TarraWarra Museum of Art presents Intimate Imaginaries.

This presentation is the first major exhibition surveying the work of APA artists in an Australian museum, highlighting 13 vital contemporary practices that have emerged from this self-described ‘boisterous hive of creativity’ over the past five decades.

The term ‘imaginaries’ is commonly used to describe realms of pure invention or flights of fancy, but it can also refer to more everyday creative activity: how we perceive, shape and make sense of ourselves and the world around us. This open-ended conception is one that accords with the ethos of APA where ‘art is not taught, but rather the innate creative direction of each artist is nurtured to elicit works of personal meaning and style’. In this spirit, Intimate Imaginaries brings together bodies of work by a range of artists who each express a compelling, richly inventive and deeply felt worldview.

By turns ingenious, irreverent, poignant and joyful, many featured works convey the artist’s personal perspectives on everyday environments, interactions and phenomena. From the autobiographical to the observational, the works of artists such as Lisa Reid, Anthony Romagnano, Cathy Staughton and Terry Williams, reveal the multiple ways in which we can be intimately and imaginatively entangled with each other and with places and things in the world. Other artists, such as Fulli Andrinopoulos, Wendy Dawson and Julian Martin employ abstract shapes, vivid colour and highly tactile forms of mark-making to evoke emotive, intangible and interior states of being. While the exhibiting artists utilise a range of media and processes in their works—including painting, drawing, ceramics, soft sculpture and video—they all share a distinctive handmade aesthetic.

Bringing together early and recent works alongside several new commissions, Intimate Imaginaries includes: Samraing Chea’s highly detailed drawings that depict humorous observations and wry social commentary on daily life; Alan Constable’s hand-modelled, wet-finish colour glazed ceramic cameras; Bronwyn Hack’s carefully crafted fabric models of human anatomy; Julian Martin’s refined abstract pastel compositions distilled from found imagery; Chris O’Brien’s sculptures, videos and zines which convey mischievous personal narratives on suburban life; Lisa Reid’s meticulous and lovingly-rendered ceramics and works on paper evoking familial memories; Cathy Staughton’s colourful paintings of Luna Park that interweave autobiography and fantastical dream imagery; and Terry Williams’s hand-stitched, improvisational renditions of everyday objects.

Curated by Anthony Fitzpatrick, Intimate Imaginaries is presented by TarraWarra Museum of Art in partnership with Arts Project Australia.

Visitors requiring wheelchair or mobility walker access are advised to call ahead so that the they can provide further information about access to the Museum. TarraWarra Museum of Art welcomes guests of all abilities and is committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for visitors with specific access requirements.

The Museum and gallery spaces are fully accessible, and wheelchair-accessible car parks and toilet facilities are available on site.  Self-propelled wheelchairs are available for complimentary hire by contacting the Museum on 03 5957 3100 or museum@twma.com.au.   

Japan Photo Book is a series of five works by Arts Project Australia artist Rebecca Scibilia drawing on memories of her time in Japan.

Scibilia employs a variety of media in her practise, focusing primarily on felt-tip and paint pens. Finding inspiration in personal experiences and popular culture, she conveys personal or collective memories through abstract forms, often weaving visual references, motifs and text into the imagery. In Japan Photo Book, each piece captures a moment in time, inspired by photographs taken throughout the trip. Characterised by assured patternmaking, the works are at once reflective and electric.

Scibilia has been an artist at the Arts Project Australia studio since 1999. Founded in 1974, Arts Project Australia is a gallery and supported studio that represents artists with intellectual disabilities, promotes their work, and advocates for their inclusion in contemporary art practice. For 50 years, APA has been recognised and celebrated for the quality of the work produced by the artists in the studio, which is exhibited in the APA gallery and around the world and represented in multiple public and private collections.

For step-free access, follow the footpath from The Substation along Market St to Newport train station, approximately 340 metres.

2024 Annual Gala Celebration

In this special 50th anniversary Gala Exhibition, the achievements of APA studio and online artists are celebrated, highlighting their unique contributions to contemporary art. Over 200 artworks, including paintings, photography, drawings, printmaking, ceramics, and textiles, will be on display and available for purchase. Collectors have the opportunity to purchase artwork at the opening event and take it home the same night.

