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Marito Rodriguez - And the distance kept going, through the cypress trees*:
18th - 23rd December

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Collage, paintings and assemblages that attempt to paste down landscapes of the artist’s distant self.
 
*19 The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa



Felicity Gordon - Return: 29th Nov - 16th December

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“The first mouthful of each tree’s fruit holds the flavor of soil, the rain, the air and all of the glorious variables of the four seasons of a particular year.”
In Return Felicity Gordon responds to seasonal adaptations caused by a warming climate and our corporeal relationship with nature.   A series of paintings and a site-specific installation charts the beauty of pumpkin plants as they morph from a food source to seed depository.  The plants hover dry in suspension as a kind of eternal garden neither alive nor dead.  They remind us of our close relationship with and dependence on the natural world.
The installation Still draws gallery visitors close to nature as it displays organisms, plants and organic matter glazed between sheets of glass.  The work is a virtuous loop of naturally occurring cycles of growth, decomposition and renewal.
Inga Simpson, Mr Wigg, Hachette Australia, 2013


Katie Eraser and Emma Lipscombe - Tough Luck: 15 - 25th November

Tough Luck is the latest exhibition from two contemporary artists, Melbourne based Katie Eraser and Perth based Emma Lipscombe. Consisting of a series of all new paintings, plus a collection of striking textiles created in partnership by the pair. This exhibition is an exploration of communication that crosses state lines, synergy and energy formed between distant creative forces and the confluence of work making when produced in collaboration, from afar. The connection needed to create a new show between two artists with 3400kms separating them, could be construed as ‘tough’ but the emphasis here instead focuses on the strength to withstand these adverse conditions. Here the artists find inspiration in the difficulty and rest heavy on the ‘luck’ inherent in the situation, which propels them to rally
in the confidence that the partnership will ultimately be triumphant in bringing about great things.

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Tom Civil - Tangled Love: 25 Oct - 11th November

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In this new body of work Tom’s Stick Folk monikers are used as bold paintings representing everyday moments of life and community. The paintings contain stories within stories; small occurrences, intimate moments, group discussions, playing and dancing, moving together and sitting alone and feelings of outrage, grief, boredom, happiness, indifference, love, exhilaration and more.
Placed alongside these paintings are a series of new large linocut and woodcut prints featuring everyday animals and plants, representations of a broader connection to the land and the city.


Lily Holmes - Halo: 11 - 21st October

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Lily Holmes is a painter and storyteller. 
For her first solo exhibition, aloof feminine figures and their companions are adorned with religious iconography and arranged in scenes of quiet domesticity. Vibrant layers of painterly brush strokes are gradually worked into each sheet of canvas to create a voyeuristic, cinematic window into the recumbent folds of the artist’s own memory and fantasy. 
Halo was born out of Holmes’ ongoing need to pictorialize her own desires, fears and insecurities. Within each work is a private narrative that unpacks and re-brands feelings of helplessness, anguish, and abandonment as she takes a vague stab at what it might be like to lead a holier life.


Chris Humphries - Drawn In: 21 Sept - 7th October

Drawing is at forefront of my Visual Arts practice. It is the underpinning for everything that I currently create. The unassuming act of making marks on a piece of paper to create an image, this simple act creates the complexity within the work I create. The instantaneous results from drawing excite me as well as, the natural inclination to experiment when I draw.  My work conveys my passion and dedication towards worthy draughtsmanship.
My core theme is based around the concept of landscape as; a memory and perception. I present my imagery as an emotive response rather than a precise rendering of the landscape.  The backdrop for this work is locales such as Hanging Rock in Central Victoria, Bruny Island in Tasmania and fragments of Melbourne’s rivers and waterways. My fascination with the landscape has lead me to create drawings that explore the ideas formulated from the landscape as well as associated concepts such as identity, historical context, fictional narratives and environmental issues.
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Felix Atkinson - The House Ov Saint Dymphna: 6 - 16th September

The House Ov Saint Dymphna is a new body of work by Felix Atkinson which explores psychological spaces and the indefinable aspects of identity and human emotion. Conceptually, this work aims to capture human experience and feeling as something beautiful and recognisable, but also unsettling and un-narrated. The bodies represented in the paintings experience relationships with those around them, to the physical space they inhabit, to their own awareness and those in the context of a hypnagogic nature. It is from these relationships that there is a realised universality in the expression of human emotion, generating empathy. The visual manifestation of these relationships moves beyond concrete depictions of race, gender and intimate interactions between people. 
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Ode to a Suburban Songbird: 16 Aug - 2nd September

Ode to a Suburban Songbird is a tribute to one of Australia’s favourite birds. Almost everybody has a story about magpies, or someone in their life having to do with magpies. Jess McCaughey loves magpies and set about creating a group exhibition celebrating all things “pie”s, where magpies are explored from different viewpoints and in various mediums. The show includes soft sculpture, illustration, textile, music, painting, jewellery and leatherwork.

​Artists:


Emma Greenwood  emmagreenwoodmakes.com
Jess McCaughey jessmccaughey.com
Cat Rabbit http://catrabbit.com.au/
Evie Barrow https://www.eviebarrow.com/
Anna Walker http://www.annawalker.com.au
Bec Smith www.becsmith.net
Victoria Mason http://victoriamason.com/
Edwina Atkins https://www.instagram.com/eddicut/
Eveline Tarunadjaja http://www.lovexevol.com/
Nicholas Jones http://www.bibliopath.org/
Carly Altree Williams https://www.carlyaltreewilliams.com/
Last Leaves https://www.facebook.com/Last-Leaves-1129428497078191

Lauren Nicholson - A Scattered Shield: 2 - 12th August

​A Scattered Shield is a collection of photographic collages created from time spent wandering in Japan, Thailand, New Zealand and Australia. These works came together from a re-acquaintance with film photography while traveling, born from a fascination with image making and rearranging pictures. 

Printed on silk, photographs and found images of the natural and constructed world are assembled to assimilate a reflection on memory and place. A Scattered Shield is a journal of images taken over the course of two years, taken from time to wander and simply look. 

Lauren Nicholson is a Melbourne based artist working with drawing, photography and collage.
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Jason Hazle - Rites of Passage: 19 - 29th July

Jason Hazle's pictorial language is naturally and effortlessly intertwined by his adaptation of sensuous linear shapes and patterns. He uses colour harmoniously as an evocation of mood and atmosphere. His figures are rendered simplistically to provide a stark contrast to the mysterious, animalistic, mask like faces, revealing his subjects in their entirety, body and soul.
The viewer’s attention is drawn into the psychological embodiment of Hazle's work, insinuated by the re-occurring expressive subjects and constructed environments of man, woman, fertile earth and abstraction, suggestive of ancient archetypes.

