The prehistoric hero of the river takes on the mythical beast of the sky in a spell-binding, nail-biting bout of fire and water. In Kirsty Fletcher’s upcoming solo show these scaly reptiles are both threatening and tamed. […]

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Gallery 3 Yuria Okamura and James Murnane each combine geometric abstraction with traditional architectural designs in order to create images that have a meditative quality. Yuria uses Japanese Zen garden and architectural designs as her inspiration whilst James uses stained glass window often found in churches as his. Through the slow and engaging process of […]

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Gallery 2 Everything we observe is changing moment by moment… it has no inherent static nature… the illusion of state, a finite, is only a perception, a philosophy of the mechanics. What is reality?  What is still life?  Though we may look and perceive an image, we often as the viewer disbelieve, or mistrust the […]

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Gallery 3 The forms I work with are a reaction to my immediate surroundings, to the spatial elements and geometric forms that define space. Moving through environments that change dramatically from city to suburban to rural, the forms that inspire me most move from being tightly packed vertical forms to lone monuments in an open […]

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Gallery 1 For a number of years now I have been traveling to China on a regular basis, spending extended time in Beijing as a practicing artist.  These trips have allowed me a period of reflection and productivity not readily achieved in Australia. The challenge of a harsh winter and the language barrier, together with […]

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Gallery 2 The works in this show present the remains of animals endemic to the Australian landscape (both land and sea), their bodies delicately ‘embedded’ in film and paper. Ryan Ponsford uses a view camera with sheet film to create large scale prints that render every detail of the animals which float upon the smooth […]

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Gallery 1 The paintings in this show were undertaken as a form of catharsis, a sacrificial purging of the old to allow an emotional and psychological shift to occur. Each is about home, the home you carry around inside your head. Together they describe an interior space that, although based on actual physical settings, speaks […]

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Gallery 3 Ravens hold a special place in my memories of my childhood in Scotland. These sociable birds are clever and inventive. They are attracted to shiny objects which they will steal with a flutter of wings and calls of glee. The egg is an ideal object to attract their attention and tempt them into […]

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Gallery 2 Afterimage presents depictions of places and occurrences experienced in my childhood. These memories, altered by imagination, dreams and new events, were the inspiration for this series. Images of mundane events from childhood, events sweet and painful, breathtaking and scary, colourful and dark, helped to thread together a little journey through my early days in […]

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Gallery 3 Steph Wilson’s paintings explore modern institutional and corporate style interiors. Through representational painting she comments on the staged nature of these interiors as well as the sense of spatial illusion created through the medium. Tensions emerge though inconsistencies in detail, subtly distorted perspective, unusual colour combinations and exaggerated tone. Her works inspire a […]

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Gallery 1 In Keiko’s works the dynamics of attraction and repulsion and the interface between the id and the outside world are explored. Keiko is interested in producing opulent imagery in which the disturbing excesses of the body represent the psychological spillage of our internal lives. She is entranced by the inherent beauty of the […]

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Gallery 2 A figurative artist, James Riches creates work that reveals an interest in the relationship between the figure and space; where the figure ‘fits’ into its physical environment. However this idea leads to more abstract explorations into the nature of drawing and the representation of form. Focusing on materials and process within his practice, […]

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Gallery 1 The collagraphs and monoprints in this exhibition are a response to the artist’s travels, both in Australia and Asia. Anne Spudvilas creates rich detail in her work by using text from old Japanese and Chinese books in a chine colle process. She is an established portrait painter and an award-winning illustrator of children’s […]

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Gallery 2 Libby Letcher’s work explores human drives, motivations and dreams, drawing on an interest in the human condition and philosophy. Philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari described a universe composed of desiring-machines, all of which are connected to one another: “There are no desiring-machines that exist outside the social machines that they form on […]

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Gallery 3 In recent works Janet Goldman investigates love, loss and grief. Her prints and drawings have been inspired by the poetry of Robyn Rowland from her book Silence & its tongues. The poems explore the nature of silence, the value of words and the complex issues that arise after a mother’s death. This exhibition […]

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Gallery 1 I am attracted to the visual statement graffiti makes in our urban environment. Impressed by the bold colours and complex spatial arrangements evident in these stylistic wall works, I aim to capture this aesthetic in my sculptures. Graffiti-inspired sculpture involves an irony of sorts: the production of an object of permanence from a […]

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Gallery 2 How does the stillness of painting compare to the fluidity of time?  Can a glimpse, a moment or memory be shared? Through his painting practice, Mark Rose investigates the fragments of everyday life.  The subjects are personal, familiar and suburban.  The work is rendered tonally in order to reflect film, photography and memory, […]

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Gallery 3 One quarter of Australia’s current population was born in another country. However we got here, wherever we are from, whether we move fifty kilometers or ten thousand, we are united by the experience of the journey we have undertaken. Whether we set out in terror of our lives, or with a spirit of […]

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RESIST: 2010 RMIT PRINTMAKING GRADUATE EXHIBITION The 2010 RMIT Printmaking Graduate Exhibition RESIST plays with the notions of process, materiality and politics. This selection of 2010 graduate work displays a wide range of concepts and media that participate in current debates of gender, globalisation, identity and sustainability.   Mari Adams   Participating artists: Alanna Clarkson Anna Topalidou Brooke […]

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Gallery 3 Robin Astley’s large-scale works on paper are an intricate meditation on war, conflict and the impossible notion of victory.  Harnessing the codes and visual aesthetics of a ‘military genre’, Astley’s life-sized, archetypal figures float somewhere between the surreal and the real. Her subjects are tattooed with the remains of war – military motifs […]

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Gallery 1 small things is about the beauty and meaning that can be found in the everyday. It is an exploration of household objects and familiar surrounds, and of the humour, weight and significance of ordinary things. There’s hope in a bucket, loyalty in an occasional table, and comfort in a mixing bowl. All the pieces […]

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Gallery 2 Taryn Lee-Steere’s exhibition features small-scale sculptures and relief work  that engage on an intimate level with the aftermath of loss. Produced during a  period of reflection on the processes of grief, these hand-carved, polished and fused sculptures are the physical materialisation of complex emotional terrain. As Lee-Steere notes, ‘While the underlying concepts of […]

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Gallery 3 Robyn Base’s new sculptural installations of glass, plastics, silicon, wood and sand are compiled of fragments of wrecked cars and vehicles collected from the sites of minor traffic accidents around her home. Illuminated from behind, the shrine-like light-boxes encourage detailed examination for clues and evidence. Every fragment is visible but the narrative remains elusive. The […]

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Gallery 1 Shapeshifting brings together a selection of sparsely utopian imaginings by Caroline Kennedy-McCracken and Fleur Summers. Summers’ elegant, tonal work often uses recycled cardboard to model real and imagined natural constructs. Her new works on paper, ingeniously made from packing tape and little else, moves between formal exercises in space, distance and expression, and narratives […]

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