Off the Kerb - Upcoming exhibitions


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		OPENING NIGHT: Fri 30 Oct 6pm - 8pm \| DATES: 29 Oct - 12 Nov 2026

Darcy Shilton 2026

Marc Renshaw 2026

FRONT GALLERY

SQUEEZE TEST
by Darcy Shilton

CATALOGUE

Squeeze Test explores the slow journey of healing trauma. The sculptures each express an aspect of this chaotic, painful but essential process. Trauma is a dark force to move through. Theintention behind this exhibition is to offer softness, understanding and honesty in this navigation.
My work dissects the crisis that can arise when the body rejects repression. The objects look at how we cope, how we break, and how we endure the storms. It looks at the defences we enlist, the healing that starts from sharing our realities with those we trust. Each piece poses the question of how we ground ourselves when we are wrenched adrift.
This collection of artworks exposes the beauty that lies hidden in the brutality of crisis. When we have the strength to look intimately at pain we see the tiny seeds of hope and if we can hold onto that, then we can survive.

BACK GALLERY

EXPOSED
by Juzpop

CATALOGUE

Exposed explores biophilia: the desire to feel close to nature, even through its image. Shaped by isolation, change and a need for healing, these paintings draw on a longing for the natural world within surroundings far removed from it. Through double-exposure techniques, figures merge with plants, water and light. This layering brings an imagined calm to the lives within each painting, extending an offering of comfort to those viewing the work.
This ongoing exploration of femininity holds protection and vulnerability together. Exposed offers viewers a moment of the calm and connection found in nature, within lives that may leave little room to seek it out.

SIDE GALLERY

REWARD CASCADE
by Marc Renshaw

CATALOGUE

I am a printmaker and use my prints to create assemblages. These works can be viewed as an installation depicting a room of home made trophies, pennants and awards to honour the unheralded maps and souvenirs about journey, not destination in unsettled times.
The mountain motif refers metaphorically to the pursuit of progress, both personal and universal.
I aim for my prints to protrude into space and have movement, to present proof of my making process, loose threads fall, pages curl and bells may ring.
The work is intentionally unravelling, sitting between being finished and being mended, enticing the viewer to consider intervening.

UPSTAIRS GALLERY

The Space Between Us
by Alice Lamont

CATALOGUE

Sometimes, a room remembers someone after they have gone. A glass holds the trace of a drink, fabric falls where a body left it, fruit has been handled and divided, an object waits to be picked up. The Space Between Us lingers on these residues of human presence.
Through still life, intimate observation and chiaroscuro, the paintings consider how relationships can be felt without being pictured. These are not paintings of people, but of spaces, objects and gestures through which connection is experienced. What is left behind becomes a quiet record of who was there and what passed between us.