Born in Torquay - Hazle was a professional Body Boarder for over ten years where he traveled the world full time, he relocated to QLD where he graduated with a Diploma of Visual Arts and Graphic design Southbank institute of Tafe. He has since moved back to Melbourne and has held regular solo exhibitions in Melbourne and group exhibitions across Australia. Hazle's main influences are Egyptian and African Primitive art, the works of Picasso, Paul Gauguin plus Artist such as Adam Lee, Justin Lee Williams and Scott Anderson.
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Rebecca McCauley and Aaron Claringbold - Speaking to the Surface of a Lake: 5 - 15th July

Speaking to the surface of a lake considers Australian landscape as a narrative of human impact on the environment, focusing on impact post colonisation. Shot across Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia since 2015 the works record transient and seasonal formations of salt in ancient river systems and lakes, and various direct and indirect interventions of human activity. Aaron Claringbold and Rebecca McCauley are emerging interdisciplinary artists currently based in Melbourne. Creating works that are predominantly photo-based the pair bring together shared interests to explore land, land use, ecology and human presence within modern day Australia.
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Elise Hurst: 28th June - 1st July

Girl on Wire exhibition and all-ages launch event of the new picture book by CBCA shortlisted Lucy Estela and internationally acclaimed artist Elise Hurst. Sweeping oil paintings tell the beautifully uplifting story of a girl overcoming her anxiety and facing her fears. She walks the tightrope as a storm closes in but with the support of those she loves, she breaks through the clouds and carries on. Exhibition, live studio installation, book readings and more beneath a swirling cloudy sky. Book Launch event Saturday 30 June at 1pm. Exhibition runs, Thursday 28 June - Sunday 1 July only.
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Noah Spivak - Vestigial Bodies: 14th - 24th June

Born and raised in Vancouver, Noah Spivak is a graduate of Emily Carr University for Art and Design, where he majored in photography and sculpture. As his recent work reflects, these specialties are now applied in installation and curatorial practices. The material which surrounds you has been two years in the gathering. Since moving into his Brunswick studio space, the artist has ceaselessly harvested objects from the area that surrounds Tinning St. Here, they share a new life. Each bares the scars of its bygone function, of its designated utility. But together, these artefacts now converse in a different spatial conversation.


Everything from the organic to the artificial exists as part of something bigger than itself. VESTIGIAL BODIES is comprised solely of these loosened cogs, adapted to misfit concepts that Spivak has wrestled with over his time in Melbourne. The artist’s compulsive urge to collect – objects, relationships, meaning – had reached the point of cumbersome. This exhibition became a necessary purge in the form of construction- and material-based intervention. What the artist and viewer are left with is a belated coalescence of myriad ideas and objects, made one.
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Georgia Smedley - Flood Daughters: 24 May - 10th June

Flood Daughters explores familial grief and absence. This series looks at the complexities of grief and the ways it can be understood through cartography. My mothers mother was as maternal as she was secretive and carried the shame of illegitimate pregnancy and adoption with her to the grave. Flood Daughters maps out the weight that familial grief and secrecy can carry in the years after death, when shame has come to pass.


During the second world war my mothers mother fell pregnant to a soldier from New Zealand. After carrying the child to full term, a private adoption was arranged, as was custom for unmarried catholic women during the time. Flood Daughters seeks to understand and explore grief within the feminine narrative by understanding memory as evidence of absence.


I would like to acknowledge the complexities of grief and landscape, specifically the Australian landscape and it’s barbaric history. I recognise that immense grief and disparity already exists within the locations that I’ve been working on, and would like to pay my respects to the traditional custodians of Wathaurong country. I would like to pay my respects to elders past and present who may view this work.
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Pink Frost: 3 - 20th May

Rebecca Agnew
Hamish Coleman
Alan Ibell
Christine McFetridge
Tim Middleton
Sophie Scott
Talia Smith
Francis van Hout
​Shannon Williamson


Pink Frost is a group exhibition informed by the New Zealand Gothic genre in contemporary art. Taking its name and inspiration from The Chill’s 1984 hit song, Pink Frost delves into the dark and disturbed, exploring the themes of isolation and unease and their influence on how we relate to the world around us.

Pink Frost includes nine New Zealand born artists working across various mediums spanning drawing, painting, film and photography. ​By examining both psychological and geographical landscapes, Pink Frost asks: is there something about growing up on the edge of the world?
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Ralph Bristow - ​Paintervore: 12 - 29th April

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ralphbristow.com.au/

Paintervore is a blazing collection of recent works spanning the last two years.

“The world is awash with visual clichés and fakery. To discover luscious paintings borne of an urgent creative purpose is rare and exhilarating, and this describes the impact Ralph Bristow’s paintings have on me. They are portals into atmospheric spaces where spirited abstraction dances. Bristow’s is a language of looseness, spontaneity, angst, struggle, contradiction and resolution rendered in colour so well judged it’s addictive. This is the alchemy of good art”.
Ingrid Hoffman, Art Consultant
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Kayleigh Heydon - ​Counter-part: 22 March - 8th April

Catalogue
www.kayleigh-heydon.com/

When we see or hear something we never really know how someone else may understand or respond that same stimulus. In our everyday life the way we receive information is so incredibly unique.

I explore this idea starting with a painting and responding to that with a completely different thought process. I was interested in making multi-layered artworks with different mediums, creating the same message in a completely different way. How one person may respond to the painting, another may respond to the installation. It was really about creating a playground of aural, kinesthetic and spatial artworks.

Counter-part is an exhibition about perspective and form. This body of work is inspired by Isamu Noguchi and his 2-D playground designs and their transformation in to tactile experiences.
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Natalie Tirant - Blushed: 1 - 18th March

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natalietirant.com/

Blushed is an exhibition of photographs that examine and celebrate the human body. within the works are landscapes of line, curves and folds of flesh that strip the figures of identity and explore the human body as a sculptural form. These photographs have a strong focus on flesh depicted through tone, texture and shape, and the use of various techniques in order to abstract the body. The incorporation of additional materials that simulate bodily matter combine with human subjects to create a space that consumes the figures within each frame. These interferences of space and framing offer a peculiar stillness, emphasising the absence of both sound and movement.
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Lotte Alexis Smith - Weight of Love: 8 - 25th February


lottealexissmith.com

Weight of Love weaves reality, fantasy and paranoia into traditional notions of romance.
Reminiscent of film stills, the vignettes create a story arc exploring the fetishization of misconstrued feelings of entitlement, dependency and jealousy. The scale of the work perpetuates a sense of grandeur and drama, though ultimately the works capture Smith’s process of unlearning and reclaiming the nuance in love and intimacy.
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Cameron Potts - Realms of Devotion: 18th Jan- 4th Feb


www.cameronpottsartist.com/

Inspired by a series of dreams in Egypt some years ago, Realms of Devotion delves into the mystical and metaphysical realms, this series of intricate paintings by Potts explores some of the possible worlds inhabiting the same time and space as our own.
A collection of snapshots and vistas, of the beings occupying the distant past or an other worldly present. 
It is also a study of the natural order. From the hairs on an insects leg to the vast fields of a supernova explosion. Two different realms of beauty, the micro and macro worlds are one interconnected phenomenon in this series of works.


Join us on the 18th for the opening celebration which will feature a special listening element. Daylight and evening symphonies of insect songs set to electronic compositions will create a layered ambient access to the work.
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2017


Rolando Garay-Matziaris - TRUΣ ΒΛUΣ: 7th - 17th December

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‘TRUΣ ΒΛUΣ’ incorporates digital collage, commercial printing techniques and drawings in order to explore cultural identities, hybridity, received and perceived values; found within the context of multicultural Australia.  Using humour and absurd juxtapositions, the work intends to give the viewer an insight into the attitudes and defence mechanisms adopted by many migrants and their children.
By weaving and fusing elements of Greek and Australian identities together, the work is able to connect and contextualise the imagery; to show that cultural identities are not fixed, but function in a relational way and are always changing.


