Exhibitions

Paintings From Tasmania and the Moon

Ileigh Hellier 26 Oct - 12 Nov 2023 The moon represents creativity, dreams, mystery, intuition, spirituality. All things that are deeply intertwined with making art. Specifically, spirituality informed abstraction and saw many artists painting their dreams and channeling spirits or energies. What I feel when I paint is a creative spirit tearing through me making what can seem... Read more

Human Like You

Kris Andrew Small 26 Oct - 12 Nov 2023 Small’s work swings from joyful celebration to the activist statements of the large work ‘Assume Nothing’. The abstract figures seen throughout Smalls work and this show are his own reflections on queer life, while the abstract halftone works; a series of 8 works that reflect a less literal view but... Read more

Hold It, Hold On

Georgia Hill 29 Sep - 16 Oct 2023 This exhibition pushes my understanding of landscapes into abstract scenes, connecting them with fragments of conversations and writing. These all have resonated or forged something inside me, where composition and contexts come together, clash and form their own place. It's been an opportunity to see new detail, connection and meaning... Read more

Overnight Oats

Robert Bowers 21 Jul - 6 Aug 2023 What coheres this carefully chosen suite of paintings is a sense of connection - whilst there are no figures present in his work, a strong presence is felt - as if everyone has just left to collect their fish & chip orders at the same time. The campsite compositions allude... Read more

The Yellow Room

Jacqui Stockdale 21 Jul - 6 Aug 2023 The Yellow Room is metaphysical space between mind and matter, where the artist and the model enter for a fleeting moment to connect in the studio. Stockdale has ceremoniously painted nude subjects since the infancy of her practice over 30 years ago. Stockdale squeezes the juice from the vision of... Read more

Blue Period

Hiroyasu Tsuri 23 Jun - 9 Jul 2023 Before I painted this mural the museum staff guided me through all of the exhibitions. One of the exhibitions was a recreation of the 'World Expo of the Netherlands' - where they displayed a lot of ceramic works using the famous colour 'Delft Blue'. Whilst I was there I found... Read more

Signs of Life

Tom Civil 26 May - 11 Jun 2023 As a non-Indigenous person I feel it is my responsibility to dig into my own personal history and help to break down these colonial signifiers. I feel as an artist who works in public spaces that symbolism and images matter. They matter in how we live together in this country... Read more

Obuje

Curated by Alison Groves & Ion Fukuzawa 26 May - 11 Jun 2023 The title of this exhibition plays with the slippage of art objecthood across cultures and languages, and circles back to the familiar. Obuje is a category of Japanese ceramics adapted from the French objet d’art by the (now disbanded) Sodeisha movement. It highlights the artistic and sculptural potential of the... Read more

Stop the World I Want to Get Off

James Cooper 27 Apr - 14 May 2023 These works are made up of collected imagery taken from varying sources such as medieval manuscripts, tattoo flash, folk art, packaging design and bootleg pop culture; redrawn to create an ever-developing archive of accumulated content, using collage as a tool to instigate a productive space where new associations between images... Read more

Honey & Stars

Noni Cragg 27 Apr - 14 May 2023 The works in Honey & Stars are inspired by culture, colour and people. This series of portraits reference the compositions of royal subjects in 16th and 17th-century fine art portraiture - with her subjects surrounded by references from nature and popular culture that connect them to their heritage, location, personality,... Read more

Physical Reality

James Bourbon 31 Mar - 16 Apr 2023 Physical Reality is an homage to those childhood days and the possibilities of encounter promised by the physical world. Borrowing from the horror section, my works replicate twisted faces and otherworldly phrases in advertising capslock and haunting typography. There’s a curious tension between the repellent visuals and the enticing tactility... Read more

Belongings

Heath Nock 31 Mar - 16 Apr 2023 ‘Belongings’ reflects upon our deep personal relationships with the objects we choose to keep around us. These objects often act as reminders to memories of places, people and emotions. Their presence can be the foundation for a sense of identity, comfort and belonging. The works in this exhibition are all... Read more

Golden Hands Gallery

17 Feb - 5 Mar 2023 The Golden Hands Gallery was founded in 2015 by Christoph Tornow and Isabella Augstein in Hamburg, Germany. Merging Christoph's experience as the founder and head of Vicious Gallery and Isabella's education as an economist, they set out to realise their goal of building a modern gallery space and community for... Read more