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TASMINA K MAJLES
PROJECT ROOM: TASMINA K MAJLES
Exhibition Dates : 23 September - 5 October 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 24 September 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Pichutaan (পিছুটান) in Bengali : The entanglement with past memories, emotions and experiences
Pichutaan delves into the profound theme of entanglement with past memories through the lens of Tasmina K Majles, artist living in diaspora. Tasmina is a Bangladeshi-born migrant living in Australia for over a decade now. The landscapes of her adopted country evoke both familiarity and strangeness, blurring the boundaries between the known and the unknown.The body of work is an exploration of the complex emotions arising from straddling two worlds—one of her birth and another of her chosen home. The work offers a deep and introspective exploration of the artist's personal journey, navigating the complex terrain of identity, longing, memories of her home country and a sense of disconnection in everyday life as a migrant. She uses metaphoric tropes such as birds, nests, and stones to depict her migration journey and to symbolize the weight of memories she carries within. The work serves as a conduit that intricately intertwines time, memories, and connection.
Tasmina K Majles is a Bangladeshi-Australian multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Her creative practice rigorously interrogates the multiplicity of human perspectives and the intricate interplay between nature, the subliminal, and the constructed realities we inhabit. Drawing from her lived experiences in diaspora, she engages with critical themes of transnational identity, assimilation, and self-realisation, particularly as they pertain to her identity as a first-generation female immigrant.

JEN SELMORE
WINDOW ROOM: JEN SELMORE
Exhibition Dates : 23 September - 5 October 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 24 September 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Creating paper entomology and the idea of using something so small, beautiful and seemingly innocuous such as a hand drawn butterfly, to commentate on societal issues is a main focus for the artist. Hints to the key messaging are subtly shared in the artwork title, positioning or condition of the hand drawn insect/s.
Using vintage materials, often reminiscent of fabrics and colour palettes from her childhood- helps create a nostalgic longing- an escape to simpler times past while giving new life to reused materials making the pieces truly ethical and sustainable. These materials, not only help to give a home to the creations but also hopefully cloak their messages in the warmth of nostalgia.
‘Living on Mute’
Pencil on toned paper & wire with vintage frame 34cmw x 114cmh
Living.on.Mute explores the strength found in self-acceptance. Hundreds of hand-drawn butterflies, rendered in delicate pencil on toned paper, cascade downward—spilling beyond the frame and into the viewer’s space creating a flow and momentum.
Each butterfly represents a moment of transformation, a whisper of identity once suppressed, now released and joining force. The vintage frame evokes a sense of containment or expectation, while the paper butterflies break free from it, symbolising liberation and growth.
This piece invites reflection on the tension between silence and expression, and the beauty that emerges when we allow ourselves to be fully seen. It is a visual metaphor for reclaiming voice and space in a world that often asks us to shrink.
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GLASS COLLAB 5
GROUP SHOW: GLASS COLLAB 5
Exhibition Dates : 23 September - 5 October 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 24 September 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Glass Collab 5 comprises a group of Melbourne based glass makers primarily working sculpturally. Pushing glass-making techniques into a contemporary practice as emerging artists, each has adopted an individual and idiosyncratic approach working glass to express their observations, thoughts and responses to what they see and experience around them.
Andrew Pauley
Andrew Scott Pauley is a glass artist with kiln forming being his preferred process. He has completed several glass courses in the last six years exploring different techniques.
Andrew began his journey under the tutelage of Brenda Page from Blue Dog Glass.
Andrew is inherently curious and has a passion for nature and the relationship between all living things within our biosphere.
Exploring mixed media Andrew likes to use sculpting to mimic the natural world and replicate, primarily in glass. He also has an interest in combining the formation of geology using texture to create functional & ornamental glass works.
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Colleen O’Loghlen
Colleen O’Loghlen works in kiln formed glass and as a silversmith working mostly with recycled silver, where possible and copper. Currently she is aspiring to combine these two mediums to create dynamic and unique jewellery.
After completing an Associate Diploma of Architectural Drafting and some subjects from the Diploma of Interior Design which was her introduction to glass and its early beginnings.
In 2010 she entered the Blue Dog Glass studio where her fascination with glass was fuelled.
Inquisitiveness has led Colleen to master classes at the Blue Dog Glass studio and overseas glass studios to broaden her knowledge of specific glass techniques. She continues to extend and refine her knowledge in the diversity of fused glass techniques
Colleen has exhibited her glass and silver jewellery in studio exhibitions, artist trails, galleries, and retail outlets. Also working in the arts sector in a local gallery as a gallery retail shop coordinator, highlights some understanding in the workings of a gallery, with artists and spaces.
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Elizabeth Cleland
Elizabeth has explored many aspects of kiln formed glass for over 20 years more recently focusing on kiln casting, and mark making through engraving and line.
By casting thick, sculptural pieces, Elizabeth leverages the clarity, colours, imperfections, distortions, and weight of glass to express ideas, emotions, and concepts. The abstract nature of her work leaves the glass to speak for itself - showing off in its own right - whilst encouraging viewers to investigate their own responses to what they see.
Elizabeth developed her technical and artistic skills through workshops and masterclasses at Blue Dog Glass Artists’ Studio and Canberra Glassworks with local and international artists. She was accepted for a sponsored placement for the Conduit; Building Connections masterclass with Kirstie Rae and Dr Mel Douglas at the Canberra Glassworks in 2021.
Elizabeth has exhibited in group shows since 2008, including regular inclusion in the annual Merri-bek Summer Shows, held at the Counihan Gallery, Brunswick VIC.
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Michelle Leeder
Michelle’s art is inspired by a childhood spent growing up in East Gippsland, admiring fabulous sunsets across the land and seascapes, as well as more recent years spent in the colourful Cool Country of Victoria’s Central Highlands, immersed in the wide array of colourful natural beauty.
Her formal education is in Engineering and Corporate Management. She worked and raised her family in Melbourne with her husband. She has always been actively involved in her community, volunteering for various community groups and projects, utilising her professional knowledge and skillset to assist with achievement of community goals.
Michelle is fascinated by the medium of glass. She finds joy in strong mid-century modern colours, as well as the effects of transparency with light traversing through glass, creating warm and energetic impressions.
For over 20 years Michelle’s interest has been working with lead-lighting and warm glass. She now focuses her time as an emerging artist with the aim of create pieces that bring people a sense of joy and pleasure.
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Neil Brenton
Neil Brenton is a glass artist, creating through slumping and kiln forming and has been exploring glass art under the tutelage of Brenda Page for over 10 years. He has also participated in a rolled glass masterclass in Canberra.
Neil is inspired by his travels of recent years, of sea, sky and how a human designed structure can blend into natural landscapes. He is currently working on pieces inspired by the ocean, from his journeys as a sea kayaker.
Neil continues to seek inspiration for his art, travelling through rural and coastal landscapes.
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MARIAN QUIGLEY
MARIAN QUIGLEY
Exhibition Dates : 23 September - 5 October 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 24 September 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
City and Country
During the last few years, my work has largely focused on Melbourne iconic buildings and structures. In this exhibition, however, images are also drawn from Gippsland environments and are portrayed either separately or in juxtaposition with those of the city. The paintings include both man-made and natural elements, sometimes in combinations which evoke the surreal.
Utilising acrylics, my style is characterised by a hard edge technique combined with elements of minimalist abstraction and strong colour/tonal contrasts.
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THEA BATES
THEA BATES
Exhibition Dates : 23 September - 5 October 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 24 September 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
BRICOLAGE
Bricolage describes the act of creating or using unconventional or found materials and objects. My found objects are used postal tubes, upon which I collage and embellish works previously printed, handmade, photographed and/or de-constructed. Bricolage Silos form the genesis of this exhibition and reflect my love of nature, reinterpreted and ‘imaginised’.
Artist Bio
With a mid-century childhood surrounded by my dad’s professional photography and my mother’s hand colouring of his prints, my work reflects a re-interpretation of their skills and my own penchant to be a ‘bricoleur’. An intuitive abstract artist, my visual language is organic and constantly evolving. Mark making is as vital as finding innovative ways to translate those marks into new forms of expression.
I love to experiment, make things up and take creative risks whilst my knowledge of the elements of art and design is always there in the sub-conscious supporting my desire to make art that is personally satisfying.
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OLIVIA O'CONNOR
WINDOW ROOM : OLIVIA O'CONNOR
Exhibition Dates : 7 - 19 October 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 8 October 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Chippy Thief captures a familiar and mischievous seaside moment — a life-sized seagull triumphantly clutching a stolen hot chip. Hand-carved from timber using traditional tools and techniques, the work invites an immediate smile, evoking humour, nostalgia, and memories of salty air and open skies.
While playful on first glance, Chippy Thief belongs to the Shoreline Guardians series, which reflects on the delicate balance between human life and the natural world. These sculptures preserve fleeting scenes from coastal life, celebrating their charm while also acknowledging the rising tides and human interventions reshaping our shores.
Through this piece, I hope to spark both recognition and reflection: a reminder of simple, joyful encounters with nature, and an invitation to consider the changing landscapes in which they occur. Like much of my work, it seeks to pause time for a moment — encouraging viewers to protect the environments that hold their treasured memories.
Olivia O’Connor is a sculptural artist based in the rolling hills of South Gippsland, Victoria. Through the traditional craft of woodcarving, Olivia reveals forms hidden within timber, using a meditative process guided by the material itself to make her contemporary sculptures. Inspired by the lush landscape and vibrant wildlife around her, her work explores themes of space and connection to a landscape to which she does not have a generational bond, reflecting her personal journey of understanding and belonging. Recently, Olivia has expanded her practice to include works on paper, experimenting with wood engraving, woodblock carving, and printing. This exploration allows her to translate her connection to nature and her artistic themes into a new medium, enriching her practice.
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JEN RODGER
SPACE 1 : JEN RODGER
Exhibition Dates : 7 - 19 October 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 8 October 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Reclaiming the Wild
My art is an act of surrender, of loosening the need for control and trusting the creative process to unfold on its own terms. Reclaiming the Wild is both a personal and artistic turning point: a body of work created in the ongoing practice of letting go, especially of perfectionism, something I wrestle with daily.
Working in mixed media, I begin each piece intuitively, building up layers of colour, texture and mark-making without a fixed outcome in mind. These paintings are shaped by presence; by listening rather than directing. What emerges is a visual conversation with freedom, curiosity, and emotional truth.
This exhibition reflects my journey from overthinking to allowing, from striving to simply being. Each work invites you to pause, breathe, and reconnect with your own sense of wonder and wildness. It is my hope that in witnessing these pieces, you’ll feel not just the art, but the freedom behind it.
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LINDA OY HO
SPACE 1 : LINDA OY HO
Exhibition Dates : 7 - 19 October 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 8 October 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
EVERGREEN EMPRESS: THE DIVINE FEMININE
Remember. Reclaim. Rise.
Evergreen Empress: The Divine Feminine is an art exhibition and portal to remember, reclaim and rise by connecting to your soul essence, Source and the Universe.
Inspired by the Major Arcana of the Tarot, Linda Oy Ho reimagines archetypes through a contemporary lens.
Ho explores the divine feminine by listening to one’s inner wisdom, releasing self limiting beliefs, moving forward in trust and embodying truth. Her digital photo montage paintings invite a return to inner self-worth, intuition, courage and freedom through stillness, slowness and surrender.
Ho responds to the demands of capitalist and patriarchal society, exploring the collective “wounded masculine” of overwork, busyness and external validation which can suppress our multi-sensory awareness. “This exhibition is about coming home to ourselves — through self care, feeling, softening, spaciousness and simplicity — to access deeper love, peace, passion, abundance and higher purpose.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Linda Oy Ho’s art practice explores philosophy, spirituality and ecology. Her work creates a dialogue between ancestral memory, collective consciousness and present experience. Through digital artworks, painting, sculpture and digital media, she has combined materials such as metal, fibre, wood and textiles to form luminous works.
Since 2014, Ho has been selected as a finalist in eight art prizes including Yering Station Sculpture Awards for three consecutive years, Wyndham Art Prize, Brisbane Art Prize, among others.
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THE JOURNEY WE TAKE TOGETHER
SPACE 2: THE JOURNEY WE TAKE TOGETHER
Exhibition Dates : 7 - 19 October 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 8 October 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
THE JOURNEY WE TAKE TOGETHER
by Anette Chang and Pimpisa Tinpalit
This exhibition seeks to illuminate the multifaceted journey of breast cancer through powerful large-scale installations and sculptures. It offers a unique space where patients, their families, friends, and medical teams can express their thoughts, share their struggles, and send messages of hope.
The fight against breast cancer is never a solitary one—it is woven with the love and unwavering support of those around the patient, whose strength fuels the journey. The expertise and compassion of the medical team form the foundation of both the patient’s physical and mental resilience. The impact of this battle stretches far beyond the patient, touching everyone in their circle.
Through this exhibition, we create a vessel of communication—one filled with love, care, and understanding—that embraces the fight. Together, we walk through the darkest moments, emerging into the light of healing, unity, and shared courage.
This is a celebration of strength, not only of the individual but of the collective spirit.
Anette Chang
Annette Chang is a Taiwanese-Australian artist who has lived, studied, and worked in Melbourne since 1991. Born in Taipei in 1955, she creates multidisciplinary works across painting, collage, installation, and sculpture. Using recycled materials and everyday objects, her practice offers a satirical and critical view of consumerism and modern life. Influenced by her Asian heritage and Western experience, Chang explores cultural hybridity and reflects on contemporary social and cultural complexities.
www.annettechangartist.com
Pimpisa Tinpalit
Pimpisa Tinpalit is a Thai-born Australian artist whose work explores themes of death, transformation, and the tension between free will and determinism. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, she transforms everyday materials into powerful, meditative forms. With over 20 years of international exhibiting experience, her practice reflects a deep philosophical engagement with impermanence. Since arriving in Melbourne in 2009, she has become an active and respected voice in the Australian art scene.
www.pimpisatinpalit.com

