Current to May 25:

THE DISTANT EDGE
Leah Teschendorff 
John Teschendorff

May 3rd – 25th, 2024
THE DISTANT EDGE | LEAH TESCHENDORFF & JOHN TESCHENDORFF

THE DISTANT EDGE | LEAH TESCHENDORFF & JOHN TESCHENDORFF

April 24, 2024

THE DISTANT EDGE Leah TeschendorffJohn Teschendorff May 3rd – 25th, 2024 Catalogue L & J Teschendorff The Distant Edge Leah Teschendorff Equanimity. This is what the grids, this is what the colours bring me. The ability to maintain a deep sensation of inner calmness, stillness and even-mindedness when dire external circumstances threaten to over whelm. … Read More

Recent Exhibition:

LACHLAN STONEHOUSE

 GRID VARIATIONS

Apr 5th – 27th, 2024
LACHLAN STONEHOUSE | GRID VARIATIONS

LACHLAN STONEHOUSE | GRID VARIATIONS

March 15, 2024

Lachlan Stonehouse Grid Variations April 5th – 27th, 2024   Lachlan Stonehouse, is an artist working across painting, drawing, and collage. In recent works and for his exhibition Grid Variations he explores innovative methods of constructing a canvas support prior to its painting. One such methods involves adhering lengths of roughly cut linen to specifically crafted wooden substrates. Once complete the painting support evokes a … Read More

PROJECT SPACES

Current to May 25:

May 3rd – 25th, 2024 
ANTONIA SELLBACH | CONVERSATIONS WITH FORM

ANTONIA SELLBACH | CONVERSATIONS WITH FORM

April 24, 2024

Antonia Sellbach Conversations with Form May 3rd – 25th, 2024 ANTONIA SELLBACH Catalogue Through the method of collage, this series brings together materials such as wood, clay, plaster, hydrostone, sand, acrylic paint and oil pastel to explore serial groupings of abstract form and their intrinsic dialectic qualities. The action of amassing a set of abstract … Read More

BRONWYN MORTON | PUZZLE

BRONWYN MORTON | PUZZLE

April 24, 2024

Bronwyn Morton Puzzle May 3rd – 25th, 2024 Bronwyn Morton Catalogue Bronwyn’s recent works continue her ongoing inquiry into the art making process through geometric abstract explorations in a series that she refers to as simply, “puzzle like”. Composing these geometric abstract artworks involves entering a restricted world to undertake a challenge of arrangement and … Read More

EVA STIMSON CLARK | BEYOND CONTROL

EVA STIMSON CLARK | BEYOND CONTROL

April 24, 2024

Eva Stimson Clark Beyond Control May 3rd – 25th, 2024 EVA STIMSON CLARK Catalogue The exhibition, “Beyond Control”, features a series of wall pieces where Stimson Clark continues developing abstractions from repurposed materials. This collection of paint on canvas evolves from the artist’s ongoing fascination with processes of dissection and rearrangement, that allows found colour … Read More

ROBIN KINGSTON | EXPERIENCE OF THE EVERYDAY

ROBIN KINGSTON | EXPERIENCE OF THE EVERYDAY

April 24, 2024

Robin Kingston Experience of the Everyday May 3rd – 25th, 2024 Robin Kingston Catalogue Each of the artworks in this exhibition has its genesis in objects and situations from my everyday life whether it is a sequinned evening purse made by my grandmother, rugs in the house, the birch trees through a bedroom window decorated … Read More

PROJECT SPACES

Recent Exhibitions:

April 5th – 27th, 2024 
JULIE SHIELS | MAKING STRANGE

JULIE SHIELS | MAKING STRANGE

March 19, 2024

Julie Shiels Making Strange April 5th – 27th, 2024 JULIE SHIELS Catalogue Making Strange is a snapshot of images captured when the selfie function on a mobile phone is turned away from the self and directed at the world around us. When this popular and often narcissistic mode of photography is upended, the familiar becomes … Read More

CAMILLE CHAPMAN | ALL MY FRIENDS AND EVERYONE IN MY LIFE (WHO I LOVE)

CAMILLE CHAPMAN | ALL MY FRIENDS AND EVERYONE IN MY LIFE (WHO I LOVE)

March 19, 2024

Camille Chapman All My Friends And Everyone In My Life (Who I Love) April 5th – 27th, 2024 CAMILLE CHAPMAN Catalogue Camille Chapman is a Melbourne/Naarm based non-binary artist with a film and painting practice. Graduating from Swinburne University of Technology with a Bachelors of Film and Television (Honours) in 2021, Camille has since turn … Read More

