Exhibitions
April
Traverse
Our feet are the contact point, the place where we connect to the earth.
In these sculptures, there is both joy and trepidation at this contact point.
The summit of joy tends not to arrive without traversing risk.
Benjamin Armstrong, 2025
Image: Benjamin Armstrong, Traverse 2025, installation view
April
transitions
Image: Brook Andrew, transitions 2025, mixed media, 170 x 130 cm
April
YERR WURRKEME MARRGU
The black and white paintings in this exhibition represent myself and some of my totems – clouds, rain, stars. When I’m working on something and I need help, I’ll go outside and look up at the stars. They’re always watching and they give me ideas.
Kieren Karritpul, 2025
February
2025
February
Trinkets
In this formidable new body of work, Quilty focuses almost exclusively on the human figure – especially heads, eyes and mouths – as he wrestles into existence urgently expressive, even grotesque, embodiments of the way many of us are feeling right now, the artist included.
“The older I grow, the more awkward I feel about being part of the human condition,” Quilty says. “The world is in turmoil. Nothing seems straightforward anymore. We lead these complex lives overlaid with solastalgia, a massive and realistic fear of what’s happening to the planet. It makes for an odd existence.”
November
Drawings and New Paintings
Image: Brent Harris, Stumble 2024, oil on linen, 92 x 73 cm
October
Batavia, an Allegory of Good and Bad Government, After Lorenzetti
Martin Bell is known for his large-scale multi sheet drawings. In this exhibition he makes his painting debut with one monumental work on 75 panels arranged in a 5 x 15 formation.
Image: Martin Bell, Batavia, an Allegory of Good and Bad Government, After Lorenzetti 2024, mixed media on wooden panels, overall size 2.8 x 11.4 metres
September
Why not, what if, could it be?
Gallery 1
Images:
Georgia Spain
The Sleeve 2024
167 x 50 x 50 cm
acrylic and oil paint, cotton and polyester
fabric, stockings, stuffing, thread, canvas,
ceramic, glove, cardboard, steel
Georgia Spain
A Stammer in the Speech 2024
oil on linen
198 × 183cm
August
Universal Mind
Gallery 1
Collaboration seems to come naturally to Tim Johnson, whose interest in exploring connections between spiritual disciplines and the material world brings with it an openness to many approaches.
Andrew Stephens
art guide AUSTRALIA, JULY/AUGUST 2024
Image: Tim Johnson with Paul Rhodes, Revelation 2024
acrylic on canvas, 103 x 142 cm
August
Built Form
Gallery 2
Built Form is a love letter to my adoptive home town of Melbourne, in particular the gloriously manic Sydney Road, an area we’ve lived in now for 25 years.
Carpark Column, Melbourne 2024, is a miniature replica of the Y-shaped concrete pillars supporting Peter McIntyre’s architecturally significant 1960s Parkade Carpark, which can be seen – in fact, almost touched – from the windows of Gallery 2.
Image: Peter Atkins, Carpark Column, Melbourne 2024
acrylic on salvaged plywood, 34 x 16 x 17 cm, edition of 3