Rolando Garay-Matziaris is a Greek-Chilean-Australian visual artist based in Melbourne, his work is informed by his cross-cultural identity and experiences.  He completed a Masters of Fine Art at RMIT University in 2016, and has since been working within education, and exhibiting within Melbourne.
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FeMaterialists: 30th Nov - 3rd December

​Alanah Brand
Melissa Scott

Pie Rankine

FeMaterialists, brings together three Masters candidates from La Trobe University’s Visual Arts Program who are exploring various related themes around femininity, gender, social media, representation and habitat.


Alanah Brand works in painting using images sourced from social media and reconfigures these through the painting process. Pie Rankine works across sculptural, painting, drawing and installation based practices,investigating the complex and interwoven nature of relationships between selves and space. Melissa Scott works in photomedia and photography, and investigates the ongoing development of relationships between genders through the material of photo-collage and photomontage. The exhibition seeks to engage with the multiple debates related to feminist art practice in a contemporary visual environment.

​This work was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.
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Shaun Tan: Radius, 9th - 26th November

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Radius presents over 100 small oil paintings of objects and scenes found within a short walking distance of the gallery in which they are exhibited, radiating out from a small laneway in Brunswick, Melbourne: dumpsters, tram passengers, kitchen sinks, boom gates and so on. The most ordinary and quotidian things, and the weather and light that describe them, are beautiful and mysterious, but it is hard to realise this unless we are compelled to stop and study them beyond a passing glance. Visitors are invited to look at the paintings, then take a short walk to consider again the wonder of their immediate radius.
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Annette Chang: Money Matters, 19th October - 5th November

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http://www.annettechangartist.com/


This series of work is a satirical comment on consumer culture. It aims to critique the materialism, advertisement and the role goods play in the construction of our identities.
The browsing, selecting and purchasing of goods has become an incredibly important activity in contemporary culture. As an artist I am fascinated by the array, complexity, and seduction of consumerism. I am equally aware of how insubstantial this façade is and I evaluate these concepts through my art practise.


Claire Macrae Drylie: Abandoned, 28th September - 15 October

claire-macrae-drylie.com


The work in this exhibition 'Abandoned' is inspired by my interest in photography, and also my fascination with the macabre.
I grew up in the Box Brownie era, the photos were tiny, the images grainy and one had to look really closely to get a sense of what was actually going on. My piano teacher subscribed to the 'Illustrated London Times' while waiting for my lesson, I devoured these magazines, for they often contained thrilling grainy images of dead people. Images not found in my mother's favoured magazine, 'The Women's Weekly'. I still remember seeing and trying to make sense of an image of Mussolini and his mistress, hanging upside down from a crude scaffold, surrounded by smiling villagers. A single shoe lying on the ground underneath.

And now, many decades later, I photograph and make work about dark, abandoned and unusual people and places. These photographs are then reconstructed to give the works a narrative of their own.
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Aaron Billings - Off Cuts: 7 - 24th September

www.instagram.com/dillings/?hl=en

Off Cuts is a show of collated scraps from my commercial art practice, re-worked into an exploration of what it means to be an emerging artist in a brand-driven world. As a subject, I loathe capitalism and the murderous global power structures which keep so many in the world in a suspended state of real and illusory debt. But, like everybody else, I have to make money to survive. I do this in part by printing merch and selling it directly. By using second-hand fabric and ethically sourced stock, I try to cause the least harm I can. It was this ethic of minimal harm and minimal waste which first prompted me to start making quilts out of the printing samples I had lying around my studio. Using my limited knowledge of sewing and whatever I had available, I joined piece after piece together, not aiming for straight edges or clean lines. Eventually, I started collecting cut off materials from workshops I ran (which is another way I make money as an artist) to use in my compositions. So they became more deliberate as they went on. This work for me is about being honest about being a working artist and trying to make something beautiful out of waste.

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Time:Form - 24th Aug - 3rd Sept

http://www.radiantpavilion.com.au/timeform.html

Christopher Earl Milbourne

Anastasia Kandaraki
Poly Nikolopoulou
Demitra Ryan-Thomloudis
Khyran Randall-Demllo 
Ruby Aitchison


Rigid structures climb, crumble, erode and reform; organic material is warped, engineered onto skeletal scaffolding; and others sit steadfast, defiant.


Through the eyes of the maker, the conditioning of the surfaces of objects and substrates in the built environment can symbolise the marks and interventions made by time and atmospheric conditions. The fragmentation and manipulation of elements, aesthetics and forms, can be identified and materialised into both wearable and non-wearable objects. Employing these principles, six distinct artists use such objects to explore notions of the geometry, architecture, and a range of conditions that are inherent to and also affect the constructed form.
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Hannah Gatland - ‘Á Víð Og Dreif / Scattered’ : 3rd - 20th August

​hannahgatland.blogspot.com.au/
Hannah Gatland’s practice derives direction from its environment almost by osmosis. While the hand is predominantly guided by process and repetition, ambient light, relative silence and airborne emotional currency cure the subconscious, tempering the mood and attitude of each piece.


Allowing the awe-inspiring landscapes of Reykjavik, Iceland and the natural surrounds to inform her practice, ‘Á Víð Og Dreif / Scattered’ is a body of work reflecting the scenery and atmosphere in which she was immersed. The vast North Atlantic Ocean, severe young mountains, and mossy lava fields were photographed and brought to the studio to be digested and reimagined with Indian ink and lush watercolour pigments on pages from reclaimed Icelandic legal reference books.
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Luke Duncan King - Open Circuit. with Inhabit zine #3 launch: 13th - 30th July

​cargocollective.com/lukeduncanking

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Luke Duncan King’s practice continually considers the virtues of the biro drawing on paper. Obsessive repetition of line work expresses the tension between what is dangerous and exciting in black ink permanency on papers surface. 
Open Circuit explores how portraiture can be used to expose an essential internal presence which exists seemingly at odds with the external facade of subjects when disconnected from the contextual reassurances of the everyday.
http://inhabitzine.bigcartel.com/

​Inhabit 3rd edition Zine and launch (Launch celebration, 3-5pm Sat 29th July)


Inhabit is a publication dedicated to the ekphrastic poetry and prose of writers in Australia. Our aim is to encourage relationships between writers and visual artists within the context of art exhibition. This, the third issue will see ten writers producing work informed and inspired by the artworks of Luke Duncan King. 

