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Contemporary art gallery in Melbourne, Australia

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## Artists

- [Judy Watson](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/judy-watson/) - Watson’s matrilineal link to the country of her ancestors has always been central to her printmaking and painting. The hidden histories of Indigenous experience on the colonial frontier – particularly those of women – continue to inspire her. Watson seeks the indelible impressions of past presence on the landscape – rubbings, engravings and incisions –
- [Djurrayun Murrinyina](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/djurrayun-murrinyina/) - Djurrayun is one of the few Djarrwark artists within the Miwatj region. She lives at Gangan where Gawirrin Gumana has maintained the art of this one of his maternal clans in his role as a djuŋgayi. Gawirrin is her maternal uncle and in the year 2007 she began to paint these designs in her own
- [Guruwuy Murrinyina](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/guruwuy-murrinyina/) - Born in 1975, Guruwuy Murrinyina lives with her son at a very remote homeland in Gangan, in the Northern Territory. Gangan is a village of ten houses adjacent to a chain of billabongs, inland from Blue Mud Bay. The nearest town is a four hour drive along dirt roads. This is where her art centre
- [Tim Maguire ](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/tim-maguire/) - Tim Maguire’s paintings and prints are cinematic in scale and distinctive for their rich colouration and technical skill. Giant flowers and golden fruit resonate from ambiguous backgrounds. The work is sumptuous, romantic. Dr Shaune Lakin, Head Curator – International Art at National Gallery of Australia argues that Maguire’s painting is “both historical and contemporary”. But
- [Amos Gebhardt](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/amos-gebhardt/) - Amos Gebhardt brings a cinematic force to large-scale moving image installations and photography, collaborating with performers, choreographers, and sound artists. Gebhardt’s sustained practice of visually rich work is epitomised by a courageous commitment to agitating dominant narratives around marginality, representation, queerness and more than human ecologies. Download the 2019 media release for Night Horse.Download the
- [Brendan Huntley](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/brendan-huntley/) - Huntley is a tactile, process-driven artist, always drawing on a well of intuition…Huntley’s gift is his intuitive wielding of materials to marry content with form; to transform the earthly, primordial medium of clay into something airborne and free. Being present and porous to the radiant joy of nature is a remedy. Materialising this wonder into
- [Dan Moynihan](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/dan-moynihan/) - Dan Moynihan has an acute interest in cinema. He often makes objects that are a response from seeing something in a movie that has caught his eye, something specific. It’s not something that I might pay attention to, it could be some kind of booth (personalised spaces where labour takes place is a recurring motif)
- [Justine Varga](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/justine-varga/) - Varga… has, in essence, updated the metaphysical angst of mid-century action painting for our own chaotic age, when renewed anxieties around the politics of mass media have put pressure on the fidelity associated with photographic representation. Her works dismantle the expectations that those forces cultivate by breaking down the conventions that we otherwise expect to
- [Martin Bell](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/martin-bell/) - Martin Bell works across various mediums including collage, photography and sculpture. His work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales and in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Like a Piranesi prison, there is no escaping from Bell’s drawings.
