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Endless Drawing

Michael Fikaris
Endless Drawing
10 June – 21 June 2025
hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm
Saturdays: 12pm – 4pm
admission: Free
…an opportunity to see many of [Michael Fikaris’] automatic drawings together in one place with a selection of recent paintings, prints, sketchbooks…
Endless Drawing is a new exhibition of automatic drawings inspired by a recent trip to the Wakka Wakka regions (Bunya Mountains, QLD).
While my art practice moves through many techniques, it begins most days, outside with nature, automatically drawing onto paper.
Automatic drawing, also known as automatism in art, is a technique where artists suppress conscious control over the creative process, allowing the unconscious mind to guide the drawing.
For this exhibition, I will be revealing processes as part of these automatism techniques, installing a mural in the gallery, beginning Monday June 9, viewable while in progress that week until opening night of Friday June 13.
This is an opportunity to see many of these automatic drawings together in one place with a selection of recent paintings, prints, sketchbooks made from this same process.
Michael Fikaris is an independent Australian artist working at a practice that includes illustration, printmaking and painting. Whether creating a small book or a public mural, each project is considered an opportunity to connect with people and place. Themes of regeneration and change run throughout the confident and prolific output of this experiential artist.
Fikaris has shown widely in Australia and undertaken residencies in France, Portugal, Indonesia and Greece. His work is collected in the National Gallery of Victoria (Living Artists Collection), State Library of Victoria (Artists’ Books Collection) and National Gallery of Australia (Book Arts Collection).
Mural Installation
Tuesday 10 June: 12-5pm
Wednesday 11 June: 12-7pm
Opening celebration
Friday 13 June, 5-7pm