DANIEL BUTTERWORTH
SPACE 2 : DANIEL BUTTERWORTH
Exhibition Dates : 21 October - 2 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 22 October 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
The Race - Human
Recently, having to frequent the CBD, I sensed a feeling of urgency and anxiety; everyone was in a hurry, to me it felt like there was a race, and the winners received the prize of a small reduction of anxiety. My series is highlighting the sense of urgency and the fact that we all now live without interacting with each other, yet there are more of us now than ever before, and we don’t feel safe using each other as support.
Daniel Butterworth is a professional artist who paints with emotion and meaning. His confident technique is seen through large brush strokes, resulting in a painterly appearance.

GROUP SHOW - StudioWorkings
SPACE 1 : GROUP SHOW - StudioWorkings
Exhibition Dates : 21 October - 2 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 22 October 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Artists :
Francesca McNamara, Kate McCracken-Bell, Linda Baker, Margaret Meadows, Marija Newbold, and Mercedes Wolfenden.
When six women meet…
What happens when six women artists are brought together by serendipity to meet weekly in a beautiful studio? Stories and laughter abound as they talk, think, dream about, and make art, while they encourage, inspire, and challenge each other. With printmaking as an initial common thread, each artist brings her own style and practice across a range of mediums including painting, mixed media, printmaking, collagraph, drawing, collage and ceramics. Whether from a representational or an abstract perspective, there is an enjoyment and exploration of colour, texture and pattern in the work.
In a short period of time, the six women have become an enthusiastic studio group who meet weekly to work on their own projects. The group environment serves to push each artist to stretch her practice and to grow in confidence and creativity. This is their first group exhibition together.
Francesca McNamara
A life-long interest in the inner world of the mind, soul and heart, and the influences of Buddhism, Jungian dreamwork and creative therapies has led to my artistic exploration of ambiguity, stillness, quiet, of both the fragility and the strength of human experience and relationships. I work intuitively, allowing material to emerge from the conscious and unconscious levels of psyche where past memories and present experiences meld to shape my work. I work mainly with semi-abstracted and expressive figuration and landscape using mixed media, paint, fabric and ink, collage and collagraph printing.
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Kate McCracken-Bell
I remember the day clearly, in 2018, when I was introduced to printmaking. My creative world opened and my love affair began. I haven’t stopped carving lino and exploring other print techniques since then. During COVID I embraced finding ways of printing without a large press - including a silver spoon and an old pasta machine. It was my solace and my way of creating colourful images of dreams beyond Lockdown.
My images draw inspiration from the patterns and life in my world around me, from the ships in our Port, to the beloved bush where I grew up and our explorations around Australia. Fauna, flora and man-made all have a place in my art.
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Linda Baker
Linda is a Melbourne based printmaker. Driven by the process rather than the subject matter, she enjoys the many varied techniques that printmaking has to offer. Her work is the result of continual experimentation, combining different elements of printmaking and mixed media. Linda is inspired by the human form and nature. She is a member of Fire Station Print Studio in Armadale and exhibits regularly in their group shows.
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Margaret Meadows
Margaret Meadows’ creative practice spans various paper-based art forms, including printmaking, painting, and drawing.
Across these mediums Margaret’s work reflects her love of the natural world, and endeavours to detail its forms and textures. Her lino prints (often hand-coloured with pencil and watercolour) examine the shapes and textures of landscapes, while her drawings in pen and ink focus on details of found objects such as bird nests, bones, insects, and sea creatures – often assembled into striking still life compositions.
Margaret studied printmaking and drawing at Victoria University and works from her home studio.
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Marija Newbold
Marija Newbold lives and plays in Melbourne. Marija is a versatile artist and ceramicist whose work spans multiple mediums. Her creative process draws deeply from her experiences exploring new places, the natural world, and discovering inspiration in surprising and unconventional sources.
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Mercedes Wolfenden
My philosophy in creativity is that ‘play’, then refinement is the vehicle through which I discover what lies within. The mystery of finding myself in art.
It’s for the individual to explore, see and feel the colour, the mark of my hand, the flow of shapes, the light and the dark, the presence. To make of my art their own interpretation from their rich, inner, personal narrative, formed by their own lived experience. Hopefully your unique understanding creates meaning for you in relating to the work.
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FIONA BARBETTI
WINDOW ROOM : FIONA BARBETTI
Exhibition Dates : 21 October - 2 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 22 October 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Fiona Barbetti. 'Loves the Sun', earthenware clay and acrylic on paper.
In winter, I follow the sun through my living room as I read, build Lego, and draw comics with my son. Like a houseplant, I rely on the winter sunlight to feel inspired and motivated. Female artists have long depicted domestic life, I find myself similarly bound, my child less eager for adventures or convinced to do the things I want. This installation gathers the visuals I lived with during winter: houseplants, sunlight and shadows changing, and fond memories of sunny Bendigo winters with my Nana’s gingham.
A continuation of her multidisciplinary practice, the work combines painting, sculpture, and shadow play—elements rooted in her early art school days—alongside a contemporary practice of text art. These layered pieces reflect the intersection of memory, motherhood and sunshine, within a domestic space.