This year the event will span across Collingwood Yards, with an additional exhibit onsite showcasing APA’s video archive, and a series of portraits of APA artists by Penelope Hunt. APA’s new 50th anniversary publication and merchandise will also be available.

The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.

Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.

Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.

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Devoted To You

Devoted to You celebrates the musical icons that have captured the imaginations of artists at Arts Project Australia.

Music has always been a vital part of the studio, with artists driving the studio’s playlist with special requests and well-loved tunes spanning all genres and decades. From record obsessives to dedicated superfans, impersonators and everything in between, Devoted To You explores the devout and passionate world of music fandom in all its feverish glory.

Curated by James Dawes, Carolyn Hawkins and Danielle Hakim.

The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.

Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.

Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.

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Arts Project Australia 2024 Miegunyah Creative Fellowship

Symbiosis is the culmination of the 2024 Miegunyah Creative Fellowship with Arts Project Australia. Artist group, The Northcote Penguins, were invited to investigate and respond to decorative arts, furniture and personal items in the Grimwade Collection, which was bequeathed to the University of Melbourne by Sir Russell and Mab Grimwade in 1949.

Visiting the Collection in storage, the artists selected one or more objects that sparked their interest and, through their personal practice and Art Project Australia’s Professional Practice Program, each researched and developed their own creative outcomes.

Mark Smith collaborated with glass blower Ruth Allen to reimagine Grimwade glassware, while Christian Hansen’s bronze sculpture was inspired by a small porcelain ‘fairing’. Jordan Dymke’s self-portrait utilises mirrors from the Grimwade house Miegunyah, and Amani Tia was inspired by photographs taken by Russell Grimwade. Objects from the Collection are incorporated into an infomercial by Aidan Sefo and in collages and digital prints by Monica Lazzari and Sam Ashdown. Michael Camakaris drew inspiration from a ‘puzzle jug’ to produce a group of humorous and satirical ceramic vessels. These imaginative responses are displayed alongside the art and objects that inspired them.

Curated by Alisa Bunbury (Museums and Collections), Coordinated by Carly Richardson (Museums and Collections) and Tom Pendergast (Arts Project Australia).

Hear from exhibiting artists on their process and preparation for symbiosis.

Filming: Maree Prokos and Bernard Winter
Editing: Maree Prokos
Music: James Paul
(Museums and Collections, University of Melbourne)

Buxton Contemporary is fully wheelchair accessible.

Download the Ground Level Access Map and Level One Access Map for detailed information about access throughout the building.

Social scripts, large format wall labels and sensory maps are available to download on current exhibition pages.

Access is an open conversation. Buxton Contemporary welcome all feedback about their available resources at buxton-contemporary@unimelb.edu.au or on 03 9035 9339.

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For many neurodivergent artists, merely partaking in the contemporary art world is a bold and courageous act.

Held to coincide with APA’s 50th anniversary celebrations, BOLD highlights artists who are unapologetically themselves, and whose instinctive practices manifest in powerful and confident work. Subjects are distilled to their very essence, resulting in pure unadorned form.

Mirroring the fun, colour and joyful nature of the APA studio, BOLD features work by APA artists Adrian Lazzaro, Anna Dehm, Anthony Romagnano, Ian Gold, Jacob Cartelli, John Bates, Julian Martin, Michael Trasancos, Patrick Francis and Ruth Howard.

Bold is curated by Shell Odgers.

The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.

Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.

Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.

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50 Birds celebrates the joint 50th anniversary of two iconic organisations: Arts Project Australia and Arts Access Victoria.

Commemorating a combined total of 100 years of advocacy in the arts, this exhibition brings together 14 artists from APA and AAV who are inspired by the beauty and brilliance of birds.

Exploring a variety of mediums including ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing, embroidery and textiles, 50 Birds features APA artists Rosie O’Brien, Miles Howard- Wilks, Simon Paredes, Robert Brown, Anne Lynch, Barbara Gibbs, Dorothy Berry and Alan Constable alongside Arts Access Victoria’s artists Lisa Pownall, Kristy Sweeney, Heather White, Leeann Preddy, Diana Kagadis and Fiona Taylor.

Curated by Rosie O’Brien and Pegs Marlow.

The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.

Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.

Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.

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As part of Arts Project Australia’s (APA) annual creative program, prominent curators are invited to create an exhibition that places APA artists alongside their peers; leading national and international contemporary artists.  