INGMAR APINIS | COMPRESSED, REPRODUCED, RIPPED, REMIXED

INGMAR APINIS | COMPRESSED, REPRODUCED, RIPPED, REMIXED

March 19, 2024

Ingmar Apinis Compressed, Reproduced, Ripped, Remixed April 5th – 27th, 2024   Compressed, Reproduced, Ripped, Remixed considers the idea that life in the digital age, where the virtual/physical binary is breaking down, mirrors the fluidity of the Queer experience. For Queer individuals, long accustomed to challenging and transcending binaries, this dissolution of boundaries is familiar … Read More

JULIE VINCI | INTEREST OF CONFLICTS

JULIE VINCI | INTEREST OF CONFLICTS

March 19, 2024

Julie Vinci Interest of Conflicts April 5th – 27th, 2024 JULIE VINCI Catalogue Interest of Conflicts is an exhibition of experimental new paintings. Presenting as abstract oil paintings I see these works as figurative representations of real objects. These objects are based on dirty and stained rags and pieces of cloth. Highlighting the very real artefacts … Read More

FIVE WALLS STOCKROOM

Established in 2023, the Five Walls Stockroom presents a diverse collection of artworks by represented and affiliated artists, with carefully considered works from both local and international artists. Artwork undergoes a biannual rotation, ensuring that the available works are regularly updated. Complementing our ongoing exhibition program, the Five Walls Stockroom presents work with a distinct focus on Abstraction, Reductive, and Non-Objective art.

Stockroom Featured Artist:

Michael S. L. Vandorpe

HYPHA_E CATALOGUE ESSAY

by Corinna Berndt
March, 2023

Last year, an article suggesting that fungi might communicate with each other using words went viral. British computer scientist, Andrew Adamatzki proposed that mushrooms have their own computational language, comprising of a vocabulary of approximately 50 words, which they transmit in the form of electrical signals via their interconnected mycelium networks……

 

 

ABSTRACTION ESSAY

by EMMA LANGRIDGE
February, 2023

In 1968, the National Gallery of Victoria opened its doors on its inaugural exhibition, The Field. This was a landmark event: a comprehensive survey of abstraction in Australia…….

 

PAST EXHIBITIONS & ARCHIVES

MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2024 | PJ HICKMAN

MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2024 | PJ HICKMAN

February 18, 2024

PJ HICKMAN MELBOURNE ART FAIR BOOTH H2 February 22nd – 25th, 2024 MAF 2024 PJ HICKMAN Catalogue PJ HICKMAN Extended Catalogue   PJ Hickman is renowned for his conceptual approach and witty articulation of a reductive Minimalist aesthetic, combined with a formalist conceptual approach to painting. He uses a playfully sophisticated blend of art historical … Read More

COLLAPSING SPACE | HELEN SMITH & JEREMY KIRWAN-WARD

COLLAPSING SPACE | HELEN SMITH & JEREMY KIRWAN-WARD

January 16, 2024

Collapsing Space Helen Smith & Jeremy Kirwan-Ward February 2nd – 24th, 2024 Helen Smith and Jeremy Kirwan-Ward Catalogue Main Gallery Historically, concrete and non-objective art have adhered to the notion of non-narrative. Within the conceptual premise for the exhibition, both artists have used layering, stacking and slumping to alter readings of space between planes, on … Read More

mono.poly.chromes

mono.poly.chromes

January 16, 2024

mono.poly.chromes curated by Misuzu (Missy) Ueda and Aaron Martin February 2nd – 24th, 2024 MONO.POLY.CHROMES Catalogue Project spaces 1 & 2   Adrien Allen (VIC), Raymond Carter (VIC), Richard Dunn (NSW), Kerrilee Dixon(VIC), Craig Easton (NZ), Michael Graeve (VIC), Billy Gruner (NSW), Melinda Harper (VIC), Jason Hartcup (VIC), Zhejun Huang (CHN), Kyle Jenkins(QLD), Sarah Keighery (NSW), Simon Klose (VIC), Tom Loveday (NSW), Aaron Martin (VIC), Sarah Robson (NSW), Stefanie … Read More

LET THE SUNSHINE IN

LET THE SUNSHINE IN

January 16, 2024

Let The Sunshine In Hannah Cooper (NSW), Lucia Dohrmann (SA), Jilly Edwards (UK), Amanda Ho (VIC), Kay Lawrence (SA), Sara Lindsay (VIC), Misako Nakahira (Japan), Robyn Phelan (VIC), Jacqueline Stojanovic (VIC), Cheryl Thornton (VIC) February 2nd – 24th, 20224 LET THE SUNSHINE IN Catalogue Project Space 3   Let the Sunshine In represents 10 multi-generational female … Read More

