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Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell,Indya Pearce andKeely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell,Indya Pearce andKeely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Please Join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th May 6-8pm

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.

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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell,Indya Pearce andKeely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Please Join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th May 6-8pm

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.

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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell,Indya Pearce andKeely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Please Join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th May 6-8pm

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell,Indya Pearce andKeely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Please Join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th May 6-8pm

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell,Indya Pearce andKeely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Please Join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th May 6-8pm

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Up next: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis
26 May - 6 June

Please join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th 6-8pm

Indya Pearce is a visual artist based in Naarm, working across painting, photography, textiles and drawing. Her practice centres around recontextualising ancient mythologies, drawing parallels between archetypal narratives and contemporary issues. Through layered depictions of the body and portraiture, she explores themes of identity and relationships, navigating social, political, and internal struggles.

Grace Mitchell is an artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne, working in an expanded painting practice. She primarily uses oil paint and also explores the structural qualities of wax. Her current works centre on an archive of photographs her mother took across Europe in the 1990s that depict mould, fog, ruins, and the processes of damage that occur across long periods of time and present themselves on objects in the world. Through material experimentation, Grace employs these processes of damage in her works by engineering the appearance of mould or sun damage onto an artwork. Her work engages with themes of decay, artificial or genuine, as well as the stories that objects hold via their material appearance.

Keely Varmalis is an interdisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts, where she specialised in Printmaking and Sculptural practices. Her work has been showcased in prominent galleries, such as Useful Objects, West Space and Craft Victoria. In addition to her visual arts practice, she has contributed to a range of performance projects in collaboration with other artists, presenting work at Station Gallery and Project8 Gallery. In 2022, Keely was honored with the Fan the Flames Acquisitive Scholarship, and her work is now permanently displayed at the Wilin Centre, University of Melbourne. Enamoured by the sensitivity of glass as a material, Keely began training at r.a.g.e. Hot Glass Studio in 2023.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery

Up next: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis
26 May - 6 June

Please join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th 6-8pm

Indya Pearce is a visual artist based in Naarm, working across painting, photography, textiles and drawing. Her practice centres around recontextualising ancient mythologies, drawing parallels between archetypal narratives and contemporary issues. Through layered depictions of the body and portraiture, she explores themes of identity and relationships, navigating social, political, and internal struggles.

Grace Mitchell is an artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne, working in an expanded painting practice. She primarily uses oil paint and also explores the structural qualities of wax. Her current works centre on an archive of photographs her mother took across Europe in the 1990s that depict mould, fog, ruins, and the processes of damage that occur across long periods of time and present themselves on objects in the world. Through material experimentation, Grace employs these processes of damage in her works by engineering the appearance of mould or sun damage onto an artwork. Her work engages with themes of decay, artificial or genuine, as well as the stories that objects hold via their material appearance.

Keely Varmalis is an interdisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts, where she specialised in Printmaking and Sculptural practices. Her work has been showcased in prominent galleries, such as Useful Objects, West Space and Craft Victoria. In addition to her visual arts practice, she has contributed to a range of performance projects in collaboration with other artists, presenting work at Station Gallery and Project8 Gallery. In 2022, Keely was honored with the Fan the Flames Acquisitive Scholarship, and her work is now permanently displayed at the Wilin Centre, University of Melbourne. Enamoured by the sensitivity of glass as a material, Keely began training at r.a.g.e. Hot Glass Studio in 2023.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery

Up next: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis
26 May - 6 June

Please join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th 6-8pm

Indya Pearce is a visual artist based in Naarm, working across painting, photography, textiles and drawing. Her practice centres around recontextualising ancient mythologies, drawing parallels between archetypal narratives and contemporary issues. Through layered depictions of the body and portraiture, she explores themes of identity and relationships, navigating social, political, and internal struggles.

Grace Mitchell is an artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne, working in an expanded painting practice. She primarily uses oil paint and also explores the structural qualities of wax. Her current works centre on an archive of photographs her mother took across Europe in the 1990s that depict mould, fog, ruins, and the processes of damage that occur across long periods of time and present themselves on objects in the world. Through material experimentation, Grace employs these processes of damage in her works by engineering the appearance of mould or sun damage onto an artwork. Her work engages with themes of decay, artificial or genuine, as well as the stories that objects hold via their material appearance.