This initiative seeks to make broader connections with curators, artists, galleries, and museums, making visible the calibre of the work produced by APA artists, and exemplifying their place within the contemporary art landscape. Since its inception, the initiative has resulted in a long list of remarkable exhibitions that have served to generate new partnerships and develop and strengthen relationships. 

Bendable Realities pays tribute to this initiative in APA’s 50th year. Past curators have been invited to select artworks by both APA artists and external artists, creating a dialogue between them. This exhibition celebrates the power of collaboration and meaningful connections, highlighting the gradual reimagining of the art world as a more open, adaptive, and inclusive space for diverse perspectives, experiences, and identities. 

Featuring Tiger Yaltangki, Terry Williams, Roger Walker, Julian Martin, Jan Lucas, Rebecca Scibilia, Clare Milledge, Adrian Lazzaro, Katherine Botten and Bronwyn Hack.

Bendable Realities is co-curated by Jo Salt in collaboration with Vince Alessi, Alex Baker, Geoff Newton, Charlotte Day and Patrice Sharkey.

The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.

Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.

Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.

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Strange Planet invites you to move towards the creatures from whom you usually recoil; to examine their glittering intricacies, behold their hairy thoraxes, to bat your eyelids at their slithery scales and razor-sharp fangs.

Find solace in the uncanny beauty of these inhabitants for within their otherworldly forms a symphony of colours, textures, and shapes awaits.

Meet us beneath the thicket in the depths of this Strange Planet.

This exhibition features Anna Dehm, Anne Lynch, Bronwyn Hack, Chris Mason, Dorothy Berry, Dionne Canzano, Eden Menta, Julian Martin, Katherine Foster, Lygin Ang, Matthew Gove, Miles Howard-Wilks, Michael Camakaris, Michael Trasancos, Nhan Nguyen, Patrick Francis, Ruth Howard, Samraing Chea, Shoshanna Brott, Terry Williams and Valerio Ciccone.

Strange Planet is curated by Miles Howard-Wilks, Sandy Fernée and Sarah Lamanna.

The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.

Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.

Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.

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Soft Landings celebrates the collaborative partnership between the Australian Tapestry Workshop and Arts Project Australia.

Textiles surround us, comfort us, allow us expression of identity. As Kassia St Clair states in her book The Golden Thread “We live surrounded by cloth. We are swaddled in it at birth and shrouds are drawn over our faces in death. We sleep enclosed by layer upon layer of it…and, when we wake, we clothe ourselves in yet more of it to face the world and let it know who we shall be that day.”

Often delegated to the realm of ‘craft’, textiles can be an underappreciated and overlooked artform. The artists of Soft Landings, however, evident the extensive capacity of textiles – using the medium as a raw expression and interpretation of the world, confirming textiles’ place in contemporary art. Subjects such as body, home, identity, desire, and more are explored through embroidery, 2D mixed media textiles, and soft sculpture.

Featuring the works of Fulli Andrinopoulos, Matthew Gove, Bronwyn Hack, Paul Hodges, Adrian Lazzaro, Anne Lynch, Joanne Nethercote, Chris O’Brien, Rosie O’Brien, Lisa Reid, Mark Smith, and Terry Williams.

Curated by Betty Musgrove.

For more information on accessibility at Australian Tapestry Workshop please phone 03 9699 7885

Small Pleasures looks at ceramic objects as intimate art objects that can be held in the hand.

Small works are necessarily intimate, however they can be expansive in theme and concept and resonate from within to capture a wider audience. The nature of small things and the meaning they hold is potent, like a talisman or treasure. When an object is small, we tend to view it more closely, seeking out detail and understanding. The tactile quality of a handmade ceramic object carries within it the idea of having been touched by the maker’s hand, as well as its quality of tangibility.

In an age of mass-production there is a new appreciation of the value and intimacy of the handmade object with its sense of manual labour. This exhibition of tangible treasures is an ode to the small ceramic object that can be held in the hand and taken to the heart.