VESSELS AND VIABILITY
SPACE 1 : VESSELS AND VIABILITY
Exhibition Dates : 4 - 16 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 5 November 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Amanda Lugg
The word “vessels” is broad reaching. Conceptually it reaches from water going craft, to table ware. My own interpretation has taken me down the domestic route, so I have contemplated glasses and vases. They are practical objects, and generally have some longevity as well as recyclability.
In association with viability I have been encouraged to look into my rubbish bin. The materials I found there I have used to help create the papier mache vases with their wire and paper flowers.
There is something to be said for all art being recyclable in some form or other!
Fay Abromwich
In this body of work, I explore the concept of the ‘vessel’ and the myriad ways this object can be interpreted. Handmade vessels have been formed and reproduced by every culture throughout the history of life on Earth. I feel the subject matter has the ability to become a focus for meditation and deeper enquiry.
Earlier works include woven baskets made from plant material found in my garden. For me, the ‘vessel’ is able to change shape and adapt to many forms, to be empty or to be filled.
Lucienne Noontil
I wonder about the impact that I have on nature with how I live my life. The waste we create affects the health of the earth. Plastic, for example is created, dispersed and found everywhere. I question the collective progress of the human race. Why do we clear land and reduce critical habitat for so many birds and animals? Are mono-cultures the answer to starving nations? Too often nowadays, flora and fauna become vulnerable, threatened, endangered, critically endangered and then extinct.
In this exhibition I explore the relationships of man, wildlife and the environment and create pieces which show a connection between natural and unnatural, harmony and disharmony. I wonder about viability.

HIRATANAO
WINDOW ROOM : HIRATANAO
Exhibition Dates : 4 - 16 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 5 November 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
My practice forms around an ongoing curiosity about the self — uncertain, fragmented, and shaped by the quiet accumulations of the everyday.
After more than twenty years in Australia, my return to Japan has deepened my reflections on home, family, and the shifting relationships between the individual and the group.
In this work, I re-examine what it means to exist as an individual, and approach the self as a constellation of fragments that can come together, drift apart, and take on new forms. I explore how connection and separation shape presence as they unfold, and how belonging can be something fragile and continuously remade.

SHIN KOYAMA
PROJECT ROOM : SHIN KOYAMA
Exhibition Dates : 4 - 16 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 5 November 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
My practice brings together contemporary arrangements of traditional Japanese motifs and personal memories, often expressed through drawing, painting, printmaking, and ceramics.
This exhibition holds a deeply personal meaning: an offering to Cory and to our family. Nine years have passed since the death of my wife, the writer Cory Taylor. As her final book, Dying: A Memoir, now takes shape on stage in Melbourne—a city I cherish—I wish to share my own work in parallel, as a gesture of remembrance and gratitude.
I imagine Cory living just beyond a mountain, in a nearby village. That image sustains me, as does the memory of our thirty-three years together.
Through these works, I hope to honour her presence, to let Cory, and all who visit this exhibition, see what I continue to create. This is a tribute of love and thanks for the life we shared.

SOBRANE
SPACE 2 : SOBRANE
Exhibition Dates: 4 - 16 November 2025
Opening Reception: Wed 5 November 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Social Distortion – The Angels and the Crows!
‘Meek has never been my narration. Quiet has never been my fortitude’.
In this showcase Sobrane artestrates her experiential life experiences within today's political climatic scope. Its moving fast, sometimes appearing almost furious and the expressions of this can be scene in the energetic lines and content of her works. The exhibition began in Venice over a two week arts residency and has climaxed in a little house sit in a town called Shark Bay on the West Australian coast.
Political, evocative and spiritually aware. The chasm betwixt light and dark. The Angels and the Crows!
Utilising repurposed denim that has been stitched into every piece of artwork in this exhibition Sobrane is making a strong stand against its reproduction by AI. By using denim waste from the fast fashion industry, through her art she is preventing its reproduction. It still remains a Sobrane piece, becoming more provocative, pro active and slightly edgy.
The art has been created to the tunes ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’
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LUKE RION
SPACE 1: LUKE RION
Exhibition Dates : 18 November - 30 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 19 November 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Luke Rion is a New Zealand born artist, who is currently based out of Melbourne, Australia. For the last decade his practice has explored figurative and still life subjects, with a particular focus on our nostalgic relationship with objects and the negative space which they inhabit. Rion’s work explores the ephemeral rituals society has with technology and how something so vivid and so relevant in youth fades and eventually becomes discarded and lost.
Wave Cave drifts through the fragile terrain of memory, where once-bright moments dim and dissolve like echoes in a deepening cave. At the threshold, waves crash with relentless force, marking the passage of time. Each painting moves further inward, seeking refuge in shadow, where memories loop in soft, serene light. Childhood relics and fading symbols—an abandoned game, a crab clutching fragments of identity cling to the shifting landscape. As memory unfolds, the cave transforms into a lush forest, tangled and layered. Scale begins to slip, edges blur, and reality gives way to reverie.

JAMES BOURBON
SPACE 2: JAMES BOURBON
Exhibition Dates : 18 November - 30 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 19 November 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Memory, Myth & Magic
James Bourbon's new collage-based paintings excavate the forgotten debris of twentieth-century mass culture. Working in stark black and white, he reconstructs fragments from old advertisements, propaganda leaflets, and discarded print material. His traditional painting techniques mirror xerox reproduction, transmuting perceived trash into new mythologies.
These works interrogate how memory functions when truth becomes malleable. What images endure while others vanish? How do personal recollections merge with collective folklore? Bourbon's reconstruction process becomes archaeological recovery, pulling meaning from materials that once passed through our hands without consideration.
In our current landscape of manufactured nostalgia and weaponised misinformation, these paintings reveal memory as distorted and unreliable. The artist doesn't simply collage fragments but rebuilds them through paint, creating new mythologies from the wreckage of old ones. What emerges is darker than nostalgia: a forensic examination of how popular culture and media programs our collective unconscious, one image at a time.

CONMAN
SPACE 1: CONMAN
Exhibition Dates : 18 November - 30 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 19 November 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Instant Distant
Nostalgia is an emotionally driven memory which never arrives whole. A scent, a song, a face blurred in motion. Like headlights on a highway at night, these memories appear suddenly in the distance, flare brightly, then fade to streaks of colour while slipping away. Each recollection feels vivid, yet always drifts further from the reality it once held.
Instant Distant is Conman’s new body of work, exploring nostalgia as both fleeting and consuming. Here, memory is staged, fragmented, and reassembled - an image that changes every time it is recalled. Within these works, abstraction and collage function like memory itself: capturing simultaneous happenings within a moment.
Drawing from film stills, advertisements, and remnants of cultural ephemera, Conman presents imagery that feels strangely familiar, yet never fully ours. This process explores the idea of memory being constructed, shaped by images that circulate and exist beyond an individual’s experience.
Instant Distant is a fleeting window where the past brushes against the present, before vanishing once again into the distance.

GRACE MURPHY
SPACE 2 : GRACE MURPHY
Exhibition Dates : 2 - 21 December 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 3 December 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Companion
Grace’s paintings look into the relationship between human and animal life. Enticing audiences to self project and contemplate the nature of their relationship with animals, particularly domesticated animals and ornamental depictions of animals. Depicted are familiar animals, however they are not simply depicted in a traditional way. The artist offers a moment of daily life captured in a visually intruiging way engaging with the audience. Connection between the audience and subject matter if further encouraged through aspects of the paintings including gaze, visual familiarity, relatability and an element humour. The materiality of the work, the choice of wood instead of traditional canvas, is carefully considered to evoke a contemplation of nature in relation to the subject matter and to contribute to the story created. The combination of medium, subject and theoretical premise delicately produces paintings that touch on the heart of humanity.

JO RYAN
PROJECT ROOM: JO RYAN
Exhibition Dates : 2 - 21 December 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 3 December 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Ryan’s journey for this exhibition started many years ago when they became enamoured by an Australian artists interpretation of “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” by Katsushika Hokusai. The images of both the print and painting were erotically charged and sensual, but there was an uncomfortable dominance about them that lingered over the years. So, they decided to create their own interpretation of this very famous and widely influential piece; then reflect of what that imagery means to them. The result is “The Pearl Diver’s Dream”: paintings, stencils, drawing, woodblock prints, sculpture and wall mounted decorative mirrors that tell the story of the Pearl Diver: her thoughts, dreams and reflections on life.