- [A&A](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/aa/) - A&A is the collaboration between Australian industrial designer Adam Goodrum and French marquetry artisan Arthur Seigneur. Australian industrial designer Adam Goodrum has worked with global brands including Cappellini, Alessi and Veuve Cliquot. He was among the first to recognise Seigneur’s unique skill not long after the Parisian arrived in Sydney in early 2015. Goodrum invited Seigneur
- [Benjamin Armstrong](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/benjamin-armstrong/) - Benjamin Armstrong creates glass and wax sculptures that slide between the homely and the uncanny. Born in Melbourne in 1975, Armstrong completed a BFA from the Victorian college of the arts in Melbourne, Australia in 1996. He currently lives and works in Melbourne. Click to the read the essay 'Contact Images' by Quentin Sprague accompanying Armstrong's 2020 Under the
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- [Brent Harris](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/brent-harris/) - Addressing the experience of the body and desire, faith (and the question of what follows death), and childhood memories of porous familial relationships, Harris’ ambiguous forms derive from his use of the Surrealist technique of automatic drawing to access unconscious imagery. Working concurrently across painting, printmaking and drawing, Harris has developed a generative methodology, where
- [Kieren Karritpul](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/kieren-karritpul/) - Karritpul is a Ngen’giwumirri man who lives and works in the remote community of Nauiyu/Daly River, 230km south of Darwin. He comes from a family of master weavers and artists and has been making art since he was 15 years old. “I paint at home on the floor, either inside or out on the verandah,”
- [Wanapati Yunupiŋu](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/wanapati-yunupinu/) - … the stunning set-up for Wanapati Yunupiŋu’s first ever solo exhibition (Melbourne or otherwise), sets a special corner of the [Melbourne Art] Fair on fire. The south looked jealously to the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin late last year when the exhibition Murrŋiny surveyed eight artists from Yirrkala, all working in the medium
- [Hannah Gartside](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/hannah-gartside/) - She uses deadstock fabrics, clothes found in skips and op shops or given to her by friends, garments of dead relatives and fur from pets. For the artist, clothes are psychic objects that not only have history (a faded menstrual stain, the scent of a beloved) but presence; material has its own life… In this
- [Patricia Piccinini](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/patricia-piccinini/) - Patricia Piccinini was born in Sierra Leone and lives in Australia. Her work encompasses sculpture, photography, video and drawing and her practice examines the increasingly nebulous boundary between the artificial and the natural as it appears in contemporary culture and ideas. Her surreal drawings, hybrid animals and vehicular creatures question the way that contemporary technology
- [Tim Johnson](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/tim-johnson/) - 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 Stevens, 2024 His paintings are landscapes of desire, images of impossible unity, imagined syntheses of cultural and visual systems that freely draw upon images whose meaning
- [Raymond Tan](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/raymond-tan/) - Breaking away from the conventional notion of cakes as purely edible treats, Raymond Tan’s exhibition titled ‘A piece of …’ expands the horizons of creative expression by presenting cake sculptures designed not to be devoured but to be viewed as works of art. Raymond Tan’s story begins in Selangor, where he spent his formative years
- [Caroline Rothwell](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/caroline-rothwell/) - Caroline is a leading Australian multidisciplinary artist with a research driven practice looking to the intersection of art, science and nature. She works across two and three dimensional media in the expanded disciplines of sculpture, installation, drawing and video. Caroline looks to archive, history, data and site to consider multi-species interconnection, environmental care, technology and
- [Elizabeth Willing](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/elizabeth-willing/) - Elizabeth Willing has transformed the way we think about food and contemporary art, where food is both the medium and the subject. Through sculpture, participatory events, performance, collages and installation, Willing has used materials from marzipan to sherbet to liquorice. The Brisbane-based artist has posed thoughtful, often humourous, questions on eating, taste, sense, consumption, sustainability
- [Nicholas Folland](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/nicholas-folland/) - “Adelaide-based artist Nicholas Folland understands the speech of materials – a principle advocated by the early 20th-century Russian constructivists whereby materials possess an inherent nature or power. This fascination intersects with a penchant for unorthodox materials and an interest in maritime history and colonial exploration, resulting in a distinctive and singular practice.” Lisa Slade, Assistant
- [Sophie Hardy](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/sophie-hardy/) - Born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, Hardy studied fashion design at Otago University and has a background spanning fashion, accessories, lingerie and jewellery. She has designed accessories for a large Australian fashion brand and currently works in fine jewellery in Melbourne. Absorbing invaluable skills across a range of disciplines, her design process mixes old-school
