2 - 20 October 2024

Opening Night: Wed 2 Oct, 630-8pm

A Walk in the Black Forest is a selection of paintings from a larger body of work that addresses the search for a level of enlightenment and being able to recognise spiritual identities and their relationships. Uncovering their relationship is to find a moving, shifting procession inhabiting the subconscious.

As in the German tradition of Waldeinsamkeit, solitude is found in the forest. It affords the mystery of an environment where the spiritual and physical intertwine. A Walk in the Black Forest analogously presents an opportunity to access a similar liminal space, engaging with the dark and light to gain an increased understanding of location, both ethereal and tangible.

Different hilltops allow for different views. 

2 - 20 October 2024

Opening Night: Wed 2 Oct, 630-8pm

Why  illustrate a poem?

As a child I loved the illustrated books of Edward Ardizzone, the celebrated British painter/printmaker, war artist /children’s author and illustrator and how the words work together with the pictures to tell the story. Enjoying the magic and play of words and pictures together inspired the illustration of the poem We Are Just.

The lithographs were all produced in 2023 working with master lithographer Petr Korbelar in Prague. The resultant book was bound by Krupka, a family book binders on the outskirts of the Czech capital city.

2 - 20 October 2024

Shirley Ploog is a visual artist based in Barwon Heads, Victoria who is passionate about the environment and capturing the beauty and fragility of nature. 

Walking is a key part of Ploog's art practice enabling her to slow down, to observe and to participate in the beauty of her coastal town.

Her paintings are vignettes of the responses to the coastal wonderland she cherishes. They are intimate, tranquil and calming, inviting the viewers to pause and take a closer look. There is a sense that by slowing down, one might uncover hidden depths and subtleties within the work.

Meandering through her paintings allows the viewer to capture the essence of nature’s experience. Subtle and translucent shifts of colour imbue the works with a presence and reverence for coastal beauty. These pieces celebrate the hidden, the unassuming, the intricate, the fragile – the minutiae of nature’s splendour.

23 October - 10 November 2024

Opening Night: Wed 23 Oct, 630-8pm

The walls were coated with countless layers of white latex paint. Factory space. He knew this kind of room, this kind of building: the tenants would operate in the interzone where art wasn’t quite crime, crime not quite art. 

The title for the body of work is inspired by the book by William Gibson's Neuromancer, the first in the Sprawl trilogy and considered a Cyberpunk genre classic.

The works depict abstract figures who represent Cyber Hackers, present day bad actors with futuristic dystopian and artificial intelligent features, whose main objective is to cause major disruptions in various fields including political, economic and mostly societal.

We have all now become potential targets for this type of nefarious activity as our dependency on technology ever increases.

23 October - 10 November 2024

Opening Night: Wed 23 Oct, 630-8pm

In this exhibition, Paula McLoughlin explores the duality of clouds as objects that are both delightful and deceiving. 

Clouds have long held special place in our collective imagination. As children, lying on our backs, gazing up at the sky, playing games of discovery—finding the familiar and creating narratives, blissfully unaware that clouds serve as both subjects of beauty and destruction, symbols of impermanence and change. They can be threatening and divine. 

Through the exploration of artists who have also looked to the sky, each with their own interpretations to clouds, capturing their ephemeral beauty and inviting us to see beyond their surface, the artist employs methods of digital manipulation to disguise a cloud's origin as being natural or manufactured. Using print techniques of colour separation deconstruction and reconstruction, McLoughlin splits the images apart into their constituent marks or dots and brings them back together. McLoughlin's aim in these prints is to present clouds not as singular snapshots but as impressions of an ongoing transformation.

23 October - 10 November 2024

Opening Night: Wed 23 October, 630-8pm

This collection of works is a continuing study of nocturnal activities within a low-relief format. They represent celestial observations gleaned over the past two years. As with past work, Tagliabue has maintained a primary focus on recycling and minimal construction. Highly-crafted, these objects are framed under glass, which not only guarantees protection, but imbues each piece with a much desired museum-like quality.

13 November - 1 December 2024

Opening Night: Wed 13 Nov, 630-8pm

We’ve all done it. 

From hot summer drives in the back seat of the family sedan to the beach. Long dusty trips to the country visiting Nan at Christmas. Youthful explorations of hiking and camping in the bush experiencing campfires, flies and mozzies. And finally, packing up the ‘van, to do the ‘lap’ and embrace a grey nomad lifestyle. 

These drawings are visions of places, scenes and animals realised in a biomechanical as seen on the long drive northwards from the chilly south. Pack your imagination and travel from a suburban backyard, through cityscapes and deserts across country to the Queensland cane fields.