STROKES IN BLUE
SPACE 1 : STROKES IN BLUE
Exhibition Dates : 2 - 21 December 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 3 December 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Shelter In Another Body
Strokes in Blue is a surrealist enquiring her elusive psyche with unexpected metaphors.
With her exhibition, Shelter In Another Body, she plays with the indisputable feeling of home we feel with some people and in some places. She rejects the constraints of her physical body, and the limited sense of belonging she feels because of it, in familiar and foreign places and faces; and the limited sense of belonging she feels in it, rejecting her own idiosyncrasies and inadequacies.
Shelter In Another Body touches on themes of love, belonging and freedom as Prachi invites us to transcend our human form and view each other as fabricated architecture holding, harbouring, sheltering many stories, experiences, lives and realities (some distorted) of familiar and foreign places.
Strokes in Blue (b.1990) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm.
VAYUPAD RUTTANAPET
PROJECT ROOM :
VAYUPAD RUTTANAPET
Exhibition Dates : 9 - 21 Sept 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 10 Sept 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Vayupad Ruttanapet was born in Bangkok in the year 2000. His parents work for the Thai government's Office of the Traditional Arts. He spent his childhood sculpting and assisting in the creation of monuments and Thai sculptures under the care of experts in the field. Vayupad studied Khon, a traditional Thai performance, during middle school at The College of Dramatic Arts. He then studied fine arts at Saowabha Vocational College. In 2024, Vayupad received his Bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts from Silpakorn University, majoring in Sculpture. Currently, he is also a part-time lecturer at the same institution. Vayupad’s sculptures explore the balance between realism and idealism, drawing inspiration from classical Western and traditional Thai influences while embedding a distinctly personal sensibility. Each figure becomes a study in form, memory, and the human condition.
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THOSAPHORN SUTHAM
SPACE 1: THOSAPHORN SUTHAM
Exhibition Dates : 9 - 21 Sept 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 10 Sept 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Thosaporn produces stunning artwork on canvas and various special materials. Her unique style mainly focuses on abstract and minimalistic designs that capture the viewer's imagination. Each artwork is crafted with meticulous attention to detail, inviting viewers to explore a realm of endless interpretations. Thosaporn's use of vibrant colors and harmonious textures brings depth and vitality to her pieces, drawing the audience into the artist's distinctive viewpoint.
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COLORS OF BANGLADESH
GROUP SHOW
Colours of Bangladesh
Exhibition dates. 9 - 21 September 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 10 September 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Abinta Gallery of Fine Arts brings with it a reputation for curating promising exhibitions that resonate with audiences and spectators following international standards. Abinta Gallery team is committed to ensuring the success of this showcase through constructive planning, promotion, and execution of the exhibition to enlighten the art lovers of Melbourne with a diverse experience. Numerous master artists and renowned artists of Bangladesh conquered the world of art introducing versatile dimensions into the way of artistic expressions that coincided with the emotions of art spectators depicting the greenery, culture, and traditional significances of the lives of people of Bengal and various subject matters through colorful illustrations.
The exhibition is expected to derive the rich culture of Bangladesh as well as allow the audiences to connect with unique forms of artistic approaches conducted by the legendary and promising Bangladeshi artists.
Artists
Azmeer Hossain, Farida Zaman, Jamal Ahmed, Kanak Chanpa Chakma, Mohammad Eunus, Nazmul Haque Bappy, Nur Munjerin Rimjhim, Purnia Mrittika, Sigma Haque Angkan, Monirul Islam and Rafiqun Nabi.
Monirul Islam
Monirul Islam (b. 1943, Chandpur) is a renowned Bangladeshi-Spanish artist celebrated for his lyrical abstraction and pioneering contributions to printmaking. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, he moved to Spain in the late 1960s on a scholarship and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid. There, he developed a unique etching technique known as "Escuela de Monir" (Monir’s School), blending minimal forms, delicate lines, and textured surfaces. His works often use unconventional materials like coffee, brick dust, and handmade paper to evoke memory, nature, and inner emotion. Monirul Islam has received numerous honors, including Spain’s Cross of Officer of the Order of Queen Isabella and Bangladesh’s Ekushey Padak. His art bridges Eastern philosophy and Western technique, making him one of the most significant contemporary artists of Bangladesh. He currently divides his time between Dhaka and Madrid, continuing his creative journey.
Rafiqun Nabi
It is the arrangement of known objects and other elements taken from nature are the subjects of my paintings. I prefer to use drawings in my own way to break the totalities of those real forms. To avoid imitating nature’s usual beauty, I try to put a changed and new look in it in my compositions. The animals, birds, sunny-landscapes, riverscapes, seas and beaches, hills or the people around these are my main subjects for paintings. I try to amalgamate my own tastes, feelings, experiences, thoughts together to overcome the usual observations. I think these create a stylised essence in my works and that I enjoy doing this all the time.
Azmeer Hossain
My work often explores the multifaceted landscapes and cultural nuances of Bangladesh, which I articulate through distinct series. The 'Monsoon-Boat' series captures the dynamic interplay of water and vessels prevalent in our monsoonal climate. In contrast, my 'Playground-Buffalo' series offers glimpses into the rural heartland, focusing on the relationship of buffalo in their everyday environment. Furthermore, my 'Persistence-Buddha' series delves into more spiritual and introspective themes, reflecting an engagement with Buddhist philosophy and iconography. Through these series, I aim to offer a nuanced perspective on my surroundings and inner explorations, establishing myself as a dedicated Bangladeshi watercolorist with a layered and evocative approach".
Farida Zaman
Why do I play with color? Colors express emotions, and my inner self sometimes exaggerates colors to enhance my vision. Once I started observing colors with my artistic vision, everywhere I looked I started noticing colors which never existed before…colors have become and intrinsic part of my journey as an artist my canvases are now incorporating various shades of color to create interest and pleasure for the naked eye… second, perspective of my artistic journey is a language created by my surrounding environment and characters intertwined in my personal growth... Having been born in Bangladesh, a nation of…water, land and sky are essential parts of surviving and in my youth, these three elements were mainly present in my everyday life… they have fueled my imagination, creatures of the sea and land are often present on my canvases taking their shape and forms… exaggerated necks, arms, legs all take flight in my storytelling… a cat is no longer a mere cat … he/she is a character from my past childhood roaming around my Dada Bari’s yard looking for fish bones … human character such as Sofia is a reflection of the women who have inspired my personal life as a teacher, mother and homemaker. Coming full circle in my artistic journey has taught me to appreciate and love myself and my existence on planet earth, and specifically my land of the lush green and my rivers of blue waters.
Jamal Ahmed
I try to show the beauty of simple moments — like a child playing, a woman working, or a boat floating on the river. I use soft colors and delicate lines to express peace and emotion in my paintings. My goal is to connect with people through art, no matter where they come from. Over the years, I have worked with different styles and mediums, but watercolor and oil painting are my favorites. I often paint scenes from rural Bangladesh, because I feel close to that life and culture. I believe art can speak quietly, yet powerfully, to the human heart. Through my work, I want to remind people to slow down, observe, and appreciate the world around them. Art is my language, and I speak through color and form.
Kanak Chanpa Chakma
As a member of the Chakma community, she draws from her heritage, focusing on the strength and resilience of these women. In 2023, she was awarded the "Ekushey Padak", one of the highest civilian honours in Bangladesh. Her work has gained international recognition, with exhibitions worldwide and numerous accolades, including Best Woman Artist of the XXI Century (2001) and the Olympic Fine Arts Gold Medal, Beijing, China (2008). She also received the American Alliance Fellowship in 1994 at Penn State University, further enriching her artistic and academic growth. These honors have affirmed her status as one of Bangladesh's leading artists and a tireless advocate for indigenous women’s labor. Kanak's art centers on the often-overlooked contributions of indigenous women, portraying their inner lives, struggles, and beauty. Her vibrant work, full of colour and texture, captures their resilience and emotional depth. Alongside her art, Kanak is committed to championing indigenous rights and supporting animal welfare.
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Nazmul Haque Bappy
My work mainly focuses on nature, and I love using traditional Chinese ink and Oriental painting styles to express my thoughts. Over the years, I have tried to blend these classical techniques with new ideas to create something meaningful and fresh. I’ve held 11 solo exhibitions and taken part in many group shows in Bangladesh and abroad, including in Italy and the UK. My work has been honored with several awards, such as "The Best Award in Oriental Painting" from the University of Dhaka, the Berger Young Art Award, and international recognitions from China, South Korea, and more. Recently, I received the SM Sultan Foundation Award and the Grand Award at the 10th Oriental Painting Exhibition – 2025. Through my art, I hope to keep sharing the beauty of Oriental traditions with the world.
Nur Munjerin Rimjhim
My work primarily revolves around acrylic painting, where I use bold compositions, expressive figures, and layered symbolism to explore themes of gender, identity, and social justice. I draw inspiration from real-life struggles, particularly the silent yet powerful resilience of women. Each piece reflects personal and collective narratives, challenging deep-rooted societal norms. Art, to me, is a powerful voice; one that can question, disrupt, and inspire change. My emphasis lies on the overlooked narratives of women, shedding light on their struggles and sacrifices. By portraying these experiences on canvas, I seek to elicit empathy and highlight the profound injustices embedded within our society. I believe art should unsettle, provoke, and ultimately push society toward change.
Purnia Mrittika
I am Purnia Mrittika, born in 1993 in Bangladesh. I earned both my B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the Department of Drawing & Painting at the University of Dhaka, and my paintings have been featured in national and international exhibitions. To me, art is more than just beauty or form—it is a powerful language of expression. Through colors and brushstrokes, I reflect the injustices, struggles, and chaos that shape our society. A deep sense of social awareness flows through my work, giving voice to the unheard and holding space for the possibility of change. Bangladeshi culture, heritage, and identity are also profound sources of inspiration for me. I find joy in portraying our roots with care, affection, and reverence making each piece of art feel deeply soulful and meaningfully connected.
Sigma Haque Angkan
I am a Bangladeshi sculptor and painter, Sigma Haque Angkan, and I have 25+ years in the field of visual arts. I completed a B.F.A. & M.F.A. degree from the Department of Sculpture, University of Dhaka. I did two solo exhibitions and more than 65 major group exhibitions & workshops nationally and internationally. The prime topic of my sculpture is the life of women, Mother & Child, women’s love, affection, limitations, and responsibilities are reflected in my work. Bronze, Brass, and aluminum are the preferred media of my sculpture. Art is my passion that makes me feel alive. As a freelance artist, I am also the founder and director of Su Angkan Academy, Dhaka.