- [Brook Andrew](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/brook-andrew/) - Brook Andrew descends from the Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal peoples of southeast Australia and is an internationally renowned artist and curator. His studio is located in Melbourne on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nations. Brook’s creative practice centers Indigenous ways of being and offers powerful insights into contemporary conditions and the legacies of colonialism. He presents
- [Danie Mellor](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/danie-mellor/) - Danie Mellor is a contemporary artist living and working in Bowral, New South Wales. His multidisciplinary research and practice explore intersections between contemporary and historic culture, and the legacies of cultural memory and knowledge. Born in Mackay, North Queensland, his maternal family heritage is Aboriginal with Scottish and Irish settler ancestry from the Atherton Tablelands and
- [Peter Atkins](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/peter-atkins/) - Atkins’ practice centers around the appropriation and re-interpretation of readymade abstract forms that he documents within the urban environment. This collected material becomes the direct reference source for his work, providing tangible evidence to the viewer of his relationship and experience within the landscape. His work is represented in the collections of every major Australian
- [Liam Fleming](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/liam-fleming/) - “Liam Fleming’s glass vessels push the limits of the medium. His abstract yet evocative forms curve, drape, and fold in on themselves; some appear to balance precariously, as if on the verge of collapse. Their opaque surfaces simultaneously absorb and reflect light, creating dynamic intensities and interplays of colour.” Hamish Sawyer, curator and writer, 2022
- [Georgia Spain](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/georgia-spain/) - Georgia Spain is a multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice spans painting, drawing, ceramics, music, writing, and film, and often sits at the intersection between figuration and abstraction, where she seeks to explore the nuances and uncertainties of the human experience. Using narrative and storytelling to examine the cultural, political and personal, her
- [Christopher Langton](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/christopher-langton/) - Christopher Langton makes innovative use of materials and profoundly engages with themes of pop culture, science fiction, and the interplay between biological forms and technological influences. Langton's works are often monumental, blending vivid aesthetics with unsettling undertones, which invoke a nuanced reaction of delight mingled with dread. Langton's creative process is technically intricate, involving custom-built
- [Andrew Browne](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artists/andrew-browne/) - Since the 1980’s, Andrew Browne has consistently explored a visual language drawn from both the natural and the man-made environment - often through formalist collisions of style and subject - with a specific interest in both the phenomena of illumination and poetics of the nocturne. Drawn as much from the happenchance of the everyday his

## Exhibitions

- [shadow breath](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/shadow-breath/)
- [Writing poems to the moon](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/writing-poems-to-the-moon/) - Read 'Writing poems to the moon' exhibition essay by Hugh Magnus 2026
- ['Guwarguwarmirri' - Colours of the Rainbow](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/guwarguwarmirri-colours-of-the-rainbow/) - Expanding the palette beyond the template of four primary Yolŋu colours - black, red, yellow and white - allows the story to come alive. The prismatic shimmer of the snake scales or the stagnant billabong mirrors the colours of the rainbow. In this case Wititj - the Rainbow Serpent. In technicolour!An old song in a
- [Big Group](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/12252/) - HANNAH GARTSIDE BRENT HARRIS BRENDAN HUNTLEY CHRISTOPHER LANGTON TIM MAGUIRE DAN MOYNIHAN PATRICIA PICCININI GEORGIA SPAIN RAYMOND TAN
- [Holding Ceremony](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/holding-ceremony/)
- [A kind of skin](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/a-kind-of-skin/) - Read the exhibition essay, 'Andrew Browne - A kind of skin' by Pippa Milne 2025
- [Ŋäṉarr - Tongue of Flame](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/naṉarr-tongue-of-flame/) - "In the case of the works in this show, the Gumatj clan sacred design which Wanapati explores is gurtha or fire. But not just any fire. This is a Fire of supernatural intensity. So powerful that it transforms the land it touched for all time. Its identity is etched into every atom of Gumatj land
- [The Day Before Tomorrow](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/the-day-before-tomorrow/) - Nicholas Folland is fond of the found. He prizes those things that have had a life, that wear a patina or might harbour a secret. In this body of work, found leadlight windows and domestic glassware find new form. Lisa Slade 2025 Read Lisa Slade's 'The Day Before Tomorrow' exhibition essay
- [GLASS IN TWELVE PARTS](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/glass-in-twelve-parts/) - Making his solo exhibition debut in Melbourne, the JamFactory alumnus has created an exceptional new body of work in glass that explores the aesthetic potential of repetition, variation and colour through simple transitions in form. Riffing on the minimalist rigour of American composer Philip Glass’s Music in Twelve Parts 1971–74, the exhibition comprises 12 large, segmented cuboid forms
- [Melbourne Art Fair 2022](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/melbourne-art-fair-2022/) - Tolarno Galleries presents Bad Biology, a solo exhibition by Christopher Langton at Melbourne Art Fair, 17-20 February 2022. The immersive sculpture installation continues themes the artist has explored in his 2019 Tolarno exhibition, Colony and the 2021 show Colonies at Hazelhurst Arts Centre, NSW.
