2019
26th September - 13th October
No Exit
Chris Hamnett, Corinna Berndt, Rachel Ang, Chloe Rose Taylor, Zhonghao Chen, Gaby Montejo, Ross Vaughan,
Pip Ryan, Emily Galicek and Megan Archer.
Opening Sept 26th from 6pm.
In this group exhibition curated by Tinning Street Presents, ten artists come together to explore the absurd. From personal narratives through to piles of food, No Exit explores how the absurd can be found between humour, horror, dreams and the extreme.
Delightfully funny and erring on taboo, No Exit invites you to look, and laugh, at ourselves and the wider world.
Image: 'Desert Moon' by Megan Archer. Collage, 360 x 395mm, 2018.
17th October - 3rd November
Gallery One: Vanessa Howells, Garth Howells, Lina Buck - inACTION
Opening Oct 17th from 6pm.
In inACTION Garth Howells, Lina Buck and Vanessa Howells reflect on transitional, reassembled and misremembered states. The exhibition examines impermanence through the transformation of material, memory and artefact. The works draw attention to the importance of process and assemblage in the creation of meaning by resisting prioritised points of view or moments in time.
Image: Vanessa Howells, 'Woman In Another Landscape, A modern history of Art',
34.5 cm x 43 cm Pigment print on Cotton Rag.
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The Canning Room: JB Knibbs - Reconstructing Home
Opening Oct 17th from 6pm.
In Reconstructing Home, JB Knibbs presents a series of photographs of fabricated home interiors, challenging the veracity of both personal memory and photography. Reconstructing Home explores the domestic space as a site of tension between nostalgia, expectations, idealisation, imposed narratives, and the reality of home.
7th - 24th November
Gallery One: Brian Cheung - Where are we now?
Opening Nov 7th from 6pm.
Where Are We Now? is a new body of work drawing on Brian’s past few years of travel and time spent abroad. The drawings presented represent a consolidation of past experiences as a means of understanding Brian’s own motivations, anxieties and impulses as an artist.
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The Canning Room: Marion Abraham - The End, And I Saw Its Beginning Too
Opening Nov 7th from 6pm.
lush / history / cranked up / orchid / fall / action / damask / chain / violence / lost / shadow / treeline / burning bush / rot / earthly / delight / detail / chorale / birth / garden / wilde / trouble / tacki / water / crazy found / damage / told.
In quiet moments, I think about history. If I keep thinking, it starts to feel alive and I forget my time. Sometimes I can almost smell the old world, when it is rank and heavy, but also when it is soft and beautiful. Push my brain harder, fall deeper, I see into the future too. Out of my place, and beyond my day.
The End, And I Saw Its Beginning Too is a series of twelve small oil painted works on canvas, embedded with a surface of copper leaf.
28th November - 16 December
Gallery One: Ralph Bristow - The Cycle on Circle
Opening Nov 28th from 6pm.
In The Cycle On Circle Ralph Bristow shares a bright, sensual and wildly transporting vision, in which dimensions are subverted, spontaneity trumps tradition and colours enter into delightfully unexpected associations. A loose dancing application of paint opens boldly layered depths, and while emergent forms suggest the urgency of energy unleashed, an aggressive expressivity is deployed toward the apprehension of finely perceived and newly minted mythologies.
The Canning Room: Jordan Wood - Twofold
Opening Nov 28th from 6pm.
Twofold considers a series of dualities; the performed and private self, fragility and permanence, the familiar and the obtuse. A wall of ceramic masks and an exhausted theatre curtain, the props for a performance perhaps past, maybe yet to be played. Janus is at the threshold, looking inwards, looking out.