NOPPADON VIROONCHATAPUN
SEEN: Seeing What Is, in Its Quiet Truth
‘SEEN: Seeing What Is, in Its Quiet Truth’ exhibition conveys paintings from experiences throughout various moments of life, traveling to various places and meeting people. Including objects that reflect culture conveyed through paintings or drawings in real places which each work reflects the impression of important events in each moment. These works have been collected to present to the audience in this exhibition.
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STIRLING CAIULO
STIRLING CAIULO
Exhibition Dates : 26 August - 7 September 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 27 August 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
‘A Rip In the Möbius Strip’
Stirling Caiulo creates paintings as sites of psychic and embodied transformation. His work is raw, symbolic, and rooted in a desire to fortify the spirit, exploring what it means to reclaim form from fragmentation, both personal and collective. With a deep curiosity for the unseen, his practice invites viewers to contemplate the meeting of the material and the mystical. Each piece acts as a threshold, a passage through which the fractured self might encounter wholeness, mystery, and renewal.
He has been a finalist in prestigious competitions, including the Lester Prize in both 2021 and 2022 and in 2023 the Bluethumb Portrait Prize and the Dean Cogle Prize.
This work begins where continuity breaks:
at the rip in the Möbius strip.
A symbol of infinite loop and paradox,
the Möbius strip forms a twisted surface without end.
In its seamlessness lies a trap:
an illusion of progress that circles back on itself.
By tearing this loop,
I explore what happens when we interrupt familiar cycles:
of thought, identity, and inherited limitation.
The rupture is both violent and liberating.
To see oneself anew requires discomfort,
and something new to hold sacred.

TONY FAEHSE
PROJECT ROOM :
TONY FAEHSE
Exhibition Dates : 26 August - 7 September 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 27 August 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Music to My Eyes
Drawing and painting was my thing, and I thought art teacher was to be my career. However while still at school I started playing guitar in rock bands and that led instead to a career in music. And later another in vintage furniture retail. In between I kept doing art, but always part time.
Finally in recent years I’ve been able to go back and finally realise my painting dreams.
This exhibition of new work draws its subjects from what’s most important to me.. the people I’ve loved, the cats I’ve known, and my guitars, a source of endless material and inspiration.
The sensual shape of the guitar in all its forms has for me totemic power. Whether as two or three dimensional images rendered impressionistically “real”, or abstracted into stylised overlapping shapes where colours rule, or in juxtaposition with the female form.
The images of people I’ve chosen to evoke an emotion in the viewer.. hopefully joyful.
It’s the fleeting moment in time that I’m wanting to save and savour.
And cats.. well, what can you say?
Tony Faehse (pronounced Fayzee) as guitarist and songwriter is best known for his work with Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons 1977-1983 (ARIA HALL OF FAME 2007), before that London 1973-1977 including touring Europe with Alvin Stardust. 1996-2019 with wife Wendy trading in Mid Century Modern furniture and design at their shop Retro Active in Northcote, Melbourne.

EMMA CAIRD
WINDOW ROOM :
EMMA CAIRD
Exhibition Dates : 26 August - 7 September 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 27 August 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Emma Richelle Caird’s work explores themes of death, depression, suicide and rebirth. Meditating on her past fantasies of death and trauma, Emma's paintings draw inspiration from romanticism, renaissance traditions, tattoo art, 80s horror and Yūrei-zu.
Born in Melbourne Australia in 1981, but raised in far North Queensland, Emma grew up with a distinct feeling of duality. Early childhood influences and trauma caused a natural comfort in the morbid and horrifying. Having studied a Bachelor of Fine Art at James Cook University in her teens, and an Advanced Diploma Graphic Design in her early thirties, Emma’s true voice only started emerging after facing her demons and incorporating her shadow self with the joyful exterior of her personality.

ANDREW FYFE
SPACE 1 :
ANDREW FYFE
Exhibition Dates : 26 August - 7 September 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 27 August 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE AND BEYOND
Fyfe's unique perspective, rooted in his upbringing in Melbourne, breathes life into the city's landmarks, from Flinders Street Station and the Yarra River to its renowned laneways and beaches. Each print unveils a narrative that transcends the ordinary, inviting viewers to explore Melbourne's charm in an unconventional light. "Marvellous Melbourne By Fyfe" is a celebration of the artist's connection to his hometown, capturing the spirit of Melbourne with humour and imagination.
Andrew Fyfe is an Australian cartoonist and illustrator - best known for his live cartoons using the “pen cam” on the television show Hey Hey Its Saturday. For over fourteen years Andrew would spontaneously send-up the on screen action with but a few strokes of his pen.
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PHIL HAYES
PROJECT ROOM :
PHIL HAYES
Exhibition Dates : 12 - 24 August 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 13 August 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
THE BOUNTY YEARS
Phil Hayes is an Australian artist whose diverse practice spans painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. Since the early 1980s, he has exhibited nationally and internationally, with works held in public and private collections from Japan and the USA to Lithuania. Influenced by both Western and Asian popular culture, his 13 years living in Hong Kong helped shape a distinctive visual language, merging modernist structure with the bold energy of pop art.
A hallmark of Phil’s practice is his use of symbolic imagery, particularly the recurring figure of the ‘Dog’. Originally conceived in the late 1980s as a social commentary on Australian suburbia, it has evolved into an instantly recognisable motif, rich with layered meaning. Alongside his fine art career, Phil spent 18 years as an artist and designer in the global surf industry, working with prominent brands such as Rip Curl and Quiksilver. This experience deepened his connection to ocean culture and the visual language of commercial design.
Phil completed postgraduate studies at the University of Tasmania, later lecturing there for several years—a formative period that continues to shape his artistic vision. It was during his time in Hobart that he developed a deep and lasting fascination with the thylacine. More than an extinct species, the thylacine functions in his work as a potent symbol of loss, myth, and resilience within the Australian psyche. Over time, it has become a personal totem: part cautionary tale, part ghost story, part emblem of wildness lost. Through this lens, Phil explores themes of mythology, disappearance, memory, and the fragile boundary between nature and culture.

DABIN MOON
WINDOW ROOM :
DABIN MOON
Exhibition Dates : 12 - 24 August 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 13 August 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
This exhibition presents three paintings—Intersection, Photo Studio, and Levels—that reflect my interest in how urban spaces are emotionally charged and fragmented through digital perception. Rather than depicting real places, I reconstruct imagined environments shaped by signage, lighting, and architectural rhythm. In Intersection, fleeting stillness and movement converge. Photo Studio evokes nostalgia tinted by artificiality. Levels explores spatial layering and psychological depth. Using oil paint, I build textures that mirror the tension between connection and distance in everyday life. These works suggest urban experience not as a static image, but as a shifting emotional state, filtered through memory and light.
Dabin Moon is a Korean-born painter based in Melbourne. Her practice focuses on emotionally charged cityscapes shaped by digital culture, artificial lighting, and mediated memory. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she constructs imagined urban environments that feel both familiar and distant. Through bold color, layered composition, and architectural fragments, Moon explores the psychological dimensions of everyday spaces. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from RMIT University and has a background in visual arts education in both Sydney and Melbourne.

KIPPY
SPACE 1 : KIPPY
Exhibition Dates : 12 - 24 August 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 13 August 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
“The advent of AI is a call to arms for photographers”
Today, more than ever before, the photographers’ duty to document the real world is critical. In his debut exhibition, Kip (of Studio Kalava) explores the beauty and tranquillity seen in often overlooked everyday settings. His approach is steeped in teachings of the godfathers of street photography, and applied to the environments around us today. Kip seeks to create art through mere observation of his surroundings. Together with an intentionality in composition, this exhibition shows many moments of tranquillity in our busy world. From bright hues to muted tones, a painting-like quality is achieved in his photography. A style that evokes an almost conflicted sense of introspection and calm.

GROUP SHOW : I Waited for You (Winterlong)
GROUP SHOW :
I Waited for You (Winterlong)
Exhibition Dates : 12 - 24 August 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 13 August 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
I Waited for You (Winterlong) is the fourth and final chapter in our year-long series of group exhibitions inspired by the seasons. This concluding exhibition turns to Winter—a time of retreat, reflection, and quiet transformation. It invites both artists and audiences to consider the emotional weight and poetic beauty of the coldest months in our calendar.
In this show, we proudly showcase a diverse group of Melbourne-based artists, each bringing their unique voice and vision to the theme. Through a range of mediums—drawing, painting, photography, and ceramics—the works explore the layered meanings of Winter. Some pieces evoke stillness and solitude, others capture the stark beauty of dormant landscapes or the comfort of interior spaces. There are reflections on longing, endurance, and the slow rhythms of time passing.
I Waited for You (Winterlong) speaks to the way Winter slows us down, asks us to notice the subtle, and challenges us to find warmth in unexpected places. This exhibition celebrates not just the season itself, but the richness of creative interpretation it inspires.
Curate by Tegan Iversen
Exhibiting artists: Aleisha Earp, Angela Cornish, Ann Iversen, Annie Walter, Bonnie Williams, Carly Candiloro, Chloe Shao, Claire Anderson Woolley, Darin Frankpitt, Deb Garrett, Diana Story, Elizabeth Nicholls, Emma Sjaan Beukers, Emily Van Der Molen, Fabiola Ibanez, Fiona Davey, Freya Alexander, Grace Audrey, Grace Taylor, Gracie Wright, Guste Sakalauskaite, Holly Gregory, Jen Selmore, Jess Hall, Jiyu Hwang, Kat Weir, Katie Geppert, Lisa Han, Loupcho, Mark McCarthy, Meg Kolac, Mia Emily Freeman, Misu Juju, Monica Tran, naomi meg, Nea Valdivia, Ruby Bovill, Ruby MacKinnon, Sarah McDonald, Sarinrat Sornkam, Savi Ross, Scarlet Sykes Hesterman, Shelley Spangler, Sunny Tandoc, Tegan Iversen, Tim Sta-Ana, Tom Civil, Vess Bong, Viet-My Bui, Vonne Beyer, Yan Yan Candy Ng, Yiying Lee, YJ Chun