- [Afterimage](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/afterimage/) - Afterimage features a stunning array of small paintings, each meticulously arranged to create a vibrant cosmos of colour and creativity, inviting viewers to explore the connection of individual works. The exhibition is a bold move by Maguire, who is renowned for super-sized floral imagery often pulled from art history. These new, chromatically charged works exploit the visual phenomenon
- [Monkey Business](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/monkey-business/) - Painting can be a forcefield, a place with edges, finitude—even if what plays out within its borders is a kind of absurd, stuttering chaos. For Brent Harris, painting is a place to frame and momentarily circumscribe shifting psychological states and philosophical questions that threaten to overwhelm us at times. This is why their forms are
- [Time is the thing a body moves through](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/time-is-the-thing-a-body-moves-through/) - People are repeatedly together in Georgia Spain’s paintings. In their collectivity, they’re always in the middle of something — often the most cataclysmic and euphoric moments of existence. With limbs akimbo, flesh melting into flesh, Spain has a sea of figures awash in a tsunami, or wielded together as flood waters sweep in. In another
- [End of Violet](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/end-of-violet/) - The title of my exhibition, 'End of Violet', is taken from a diary that Mary Somerville penned in 1845, detailing her experiments on the colour spectrum and vegetable juices. These words are not to be found in the body of the text, but instead are inscribed within the table of contents, a voice from the
- [Night Horse](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/night-horse/) - Night Horse examines the powerful currents between horses as they negotiate consent and desire during mating season. The viewer is drawn inside the kinetic swirl of the herd where hooves, flicking tails, and outstretched limbs offer an intimate encounter across the species divide. Shot in the heat of a February summer’s night, on the artist’s birthday,
- [The Stations](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/the-stations/) - On display in Gallery 2, the exhibition focus is the set of 14 etchings Harris made in 2021 in response to the Christian devotional practice – and associated series of 14 images – known as the Stations of the Cross. Printed and editioned at Viridian Press in Benalla, Victoria, by John Loane, THE STATIONS 2021 is
- [New Works On Paper](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/new-works-on-paper/) - Displayed in Gallery 2, the group of 10 works depict a variety of motifs representative of Karritpul’s traditional lifestyle in Nauiyu/Daly River in the Northern Territory, three hours’ drive south of Darwin. Intricate in their detail, the subjects include fishnets, fish traps, fishing baskets and dilly bags, as well as mermaids and pig-nosed turtles. Made
- [Making the Ancestors Smile](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/making-the-ancestors-smile/) - In Making the Ancestors Smile, Karritpul explores his relationship to his culture and the land around him. He speaks of being woven into the land, the place his ancestors have lived for generations. Karritpul uses the metaphor of the woven surface to speak of the breathing land and its importance to Indigenous identity and ongoing culture.
- [Out of Interest](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/out-of-interest/) - Dan’s show was delayed once (covid), delayed again (gallery construction) then delayed a third time (gallery moving to another floor). In that time, almost two year’s worth of delays, the idea for the exhibition morphed from one thing to another until Dan came up with the high concept of a group show by a solo
- [silver](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/silver/) - This ethereal collection of silver paintings launches Gallery 2, our new intimate exhibition space. With their reflective surfaces, the paintings flip between the organic and the industrial, the abstract and the playfully anecdotal.