Keely Varmalis is an interdisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts, where she specialised in Printmaking and Sculptural practices. Her work has been showcased in prominent galleries, such as Useful Objects, West Space and Craft Victoria. In addition to her visual arts practice, she has contributed to a range of performance projects in collaboration with other artists, presenting work at Station Gallery and Project8 Gallery. In 2022, Keely was honored with the Fan the Flames Acquisitive Scholarship, and her work is now permanently displayed at the Wilin Centre, University of Melbourne. Enamoured by the sensitivity of glass as a material, Keely began training at r.a.g.e. Hot Glass Studio in 2023.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery

Current: Making Light: New Lighting Works by B-TD

Melbourne Design week

19-23 May 2026

Making Light is B-TD’s presentation of new lighting works, designed and built in their Broadmeadows studio. The pieces are shown publicly for the first time, alongside the materials and parts that shape them, from early material experiments through to freshly machined components.

A scaffold structure forms an enclosed room within the gallery space, creating a more intimate way to experience the lighting. A series of small participatory workshops run during the exhibition, using off-cuts from their production process to make simple homeware objects, facilitated by the B-TD workshop team.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Current: Making Light: New Lighting Works by B-TD

Melbourne Design week

19-23 May 2026

Making Light is B-TD’s presentation of new lighting works, designed and built in their Broadmeadows studio. The pieces are shown publicly for the first time, alongside the materials and parts that shape them, from early material experiments through to freshly machined components.

A scaffold structure forms an enclosed room within the gallery space, creating a more intimate way to experience the lighting. A series of small participatory workshops run during the exhibition, using off-cuts from their production process to make simple homeware objects, facilitated by the B-TD workshop team.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Opening tonight: Making Light: New Lighting Works by B-TD

Melbourne Design week

19-23 May 2026

Please Join us for the opening celebration Tonight 21st May 6-8pm

Making Light is B-TD’s presentation of new lighting works, designed and built in their Broadmeadows studio. The pieces are shown publicly for the first time, alongside the materials and parts that shape them, from early material experiments through to freshly machined components.

A scaffold structure forms an enclosed room within the gallery space, creating a more intimate way to experience the lighting. A series of small participatory workshops run during the exhibition, using off-cuts from their production process to make simple homeware objects, facilitated by the B-TD workshop team.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Top Shelf: Milla Weideman

On view for the month of May

This series brings together six figurative paintings that move between spontaneity and deliberation. Gestural, responsive mark-making sits alongside an attention to light, colour, and structure. The work considers how the formal language of painting can contain or intensify the intimacy of the nude.

The images are drawn from personal moments, leaning into a sense of exposure. They hold fragments of lived experience: private, tender and awkward, moving between incidental encounters and explicitly charged ones without distinction. This body of work traces something both specific and shared: a sensual, tactile awareness of the body.

Milla Weideman is an artist based on Boonwurrung Country (Mornington Peninsula), Victoria. Her practice is rooted in observational painting, drawing from familiar spaces and personal relationships. Her work is shaped by a negotiation between perception and expression, holding elements of formal design in tension with gesture and ambiguity. In 2024, she received the inaugural No Vacancy Annual Award.

link in bio for catalogue of available work.

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#Todomelbourne
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#Melbournecbd

Top Shelf: Milla Weideman

On view for the month of May

This series brings together six figurative paintings that move between spontaneity and deliberation. Gestural, responsive mark-making sits alongside an attention to light, colour, and structure. The work considers how the formal language of painting can contain or intensify the intimacy of the nude.

The images are drawn from personal moments, leaning into a sense of exposure. They hold fragments of lived experience: private, tender and awkward, moving between incidental encounters and explicitly charged ones without distinction. This body of work traces something both specific and shared: a sensual, tactile awareness of the body.

Milla Weideman is an artist based on Boonwurrung Country (Mornington Peninsula), Victoria. Her practice is rooted in observational painting, drawing from familiar spaces and personal relationships. Her work is shaped by a negotiation between perception and expression, holding elements of formal design in tension with gesture and ambiguity. In 2024, she received the inaugural No Vacancy Annual Award.

link in bio for catalogue of available work.

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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Now showing: Making Light: New Lighting Works by B-TDfor Melbourne Design week

19-23 May 2026

Please Join us for the opening celebration Thursday 21st May 6-8pm

Making Light is B-TD’s presentation of new lighting works, designed and built in their Broadmeadows studio. The pieces are shown publicly for the first time, alongside the materials and parts that shape them, from early material experiments through to freshly machined components.

