Author: Oliver Gigacz

GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 31st January 2019, 6-8pm The visual arts in Melbourne have a pulse, measurable in the annual throb of newcomers to the urban white cube. On show in January is After Class – our pick of the hot graduates from The VCA and RMIT’s art schools; the future, yes, but…

GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 31st January 2019, 6-8pm The visual arts in Melbourne have a pulse, measurable in the annual throb of newcomers to the urban white cube. On show in January is After Class – our pick of the hot graduates from The VCA and RMIT’s art schools; the future, yes, but…

GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 31st January 2019, 6-8pm The visual arts in Melbourne have a pulse, measurable in the annual throb of newcomers to the urban white cube. On show in January is After Class – our pick of the hot graduates from The VCA and RMIT’s art schools; the future, yes, but…

GALLERY 1 Opening Night Drinks – Thursday 21st February, 6-8pm As though to ‘find himself’, Ben Champion is out and about as rural flaneur in Grand Ridge Drive – an exhibition of acrylic paintings that draw on studies from a vantage point overlooking a landscape. Wrought again by memory and its vagueries, his colour palette…

GALLERY 2 Opening Night Drinks – Thursday 21st February, 6-8pm Angela Hayes, Felicity Law, Minaal Lawn, Pip Byrne, Danielle Segal – 5x5x5 = Melbourne is experiencing a pleasing resurgence of interest in ceramic art, and the work of these five artists will not disappoint. Collaborative sharers of studio space, knowledge and technique, the sculptors of 5…

GALLERY 3 Opening Night Drinks – Thursday 21st February, 6-8pm Tania Matilda plays with form and colour within a sculptural ready-made discipline. Her materials comprise board, paper, paint and discarded refuse, which has its own utility and which she deftly augments with a cubist’s eye for fractured representation and a Futurist’s zeal for geometric splendor…

GALLERY 1 Opening Thursday 14th March 2019, 6-8pm Sketches made on location in multicultural Carlton have generated the latest suite of paintings by Robert Babic. There’s Something About Carlton depicts his fascination for the  curious suburb’s gardens, people, it’s architecture and inspiration.

GALLERY 2 Opening Thursday 14th March 2019, 6-8pm Using a melange of painterly styles, Christian Hanson tells colourful, personal  stories about the self. Who Am I? is a tempting personal narrative in egg tempura, encaustic and oil. Expressive, naïve and semi-abstracted, his paintings depict goals, dreams and experiences with vigour, colour and compassion.

GALLERY 3 Opening Thursday 14th March 2019, 6-8pm It is the silent voices or the unnoticed forgotten corners of urban landscapes that excite and inform Jo Ryan’s practice. With aerosol paints, enamels, vinyl and other hardy sign-writing materials, multi-disciplinary artist Jo Ryan owns the quiet places that everyone walks by, re-painting the city in its…

GALLERY 1 Opening Night Drinks Thursday April 4th, 6-8pm Curated by Adriane Strampp and Kez Hughes, this diverse painting exhibition showcases a selection of ongoing and atelier artists from the studio of the Fitzroy Painting School. Brad Reynolds Jeremy Drake Claire Thomas Rosemary Clark Ron Taylor Karl Lurman Virginia Guest Linda Buffey Marie Larkin Sian…