Featuring established and emerging artists from Australia and New Zealand: Aaron Scythe, Alex Standen, Ben King, Bronwyn Kemp, Casey Chen, Cath Fogarty, Charlotte Le Brocque, Christine Thacker, Daniel Pace, David Ray, Ebony Russell, Georgia Harvey, Hermannsburg Potters, Holly Phillipson, Isabella Edwards, Jenny Orchard, Kat Shapiro Wood, Mackenzie Rowe, Marianna Ebersoll, Minhi Park, Nani Puspasari, Patsy Hely, Rachel Farang, Ruth Howard, Sandy Lockwood, Simon Rosentool, Stephen Bird, Steve Sheridan, Toni Warburton, Vicki Grima

Small Pleasures is to be opened by Sharon Veale, CEO GML Heritage on Friday 2 August 2024, 6-8pm at Gallery Lowe & Lee.

For information on accessibility please contact Gallery Lowe and Lee on 02 9550 4433 or via email at info@gallerylnl.com.au

Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name introduces the next generation of Arts Project Australia artists.

Celebrating the relationship between Arts Project Australia (APA) and ACU’s Bachelor of Visual Arts & Design program, Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name is a collaboration that marks APA’s 50th anniversary milestone.

Titled after a Rolling Stones song lyric, the exhibition captures the thrill of presenting oneself or one’s art to new audiences.

Featuring Alessandra DiMattina, Anna Dehm, Christian Semertzidis, David Mendelsohn, Heidi Beard, Iain Gordon, Maddie Pavlovic and Oscar Donati, this group exhibition showcases APAs next generation of emerging talent, inviting viewers to connect with their art and follow their promising careers over the next 50 years.

Art et al: Exchange/Engage is an exhibition and accessible digital document highlighting a series of collaborations and partnerships funded by Creative Australia.

In line with Art et al.’s ethos of championing a more inclusive contemporary art world, Exchange/Engage exhibits neurodivergent and learning disabled artists alongside their non-disabled peers.

The focus of the exhibition is work produced during four Peer/Peer Collaborations – digital residencies pairing international artists with and without disabilities. Also featured is Art et al.’s Curating Collections initiative, which partners an artist working from a supported studio with an established collector/collection to curate a digital project from their collection.

Included are animations, drawings, ceramics, textiles and paintings from Paul Hodges, Mutia Bunga, Winda Karunadhita, Mawarini, Clemens Wild, Harriet Body, Hena Alexandra Lane Dupreez, Gabi Deutsch, Philomena Heinel and works from the collection of Dr. Michael Schwarz including work by Arts Project Australia artist Michael Camakaris – who participated in Art et al.’s very first Curating Collections.

For Exchange/Engage Art et al. has put together an interactive document to help those who cannot visit the exhibition experience the ​creativity of these collaborations, and provide extra information on the show.

Entry to Res Artis Project Space is through Gertrude Glasshouse during gallery hours, or by private appointment at other times.

Gertrude Glasshouse is fully wheelchair accessible, however Glasshouse Road is an uneven bluestone street. Glasshouse Road can be accessed by car from Wellington Street and passengers can be dropped off at the door.

Ambulant toilet and baby change facilities available.

For more information please email office@resartis.org

Benalla Art Gallery and Arts Project Australia proudly present Ethereal Portals — a Summer Gallery Shop exhibition by Fulli Andrinopoulos.

Fulli Andrinopoulos is an established artist whose work is characterised by soft, floating circular forms and saturated colours that exude an intensity through the build-up of dense layers of rich pigment.

Her small-scale paintings are tactile and ethereal, embodying an emotive quality akin to that of artist Mark Rothko. Recent textile works on ink-soaked fabric feature dense applications of coloured thread. Her collections – often presented en masse in grids or floating across a wall – are intimate, with a sense of transcendence and the unknown.

Andrinopoulos has worked at Arts Project since 1991. Public collections include Monash University Museum of Art. Her work is also held in national and international private and corporate collections.

Benalla Art Gallery has full wheelchair access via a ramp entrance at the front of the building.  The café deck and floor can also be accessed via a ramp.

Disabled toilets and infant facilities are also available within the building.

Benalla Art Gallery and Arts Project Australia proudly present Self in the Spotlight — a Spring Gallery Shop exhibition by Danny Lyons.

Danny Lyons is an emerging artist working in photography, video, and drawing, often incorporating personal experiences in his work. Since 2018, he has made a series of photographic works involving placing himself dressed as different celebrities in the centre of photoshopped scenes.