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Wendy Korol - Present Tense: 29th June - 9th July 

The heroes of my making are overlooked, commonplace objects such as handles and knobs. We habitually handle them, interact with them visually, and are subtly influenced by their form, their arrangement and their colour. By reinterpreting these objects into abstracted forms I aim to draw the hidden, unnoticed qualities of these simple familiar objects into the viewer's consciousness, to pique his or her curiosity and to reappraise the familiar. Malleable materials such as clay, soft metal foil and mesh are well suited to my quick, intuitive and spontaneous making process. The work comes alive with my impetuous approach to the application of vitreous enamel and paint.
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Noah Spivak - eigengrau: 8th - 25th June

www.noahspivak.com
Born and raised in Vancouver, Spivak’s works offer no personal autobiography. They do not reference photography’s most commercially embraced and socially trusted function: to preserve moments, to invest in memories. Noah’s current processes isolate, break and reconstitute the materials that compose photographs, producing versions of the photographic that present audiences with the distance that can exist between a physical object and a study of visual re-presentation. The objects to be created for eigengrau exist as a series of stress tests applied to the chemistry and materials that produce pictures - photographic processes made into objects that seem threatened by their own physicality.
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Frances Cannon - Niceties: 18th May - 4th June

www.francescannonart.com​
ni·ce·ty
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plural noun: niceties
a fine detail or distinction, especially one regarded as intricate and fussy.
accuracy or precision.
a minor aspect of polite social behaviour; a detail of etiquette.


​This exhibition centres around themes of the body, sexuality, the mind and anxiety, and the pressures placed on contemporary women to act or look a certain way that is socially acceptable. Cannon's work depicts the human condition and aims to draw an emotional response from the viewer by depicting personal and intimate images. Through the lens of personal experience she explores the pressures placed on contemporary women to live up to an unrealistic and outdated standard.  Using a variety of aqueous media to create drawings, incorporating figuration, abstraction and text. Cannon uses playful and intuitive imagery, often with a sense of chaos, and approached each drawing with honesty and vulnerability. 
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Freedom/Uncertainty: 27th April - 14th May



Freedom/Uncertainty is a photo-based group exhibition which features eight artists who apply differing techniques with camera, printing and image manipulation.

Each explore complex narratives in contemporary culture around diaspora/absence, body/identity and the self/personal histories. 
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Artists:
Adrian Carmody (instagram.com/adriancarmody)
Cammi Louisa (isolateddissonance.tumblr.com)
Phoebe Veldhuizen (bratwuurst.com)
Jaclyn Paterson (jclynp.tumblr.com)
Joe Blair (www.joe-s-blair.com)
Sam Biddle (instagram.com/biddle.biddle)
Tristan Price (instagram.com/tristos_q_usedcars)
Alex Dabi Zhevi (moodwar.com
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Belinda Wiltshire - Daydream believer: 6 - 23rd April

​http://www.belindawiltshire.com/


​“Maybe it’s a rose in the suburbs at night, or fingertips lit up by the sun, glowing against the sky, but these little snapshots of a life, my life, they lure me in. And while I’m there, staring, entranced, I am utterly gripped by my own mortality.”
 
In Daydream Believer, her second major solo exhibition with Tinning Street, Belinda Wiltshire presents a body of darkly evocative and cinematic oil paintings.
 
The small-scale works are instilled with a clear sense of place and time, but it’s the information that is withheld that pushes these lucid moments to the fringe of reality and invites the projection of a personal narrative.
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Ross Vaughan - Atom Smasher: 23rd March - 2nd April

ross-vaughan.com/


​Ross Vaughan makes paintings informed by his interests in paradoxes, parallel realities and infinite loops, as they occur in physics, technology, philosophy and the arts.

​"I’m interested in paradoxes, parallel realities and infinite loops, as they occur in physics, technology, philosophy and the arts, but especially in relation to visual culture and art history. In my paintings I often use impossible geometric shapes or juxtapose intentionally mismatched perspectives to simplify (or flesh out) parts of these complex ideas in a visual shorthand. 
I embed my own made-up symbolic language into conventional portraits, often painted from found photographs, to obscure their original meaning and momentarily disorientate the viewer.
My intention is to make paintings that are generous, with a strong attention to technical craftsmanship, that are engaging, and require a level of participation and ‘figuring out’ from the viewer". 
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Kate V M Sylvester - Wear Me: 2nd - 19th March

 www.katevmsylvester.com


Kate V M Sylvester’s contemporary textile work was included in the 2016 VAMFF Cultural Program as a part of Fabrik; conceptual, minimalist and performative approaches to textiles. This year, during the 2017 Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, Sylvester's latest collection of de-threaded garments will be exhibited at Tinning Street Presents in a solo exhibition; 'Wear Me.' A new collection of de-threaded garments, suspended as a reverse catwalk. Using recycled t-shirts as a ready-made art object, Sylvester creates a new textile by meticulously unravelling the web of bonds between warp and weft within the weave of the tee, to reveal the mass of fabric used in each garment. This new textile is malleable and transferable to various forms of contemporary art practise.
For this exhibition, Sylvester has selected tees from two friends; Pete Rowett & artist, Lily Vonk. Their individual style and online personas epitomise the fetishisation of fashion as identity. ‘Wear Me’ celebrates the power of the clothes we choose to wear and their ability to embody our fetishised persona, helping to transform our demeanour, our acceptance of ourselves and how we present our identity to the world. vamff.com.au/event/wear-me/
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Hilary Dodd - Anomalous: 9th - 26th February

hilarydodd.com/

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Anomalous, a new exhibition by Hilary Dodd, consists of paintings which utilise unconventional substances. Through Dodd's unique approach to using industrial mediums she seeks to illustrate the curious pleasures to be found in discomfort. This series sees the manipulation of various materials and mixed media techniques. The abstracted surfaces and unfamiliar textures create canvases in various states of aesthetic decay.
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The Distance Between Things: 19th January - 5th February



Curated by Emma Michaelis
An exciting group exhibition to start off 2017! Featuring the works of Jessica Curry, Charlotte Dayman, Bambi Johnson, Zoë Bastin, Zamara Lea Robison and Jess Gall. The distance between things draws together six multidisciplinary artists, applying sculpture and feminist discourse as its underpinnings to create conversations about the spatial qualities of bodiness and materiality in both subconscious and physical states. The six artists will be working together and individually in a range of sculptural, performative, photographic and untraditional installation techniques to create an expansive, textural experience. This exhibition is an exploration into the functions of materiality and the viewers place in reading an artwork spatially.
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2016


01 December to 18 December

Carla Fletcher

Butterflies Of Metatron

In her third solo exhibition with Tinning Street, Melbourne artist Carla Fletcher will be presenting a new body of work engaged in colour and pattern. Butterflies of Metatron are paintings of vibrant cosmic origin.​
Exhibition Catalogue
Guided visualisation with Jessie Neave
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17 November to 20 November
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​Shaun Tan

Every Place Is The Same Place
 
As a follow up to Tan’s Little Brunswick exhibited with Tinning Street in 2015, this exhibition will feature close to 100 small landscapes painted between 2010 and 2016, featuring various places Tan has visited during that time: Switzerland, Japan, Finland, Mexico, New Zealand, North America and of course the cultural epicentre of the world where he’s been living and working for the past ten years: Brunswick.
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03 November to 13 November

Rosie Did It & Tegan Iversen

Party Time

Party Time is an exhibition of illustrative treats by Rosie Did It (aka Stephanie Rose) and Tegan Iversen. The show promises to be an explosion of playful colour, pattern, and fun. Think fairy bread, cupcakes, balloons, confetti, party hats, and much more!
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20 October to 30 October
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Indigo O'Rourke

Every Ten Minutes

“It’s scary how many people think they want to die, when actually all they want to do is to start living.”
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Indigo O’Rourke’s drawing practice investigates the complex social and cultural issues of our time. The carefully rendered biro drawings in the exhibition Every Ten Minutes document suicide locations within Australia. Her slow and methodical rendering of water from ink is a lonely pursuit that allows her to recall the depth and the layers of human suffering.

