OPENING NIGHT: Fri 18 Sept 6pm - 8pm | DATES: 17 Sept - 1 Oct 2026
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OPENING NIGHT: Fri 18 Sept 6pm - 8pm | DATES: 17 Sept - 1 Oct 2026
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FRONT GALLERY FAIRY TALES FOR GROWN UPS What will be left when the fairy tales have all gone? Can we rediscover that magical realm? I find that certain places in the bush ignite that wonder. Bungalally Creek, where my brother and I walk the dogs, passes an old homestead. Decaying farm equipment lay scattered. A rusty box sinks into the grey Wimmera soil. On its side is a painted face in the style of Melbourne street artist Kaffeine. Certain images spring forth; faces in the foliage, rabbits in the quiet shadows, a wood spirit drifting passed. How can we open ourselves to them? The spirits don’t speak English.
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BACK GALLERY ALL DRESSED UP WITH NOWHERE TO GO "I sleep in my nicest clothes and cry in my finest jewellery for the devil on my shoulder to see. It dangles my prize like a yo-yo - it hypnotises me. I cannot stop wasting time. If you stare at the wall it stares back at you. Find faces in the peeling paint, hear voices in the hum. But even the roughest hands are softer than 1000 thread count sheets and hot breath is sweeter than a summer breeze. Even you can’t sleep when you're all dressed up with nowhere to go."
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SIDE GALLERY WHAT WE CARRY, WHAT WE BECOME Melbourne-based ceramic artist Lily Rigg explores how identity is formed through the relationships, experiences and expectations we carry. In What We Carry, What We Become, she reimagines the vessel as both a container and a body: a form that holds, connects and changes over time. Forms are joined and expanded into playful vessels that move beyond function. Layered, tactile surfaces hold visible traces of process and accumulation. Balancing vulnerability and fragility with a deep underlying strength, the works consider the emotional roles and structures we inherit and repeat, and the possibility of reshaping what we carry forward.
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UPSTAIRS GALLERY INBETWEEN Coming together Amac & Chehehe ask the question; what is it to be fathers. As Chehehe newly became one and Amac being one twice over; we looked at the dynamic moments in our lives, some emotionally charged, some just a thought and others a scene of experience in relation to the ever moving nature of parenthood. Building on 15 years of painting together on the streets of Melbourne and in the Artshole studio, they built these pieces from the ground up. The Dodgy Paper was made specifically for the show, the Lousy Ink was created from the base of cmyk. The hope is that the viewer can recognise some of these shared experiences and join us on the path that we’ve travelled or will one day encounter.
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