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March 2019

Kristian Laemmle-Ruff

GALLERY SIX WOOMERA KRISTIAN LAEMMLE-RUFF Situated on the lands of the Kokatha people in remote South Australia, the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) is the largest and most technologically advanced weapons… Continue reading

February 2019

Ruth Cummins

GALLERY 1 RUTH CUMMINS EMPTY YOUR BAG EVERYDAY Empty Your Bag Everyday takes its title from a chapter of Marie Kondo’s, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Referencing the… Continue reading

Significant (Others)

GALLERY 2 SIGNIFICANT (OTHERS) INGMAR APINIS, NICK MULLALY, JUSTIN DAVIES Significant (Others) brings together three Melbourne–based artists to explore ideas around physical and metaphysical connection. In response to this theme… Continue reading

Michael Ciavarella

GALLERY 3 SHANGHAI COMMUNIQUE MICHAEL CIAVARELLA “Shanghai Communiqué” refers to a diplomatic document between China and the US from the 1970s. The text contains a provision described as ‘constructive ambiguity’,… Continue reading

Lucas Golding

GALLERY 4 BOMBING, FLOATING AND SQUEALING LUCAS GOLDING Growing up in Queensland, the pool was pretty much a backyard staple. Many days were spent pruny and chlorine soaked, bombing, floating… Continue reading

Kristian Haggblom

GALLERY 5 VEILLANCE KRISTIAN HAGGBLOM The world is in an increasing state of hyper-anxiety caused by powerful and seemingly intangible political and natural forces. This has caused a state of… Continue reading

Simone Hine

GALLERY 6 FALLING SIMONE HINE Falling is part of an ongoing series of video works that take what might be a few seconds from a film and expands this temporally… Continue reading

January 2019

Alicia King

GALLERY 1 ALIEN NATURE ALICIA KING As we are constantly reminded by popular media, developments in biological technologies stand to revolutionise our experience of being human. This continual bombardment of… Continue reading

Cosima Scales

GALLERY 2 INDOORS COSIMA SCALES Indoors is an exhibition of 9 small-scale, still life paintings; a ripe half-papaya – seeds glistening – a pair of boiled eggs, radishes, an eggplant,… Continue reading

Rodrigo Azaola

GALLERY 3 ARMIDA RODRIGO AZAOLA The same uneasiness with which opera has historically portrayed non-Western cultures still echoes in today’s mass media. Armida is a multimedia installation that explores the… Continue reading