- [nilŋnilŋ (the spark)](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/nilnniln-the-spark/) - Tolarno Galleries, in partnership with Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre, is delighted to present Yolngu artist Wanapati Yunupingu’s first solo exhibition. For his debut solo exhibition with Tolarno Galleries, Yolngu artist Wanapati Yunupingu has transformed an array of found road signs and scrap metal into 24 sculptural works etched freehand with a rotary drill. Cleverly exploiting the
- [Gorgeous](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/gorgeous/) - I am fascinated with the potential connection between a viewer and an artwork. What could we ask of viewers beyond their attention, and as artists, what can we offer? What is possible when both artwork and viewer have skin in the game? In this group of works (which I think of collectively under the name Gorgeous),
- [Texere: New Woven Surfaces on Fabric](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/texere-new-woven-surfaces-on-fabric/) - A new design collection for Melbourne Design Week by KIEREN KARRITPUL ”The designs form an overall story of going out into the bush hunting for our food. For example, we use fishnets in waterways to catch fish, prawns and turtles. When we go out, I am reconnecting with the past and the ancestors – doing
- [Florescence](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/florescence/) - On display in Gallery 2 is a new design collection for Melbourne Design Week by A&A. The suite of three pods and one table is inspired by the process or period of a plant’s flowering, known as florescence. Each pod is composed of three intersecting sphericons – a sphericon being a ‘paradoxical solid’ made from the
- [SHADOWED](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/shadowed/) - Perhaps the central question then, in 'Shadowed', is the articulation of human difference, whether that be in our mental states or in our appearance. The vacuums and shadows generated by these processes are utilized fully, expressive tools and not accessories to form. Meanwhile, 'The Daughter', a familiar face for the artist, hums with a sickly incandescence, and might
- [Recent drawings on quilted paper](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/recent-drawings-on-quilted-paper/) - Recent Drawings on Quilted Paper showcases 11 lively and intimate charcoal and ink drawings on antique papers stitched together by the Sulman Prize-winning artist. “I found a stack of antique paper in a secondhand store in Daylesford,” says Spain. “It came wrapped in old string, had a lovely patina to it, and felt like it carried history.” Having
- [Hi-Fi, Lo-Fi ](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/hi-fi-lo-fi/) - Hi-Fi, Lo-Fi is Tim Maguire’s 16th solo show with Tolarno Galleries, a partnership that celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Started in 2005 and re-visited in 2023, the earliest painting in the exhibition stands at the Lo-Fi end of the fidelity spectrum. At the Hi-Fi end, is the exhibition’s tour de force: Untitled 20230201. Measuring 212 x 404 cm, it has a purity of colour and
- [True to Life](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/true-to-life/) - The title for the exhibition ‘True to Life’ is a curious frame – what is immediately striking is the playful rendering and reordering of things. Brendan Huntley’s seventh solo exhibition with Tolarno Galleries channels his distinct visual language to extend three bodies of work: large ‘Cocoon Head’ sculptures, small clay ‘Pinhead’ sculptures, and oil paintings.
- [Eye-blink Smile](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/eye-blink-smile/) - Following on from her large-scale installation, A Miracle Constantly Repeated, staged at Flinders Street Station for Melbourne’s 2022 Rising Festival, this intriguing exhibition explores the concept of communication between different species. Known for her daring and inventive use of different media – from the hot air balloons of her two Skywhales to the high heat
- [Counterculture](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/counterculture/) - Counterculture comprises small- and medium-scale works which derive their imagery from subjects of longstanding interest to Johnson, including blues music, Tibetan Buddhism and UFOs. “The idea of a ‘counterculture’ was something I grew up with,” says Johnson, who was born in Sydney in 1947 and gravitated towards conceptual concerns early on as an artist.
