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March 2013

SHARON BILLINGE

GALLERY 1 FOYER SPACE I’M NOT HERE SHARON BILLINGE The paintings and prints in this exhibition take two images and mediate them through a variety of processes to manipulate the… Continue reading

SARAH HENDY

SPACE A UNSETTLEMENT SARAH HENDY Consider Melbourne now at the peak of its prosperity. The drawings of unsettlement depict scenes of our neglected industrial landscape with the future in question.… Continue reading

RYAN SISTERS

SPACE B GUESS WHO? RYAN SISTERS This is the first collaboration between sisters Natalie and Pip Ryan. Exhibiting as the Ryan Sisters they will explore ideas associated with humour, horror,… Continue reading

EMMA HAMILTON

PROJECT SPACE SALT FLAT EMMA HAMILTON Engaging with ideas of suspension and doubling, the project Salt Flat by Emma Hamilton explores the pink lakes of the Mallee region of Victoria.… Continue reading

JAMES MURNANE
+ LAUREEN LANSDOWN

GALLERY 2 AURA JAMES MURNANE + LAUREEN LANSDOWN Aura is a small visual treatise on the allure and beauty of light. Laureen Lansdown and James Murnane draw from sources where… Continue reading

JUSTIN WILLIAMS

GALLERY 3 EDEN’S FAMILY JUSTIN WILLIAMS In this new series of paintings, I have been painting people that I have a connection or no connection to, focusing on the painting… Continue reading

February 2013

OSCAR YANEZ

GALLERY 1 FOYER SPACE AYOAMA OSCAR YANEZ Oscar Yanez’s work comes from a tradition of abstract expressionism. It is informed by a defiant approach to established notions of good taste… Continue reading

ZAC KOUKORAVAS

SPACE A FLORA MIRIFICUS ZAC KOUKORAVAS Imbedded within his abstract painting practice are a diverse range of pictorial traditions and cultural experiences including graffiti, architecture, the electronic music scene, political… Continue reading

ELYSS MCCLEARY

SPACE B ESTIMATING A FORT ELYSS MCCLEARY These works reflect the intricacies between the personal and the mass-produced; the autobiographical and the found/disregarded object in which traces of barely perceivable… Continue reading

TOM MACKIE

PROJECT SPACE STUDIES OF THE PAST TOM MACKIE Within this work dissolution of identity is created through fragmentation and destruction of found imagery. By dislocating the content we evoke both… Continue reading