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June 2016

Nicholas Ryrie

Gallery 1 – Foyer Space Human Territories Nicholas Ryrie Going back while thinking ahead In a continual state of projection, the return always provokes previous experience. Decision making is somewhat… Continue reading

Ingmar Apinis

Space A Googly Corners Ingmar Apinis Googly Corners is a tongue in cheek reference to the role of the internet in every artist’s life today. While the internet as a… Continue reading

Concrete Agenda

Space B Concrete Agenda Belle Bassin, Olga Bennett, Emily Ferretti, Pia Murphy, Nell Pearson, Laura Skerlj, Tai Snaith, Kate Tucker and Alice Wormald. Curated by Tai Snaith. Concrete Agenda brings… Continue reading

Bruce Dickson

Project Space Anticipating Stillness Bruce Dickson Through video projection and accompanying sound, I intend to evoke a space where human consciousness approaches mortality. This is a space of undetermined duration,… Continue reading

Marginal

Gallery 2 Marginal Matthew Grahame, Danny Colombo and Thomas Breakwell Curated by Kelvin Skewes Marginal presents the work of three Melbourne based photographic artists, Matthew Grahame, Danny Colombo and Thomas… Continue reading

Basil Papoutsidis

Gallery 3 Camber Basil Papoutsidis Interested in the sculptural and post-painterly contexts of formalist abstraction, Basil Papoutsidis utilises the aesthetic course of material behaviours, informed by genres such as masculine… Continue reading

May 2016

Ace-ahio Wagstaff

Gallery 1 – Foyer Space Slave Shapes Ace-ahio Wagstaff Language, visual and otherwise, are signs, representations, ghosts, replicants, that are ordered and controlled to convey the hypothetical, the past, the… Continue reading

Kubota Fumikazu

Space A It Tears Us Apart Kubota Fumikazu It tears us apart is a new series of paintings by Kubota Fumikazu. Six large, hard-edged abstract paintings explore line, form and… Continue reading

Pippa Makgill

Space B Overhang Pippa Makgill Pippa Makgill’s past oeuvre has addressed the idea of shifting materiality and the presence of the ‘formless’ in sculpture. Her new body of work for… Continue reading

Scott Morrison

Project Space Hreyfingarlaus Scott Morrison The works in this exhibition come from a discovery of the Icelandic winter throughout January 2016. The landscapes and conditions encountered are something I’ll never… Continue reading