Exhibition Catalogue
Exhibition Essay
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06 October to 16 October

Georgia Harvey and  Dawn Vachon

Jam Every Other Day

For 6 months, ceramicists Georgia Harvey and Dawn Vachon have jammed every other day. Through a process of exchange, each has provided the other with material to work with, be influenced by, rebuff or outright poach – all the while pondering the nature of influence and the pervasive artistic drive for originality. This exhibition, bringing together the collated results of this playful exploration, tells a story greater - or stranger - than its parts. 
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This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

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22 September to 03 October

The Seven Seas

I Guess I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
 
As the third solo exhibition by Melbourne based mixed media artist and sculptor The Seven Seas (his second with Tinning Street), I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times moves into an area of abstraction with large-scale graphic works experimenting with optical illusion and colour. This exhibition marks a distinct shift away from previous work, exploring new techniques inspired by ever changing environments.

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08 September to 18 September

Amy Woodward

Honest

Honest is a varied body of photographic work that interprets mundane, domestic situations in a hyper-observant manner, uniting them with diffusions of tepid light and colour. A form of inanimate-object-voyeurism, the images link together through their common curiosity of the unremarkable. 

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25 August to 04 September

Soma

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Emma Michaelis

In her third solo exhibition with Tinning Street, Emma Michaelis' Soma is a body of large-scale coloured pencil on paper drawings which seek to uncover the human relationship to parameters of physicality and the conscious/unconscious link between self and body.
With a focus on female subjectivity, Michaelis' work asks the viewer to redefine their ideas of the location of being(ness), using surface as a definitive juncture which exists between the viewer and the image. Constructing the works life sized is important to the process, questioning individual and shared experiences of being through repeated reconstruction of the figure. This opens up the possibility to discuss the wider human connection to images of corporeality neurologically as well as bodily, and is a theme Michaelis continually finds engaging, encompassing kinetic empathy and sincere responses to representational works within the wider sphere of feminist body theory.

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11 August to 21 August
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A Block Of Flats & Other Places

 
J. Wilson

​Made over the last few years, J. Wilson's A Block Of Flats And Other Places is a watercolour and gouache series of views encountered by the artist around his block of flats. These densely detailed works on paper pay tribute to the beauty of the everyday, amongst other things.

"Josh Wilson’s work starts with “i” (an imaginary number), its focus is 360o, its location is (0,0) i.e. Thornbury, and its conclusion saturated with emotion. To see the world from the perspective of a clothesline, or at street­ level, or thru a window is to look at the world afresh and new. The past is here, ditto the present, and the future seems to bear down on all these scenes with an unforgiving cruelty."  TT.O

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​28 July to 07 August

Kept In Mind


​Cat Rabbit

Kept in Mind is a new solo exhibition from Melbourne textile artist Cat Rabbit. The show incorporates a series of installations drawing from memories, both precious and incidental, brought to life using soft sculpture and hand embroidery techniques.
Cat employs her old faithful materials of felt and linen, along with new forays into hand quilting and printmaking to explore the idea of what is kept in mind, and how it is remembered over time.​
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14 July to 24 July

Wonky

Curated by 
Sophia Cai and Caitlin Shearer

Wonky is a group show inspired by the principles of wabi-sabi – a Japanese aesthetic that celebrates the imperfect and the transient. Taking this idea as a starting point, Wonky is an exhibition that celebrates unpredictability and impermanence, both in art and in life. 

Artists:
John Brooks , Tara Burke , Rachael McCallum , Belinda Evans , 
Luke Maninov Hammond , Niamh Minogue , Zhu Ohmu , Yoko Ozawa , Robyn Phelan , Elise Sheehan , Cassandra Smith ,
Charlotte Watson , Gina Rockenwagner
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Zhu Ohmu "Reclining vessel" Ceramic with Aeonium arboreum, 2016

30 June to 10 July
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Akiko Nagino

Japanese paper-cut artist Akiko Nagino will be exhibiting a select few of her large-scale hand cut paper pieces, which she has produced in her Brunswick studio over the last year. The body of work is based on Nagino’s longstanding interest in patterns found in the everyday; the sky, walls, roads, leaves, vegetables, and insects (especially those which scare her, such as patterns found in butterfly wings).
 
In her art practice, she muses on what a pattern is - beautiful, intimidating, absolute, and distorted. The power of a pattern can draw the observer in, captivate and fascinate them.
Nagino’s love of Japanese culture and training in Japanese lacquer work are evident in her highly traditional and disciplined style.
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02 June to 12 June

Naomi Nicholls and Linda Loh

Deliria

Two artists bonded by their background in painting and interest in abstraction, present gigantic paint-like forms that ignore the constraints of the frame, erupting colour and light all over the gallery walls, floor and ceiling.
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19 May to 29 May

Takahiko Sugawara

Repetitive Nature
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Japanese sculptor Takahiko Sugawara has been based in Melbourne since 2012. For Repetitive Nature, his second exhibition with Tinning Street, he will be presenting a major work taking up almost the entire length of the gallery, and wholly made  from matchsticks. Sugawara makes use of simple geometric forms, which he repeats en masse to form intricate large-scale sculptures. The organic hand-building of individual structural layers brings an entrancing tactile quality to the otherwise austere sculptures.
These ideas of repetition, form, and discipline are rooted in Sugawara’s teenage years where he was in Japan’s number one high school marching band.  The band practised for six hours a day, every day, walking in formation, making lines and shapes whilst playing their instruments . A gap, an empty space, made by a band member's absence, combined with repetition and the shapes they made, have directly influenced Sugawara's ideas of form, layering, overlap and repetition.
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05 May to 15 May

Design & Other and Darren Song

​Biota​

Biota, by Design & Other (Cameron Lofthouse and Monica Placella) in collaboration with Darren Song is a series of works on paper exploring form, colour and shape.
The merging of D&O’s pixelated silkscreen prints and Song’s intricate thread atop paper result in vivid tactile landscapes. Deconstructed elements of flora and their surrounds are interlaced with hand stitched zoomorphic designs. 
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21 April to 01 May

Claire Lefebvre

Luminous Numinous

Luminous (adj): "bright or glowing"
Numinous (adj): "having a mysterious or spiritual quality".

