CURRENT EXHIBITION
24 May / 29 June 2025
Strange Attractor, 2024, oil on canvas, 84 x 80 cm
gallery one
JARRAD MARTYN
Echo
The starting point for this new body of work was the artist’s father’s photo album, which he created during his time working in Antarctica in 1985. As Martyn explored the album, he became intrigued by how the meaning of these photographs and the archive itself evolves over time, evoking new political and environmental associations in the present day.
‘Echo’ marks the introduction of found imagery into this personal archive. Motifs drawn from different contexts and time periods from historical archives, nature magazines and holiday snaps are combined together through digital collage. The resulting narratives take on an uncanny and unresolved quality, continuing to challenge the legacy of our relationship with the landscape.
Martyn’s approach to painting blurs the lines between figuration and abstraction creating a ‘state of flux’ that fosters a more ambiguous sense of place. By resisting precise representation, he encourages the viewer to shift between different modes of thinking and perception, inviting them to make connections and form their own interpretations of the unfolding events and the symbolic meanings embedded within. By leaving these narratives unresolved, Martyn creates space for deeper reflection, expanding the possibilities for interpretation and connection.
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Kings disease (in gout I lust), 2025, oil on timber board, 60 x 50 cm
gallery two
NIC MALACARI
Her Majesty's Motel
Intrigued by conspiracy theories and general banality, Nic presents a series of surreal oil paintings that dissect and probe the monoculture of ‘Her Majesty’s Motel’. Influenced by the storytelling of Gareth Liddiard and Tom Robbins, Nic explores various opposing social ideologies and blends their similarities with satirical humour. Nic’s imagery serves as a gentle reminder that all paths inevitably lead to the same drain, and as we are all circling around it together as members of the human race, we might as well smile and be kind to one another.
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gallery two
microcosm|macrocosm
CARLY FISHER
JUAN FORD
JAMES GEURTS
DESMOND LAZARO
NICK MANGAN
MICHAEL VALE
LISA WAUP
microcosm | macrocosm brings together seven artists whose work explores unique perspectives of our relationship with the universe.
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Ceramic Space
KRIS COAD
Unbound…
These works form part of an ongoing exploration into the concept of journey, thinking about how we protect and preserve what is important to us. These objects are metaphors for the journey we all undertake. The ritualistic layers of wrapping create a protective space, a place that holds and shields. A void lies within these vessels; what was there has moved on, still forms reflecting what was and contemplation of what is to come. An immeasurable space between two things as they transition into and between one to the other.
Kris Coad is a ceramic artist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. She has been a practicing artist for over 30 years, dividing her time between her studio and her work as an educator. Kris alternates exhibition work with large and small-scale ceramic commissions, both within Australia and internationally. She also produces a translucent porcelain tableware range for selected retail outlets and custom designs for haute cuisine restaurants.
Kris has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Korean Ceramic Biennale, Dianne Tanzer Gallery Melbourne, Manly Museum and Art Gallery Sydney, Woollahra Small Sculpture. Commissions include the Paris Peninsula, the Municipal Offices of the Greater City of Dandenong and the Beson office CBD Melbourne. Her work has been acquired for public and private collections, including Icheon World Ceramic Centre Korea, Mino Ceramic Museum Japan Parliament House Canberra, Shepparton Art Gallery, and Manly Museum & Art Gallery. Kris’s work has been featured in many magazines, journals and custom books, including World Sculpture News, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vogue Living and Ceramics Art and Perception International.