- [This body is experiencing pleasure](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/this-body-is-experiencing-pleasure/) - Following on from her major installation Forest summons (for Lilith), included in Melbourne Now 2023 at NGV Australia, Hannah Gartside has created 11 wall-based, works for her debut solo exhibition at Tolarno Galleries, using secondhand sequinned dresses, skirts and tops collected by her over a number of years. Meticulously constructed from the material relics of all yesterday’s parties,
- [Narratives](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/narratives/) - “Narratives continues an exploration in my work through which painting and photography are brought together in conversation, presenting open-ended narratives around the people and their relationship to one another, and the landscape surrounding them,” says Mellor. “I’ve titled the exhibition Narratives because I’m interested in the storytelling potential of images that have a sense of ambiguity – pictures without
- [Sonny](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/sonny/)
- [FLYING OUT (FIRECRACKER)](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/flying-out-firecracker/) - Five distinct voices, but they share a quality found in the most special art, where the works exist in excess of themselves, overflowing with feelings, ideas, stories and desires. Yet the right to this aesthetic intensity for women was never a historical given. As art critic Jennifer Higgie makes clear in The Mirror and the Palette,
- [Melbourne Art Fair 2024](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/melbourne-art-fair-2024/) - For the 2024 Melbourne Art Fair, Yunupinju has made a series of Gurtha or depictions of the fires lit at the end of the dry season to burn off dead growth. As with Mawurndjul’s 'Nawarramulmul', we might say that this fire will briefly flare up and then die. We might even see the work as an allegory of
- [In memory of stars](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/in-memory-of-stars/) - This exhibition expands on Gebhardt’s recent large-scale lightboxes from the same series installed along the Birrarung (Yarra River) for PHOTO 24. Notably, the work ‘Wallaby’, presented in this exhibition, also won the prestigious William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize in 2022. “These works interweave X-ray technology with elements including satellite and long exposure photography of
- [The Kissing Cabinet](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/the-kissing-cabinet/) - The Kissing Cabinet is an exhibition of a new work by A&A (Adam and Arthur). It is the first of a series that epitomises A&A’s exploration of sculptural forms that intentionally blur the boundaries between art, craftsmanship, and design. The cabinet is visually captivating, standing tall with sinuous, curvy shapes and a bold colour palette
- [My Labyrinth](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/my-labyrinth/) - The labyrinth, a site of mystery, confusion, even desire, is ultimately a challenge to either traverse or experience inwardly Together, Andrew Browne’s new paintings have a puzzling quality – their labyrinth tangles might function as a metaphor for life’s journey, complete with travails, confusion, disorientation, but also moments of revelation. Rendered in an immaculate photo-derived
- [A piece of ...](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/a-piece-of/) - Breaking away from the conventional notion of cakes as purely edible treats, this exhibition pushes the boundaries of creativity and challenges the traditional definition of sculpture. Displaying daring cakes designed not to be devoured but to be viewed (and collected) as magical, and innovative works of art.
- [AFTERGLOW](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/afterglow/) - I have always been interested in biology – cellular and bulbous forms and plants, especially flowers. In this new body of work, I am returning to the flower-form in continuing my lifelong exploration of magnifying things to the point of monstrosity. It follows from my previous bodies of works, ‘Colony’ and then ‘Colonies’ but unlike
- [Built Form](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/built-form/) - '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. Peter Atkins Featured in the exhibition is Atkins work, Carpark Column, Melbourne 2024, a miniature replica of the Y-shaped concrete pillars supporting Peter McIntyre’s architecturally significant 1960s Parkade
- [Why not, what if, could it be?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/why-not-what-if-could-it-be/) - Winner of the 2021 Sir John Sulman Prize, Georgia Spain, makes her debut in the medium of sculpture, bringing together paintings alongside sculptural assemblages. Embracing ambiguity, humour and material transformation, Spain’s surreal, semi-figurative sculptures look as though they might have just stepped out of the vigorously expressive canvases that surround them.