Colour, light and wonderment inform Melbourne painter, Claire Lefebvre's latest solo exhibition ‘Luminous Numinous’. Through the use of poured paint, meticulous lines and delicate pointillism, Claire's works invoke personal moments of discovery. Each pool of layered pigment is an invitation for wonderment, contemplation and meditation. These mysterious, pulsating fields of colour and multiplicity explore a trait that unites us as humans: inherent curiosity.
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07 April to 17 April 
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Josh Fartch

Lacuna

​Recent paintings by Josh Fartch explore movement and stillness in daily life, and the relationship between painting and temporality. Objects forgotten, moments left behind, swept away by the forces of change.
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24 March to 03 April
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Roxanne Colk and Lauren Nicholson

Strange Holiday

Strange Holiday brings together the work of Melbourne based artists Lauren Nicholson and Roxanne Colk in their first exhibition together. Both artists make a return to painting around bonds to childhood, memory and place.
Lauren’s work aims to convey emotion through visions of other times and places and a desire for new perspectives. Figurative and abstract forms mix and meet feelings of escapism and connection.
Roxanne’s work revisits childhood memories and back yard tomfooleries of her hometown of the Gold Coast with a collection of works featuring bright landscapes, surreal natural oddities and animated attractions of the Sunshine State.  
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10 March to 20 March

Eileen Braybrook and John Brooks

Beast Cult

​Beast Cult is a garment collection by collaborators Eileen Braybrook and John Brooks. Knitted and woven garments will be presented alongside printed garments using rudimentary techniques such as finger painting, potato stamping and collage. Inspired by Lovecraftian beast worship, teenage obsessions with séances and the bubble-gum flavour of 90's nostalgia. Soft sculptural objects and occult themed garments with a Goosebumps vibe will come together to form a ritualistic environment well equipped to raise the beast of your dreams to do your bidding.
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25 February to 06 March

Clare Longley

Nut Ice. 
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Nut Ice, a new body of work and debut solo exhibition by Clare Longley explores the seductive differences, as well as similarities between inside and outside, modesty and glamour. With a timidity of touch, the silk and multimedia works reflect upon the relationship between the every day and the intimate, arousing a sense of romance amongst the familiar and the unknown. 

Clare Longley is an emerging artist based in Melbourne, with recent exhibitions including the Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition (2014), The Ladies Exhibition, aMBUSH (2015) and a commission work for Sugar Mountain Festival (2016) in collaboration with Prue Stent and Honey Long.
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11 February to 21 February

Joanna Mortreux and Dominik Frassmann

The Overarching Self.
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A collection of paintings, drawings, and etchings from the two Berlin based artists Joanna Mortreux  (AU) and Dominik Frassmann (DE).
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Acutely observant, somewhat introverted and part fantastical; two artists working in print and paint try to get at the meaning of subjectivity from two completely different vantage points.

​Joanna Mortreux is a Melbourne and Berlin based artist whose works reflect the ancient and otherworldly. Painting in oil on the smooth unforgiving surfaces of Aludibond (signwriters metal) allows every mark, hesitation and all the energy in the brush to be visible to the viewer. In this way the works are able to convey confidence and strength as well as their fragility of feeling. Mortreux also works in photo-etching, a print process using multiple steps including photo image transfer, collage and hand drawn elements, which are layered using acid resist and are etched onto a metal print plate.
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14 January to 31 January

Hillvale in collaboration with Michael Thomas 

Night Works
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Melbourne based photographer Michael Thomas in association with Hillvale presents Thomas’ first solo exhibition from his extensive series Night Works. 
Showcasing a selection of Thomas' works in a collection of large scale lightboxes and the release of his first publication with an essay by Daniel Boetker-Smith of Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive / Photobook Melbourne.
'Night Works' is a series shot by Michael Thomas between 2012-2015. This is the second instalment of 'We Saw It Before You' and the first showcasing a solo body of work.
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2015


03 December to 13 December
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Little Brunswick

Shaun Tan

Little Brunswick is an exhibition of over 50 small scale oil paintings, depicting Brunswick's everyday inner-suburban scenes painted by Tan over the past few years.

"I've been painting little oil sketches of local environments since the age of thirteen, when I saw a show of Arthur Streeton's 9x5 landscapes painted on cigar box lids. These unassuming miniatures seemed to capture entire worlds, and I've always aspired to do the same. I rarely exhibit my own sketches, regarding them only as painting exercises, somewhat removed from my other work as an illustrator, writer and film-maker. Ironically, this actually makes them very good subjects for an exhibition! There is a freshness and honesty about them, and kind of loose purpose that is often hard to emulate in larger projects. Since moving to Melbourne in 2006, this work has also helped me build a personal connection with a new landscape, particularly Brunswick, which has its own kind of light and time-worn, cobbled-together personality. Most of the paintings in this show depict places within a few kilometers of my home, noticed incidentally while walking, driving, shopping, toddler-wrangling and every other kind of non-artistic day-to-day activity. I hope you enjoy them!"
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Shaun Tan Catalogue

19 November to 29 November
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Reconstituting The Reclining Female

Stephanie Leigh

Reconstituting the Reclining Female is an exhibition that critiques the historical practice of painting the female nude.
The overlapping of lines and re-construction of the female form suggest a type of rebuilding quality to the female body, informing a feminist analysis into the damages that occur from women being represented by others for thousands of years.

Whilst the artwork references a kind of traditional art movement, the flat bold colours within this exhibition speak of the now, therefore allowing us to discuss how the historical female reclining nudes function today and their role in creating the “ideal female” of the 21st century.

Leigh directly references traditional female figures throughout art history and brings them in to the now within her de/re-constructed forms and flat bold colours.
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05 November to 15 November 
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I Knew This Would Happen

Mick Turner

Known for his use of form and colour, in this body of recent paintings Turner has set out to boldly express the present utilizing themes on life, death, landscape and psychedelia.
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urner spends much of his time on Philip Island and is endlessly fascinated by coastal life, from the minutae to the mega view of it. He has possibly even been in the fantastic world he depicts in his paintings. The universal idea of a natural world that embraces us and holds us are here in his works, the imaginarium of the real.
- Text by Caroline Kennedy
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22 October to 01 November

As it is

Roz Avent

In As It Is, artist Roz Avent explores her relationship to the landscape near her home in Central Victoria. "My aim is to create an image that gives the viewer a sense of place. Through the use of marks and tone I want the viewer to experience the particular sensations theses places elicit in me. The dry grass underfoot, the surface of rocks, bark and water, the weight of the rock formations and the time of day. Visually I am drawn to contrasts: in light and shade, texture and form. The underlying theme of my work is struggle. Whether it is the struggle to find the image, the struggle of displaced people as in my previous work or the struggle to negotiate a difficult and sometimes hostile environment as in these landscape drawings. "
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15 October to 20 October

Camera Obscura

Tinning Street Presents

For four days Tinning Street will transform the entire gallery into a walk in Camera Obscura.


