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  • After the Archive: Park Life

    Amanda Johnson

    Amanda Johnson’s paintings question the fate of the public garden in a context of global warming. How has our physical and cultural encounter with the public garden changed?

  • Since You’ve Been Gone

    Penelope Metcalf

    A series of oil paintings that are based on locations around the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, focusing on old homes, gardens and trees. It won't always be like this.

  • Wilderness: A Natural Response

    Terry Swann

    Renowned contemporary watercolourist Terry Swann’s Wilderness: A Natural Response, is a unique perspective of the contrasting landscapes of remote Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

  • Once was Paradise

    Diane Keating

    A series of oil paintings highlighting the artist's passion for the natural environment and horror at seeing the ongoing effects of climate change.

  • The Delusions Run Thick

    Mark Chu

    Mark Chu embraces the power of fantasy, hollow ambition, and absurdity, in a series of large scale, self-portraits depicting the plural nature of who or what a person can (and cannot) be.

  • reconstructed landscapes

    Annie Burns

    Annie Burns' paintings engage with the sublime natural world and our relationship with it in the face of destruction.

  • SHORT STORIES

    Lisa Sewards

    With a great love for books, Lisa Sewards explored short stories during Melbourne’s 2020 COVID-19 restrictions. Each book turned into a capsule of reflection and hope and has led to this new series of printmaking and painting works that celebrates the short story genre in Australian literature.

  • elemental

    Joan Blond | Aliki K | Bev Plowman | Jo Carroll

    A collection of new paintings exploring facets of landscape and abstraction by Joan Blond, Aliki K, Bev Plowman and Jo Carroll.

  • Retreat

    James Grant

    An exhibition of paintings exploring local landscapes and private domestic environments which have become increasingly important spaces of both refuge and of tension over the last year.

  • Entering the Subconscious: The COVID Works

    Michael Wedd

    Entering the Subconscious is a series of ink paintings that began at the beginning of COVID-19 in March 2020 and continued during the ongoing lockdowns in Melbourne in the intervening months. These works in sequence chart a journey as time in lockdown progressed.

  • monumentum

    John Mezzini

    A series of conceptually abstract paintings based on the physicality of movement of his performance artist subjects, including acrobats and professional dancers.

  • Collins St, 5pm 2020, James Yuncken, acrylic on canvas, 110 x110 cm, 2021-22

    20-20 Hindsight

    James Yuncken

    What does Collins Street look like at 5pm in 2020 lockdown? James Yuncken explores this question, and the wider ramifications of Melbourne's extended lockdown.

  • Hidden

    Dorothy Lipmann

    A series of abstracted portrait paintings focusing on the vulnerability, yet quiet determination and resilience of the homeless women Dorothy Lipmann has come to know through the non-profit organisation Wintringham.