SARAH RANDALL
SPACE 1 :
SARAH RANDALL
Exhibition Dates : 12 - 24 August 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 13 August 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Keepsakes is a series of painting which looks at little pieces of everyday life in the home. It shows daily belongings that are grabbed on the go and trinkets posing in corners. It's the comfort of the ordinary things in my cycles of time.
Sarah is an artist based in Orange, NSW. Her work is informed by a Bachelor of Creative Arts, Wollongong in 2013, Masters Fine Art (coursework), RMIT in 2015 and Grad Cert of Art History, from the University of Melbourne. She has completed residencies in Tasmania, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea and Ireland where her paintings have been collected publicly and privately. In 2018, she exhibited as an Australian artist in the Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale (Mokpo, South Korea), following a residency in the Bank of Fishermen Building. In 2019, she was a finalist in the Calleen Art Prize, STILL in 2021, as wells the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award. In 2025 Sarah has an artist in residence with the State Library of NSW and has been awarded a residency in 2026 at Bundanon through the William Fletcher Foundation.
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YUKIKO ABE KRUITHOF
YUKIKO ABE KRUITHOF
Exhibition Dates : 29 July - 10 August 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 30 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Look Close and Look Within
I often find myself giving undivided attention to an object or the scenery before me — exactly as it is in that particular moment. I feel this visceral connection and hear a quiet whisper — a longing to be seen intimately, without any label, context, or relativity to others.
I have always been captivated by fleeting details all around me, whether natural or man-made. Noticing such life’s impermanent qualities invites a sense of neutrality and inner spaciousness.
I worked with a generous amount of water on the surface for this series. I let the pigments spread freely, yet with intention. It blurs the boundaries between the subject and its surroundings, including myself.
My process is slow and one-off — there is no amending. It demands that I be extremely present and focused. Yet, it is almost addictive.
Though grounded in reference, each work was also painted intuitively. With much respect and appreciation for nature and life
Yukiko Abe-Kruithof is a visual artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Primarily utilizing the translucency of watercolour, her practice spans painting, line drawing, and papercutting. Born and raised in Tokyo, and having migrated to Australia as an adult, she has long served as a bridge between cultures and perspectives through both her professional and personal roles. Deeply inspired by the intimate connection she feels with her subjects, her work reflects the quiet beauty of everyday life and its impermanence. Her work has been exhibited at the Consulate-General of Japan in Melbourne and in group shows across various galleries and public venues.

FALCONERIS MARIMÓN
FALCONERIS MARIMÓN
Exhibition Dates : 29 July - 10 August 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 30 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
City Corner
I am interested in the corner. Squares are not interesting in their straight lines but in the right-angled corners that they possess. A corner represents a detour, a shift, a turn. Direction, interests, and perspective are affected by the corners that the square generously offers 4 times, while we circulate it. The city corner is rough and worn out, just like a brick. It shows an on-site exploration of everyday life experiences. Many moments collide in the city corner. Many of which a city brick can be involved in.
My art practice utilizes the urban landscape as a medium of creation where ideas and concepts expand. By studying symbol semiotics, patterns within systems, and the nature of dissidences, I approach sculpture, installation, and performance with charisma and curiosity. Found urban objects and repurposed ready-mades are constantly featured in my works. I aim to challenge the viewers’ point of view to reconsider their position as individuals who are part of a complex social web.

ABSTRACT ARTISTS NEVER SLEEP
GROUP SHOW
Abstract artists never sleep
Exhibition dates. 29 July - 10 Aug 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 30 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Presented by Creative Space Hawthorn, an untutored abstract art group based at the Hawthorn Artist Society
In this latest group exhibition “Abstract Artists Never Sleep,” fourteen Melbourne-based artists come together to delve into the expressive power of abstraction.
This exhibition invites viewers into a world beyond representation—where emotion, gesture, form, and colour take centre stage. Through a wide range of styles and mediums, the works explore the essence of experience and perception, offering a visual language that is at once personal and open to interpretation.
From bold, dynamic compositions to quiet, contemplative marks, Abstract artists never sleep reflects the rich diversity of voices within our group, and the many ways abstraction can be used to convey feeling, memory, and mood. This show is a celebration of creative freedom and the evolving language of contemporary abstract art.
Artists
Alex Bridge, Amanda Lugg, Christine Sender, Devyani Sadalkar, Irene Henning, Kathy Best, Ken Wight, Lynne Kells, Nathan Moshinsky, Paula Reade, Penny Darling, Ria Tims, Susan Tait and Traecey Bremner
Alex Bridge
Light, energy, emotion - Alex Bridge is interested in the visual experience of looking at art. Brushstrokes, colour and texture are used to explore perception, light and materiality.
Gestural marks are made with paint applied directly by hand as well as brush. These sinuous lines reveal organic shapes drawn from nature and the human body. The progression of a work remains with brushstrokes raw and immediate. The texture of the media used, the energy of the marks and the juxtaposition of colours are all important parts of the whole.
Amanda Lugg
Putting colour onto a surface is one of the most satisfying experiences.How that colour gets there, whether by brush, knife, scraper, gluing or another way is how the work progresses and takes form.
Generally I do not have a predetermined idea of where I want the work to go, but as I keep working on the surface, so I find inspiration and frequently the influence of my travels and environment emerge.
With my abstract work I seek to avoid creating a readily identifiable subject. I hope to provide a work which encourages the viewer to look in, and to look out and so in the process find their own subject.
It frequently surprises me when a viewer sees things that I have not, and yet once seen cannot be unseen.
Christine Sender
Colour, light, sound, and a certain energy and vibrancy: it goes without saying that this is Morocco. Its landscape and people are the inspiration for these artworks.
I found an energy in the Atlas mountains, in apparently un-inhabited valleys that are sometimes lush oases, in ancient ksars and kasbars standing proudly and timelessly and in a desert camp looking at a mirage at dusk. The market place, ancient labyrinthic laneways and a soup kitchen evidence a palpable life force.
I hope through these abstract works using acrylic, oil and cold wax and collage bring you some of the magnetism of Morocco.
Devyani Sadalkar
I paint abstract because it feels free — just like nature. Nature throws colours and shapes together in the wildest ways, and somehow it always works. That boldness inspires me. There are no rules out there, and I love bringing that same energy into my art.
I don’t start with a plan. I follow a feeling. I let the process guide me — the movement, the textures, the contrast, even the surprises. That’s what makes it real for me. Painting is where I can just be myself — no filters, no pressure.
I paint to stay connected — to what I feel, to the moment, and to the raw.
Irene Henning
Irene is an artist based in Melbourne. She is a regular exhibitor in group exhibitions, galleries and shows and is a member of the Hawthorn Art Society and Melbourne and Victorian Artists’ Collective. Irene works with acrylic paints and mixed media. She loves working with colour, layers and textual marks to create light and movement, energy, and power, bringing a touch of joy to her painting. She hopes her paintings stir something in the viewer, inviting them in to share a private and special conversation with her work.
Kathy Best
"I see the world and I paint it" Kathy Best
Kathy creates bold, expressive acrylic abstracts and contemporary paintings based on observation of the world around her. She sometimes paints loosely from reference photos or memory. Other times she lets the paint and marks on the canvas guide her. Kathy’s works explore colour relationships, movement, shapes and layers.
Kathy has been painting consistently since 2008 under the guidance of many tutors and in 2023 completed a Diploma in Visual Arts.
“Take a look, take a 2nd look and take a longer look – I love putting my work out there.” Kathy Best
Ken Wight
I’m late into art but immediately found that the creative challenge Abstract Expression offered was highly stimulating and satisfying. I also love hunting around for different materials in op shops and hard rubbish!
Lynne Kells
Creating on Wurundjeri Country, Lynne’s artworks feature detailed explorations of media and themes. Over fifteen years exhibiting in group and solo shows at galleries and events, Lynne has an identity in the art world. Highlights are works bought for corporate collections and three made into cards (MS Plus & Classic Moves). Employment with children, as a Gallery Assistant, Toy Entertainer (Myer SA), aiding Art groups for disabled, and as a ceramic decorator at Robert Gordon have contributed to a unique outlook. Challenged as a disabled pensioner, Lynne’s art stands out with distinctive style and is not to be missed.
Nathan Moshinsky
Nathan Moshinsky has completed a Diploma of Visual Art majoring in oil painting and print making. He is a regular exhibitor in group exhibitions organised by the Victorian Artists Society and the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria. Also, he has had several solo exhibitions of his paintings and drawings, including an exhibition in October 2022, at Sol Gallery. Nathan is interested in the interpretation of visual images derived from the natural environment, and from his imagination, for the purpose of expressing his emotional response to them. He enjoys working with an image so as toexplore colour and tonal relationships, sometimes exaggerating these aspects of a painting or drawing, so as to express his emotional and imaginative response to the subject.
He works in many mediums- oils, watercolour, oil pastel, pencils, ink and uses the Ipad for sketching. The subject –matter of his work includes landscape, portraits and still life, as well as abstract paintings in acrylic and oils.
Paula Reade
My interest in art was apparent at a young age growing up in the South of France, and my passion for creativity continues today living and painting in Melbourne. I approach creativity with great enthusiasm; over the years my work has taken me to various avenues, having practised with different mediums with the aim of further developing my work . I typically paint with acrylic on canvas.
My inspiration stems from life experiences, nature, social interactions as well as history. Travelling to different parts of the world have inspired me and given me an opportunity to appreciate primitive and folk arts, which resonates with me. Personally, the creativity and expression in my art serves as a refuge, as well as a method of continuous self-discovery. I get great satisfaction when a piece of work is completed, and the journey of getting inspiration for my next work.
Penny Darling
My watercolour paintings explore the expressive potential of colour and texture. Watercolor inherently reminds me to embrace the unforeseen. The dynamic interaction of water and pigment often leads to happy accidents, recognizing the beauty in these unplanned outcomes fosters an instinctive approach, making them an integral part of this series.
Ria Tims
I am a self-taught European/Australian artist and started painting in 2012.
I have had both private and group tuition with Jenny Mitchell of Montsalvat Eltham and Walter Magilton from Warrandyte, both incredible artists and much admired.
I have an extensive creative family background including being a descendant of the famous Renaissance artist Jan Van Eyck, a very proud heritage.
I adore abstract and contemporary art and I am drawn to the vibrancy and energy of bright colours and love creating those types of artworks, it is the ultimate freedom of visual expression. “THERE ARE NO RULES” .
Susan Tait
Susan Tait is a Naarm/Melbourne born artist and painter whose work centres around gesture and materiality, creating expressive reflections on colour and form. Her early fascination with textile design is evident in her work through the exploration of highly visceral textural layering. Deeply inspired by the raw, harsh beauty of the Australian landscape, Susan uses acrylic paint, fabric, waxed cotton and pencil to create bold and tactile works. As much about what was covered, as what was left exposed, Susan’s canvases are often painted over many times until very few of the early strokes are visible. This lends an evocative depth to the works achieving a sense of mystery and of weathered, ancient timelessness as Susan continues to experiment, to layer, and interpret the landscape around her.
Traecey Bremner
Traecey is an explorer of art. Painting, drawing and sculpting in some capacity for much of her life; discovering new materials and ways of making art. Sharing art with others. Getting lost in art.
Initially studying visual language by completing a Bachelor of Design, and more recently participating in classes and travel with La Trobe College of Art and Design; she continues to participate in various classes to continue her exploration of art making.
More recently finding corrugated cardboard to be an excellent ground for paint, offering new possibilities for surface, shape and form.

