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September 2014

LIA MCKNIGHT

GALLERY 1 FOYER SPACE AND SPACE A LIA MCKNIGHT THESE THINGS BECOMING Lia McKnight’s entropic constructions and process-driven surfaces have been developed and adapted to consider the particular character and… Continue reading

TRICIA PAGE

SPACE B SLUMP TRICIA PAGE Slump is a place for the limp and forlorn, an encapsulation of weight that cohabitates with the human condition. It is a type of emotional… Continue reading

TANIA SMITH

PROJECT SPACE UNTITLED (DOMESTIC GESTURES) TANIA SMITH Untitled (domestic gestures) depicts a woman attempting to escape the everyday through a variety of comic vignettes. The series is an archive of… Continue reading

BRUCE DICKSON

GALLERY 2 UNEASY PRESENCE BRUCE DICKSON Bruce Dickson’s works were produced from 2012 – 2013 for the MFA by Coursework at RMIT University. The work is predominantly linear, informed by… Continue reading

AZZA ZEIN

GALLERY 3 DIGITAL FEVER AZZA ZEIN Digital Fever investigates the Red List of objects that museums cannot acquire. As documented by the International Council of Museums’ website, the images in… Continue reading

August 2014

ALICE MATHIEU +
MADÉ SPENCER-CASTLE

GALLERY 1 FOYER SPACE OBJECT RELATIONS (OR) ALICE MATHIEU AND MADÉ SPENCER-CASTLE Imagine a world without objects. We all need objects in our lives. Whether through a strictly functional or… Continue reading

SARAH crowEST +
BENJAMIN WOODS

SPACE A BETTER. FASTER. STRONGER. c3 MAF PROJECT SPACE SARAH CROWEST + BENJAMIN WOODS Drawing on the gallery’s interest in collaborative-based processes, c3 Projects presents a new collaborative project by… Continue reading

PARIS TREMAYNE

SPACE B HEARTLINES PARIS TREMAYNE My pictures are utterly incomprehensible, even to me, that maybe why I continue to obsessively create them. They have an existence of their own and… Continue reading

SASKIA PANDJI SAKTI

PROJECT SPACE TRANSMISSIONS SASKIA PANDJI SAKTI The Spiritualist Movement, which gained momentum in the late 19th century, was founded on the belief that the human spirit exists beyond the body… Continue reading

ILONA TOPOLCSANYI

GALLERY 2 THREADS OF MEMORY ILONA TOPOLCSANYI Threads of Memory represents a fine, unbroken line that weaves its way through several generations of Hungarian women into the personal history of… Continue reading