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24 September to 05 October

Cloth

Lucy Selleck

An exploration of Melbourne’s criminal faces, drawn on to handkerchiefs as an interpretation of Hispanic prison artworks called 'Paño Art.' Paño, which translates to ‘cloth,’ started as a way for prisoners to communicate with each other and the outside world. They used prison issued handkerchiefs that were less likely to be confiscated and would draw pictures on to them, mailing the home to loved ones. In ‘cloth,’ Crimestoppers identikit portraits are cut out from newspapers and drawn on to found handkerchiefs to create portraits; simple line drawings to heavy shading, no mouth, no eyes, depending on what the victim recalled.     
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10 September to 20 September

Ritual Failure

Nadia Toukhsati

Created over the past two years, Ritual Failure is a body of recent illustrative paintings threaded together under the tangible themes of love, sex, loss and grief. The themes are reduced and stylised into simple pictorial devises that are perhaps explicit in manner, but certainly ambiguous in meaning.
Woven amongst detailed geometric designs, Toukhsati utilises symbolic hands and eyes to serve as the emotional 'heavy-lifters' of the series. She lets her sharp sense of humour shine as she explores the irrational language of metaphoric symbolism. 
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27 August to 06 September

Launches

Andrew Hustwaite

Success, Failure & the long road out.. Launches is a manifest of Hustwaite’s recent expedition into the Martian landscape of the Sturt Stony Desert, launching artifacts into the driest region of Australia. The exhibition will feature photographic works taken during the expedition and select sculptures.
A geological zone so utterly ancient that regular parameters of time, its supply and demands, cease to exist. Into this boundless present are offered sculptures derived from the fundamental structures of our physical world; forms that exist as a product of innate elemental forces.
A presentation of the concept through photographs, sculptures and topography, and an acknowledgment of the trials and tribulations inherent to its Quixotic nature.
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13 August to 23 August

Opening reception Thursday 13 Aug, 6-9pm

Found

Emah Fox

An exploration of the uncertain environment through light, sound, and sculpture. Patterns found within chaos, creating synthetic skin and shelter. Through a series of multimedia installation works, Found examines the space between the synthetic and organic, the material and immaterial, the corporeal and non-corporeal, the porous and the impermeable, the sheathed and the vulnerable. Themes of disconnectedness, vulnerability to the environment, and lack of foundation are played against the way overwhelming sensorial experience is processed into order through perception of pattern, repetition, comfort. 
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30 July to 09 August

Kalopsia

Monique Barnett

Barnett's painting's traverses through the tactile images of the luscious fashion and gossip magazine. Models and celebrities that are deemed to hold marketable value by the the paparazzi and press are framed, captioned, and airbrushed. These magazines create and disseminate celebrity beauty and popular culture. In Barnett's paintings these figures are homogenised, no longer identifiable cultural stars, simply well known body's and faces inhabiting place beyond the ordinary. They come-together occupying a vibrant hyper-coloured sphere where delusion and beauty contend. 
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16 July to 26 July

Mesh

Alison Bennett

Mesh is a playful investigation into the presence of surface in digital images by Alison Bennett. The exhibition is the culmination of Bennett's research project at the Deakin Motion.Lab. The work intertwines Bennett's personal history with emergent trajectories in digital imaging technologies. From a meditation on the digitality of her grandmother's floral carpet, through augmented reality tattoos, to an immersive head mounted display, the presence of surface shimmers, emerges and breaks apart.
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02 July to 12 July

SRS ART, OK

Daisy Lewis-Toakley

SRS ART, OK, is a satirical dialogue commenting on contemporary art culture and trend. It uses paint-based installation to explore conceptual art and its effect on the audience.
SRS ART is a response to audience isolation as a result of esoteric concepts, it inverts conceptual art to an obvious, statement driven, accessible experience. Through absurdity and irony, it opens the floor to allow the audience to engage in a commentary on their own art experiences. SRS ART was born out of a cheeky rebellion against conceptual art. The playful result centers around the question, is conceptual art isolating to a non-art audience?

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18 June to 28 June

WELT

Andy Wear

"In 1985, I serendipitously discovered art. As punishment for a round of fisticuffs on the school bus, I was consigned to the seat next to the driver for six months. My disappointed mother suggested I use this time in constructive contemplation, and handed me a copy of E.H. Gombrich’s The Story of Art. As I leafed my way through the tome I decided that that was what I would do, and an artist is what I would be.
Now, I appreciate that during the course of my practice I have made many errors of judgment. This body of work is a dutiful reflection on those errors of judgment, how they have come to shape my aesthetic, and an attempt to right some wrongs. " AW.
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04 June to 14 June

Time and Stillness

 Josh Fartch

As conquering time and distance have become important to modern society, our environment has come to be interpreted by degrees of immobility and movement, acceleration and deceleration.
Working alongside a team of contemporary dance choreographers led Josh Fartch to consider movement and stillness in daily life - and how this can be perceived through the relatively still two-dimensional surface of painting.
This series of abstract works draws on the surrounding space. The dynamic, physical process of painting is laid bare, reflecting cycles of change seen elsewhere: growth and decay, and entropy and emergence.
Each painting breaks from the previous and new forms emerge creating an organic, living feeling. This connects the viewer to the passing of time and sense of continual change that permeates the everyday.
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21 May to 31 May

Alien Artefacts

Vittoria Di Stefano

Alien Artefacts continues an investigation into the poetic relationships between materiality and the self, and the implications of the material encounter. 
Employing liminal studio processes that are temporal, conjectural and provisional, and using a materiality that is mutable and sometimes unstable, the artist engages in an intimate archaeology to unearth the vestige of a personal, interior terrain.
The emergent objects represent markers in a fragmented landscape, an environment that is in a state of becoming. The resulting installation reflects the self as intrinsically malleable - in a state of coming into being-ness.
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07 May to 17 May

RGB

No One Special - Grace Blake, Kat Martin, Emilia Pike, Danny Wild, Julian Hocking, Ben Joan, and Jason Galea.

As the first curated show by Coburg indi publishing house No One Special; RGB is an exhibition of works responding to the theme of RGB (Red, Green, Blue). 
This theme acts as a self imposed constraint and over-arching aesthetic that each of the 6 artists take and apply to paint, print, 3d, sculpture, video and installation works. As part of opening night X in O (Kat Martin) and Low Flung (Danny Wild) will be performing live.


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23 April to 03 May

Nosebleed

Ross Vaughan

Showcased in this recent series of oil paintings is Vaughan's traditional portraiture background and Pop Art sensibility.
Nosebleed is about seizing/ relinquishing control of the painting medium and the weirdly intimate experience of transforming pigment and oils into flesh and blood.

 

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09 April to 19 April

Potential Objects

Chris Henschke

Inspired by Henschke’s art residencies at the Large Hadron Collider and Australian Synchrotron, Potential Objects is a collection of mixed media artworks which play with energy, materiality, and our relationships with technology, through charged and unexpected combinations of everyday objects with new and obsolete scientific and technical devices.
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26 March to 05 April

Tateru

Takahiko Sugawara & Paul Gorman

Tateru (to build) explores ways in which two artists Sugawara (Japan) and Gorman (Melbourne) culturally interpret notions of building, fabrication and adaption, through sculpture, photography and installation.

Sugawara’s broad wall reliefs and freestanding structures deploy an entourage of recycled timber shapes and forms, which repeat, layer and overlap, creating waves of intricate rhythmic patterns.

Gorman juxtaposes iconic domestic objects with various photo-based images. Fixed and moving, Gorman comments on the building blocks and residues of places that mark, move and renew our connection with locality.
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12  March to 22 March

Object Without The Matter

The Seven Seas

Object Without The Matter is the second major solo show by Melbourne based artist The Seven Seas. He draws and sculpts characters imbued with a deep sense of sleepy serenity. In this body of work, The Seven Seas explores larger sculptures and installations, turning 2D work into three dimensional objects that explore consciousness, perception, emotion and observation. 