PAMELA RATAJ
WINDOW ROOM :
PAMELA RATAJ
Exhibition dates : 29 July - 10 August 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 30 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Castor and Pollux
Castor and Pollux are twins, one mortal, the other immortal. They cannot bear to be separated, so live half their lives on earth, half in the Underworld of the dead. In Greek mythology they personify the riddle of duality: the interweaving of absence and presence, intellect and intuition, of the tangible and intangible.
The work Castor and Pollux explores this duality and the potential to merge and connect.
I'm fascinated by the qualities inherent in materials, and by the way they resonate when used together.
I found the coal used in this piece in Eastern Victoria, where coal deposits are estimated to be 1.6 million years old. Washed up by the tides on certain beaches there it suggests the ineffable co-existence of past and present time, and the potential for transformation and return.
Pamela Rataj was born in Germany and educated in Australia, France and Germany. She now lives and works in Melbourne. Her practice includes sculpture, painting and installation. Rataj has collaborated with composers and performance artists in creating ephemeral installations for public spaces, performed in the Adelaide Festival of Arts and public events in Melbourne, Paris and Stuttgart. Rataj has received Cultural and Project Development Grants in Victoria and South Australia, and completed Residencies in Paris, New York and the Ruhr region, Germany. She has been finalist in numerous national prizes including the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award (2013), Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards (2016), the Wyndham Art Prize (2017, 2018), and the Fisher's Ghost Award (2021). Rataj has exhibited in galleries in Adelaide, Melbourne and Paris, and her work is represented in Artbank and in private and corporate collections in Australia and internationally.
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MAYA TAMANG
SPACE 1 : MAYA TAMANG
Exhibition dates. 15 - 27 July 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 16 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Maya’s work examines cultural beauty standards, with a particular focus on the 1940s—a period that marked a complex intersection of glamour, gender roles, and societal expectations. Her paintings explore the tension between the celebration of beauty and the often unattainable ideals imposed on women. Through stylized depictions of women in various personas, Maya’s art offers both critique and homage.
Known for her distinctive visual language and authentic style, Maya creates work that is both personal and provocative. Drawing on her experiences with autism and mental health, Maya channels her challenges into a powerful creative force. Her art is a vehicle for resilience, self-expression, and connection.

JOHN MCARTHUR
PROJECT ROOM :
JOHN MCARTHUR
Exhibition dates. 15 - 27 July 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 16 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
John McArthur is an Australian artist who has lived in Hong Kong since 1999. Inspired by the city's vibrant culture, especially Cantonese opera, his work blends drawing, painting, and calligraphy. Based at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC), where he runs his studio “Spitting Gecko 泉湧壁虎,” John also hosts workshops, exhibitions, and public art events. His art, influenced by both local life and his travels, is featured in private collections worldwide. Formally trained in Australia, he continues to refine his craft through international courses and collaborations with the Hong Kong art community.

NARELLE CRIDLAND
SPACE 2 : NARELLE CRIDLAND
Exhibition dates. 15 - 27 July 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 16 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Psychological Acumen
Psychological Acumen emerged from my personal experience with diagnosing, analysing and the ongoing treatment of my mental health issues derived from my husband’s death in 2018. The trauma associated with his death rendered me a prisoner in my home and diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I spent the next three years receiving various psychological treatments including rapid eye therapy, a therapy that attempts to replace traumatic images with less stressful ones. Open to the idea of alternative treatments, a suggestion of connecting with creativity was explored as a method of healing and transformation. Self-expression and the process of discovering self through symbolic and metaphoric messages explored in creativity balanced the mind and produced a voice. The work is a nonverbal participant in the healing process, a mirror of self and although it might be hard to look it, these feelings need to be seen and acknowledged for healing to occur.
Narelle Cridland is an artist, arts educator and photographer whose didactic works are deeply connected to trauma. The fiction originates from personal histories which have been subdivided into pivotal moments in time. Before and after tragedy. Using the system of collage and weaving, I can deconstruct my past – “the before” by collecting, appropriating and dismantling objects, photographic memories and artworks associated with it and reconstructing – “the after” in layers of colour, pattern and texture to generate an alternative me. Her diverse practice spans, photography, painting, sculpture, drawing and mixed media collage.

NATALIE IRELAND
WINDOW ROOM : NATALIE IRELAND
Exhibition dates. 1 - 13 July 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 2 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Nashe Dite
Natalie started learning glass-fusing and slumping techniques in 2013. Since then, glass has had a massive impact on her life, inspiring a glass studio at her home in Melbourne, Australia.
A signature quality of her pieces are their fun and quirky patterns and bold colour. As a bonus, no two pieces will ever be exactly the same.

GROUP SHOW : STILL LIFE
SPACE 1 : Group Show “Still Life”
Exhibition dates. 1 - 13 July 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 2 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
STILL LIFE
Traditionally tied to domesticity, beauty, mortality, and material culture, the still life has long invited quiet reflection. In contemporary art, the genre is being reimagined—no longer just about objects, but about presence, absence, and transformation.
This exhibition explores how artists today are expanding the still life, using it to question permanence, engage memory, and reflect on our shifting relationship with the material world.
Artists : Elaine Batton, Fran Max, Mr Dimples, Melanie Bardolia, Nick Heynsbergh, Olga Tsara and VKM
Elaine Batton
Elaine is a graduate from Photography Studies college. Her fine art photography works are influenced by paintings through the ages and seeks to celebrate beauty and colour. As a visual artist she strives to ensure that beauty in fine art and nature continues to be explored and enjoyed.
She has exhibited solo and as part of groups around Australia, and was a finalist in the 2016 & 2017 Bowness Prize, in the 2016 & 2018 Fremantle Art Centre Print Award, a finalist in the 2021 Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, the 2021 Wyndham Art Prize. the 2024 Omnia Art prize and Finalist in the PCP (perth centre for photography) CLIP award 2024
Fran Max
Fran Max is a full-time Australian artist represented by Jumbled and The Toowoomba Gallery, with international representation in the USA. Known for her playful and uplifting style, Fran creates work that brings joy to her audience.
She was the winner of the 2024 People’s Choice Award at Corner Store Gallery (Orange, NSW) and a finalist in Inside This Box. Her work has been featured in several publications and listed as an “Artist to Watch” by Vanity Fair UK.
Fran is currently preparing for three upcoming exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
Melanie Bardolia
Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and now based in Melbourne, Melanie is an oil painter who creates dynamic and evocative works using a vibrant colourist palette and bold impasto marks. Her approach merges abstraction and realism, blending the emotive qualities of her subjects with painterly expressions. Her process celebrates the beauty and emotion that arise from everyday moments, portraying her subjects in a style that balances spontaneity with intent. She was a finalist in the Still Life Prize at TACIT Galleries, National Emerging Art Prize at Michael Reid Galleries, and Quadrant Gallery’s Emerging Artists Summer Exhibition.
Mr Dimples
Mr Dimples was born one terrifying night when a prowler tried to break into his home. To get his mind off the event, he created art to release his frustrations. Influenced by the art of Tim Burton, Mr Dimples then started to create monsters based on people and events that annoyed him. His well-known characters are predominately seen on the streets of Bendigo, usually with the Paste up technique. His street art techniques were learnt through his association with Blender Studios in Melbourne, where he was introduced to paste ups, stenciling and free hand spraying. Mr Dimples is a local street artist working from his home studio. He also is an Arts/Woodwork teacher at a school in the Loddon Shire. Some of his work includes murals at Boris Murgers, Killiecrankie wines, Miller Street Bridge underpass and Chancery Lane.
Nick Heynsbergh
Nick Heynsbergh is a visual artist working across a range of media including painting, drawing and printmaking. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at RMIT in 2013. He has held solo exhibitions at various galleries in Melbourne, and participated in local and international group shows. In 2020 and 2021 he was an exhibiting finalist in a number of art prizes, and was highly commended by the judges in the Macquarie Emerging Artist Prize, Elaine Birmingham Watercolour Prize and National Capital Art Prize. Recently, his practice has reflected on experiences and memories relating to queer identity, to encourage viewers to engage with the lived experiences and perspectives of members of the LGBTIQA+ community. Additionally, his works aim to promote the sharing of experiences between LGBTIQA+ viewers to generate new community bonds and strengthen existing ones.
Olga Tsara
Working in oils and collage, this practice draws on classical techniques to explore beauty, narrative, and the absurd. Using personal, vintage, and found photographs, the work is shaped by two decades immersed in photographic archives, revealing a deep interest in the truths and fictions of imagery.
VKM
VKM is a an Australian artist whose photography work extends into the intricate realm of monotone stencil art. Known for her finely detailed skater stencils and street scenes, she has carved a disinct voice in the street art community,featuring on walls in Australia, India, Paris, Glasgow and London. From her studio she also creates works on canvas, metal and repurposed signage and exhibits in art prizes, solo and group shows.
Her artistic practice thrives within the intersection of studio work and public art, both sharing a distinct hallmark of photorealism infused with a sense of fluidity and motion. She employs a diverse palette of mediums, including aerosol, Japanese inks, and mixed media.

