26 February - 16 March 2025

Opening Night: Wed 26 Feb, 630-8pm

The works in this exhibition are gatherings of people in an unidentifiable landscape. They sit/stand and interact by sharing the space – but mostly they inhabit it in their own world. As Bain-King paints, he looks to capture their take on this place/their universe, fascinated as he is by people and the way we all sit in our own subjectivity. But he is also fascinated by the way we all carry our burdens, hopes and sensitivities. And this sits like body memory within us all.

Bain-King's intention is to not work in a particular style – although he does. Instead, he draws most satisfaction from employing processes that uncover hidden understandings and ideas. To do this, the artist paints as if he's in a conversation with the canvas. It is not something he controls, instead he enters in to it. And hopefully, it takes him and the viewer, on a journey – to places unrecognised – or forgotten. The artwork sits in its own world with its own climate and reality.

26 February - 16 March 2025

Opening Night: Wed 26 February, 630-8pm

Following on from the solo exhibition in August of last year, RhD+ II continues TJ Bateson's exploration of the creation of work looking into the altered states of difference.

Having survived a 10 year battle with Mantel Cell Lymphoma, Bateson is now loaded with a new immune system, powered by new blood made possible by the stem cell donation by daughter, MayRose Bateson. This body of work explores the structures and patterns of DNA mapping, bone structures and more.

26 February - 16 March 2025

Opening Night: Wed 26 Feb, 630-8pm

Caroline Kennedy maps a personal journey through the beautiful landscape of Shallow Inlet in the South Gippsland region, exploring themes of contemplation and reflection. 

This body of work is a diaristic journal, drawn from Kennedy’s many years of daydreaming at the Inlet. Kennedy explores how the light reflects in the tidal waterways and records them at different times of the day and seasons. 

Kennedy loves to examine the reflected and refracted light in her landscape painting; whether through reflections in water or glass or how shadows may be cast according to the nature of their source, Kennedy studies specular reflectivity. 

19 March - 6 April 2025

Opening Night: Wed 19 Mar, 630-8pm

This exhibition is inspired by the fascinating era of social change and popular entertainment.

The Roaring Twenties refers to the 1920s decade in music, fashion, design as it happened in a post-World War I western society and western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe.

Jazz blossomed, the flapper redefined the modern look for women and art deco peaked. They would dance the Charleston, the shimmy and the bunny hug. The women would go out in public without chaperones and attended speakeasies where they drank and smoked. The liveliness of the period stands in marked contrast to the historical crises of the decades either side and there was a mood of exuberant optimism.

19 March - 6 April 2025

Opening Night: Wed 19 Mar, 630-8pm

This exhibition includes a progression between works that lean toward the abstract and works that lean toward the representational. 

The unifying threads throughout these works include, but are not limited to, my intrigue with colour and line, text and sound, and my love of the trees in the Australian bush. The messy Australian Bush. The unorganised, unordered and reaching-for-the-sky Australian bush with its horizontals and verticals, calmness, vastness, colours, textures and sounds. Landscapes of extremes. 

I make these works to remind me that there is beauty, intrigue and surprise in our world despite the ugliness, cruelty and fear that is also prevalent.

9 April - 4 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 9 April, 630-8pm

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