exhibition archive

1 4 - 2 4 : Paintings created by Dominic West between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four.

The paintings in this exhibition are a heterogeneous selection by the artist. There are works from the life drawing room, portraits of his friends, master copies and plein air sketches. The works reflect Dominic's curiosity and willingness to experiment and explore.

TerraFaunaNation is an astro-turfed hilled diorama where different Dinosaur species are arranged in either friendly or antagonistic crowded tableaus.

The stories of place and the process of making layer on layers with traces left behind from where the peels come from are then captured in thick wet malleable resins and pigments, fibreglass and substrata to become a reimagined peeling back of the surface to reveal what remains. The peelings play with chance, surprise and the unknown. What sets into the wet materials becomes part of the artwork and the applied materials are intuitively selected, guided by curiosity and the desire to capture space, and reveal form.

Ballhaus Grünau was a derelict dance hall on the river amongst big houses at the edge of the city in Grünau, Berlin Germany.

This exhibition coincides with the launch of my graphic novel, Still
Alive, which records my experiences of volunteering with people of an
asylum seeker or refugee background in the Villawood Detention
Centre and in studios around Western Sydney and the Inner West
over the last ten years.

Australia's wild and beautiful country has always been an inspiration for Linda Starkey and in this vast expanse she finds portraits of natural objects.

50 per cent to Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative Ltd. Boomali works to support artists by seeking our opportunities for engagement and collaboration on commissions and project. These opportunities provide an entry point for emerging artists to advance and further develop their creative practice, and provide meaningful engagement for their partners and the wider community. For more information visit: boomalli.com.au

Hart Island Dreams is a memorial to the people buried at Hart Island NY due to COVID-19 related deaths. The exhibition culminates in an installation that features over 150 miniature clay cranes that represent the individuals buried on the island in context of a river to symbolise the paths their lives took.

INCARCERATION: Most people who enjoy life find meaning subjectively
through the active rhythm of mental and physical work. They have the freedom
to occupy themselves with the tools and environment where they can create and share
their contribution with others. Incarceration is the greatest punishment because it eliminates
all possibilities of a good life.

The social organisation and coherence of democracy depends on freedom of speech and information.
The contribution of a responsible individual to a society is damaged by censorship and authoritarianism.
Incarceration is an offence to democracy.

Such, also, is the condition of incarcerated refugees. Those who escape authoritarian regimes to seek asylum, who seek sympathy from democracies only to find they are punished as an example to dissuade others who wish to do the same.

Luminous Landscapes evokes a moment for reflection. Renae's compositions are framed in order to direct your view around the canvas to emphasise particular elements in nature, such as the flickering light off water or the changing colours in the sky.

Reflections, geometry and divergences feature in each work, highlighting a paradox in nature: growth favouring the efficiency of patterns but with potentially infinite natural variations - embodying the clash between order and chaos.

Not-for-profit art workshops for people of an asylum seeker or refugee background in the Villawood detention centre and in the Western Sydney
community since early 2011.

'In these clamouring colourful paintings the 'essential or important' bits are mixed in with noisy peripheral interruptions, and artist and viewer are free to decide which is which.' Dirk Kruithof

A celebration of native birds and mammals

Beautiful World

AN INDUSTRIAL GHOST TOWN ON UNCEDED WIRADJURI AND DHARUG LANDS

Femme Fructueuses: Fruitful Woman is a photo series that distorts the female form in grotesque yet beautiful ways. The work invites viewers to question the subject and in turn their own immediate sexualisation of womanhood and femininity.

Juxtaposing the beauty of watercolours with a serious message about political,
economic and ecological questions.

A dictionary definition of Indelible is ‘not able to be forgotten’. One
primary value of photography is its relationship to memory.

Keep on Trucking: Sydney Modern by Jim Anderson culminates in a series of 12 amusing and satirical works that continue the artist's political investigations into over development.

Miniature Worlds is the objecthood of George Washingmachine's imagination in our neighbourhood. The personal nature of each work in the form of an assemblage of things brings with it a strong emotional quality. Each piece has a story.