VOIDS

VOIDS

January 15, 2024

VOIDS Aaron Ashwood, John Elcatsha, Rosanne Freak-Poli, Isaac Lizardo, and Lilly Skipper. February 2nd – 24th, 2024 Project Space 4 Voids exhibition contemplates the possibilities of space, through processes of intervention and temporal assemblage. Artwork arrangements and performative gestures will take forms specific to site, embracing translating metaphors of the habitually unobserved. Artists consider notions … Read More

RAYMOND CARTER | IRREGULAR POLYGONS

RAYMOND CARTER | IRREGULAR POLYGONS

October 24, 2023

Raymond Carter Irregular Polygons October 25th – November 11th, 2023 Raymond Carter Catalogue   In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott published his satirical, mathematical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, an adventure narrated by a Square using a world (Flatland) of two-dimensions to describe the social absurdities of Victorian England. He created a land populated … Read More

ANNA HOYLE & FRANKY HOWELL | CHROMAKRILL

ANNA HOYLE & FRANKY HOWELL | CHROMAKRILL

October 24, 2023

Anna Hoyle & Franky Howell Chromakrill October 25th – November 11th, 2023 Anna Hoyle & Franky Howell Catalogue Franky Howell and Anna Hoyle present new works on wood and paper from 2023. Both artists share a love for flat, high chroma colour and simple but often complicated shapes. Both work near each other and Franky … Read More

THALIA ROBERTSON | SYMBIOSIS

THALIA ROBERTSON | SYMBIOSIS

October 24, 2023

Thalia Robertson Symbiosis October 25th – November 11th, 2023 Thalia Robertson Catalogue This series of paintings demonstrates my ongoing interest in emergence and morphogenesis. Influenced by my recent work in horticulture I have shifted from emblematic landscapes to the abstract and molecular as imagined with this exhibition. The art practice in congruence with botanical studies … Read More

SCOTT ANDERSON | WALK AROUND THE MONUMENT ONE MORE TIME

SCOTT ANDERSON | WALK AROUND THE MONUMENT ONE MORE TIME

October 24, 2023

Scott Anderson Walk Around the Monument One More Time October 25th – November 11th, 2023 SCOTT ANDERSON Catalogue Walk Around the Monument One More Time is a deeper dive into a reductive process through a “what’s on offer” mentality. Repurposing old works, utilising found objects, non-art materials and subsequently drawing on memory, architectural and sign … Read More

FOUR SQUARE

FOUR SQUARE

October 24, 2023

FOUR SQUARE Aaron Martin Craig Easton Emma Langridge PJ Hickman October 25th – November 11th, 2023 FOUR SQUARE Catalogue Four Square is a curated group show presented in Gallery Four, by four artists and considers all things square.

IAN WELLS | NEXT

IAN WELLS | NEXT

October 4, 2023

Ian Wells Next October 4th – 21st, 2023   Next is an exhibition of new artworks by Ian Wells. These multi-panel works explore different ways of painting with irregular colour, and broken surfaces. Varying opacity is used as a compositional device, as are interrupting and inscribed lines, and colour washes. Painted in the past year, … Read More

JESSIE STANLEY | DIATOM

JESSIE STANLEY | DIATOM

October 4, 2023

Jessie Stanley Diatom October 4th – 21st, 2023 Jessie Stanley Catalogue _A window into the abyss of deep time _Anti-monuments to the universe in an eternal state of change _Transitory arrangements of ancient fossilised remains This series of anti-monuments are proposed as momentary suspensions of the eternal and universal state of change. Drawing on 15th … Read More

NICHOLAS MELLEFONT | WALL-SPACE

NICHOLAS MELLEFONT | WALL-SPACE

October 4, 2023

Nicholas Mellefont Wall-Space October 4th – 21st, 2023 Nicholas Mellefont’s art is site generated. His work consists of two gestures that act together as the engine for the work. One, an architectural intervention and two, a painted projection. Through a receptive encounter with the site, Mellefont selects a particular characteristic of the space and constructs … Read More

PETER LEIGH | THE NEW WILDERNESS

PETER LEIGH | THE NEW WILDERNESS

October 4, 2023

Peter Leigh The New Wilderness October 4th – 21st, 2023 PETER LEIGH Catalogue This body of work forms part of an ongoing investigation into the use of internet search metrics as the basis for making non-objective paintings. The paintings are generated from fragments of visualised data based on global internet search activity for trending news … Read More

CHRISTIAN BOK | MONA LISA MUJI

CHRISTIAN BOK | MONA LISA MUJI

October 4, 2023

Christian Bök Mona Lisa Muji October 4th – 21st, 2023 CHRISTIAN BOK Catalogue ‘Imagine a painting that smiles just once in a billion years.’ — Yoko Ono Christian Bök, the fabled author of Eunoia, has turned his attention to Art, taking inspiration from the playfulness of Fluxus (particularly the conceptualism of Yoko Ono). Mona Lisa … Read More

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