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26 February to 8 March

Rough & Cut

Abigail Varney

Rough & Cut presents a series of photographic works that capture the beauty of Coober Pedy and it’s unique outback surroundings.  A desert town that stands alone under the scorching sun, once thrived solely on opal mining but has now tired of the resource and formed an all-new layer of intrigue.  The pivotal characters
that once lived, their presence lies underground in spacious dugouts opened for the dwindling tourist trade.
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12 February to 22 February

The Black Witch of Maatsuyker Island

Nicole O’Loughlin

The Black Witch of Maatsuyker Island is an exhibition of amulet and talisman paintings fabricated from flora and fauna of Maatsuyker Island, Tasmania.
O’Loughlin manifests the natural protective spirit of the island through the fictitious character of the Black Witch.  Historically, sailors and fishermen identified the island as Black Witch Island, perhaps believing in some dark magical force present in the area.  The works are inspired by the artist’s time on the island during a three-month Wilderness Arts Residency.

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29 January to 8 February

Paint & Clay

Esther Olsson & Steve Drew

Artist and designer Esther Olsson has teamed up with ceramicist Steve Drew. The duo will bring together their works to form an exhibition of spatial relationships. Olsson through line and colour, and Drew using shape and surface.

Paint & Clay; harmony and contrast; abstract and figurative; in the two and three-dimensional realm.

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22 to 25 January

35ppm

Lloyd Stubber & Bloom Publishing

Bloom Publishing is proud to present their first submission-based exhibition, 35ppm, a print on demand experiment showcasing photographic work from around the globe, produced on site by Bloom's mono laser printer.
The exhibition will feature a single A3 print by 30 artists; with each work sold to be printed on-the-spot throughout the entirety of the show.

Following the show will be a publication featuring the work and exhibition process.
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2014


4th - 14th December

The Flat Earth Society.

Keith Deverell


The Flat Earth Society, by Keith Deverell is an installation of video and mixed media works.
Represented as a chaotic deliverance of lost horizons and disappearance, encounters with the separation and subjugation of landscape, dystopian expositions, riot, revolution, disassociation, darkness and dromology. 
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Kallie Turner & Joel Ritchie
20th - 30th November
I’ve Lived a Thousand Lives and I’ll Live a Thousand More.
Inspiring awe in 2013 with their installation and sound piece Songlines, the multimedia duo are back to once again transform the perceived internal reality of Tinning Street.
I’ve Lived a Thousand Lives and I’ll Live a Thousand More is an immersive video/installation work exploring the path of devotion and transcendence as it moves through multiple incarnations.

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Emma Michaelis
6th - 16th November
We Are, I Am.
In this, her second solo exhibition with Tinning Street, Emma Michaelis showcases a series of recent large-scale, intricate colour pencil drawings on paper.
The works form part of a larger ongoing series investigating the nature of being and the human connection to the parameters of physicality.


Matt Siwerski
23rd Oct - 2nd November
Meditations.
Siwerski’s experimental textile based works bring together aspects from the realms of drawing, digital design and sculpture, blurring the line between traditionally separate  2D and 3D mediums.

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Jessie Scott & Lorraine Heller-Nicholas
9th - 19th October
Romance Traces
The romance novel takes the central focus of both artists’ current work.
Photographer Jessie Scott looks at the physicality and intimacy with which these books are experienced and the creation of a community of readers which has evolved over time.
In Heller-Nicholas’s new drawing work, elements of text and image intersect to present moments of romantic possibility within a greater narrative.

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Joanne Sisson
25th Sep - 5th October
Worlds Within Worlds.


We Saw It Before You.
Photographs From The First Year Of Hillvale
18th - 21st September
Opening Thursday 18th, 5-9pm

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Nicholas Blackmore & Marito Rodriguez.

4th - 14th September
Light Paper Work.

Husband and Wife team, Nick Blackmore and Marito Rodriguez collaborate in a show of installation, sculpture, lighting design and collage.

Sam Leach
21st - 31st August
Some Animism.

Experimental sculptural and sound work. Some Animism, touches on ideas around the projection of mind onto technology, and the implications of panpsychism and polypsychism. 


Cat Stuff

14th - 17th August (four days only, 11am - 5pm)
A pop up shop for cats and cat lovers.
Featuring new work from:

ABLE AND GAME : ALICE OEHR : BECI ORPIN
CAMILLA ROGERS : CAT-RABBIT : CLAWS

ELENA KING : EILEEN BRAYBROOK 
ELISE WILKEN : GEORGIA PERRY
GEMMA PATFORD LEGGE
GEMMA FLACK : JEREMY PIERT  : KIRSTEN PERRY
KITIYA PALASKAS : LAURA MCKELLAR 
MEGAN MCNEILL: MICHELLE MACKINTOSH
RY WILKIN : WITU


Stephen Baker
31st July - 10th August

Opening FRIDAY 1st AUGUST
6 - 9pm

Returning to Tinning Street after a solo exhibition in 2012, visual artist and illustrator Stephen Baker will be showing his new work with us, and we couldn't be more pleased to have him back.

The foundations of Bakers acrylic paintings are his brilliant use of line and colour, and as a whole hark back to the days of the Bauhaus where clever use of simplicity was key.


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Gina Gascoigne
Sieglinde Hopkins
Mary Jane Walker

17th -27th July
Opening
Thursday 17th July
5-8pm

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Magic Happens
19 - 29 June

Patrick Hamilton
Catherine Tipping
Lucas Golding
Anita Spooner
Murray Barker
Fred Mora
Jessica Honey

Digital production has bestowed us with speed and accuracy which in the recent past effaced the personal details of non-computer enhanced work. The re-emergence of the hand made has been a response to the presence of technology in everyday life.

The group show ‘Magic Happens’ is interested in taking traditional processes and re-contextualising them into the culture of now. How do we experience art in terms of its processes as a spectator? 

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Grace Crawshaw-McLean
&
Tim Buckovic

22nd May - 1st June

Sculpture ; Painting
22nd May - 1st June
Opening ; Thursday 22nd May
6-9pm

Grace Crawshaw-McLean and Tim Buckovic, recent graduates from Monash Art, Design, and Architecture (MADA) were selected from the 2013 graduate exhibition as recipients of The Tinning Street Student Award.

From a broad range of work in diverse media, the artists  immediately gained our attention for their subtle but certain use of space and the elegant dialogue created between them.

FIGURE ONE, FIGURE TWO.
8 - 18 May
Simon Aubor
&
Caitlin O'Grady

A two part exhibition featuring photographic film works by Simon Aubor and Caitlin O'Grady.

The two photographers have come together under the theme of the body in relation to it's immediate environment.
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DOMESTOS
April 24 - May 4.

Christopher Jewitt
Becky Richards
Josh Simpson
Charlotte Watson

Four artists from Leslie street studio '2 three A' in Brunswick, have pulled together to explore the nature of 'Domestos' as they know it.
Through a variety of mediums, they each attempt to illuminate moments of poetry, humour and aesthetic beauty that can be found in one's everyday home environment.
The collective has worked together to create an immersive, gallery wide installation, offering abstract echos of the special breed of ambiance found in a home.



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