CHRISTINE MARTIN
Exhibition dates. 1 - 13 July 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 2 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Something from Nothing
The moment I stick my hands in the dirt of the garden I feel a connection to this world that makes me feel a belonging to something greater, well beyond my existence. Gardening anchors me to the earth, connects me to this land and opens up mysterious realms within my head that become possibilities in art making.
The plants I’ve grown have become like family members. I’ve dug them in, watered them, marvelled at them when they’ve developed new foliage or grown taller. Watched parrots come in screeching for their flowers, observed the shapes of their seedpods.
Gardening and art are creating something from nothing; a seed or a single idea come from the emptiness of space to think, lifted on the wind they come to land and become something bigger than their beginnings.
This exhibition centres around plants I’ve grown, the native birds they attract and glimpses into domestic life, travelling and the very centre of it all, the body. It’s a thank you to the universe for the flock of twenty new holland honey eaters flitting into the yard to feast on a favourite bush and for the luxury of creating treasures with my bare hands, in a world where everything is made so quickly and there is so much waste.
Christine Martin is an artist working predominantly in pen and ink, creating detailed illustrations that focus on the subject matter of native Australian birds and flowers. She extends her creative practice through screen printing, linocut and painting public murals.
Her garden forms the inspiration for much of her work with plantings of grevilleas, waxflowers, kangaroo paws and flowering gums inviting wattle birds, mudlarks, magpies and the occasional spotted pardalote in, to be watched and sketched as they feed on insects and the nectar.

CONSTANCE HUNTER
PROJECT ROOM : CONSTANCE HUNTER
Exhibition dates. 1 - 13 July 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 2 July 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Uncomfortable in Love is a visual expression of a complex situation. I have fallen deeply in love and our relationship has coaxed me far out of my comfort zone. Each drawing picks apart a feeling, an anxiety, a confusion, a pleasure, and attempts to convey this inner turmoil. Animals symbolise myself and my discomfort. Him and our lust. Envy and the presence of others.
How strenuous to be a monogamous woman in love with a non-monogamous man. How embarrassing and absurd to define this dynamic to the public, but how joyous to spend time with him.
And now I find myself quite comfortable. I am supported, and loved.
Four or so years has been enough time for me to grow trust and nurture a content peace. Only a small piece of grit remains to agitate me, but this skerrick of discomfort keeps me energised and excited.

YIFENG TAN
SPACE 1 : YIFENG TAN
Exhibition dates. 17 - 29 June 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 18 June 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Having left China 32 years ago I had to confront a number of obstacles – learning English, earning a living and coming to grips with a different culture but I had the freedom to paint how and what I wished. Hurdles faced by a migrant in a new country, and difficulties generally encountered in life, are played out many of my paintings with a tongue-in-cheek, sardonic sense of humour some might perceive as being Australian in character, but which no doubt find their real impetus in my experiences of a politically straight-jacketed, tradition-bound Chinese art world.
My art is personal and is a means of understanding what was originally for me an alienating and disturbing environment.
The big bowl motif is central to my latest series of paintings. In this series a number of pink-faced men (as seen in earlier works) are crammed inside and spill over the edge of the bowl. Their situation is precarious and uncertain. It is difficult not to parallel these scenes with the desperate journeys made by refugees.
The figures in my paintings interact in environments in which they are obviously not comfortable. The atmosphere is charged with a continual sense of imminent but understated action. I endeavour to convey this sense of expectation to the viewer so that they may determine the when, what and why of the action. The allusory network each viewer brings to the work is as important as the contents of the images I place before them.
My art is characterised by ambiguity. I pictorially pose the viewer with a list of unanswered questions (or at least intimate the possibility of questions) and yet find the viewer poses their own.
The world I paint is one that speaks of my Chinese origins and of my current home in both Australia and China. I use ambiguity to assist in the articulation (although full articulation is not a desired outcome) of the individual’s place in a multicultural world.

ASTRID LEMPRIERE
WINDOW ROOM : ASTRID LEMPRIERE
Exhibition dates. 17 - 29 June 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 18 June 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Astrid Lempriere is a Geelong-based visual artist whose intricate lino prints explore portraiture, emotion, and the quiet weight of lived experience. Inspired by black-and-white photography and a deep curiosity for human expression, Astrid has developed a distinctive printmaking voice—one that captures the complexity of feeling through the simplicity of carved line and contrast.
This new series of four works—Quiet Panic, See It Through, Recharge Required, and Community Found—continues her exploration of emotional states, drawing from moments that often go unspoken. Each piece presents a figure in a suspended, reflective moment: holding pressure no one sees, emerging from distortion, withdrawing to regroup, or blooming in the company of others.
These works honour the internal landscapes we carry. They speak to the strength in softness, the humour in hardship, and the deep need to be seen and understood. Astrid’s practice—self-taught beyond a Cert III in Visual Arts—is shaped by her neurodivergent perspective, bringing a raw clarity and tenderness to each piece. Her work invites viewers to find parts of themselves in the silence between lines, in the mood behind each posture.
Astrid has exhibited across both regional and Melbourne galleries, earning several highly commended awards. Alongside her practice, she runs lino printing workshops that nurture creativity and connection within the Geelong community.
This series is a celebration of quiet strength and emotional honesty—for those who carry, retreat, endure, and emerge.

JAEDON SHIN
JAEDON SHIN
Exhibition dates. 17 - 29 June 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 18 June 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
10 YEARS OF JAEDON SHIN
Born in South Korea in 1959, Shin Jaedon came to Australia in 2007, after graduating from RMIT University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts has spent his time between Seoul and Melbourne presenting regular exhibitions in both cities.
The bulk of Shin Jaedon’s work comprises figurative paintings of people. His paintings express compassion for his fellow man, with his innate concern for human life being at the heart of his work. By commenting on the plight of human kind, it can be surmised that his paintings are born out of the same concern for the human condition as motivated his participation in the Korean democracy movements of the 1980s. He is driven by deep compassion for ordinary people who are powerless and never truly free - yet living their lives patiently and stoically as a mere speck at an infinitesimal point in time within the landscape of the long course of history. This is equally true of the subject matter of his paintings as it is of socio-political factors in the Korea nation.
His paintings include a range of commonly seen characters around us and the artist draws our attention to loneliness and isolation found even in the hustle and bustle of modern-day existence. Another aspect of Shin’s work delves into socio-political events involving the Korean people in both North and South Korea. The figures appearing in these paintings represent the characters who played a role in those events who, in the end, are just ordinary people going about their lives but who, by virtue of being at that place at that particular time, were swept up in social and political circumstances and became victims of history. The artist’s work can be a gentle expression of sadness and grief for those affected, and as such pays tribute to the nameless people who live their lives in the harsh shadow of history.
However, regardless of the subject matter, the prime motivation of the artist is to communicate with society through his art. Shin’s current works speak through the past and will continue to speak to and challenge people who encounter his work in the future. Wherever we go, may we go with a modicum of sorrow and feel compassion for one another.
CATALOGUE

NICOLE CULLINAN
WINDOW ROOM :
NICOLE CULLINAN
Exhibition dates. 3 June - 15 June 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 4 June 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Nicole Cullinan is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans oil painting, photography, and writing. Grounded in a fine art education with a focus on classical realism, her work blends technical skill with emotional depth. Drawing inspiration from memory, history, nature, childhood, film, and literature, Nicole weaves familiar elements into imaginative, layered narratives. Her approach to world-building is both personal and expansive, offering viewers a space to reflect, feel, and connect.

CARLO PAGODA
CARLO PAGODA
Exhibition dates. 3 June - 15 June 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 4 June 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
This body of work began with a reflection on the parallels I observed between the mystical powers imbued in numerous archaic catholic saints and similar powers exhibited by conjurers, illusionists and circus performers of modern times.
Why were these saints with their beguiling powers venerated by multitudes of worshippers and why our continuing fascination and desire to be captivated?
My search focussed on our need to believe in something that provides some certainty to the innumerable questions surrounding our fleeting existence, and its inextricable link to purpose.
My response, the merging of these existential parallels via a series of canvases reminiscent of side show banners typical of 19C to mid 20C when peak audiences were willingly enthralled by these beguiling performers.
Are we prepared to suspend belief for a time, aware of the non-truths while secretly wishing they were?
Can there be belief without mystery?
Welcome to Circo Cristiano the Christian Circus

SHANNON SYME
SHANNON SYME
Exhibition dates. 3 June - 15 June 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 4 June 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist currently based on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. She graduated with honours from VCA in 2023. Her artistic practice is primarily concerned with drawings, which entail marking surfaces and utilising diverse media to construct immersive installations. These installations materialise as intersecting 'drawings in space', investigating the concept of 'reality as relation' through formal elements as translation. Shannon's perception of the universe is one of being overwhelmed, marked by relentless oppositions and oscillations between extremes, ultimately yielding a vibrational sensation. Her artistic goal is to 'map' this experience.