A scaffold structure forms an enclosed room within the gallery space, creating a more intimate way to experience the lighting. A series of small participatory workshops run during the exhibition, using off-cuts from their production process to make simple homeware objects, facilitated by the B-TD workshop team.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd

Final day: SURFACE TENSION

Sebastian Zylinski, Elizabeth West and Christina Rankin

28 April - 15 May

Surface Tension brings together artists Sebastian Zylinski, Elizabeth West and Christina Rankin to examine how surfaces operate as sites of pressure, inscription and trace. Across installation, textile, photography and painting, the exhibition considers how urban, environmental and institutional systems shape form, behaviour and perception.

Working across different materials and scales, each artist attends to the ways structures become visible through their effects. Sebastian’s work examines urban environments at the point of abrasion and decay, attending to overlooked surfaces shaped by cycles of neglect, development, and renewal. Elizabeth’s installations explore the tension between organic and constructed worlds, using fabric, photography, and found forms to veil and reveal the ways environments are mediated and framed. Christina’s hybrid textile-paintings turn attention toward institutional structures tracing how systems imprint themselves onto bodies through repetition, discipline, and expectation.

Together, the works create a dialogue about how structures operate across different scales: from the city, to the environment, to the body. Rather than treating these as separate domains, this exhibition considers how pressure accumulates and becomes legible through material form. Through residue, concealment and accumulation, form becomes a site where power is made legible. Within this, a tension is sustained, inviting consideration of how these forces shape what is seen, and what remains obscured.

Link in bio for catalogue of available work.
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Final day: SURFACE TENSION

Sebastian Zylinski, Elizabeth West and Christina Rankin

28 April - 15 May

Surface Tension brings together artists Sebastian Zylinski, Elizabeth West and Christina Rankin to examine how surfaces operate as sites of pressure, inscription and trace. Across installation, textile, photography and painting, the exhibition considers how urban, environmental and institutional systems shape form, behaviour and perception.

Working across different materials and scales, each artist attends to the ways structures become visible through their effects. Sebastian’s work examines urban environments at the point of abrasion and decay, attending to overlooked surfaces shaped by cycles of neglect, development, and renewal. Elizabeth’s installations explore the tension between organic and constructed worlds, using fabric, photography, and found forms to veil and reveal the ways environments are mediated and framed. Christina’s hybrid textile-paintings turn attention toward institutional structures tracing how systems imprint themselves onto bodies through repetition, discipline, and expectation.

Together, the works create a dialogue about how structures operate across different scales: from the city, to the environment, to the body. Rather than treating these as separate domains, this exhibition considers how pressure accumulates and becomes legible through material form. Through residue, concealment and accumulation, form becomes a site where power is made legible. Within this, a tension is sustained, inviting consideration of how these forces shape what is seen, and what remains obscured.

Link in bio for catalogue of available work.
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Final days to see: SURFACE TENSION

Sebastian Zylinski, Elizabeth West and Christina Rankin

28 April - 15 May

Surface Tension brings together artists Sebastian Zylinski, Elizabeth West and Christina Rankin to examine how surfaces operate as sites of pressure, inscription and trace. Across installation, textile, photography and painting, the exhibition considers how urban, environmental and institutional systems shape form, behaviour and perception.

Working across different materials and scales, each artist attends to the ways structures become visible through their effects. Sebastian’s work examines urban environments at the point of abrasion and decay, attending to overlooked surfaces shaped by cycles of neglect, development, and renewal. Elizabeth’s installations explore the tension between organic and constructed worlds, using fabric, photography, and found forms to veil and reveal the ways environments are mediated and framed. Christina’s hybrid textile-paintings turn attention toward institutional structures tracing how systems imprint themselves onto bodies through repetition, discipline, and expectation.

Together, the works create a dialogue about how structures operate across different scales: from the city, to the environment, to the body. Rather than treating these as separate domains, this exhibition considers how pressure accumulates and becomes legible through material form. Through residue, concealment and accumulation, form becomes a site where power is made legible. Within this, a tension is sustained, inviting consideration of how these forces shape what is seen, and what remains obscured.

Link in bio for catalogue of available work.
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#Australiangallery
#Qvmelbourne
#Novacancygallery
#Melbourneart
#Todomelbourne
#Contemporaryartgallery
#Melbournecafe
#Artlovers
#Melbournecbd