Exhibitions
2024
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Featherbed
Morgan BlueIn near every regard, we are living in a deficit of wonder. Politically, technologically, environmentally, socially, we are bereft. And if genuine wonder does occur, the internet does a capricious job of consuming it and accelerating its journey to critical mass, only to bleach it of its original vibrancy. Through a very small interstice in this malaise comes Morgan Blue’s Featherbed. Adorned in cosmic codes and iconographies from a dreamscape out of time, the paintings in this exhibition arrive as light through a stain glass window.
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Nature of Nature
Mike MakatronThe nature of nature is to survive. Each living thing, plant, insect or animal has its unique methods of reproduction and survival. There exists in this lifecycle both beauty and brutality, the power to both create and to take life.
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I Take Time and Time Nestles Onto My Hip Gladly Like a Tired Child
Pia Gynell-JorgensenThis collection was created with an effort to meditate in a state of cognitive flow, over a year in which significant life events entailed introspection and deeper immersion in painting.
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Floriana
James RekaA junction of humanity and natural forces, "Floriana" represents the intersection of my life with the innate forces of the Mediterranean – people and nature. A metaphor of my artistic journey and stylistic evolution, inspired by ancient customs and the barren natural elements of the region.
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Eastbound
Curated by Dave CourtThis exhibition is kind of a follow-up to a show that we put on almost exactly a year ago in Adelaide (Southbound March 2023, in a gallery upstairs at our shared studio). This was a collection of artwork by 21 artists working on Kaurna country in Adelaide, South Australia.
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B-Side
Mudo & SkolaArtists Skola and Mudo (Brazil) present their exhibition entitled 'B-Side' at Backwoods Gallery, located in Melbourne, Australia. The Exhibition tells a little about the trajectory of the artists who have known each other for almost 15 years, living and working in Sao Paulo, and mixes elements from their shared experiences in graffiti, illustration and graphic design.
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Muscle Man
Lotte FrancesMuscle Man explores the representation of transgender bodies through mixed media; soft sculpture, paint, wood, and plastic. These varying expressions mold together to capture my trans-self-image.
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There Will Be No Flowers
BaxterThere Will Be No Flowers' by Baxter is a retrospective of damage and decay.
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Self X Other
Jasmine CrispSelf X Other is Jasmine Crisp’s debut solo show in Naarm/Melbourne, presents a series of narrative portraits depicting Australian artists that have all influenced or worked alongside Crisp during her life.
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