- [Batavia, an Allegory of Good and Bad Government, After Lorenzetti](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/batavia-an-allegory-of-good-and-bad-government-after-lorenzetti/) - Bell makes his painting debut in his fifth solo exhibition with one monumental work on 75 ply panels arranged in a 5 x 15 formation, overall size 2.8 x 11.4 metres. Batavia, an Allegory of Good and Bad Government, After Lorenzetti is a grand history painting executed in a free and vigorous cartoon-like style. Installed
- [Drawings and New Paintings](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/drawings-and-new-paintings/) - “These new works present a layering of motifs that have populated my compositions for some decades, stimulating configurations that reveal new meanings for both myself and the viewer,” says Harris. Brent Harris' minimal-line paintings present as lucid dreamscapes, incorporating both abstract and figurative elements to surreal and disquieting ends. Igniting the imagination with their playful
- [Trinkets](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/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. This collection of works, Ben’s trinkets, has all of this within
- [Melbourne Art Fair 2025: Bunnies in Love, Lust and Longing](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/melbourne-art-fair-2025-bunnies-in-love-lust-and-longing/) - In this nest of bunnies fashioned from gloves, it’s as if Hannah Gartside has bundled the world’s most tender feelings and given them aesthetic form through droopy ears, leather pot bellies, sweetly curved behinds, comically suggestive poses. Through Bunnies in Love, Lust and Longing, Gartside has taken second-hand leather gloves from the 1950s and 60s, some
- [Traverse](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/traverse/) - Holding in careful balance an array of figurative and abstract components crafted from diverse materials, this new group of sculptures gives symbolic and metaphorical expression to traversing – that is, moving across or through – a place, the mind or an idea. The six sculptures are the happy result of Armstrong’s return to the medium
- [YERR WURRKEME MARRGU](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/yerr-wurrkeme-marrgu/) - Many of the paintings in the exhibition depict these traditional objects in intricate detail, revealing the different designs and varieties of weave that give them form. Created over the course of a year, YERR WURRKEME MARRGU (meaning 'New Works') speaks to Karritpul’s burgeoning ambition as a contemporary Indigenous artist keen to share his cultural knowledge
- [transitions](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/transitions/) - The artist’s hand is very present within these new intimate works. Following his oil stick lines over the surfaces of the works, we can get very up-and-personal with Brook Andrew’s marks. Several works are embellished with black and white stripes that mimic Andrew’s wellknown wall drawings which are inspired by Wiradjuri dendroglyphs, or tree carvings
- [With Open Arms](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/with-open-arms/) - Encompassing human, animal and hybrid forms, the exhibition opens with an arresting series of figures in seductive colours that riff on the contemporary fetish for sneaker wear.
- [MARIBOU](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhibitions/maribou/) - As part of Melbourne Design Week 2025, the exhibition takes its title from the name of Hardy’s new accessories brand, of which these earrings are the first iteration. My love for vintage textiles and jewellery has always been an inherent part of me, from combing through my mum’s closet as a kid, to op shopping as

## FAQs

- [Do I have to make an appointment to visit your gallery? ](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/do-i-have-to-make-an-appointment-to-visit-your-gallery/) - No, you do not need to make an appointment. You can visit any time during gallery hours. The gallery is open to the public Tuesdays to Fridays, 10 am – 5pm. On Saturdays, we are open from 1-4 pm. The last entry on Saturdays is 3.30pm. We are not open on public holidays or in
- [Can school groups visit the gallery?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/can-school-groups-visit-the-gallery/) - Yes, school groups are welcome to visit. Please let us know in advance how many students will be attending and when you are planning to visit, to ensure the gallery will not be overcrowded.
- [Can I use Art Money or is it possible to ‘lay-by’ artworks?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/can-i-use-art-money-or-is-it-possible-to-lay-by-artworks/) - While we are currently not participating in Art Money. We may be able to offer terms under certain conditions.
- [Do you offer work experience positions for students?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/do-you-offer-work-experience-positions-for-students/) - We currently do not facilitate work experience programs. We recommend contacting institutional galleries and museums first.
