Exhibiting Now

Treasured Memories

8 March – 7 April

Combing impactful use of colour and sentimental nostalgia, Brianna Fantis’ provides a safe and exciting space for reflection. Fantis has found comfort in photographing moments, keeping them from wandering and becoming lost in mind. ‘Treasured Memories’ are some of these photographs. They are enhanced in hues connected to emotions, often positive, staying close in memory and experience.

This shared picture book of times spent with family and friends, traveling overseas and even the pure simplicity of the everyday, any day, today, is vulnerably shared in an act of strength and openness by Fantis.  Colour can resurface core memories that feel like a warm hug, these works encourage you to experience them, showing us that as humans we all have more in common than not.

Meet the Artist
Saturday 16 March at 1pm
A great opportunity to meet the artist in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

Exhibition Opening
Friday the 8 March at 6pm
Gallery will be open 5:30-8:30pm

Image: ‘I needed a break from socialising to look at the pretty bathroom lights’ (detail) by Brianna Fantis

 
 

OUTSIDE X 10
Woorabinda: An Interpretation of Place

8 March – 7 April

Woorabinda Bushland Reserve gives up her secrets as ten En Plein air and studio based artists explore landscape as truth or fiction, either representational or somewhere between abstraction and ephemera

Works by: Maxie Ashton, Jan Brown, Vivienne Byrne, Rae Chapple, Jan Finlayson, Heike Haffer, Gaynor Hartvigsen, Sue Heinemann, Kathy Hoffman, Renata Rozenbilds.

Meet the Artist
Saturday 16 March at 1pm
A great opportunity to meet the artist in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

Exhibition Opening
Friday the 8 March at 6pm
Gallery will be open 5:30-8:30pm

Image: ‘Discordant Harmony’ (detail) by group artists

Upcoming Exhibitions

Embedded

12 April – 5 May

‘Embedded’ follows on the conversation from Margaret Ambridge’s last major solo exhibition, ‘Becoming Invisible?’. ‘Embedded’ explores female agency, capacity and aging through the lens of translucent dressmaking tissue and making, choosing to draw on materials that have already had a life and where the materials and their history imposes itself on the mark making. Dress making tissue has a skin like delicacy and translucency. Old dressmaking patterns are so frail and waif like yet speak of inherent capacity and hope.

Intrigued by the strange language of the pattern maker and the dressmaking tissues’ power to articulate the maker’s hopes and dreams, Ambridge asks, who were these women? Where are they now? What became of the clothes they made?

Embedded capacities are easily missed when looking at the ‘old’. Do we fail to see past the surface of age to the core of experience and capability?

If we are fortunate, we will age and we will look old one day.

Exhibition Opening
Friday the 12 April at 6pm
Gallery will be open 5:30-8:30pm

Image: Detail by Margaret Ambridge

VITAL

10 May – 2 June

VITAL is a group exhibition featuring four emerging local Indigenous artists working across various media.

The exhibition speaks to this year’s National Reconciliation theme ‘Now More Than Ever’, encouraging all to continue in the fight for treaty, truth and reconciliation.

Through their art and storytelling, this group of artists express their connections to culture, and explore how vital the resilience and determination of Indigenous people is as they work towards the continued progression of Reconciliation and a positive future in a complex contemporary Australia.

Featuring works by: Tiarnie Edwards, Iteka Ukarla Sanderson-Bromley, Temaana Yundu Sanderson-Bromley, Milly Sumner

Exhibition Opening
6pm Friday 10 May
Gallery will be open 5:30-8:30pm

Image: ‘Community Connections’ by Milly Sumner

Stripes 2

10 May – 2 June

Brenton Drechsler explores notions of orientation, personal narrative and opacity through the subjective lens of his queer identity. He also explores the absence of belonging to place and finding his bearings in paint. Brenton investigates these themes through a variety of consistent motifs, like stripes, garments, foreign urban environments and vintage cars. Drechsler is focused on subversion and distortion, in relation to Australian heteronormative culture. His practice also explores the right to opacity in contemporary visual art.

Exhibition Opening
6pm Friday 10 May
Gallery will be open 5:30-8:30pm

Image: ‘Ceske Budejovice’ by Brenton Drechsler. Photography by James Field

2024 exhibition timetable

Gallery M is a versatile exhibition venue, that can have multiple exhibitions running concurrently.

This is achieved by utilising large free standing walls, that can be configured to create quarter, half or whole gallery spaces.