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March 2012

KEVINA-JO SMITH

GALLERY 2 KAKA KEVINA-JO SMITH Our ancestors, the neanderthals, hunted only what they needed to survive and made productive use of what remained. With bone, skin, sinew and plant materials,… Continue reading

February 2012

DOMINIQUE PLUMANNS

GALLERY 1 FOYER SPACE THE ERROR OF DIALOGUE DOMINIQUE PLUMANNS In my art practice I am interested in the exploration and identification through the visual dialogue of the liminal space… Continue reading

LANA LOGAM

SPACE A PORCELAIN CERTAINTIES LANA LOGAM Porcelain Certainties explores ‘the home’ as a physical and psychological space of security. Lana studies the ‘meaningful’ things that fill voids in personal spaces.… Continue reading

MITCHEL BRANNAN

PROJECT ROOM CONSTELLATIONS MITCHEL BRANNAN Constellations presents a collection of discrete experiments in chromatic experience. Through a visual language drawing equally on maps, diagrams and colour charts, the works are… Continue reading

DOMINIC KAVANAGH

SPACE B SUBSTITUTING NATURE DOMINIC KAVANAGH Substituting Nature explores the ephemeral nature of ruin and its transcended status and utility within art practice. This exhibition aligns the destructive process of… Continue reading

SPENCER LAI

GALLERY 2 PLEASURE STRUCTURES CONTEMPORARY LIFESTYLES SPENCER LAI Pleasure Structures, Contemporary Lifestyles is a formalized milieu of cultural tropes and materials that emulate concepts of pleasure, athleticism, luxury and relaxation:… Continue reading

JULIA FRANCIS

GALLERY 3 DRAWING WITH LIGHT: SOLAR OPTICS JULIA FRANCIS In the Drawing with light projects, rather than using the camera to clarify or consolidate realities, the camera is used as… Continue reading

January 2012

EMILY BOUR

GALLERY 1 FOYER SPACE COSMIC COLLAPSOR EMILY BOUR Emily Bour is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice ranges across mediums including video, installation, sculpture and painting. The process and developemnt of… Continue reading

ANNA PARRY, HELEN NODDING & VALENTINA PALONEN

GALLERY 1 SPACE A NEON FOREST ANNA PARRY, HELEN NODDING & VALENTINA PALONEN Neon Forest presents a collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures which explore depictions of nature from a… Continue reading

PIA MURPHY

GALLERY 1 PROJECT ROOM NEW WORKS PIA MURPHY For this project I have created an installation of figurative sculptures using ceramic. The idea will to be to blur lines of… Continue reading