2020:
Please note that due to Covid-19 measures, the gallery is
currently closed.
Date TBC
Gallery One: Geoff Hogg, Alasdair McKinnon, Paul Candy and Nick Blackmore – Two Lines and Three Blocks
This project began in Cuba researching the question: “How can the character of the rail line, its surrounding communities and the experience of the journey help us understand and contribute to expanded sites of social engagement, dialogue and creativity?”
Originally built around two rail lines - the famous Hershey line linking Havana to the sugar town of Matanzas explored in the video created by Paul Candy and Geoff Hogg - the exhibition focuses on the Upfield line connecting central Melbourne to its northern suburbs.
Emphasizing movement, portability and change, it includes cartographic works made by Geoff Hogg from materials found along the line, three travelling cases to contain them crafted by Nick Blackmore from a discarded Japanese instrument box, and an intricate carrying bag, enabling them to be easily moved created by Alisdair McKinnon. All four artists are connected to the site through workplace, home and the experience of everyday life.
The Canning Room: Hope Lumsden-Barry - LOOM
LOOM is an ongoing series of 'weavings' created using python and photoshop. Presented as prints, LOOM explores the demateralisation of making; the historical relationship between programmable looms and computer science; and the design approaches of the Bauhaus weaving workshop. Drawing upon these lineages, LOOM positions the computer not only as a tool but as a site for making: as a communal workshop or personal studio, in and of itself.
Date TBC
Gallery One: Charlotte Watson – Genius Loci
Genius Loci follows Watson’s exploration into an old Latin term referring to the ‘spirit of the place’. Through drawing and storytelling this exhibition explores the sites of various meetings; history and the sea, trees and the self, and Watson’s
unfolding understanding of home.
unfolding understanding of home.
The Canning Room: Adam Boyd - An Endless Succession of Monsters
An Endless Succession of Monsters is a set of drawings that take their impetus from the moment of realisation when a system or language allows its own inner working to embrace the inevitable flaws created by itself; or not.