- [Do you accept portfolios by unrepresented artists?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/do-you-accept-portfolios-by-unrepresented-artists/) - While we always like hearing about exhibitions and upcoming projects, we unfortunately do not have the capacity for giving personal feedback, or for reviewing portfolios, artist CVs or online showcases.
- [Do you resell artwork?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/do-you-resell-artwork/) - No, we do not sell work in the secondary market, but we can recommend someone if needed.
- [Are you able to assist with valuations of artwork?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/are-you-able-to-assist-with-valuations-of-artwork/) - No, but we can recommend a professional valuer.
- [Do you work with corporate art consultants and interior designers?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/do-you-work-with-corporate-art-consultants-and-interior-designers/) - Yes - we love working with art advisors, consultants and interior designers!
- [Do you accept commissioned projects?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/do-you-accept-commissioned-projects/) - Yes, we do, in consultation with the artist. Please email us.
- [Do you ship artworks?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/do-you-ship-artworks/) - We are happy to ask on your behalf for a shipping quote from one of our recommended artwork delivery services. When we organise the delivery of your artwork, it will be covered by our insurance from the gallery to your door. All works will need to be fully paid for before they can be freighted.
- [Do you have a newsletter subscription form?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/do-you-have-a-newsletter-subscription-form/) - Yes, we do. Please subscribe to keep up to date with news and invitations to exhibition openings. You can sign up on our website.
- [Do you have wheelchair access?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/do-you-have-wheelchair-access/) - Yes, we do. Please ask the security staff at the entrance to the building to assist you.
- [Is there an admission fee?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/is-there-an-admission-fee/) - No, there is no admission fee. Entrance to the gallery is free of charge.
- [Are the artworks listed on your website available?](https://tolarnogalleries.com/faq/are-the-artworks-available-for-purchase/) - Works in the current exhibitions are often available. You can request a catalogue of current exhibitions or email us with the details of a work you like, so that we can advise of its availability.

## Categories

- [News](https://tolarnogalleries.com/category/news/)

## Artists

- [Brent Harris](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/brent-harris/)
- [Georgia Spain](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/georgia-spain/)
- [Christopher Langton](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/christopher-langton/)
- [Kieren Karritpul](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/kieren-karritpul/)
- [Andrew Browne](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/andrew-browne/)
- [Wanapati Yunupiŋu](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/wanapati-yunupinu/)
- [Justine Varga](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/justine-varga/)
- [Hannah Gartside](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/hannah-gartside/)
- [Amos Gebhardt](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/amos-gebhardt/)
- [A&A](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/aa/)
- [Ben Quilty](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/ben-quilty/)
- [Tim Maguire](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/tim-maguire/)
- [Brendan Huntley](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/brendan-huntley/)
- [Patricia Piccinini](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/patricia-piccinini/)
- [Tim Johnson](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/tim-johnson/)
- [Danie Mellor](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/danie-mellor/)
- [Elizabeth Willing](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/elizabeth-willing/)
- [Guruwuy Murrinyina](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/guruwuy-murrinyina/)
- [Raymond Tan](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/raymond-tan/)
- [Peter Atkins](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/peter-atkins/)
- [Martin Bell](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/martin-bell/)
- [Dan Moynihan](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/dan-moynihan/)
- [Benjamin Armstrong](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/benjamin-armstrong/)
- [Caroline Rothwell](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/caroline-rothwell/)
- [Judy Watson](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/judy-watson/)
- [Liam Fleming](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/liam-fleming/)
- [Nicholas Folland](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/nicholas-folland/)
- [Brook Andrew](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/brook-andrew/)
- [Sophie Hardy](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/sophie-hardy/)
- [Group Exhibition](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/group/)
- [Djurrayun Murrinyina](https://tolarnogalleries.com/artist/djurrayun-murrinyina/)

## Categories

- [Current](https://tolarnogalleries.com/exhb-category/current/)