Lyons recently started working in video and has completed five different works titled: Cats in the Cradle, Black or White, Achy Breaky Heart, Shut Up and Dance and Mambo Number 5, based on the original film clips for these songs. Lyons has been working at Arts Project Australia since 2017 and has exhibited in group exhibitions Australia-wide.

Danny Lyons: Self in the Spotlight coincides with Benalla Art Gallery’s staging of Beyond the Boundary, an exhibition by the AFL’s Chief Photographer, Michael Willson.

Benalla Art Gallery has full wheelchair access via a ramp entrance at the front of the building.  The café deck and floor can also be accessed via a ramp.

Disabled toilets and infant facilities are also available within the building.

Benalla Art Gallery and Arts Project Australia proudly present The Enchanted Garden — a Winter Gallery Shop exhibition by APA artist Brigid Hanrahan.

Brigid Hanrahan is a mid-career artist who works in painting, drawing and ceramics.

With a focus on creating fictional narratives, she is interested in domestic settings, including gardens and animals. Dancers are also a common theme, particularly those from the Australian Ballet. Her figurative works are delicate and expressive, evoking a lyrical sense of movement and storytelling.

Hanrahan has worked at Arts Project since 1999. She has participated in numerous group and national touring exhibitions. Her work is held in the National Gallery of Australia and Tallis Foundation collections, as well as corporate and private collections throughout Australia.

Benalla Art Gallery has full wheelchair access via a ramp entrance at the front of the building.  The café deck and floor can also be accessed via a ramp.

Disabled toilets and infant facilities are also available within the building.

Alan Constable’s enduring fascination with the camera began when he was 8 years old. Modelled as a child from cardboard, cut paper and glue, he has developed his aesthetic into working with clay.

Legally blind, these works are created with his hands and his heart. The poetic renaissance of a timeless tradition, they are an intimate and intuitive response to a world he knows but cannot see.

Engaged in an act of mimetic representation, Constable delights in the immediacy of process. With extraordinary curiosity, he examines, traces and commits to memory the structure of the referent camera, accentuating its scale and form. Pinched, pushed, pummelled and smoothed, these cameras bear the markings of history and imprint of Constable’s touch, impressing upon us the sense experience of clay.

The act of photography renders possible a command of the absent – a moment captured and frozen in time. Constable’s palpable vision reaches out beyond the recording function of the camera to expose beauty in the truth of material and form. With expressive power, he pursues a new grammar of seeing. His cameras disclose to us an inflection on how to look, and what is worth looking at. Their arresting presence demands our exalted attention as we are invited to enter his enigmatic and revelatory world.

For accessibility information please contact Darren Knight gallery on (02) 9699 5353

Benalla Art Gallery and Arts Project Australia proudly present Emerging from the Mist — an Autumn Gallery Shop exhibition by James McSporran.

James MacSporran is an emerging artist working primarily in painting and drawing on paper and canvas. MacSporran has worked at Arts Project Australia’s studio since 2016. He staged solo exhibitions in 2020 and 2021, has completed public art commissions, and been featured in group exhibitions in Australia, the USA, and Hong Kong.

Inspired by trains and cityscapes, stylistically his art practice embodies a blend of abstraction and graffiti, resulting in fluoro-coloured and densely layered artworks that he creates from his imagination. Often synthesising text with abstraction, his work conjures references to mazes, street art and old-style arcade games.

Benalla Art Gallery has full wheelchair access via a ramp entrance at the front of the building.  The café deck and floor can also be accessed via a ramp.

Disabled toilets and infant facilities are also available within the building.

Colour is Enough presents recent bodies of work by Arts Project Australia artists Wendy Dawson, Ruth Howard and Julian Martin within a broader context of Australian monochrome painting and sculpture.

In monochrome works of art there is no single focal point. Unlike the process of reading words on a page, there is no direction for where to start or finish. Viewers are not called to progress from one section to another, but rather to engage with the totality of a single colour. More specifically, understanding and experience is based on ‘consuming’ the whole work of art at once.

In monochromes, colour is its own entity that is distinct and independent. Related to (but not beholden to) form, colour is enough. Nothing else is needed for it to challenge, move, evoke and energise.

This exhibition will feature Eleanor Louise Butt, Nancy Constandelia, Renee Cosgrave, Rox De Luca, A.D.S Donaldson, Mikala Dwyer, Louise Gresswell, Aaron Martin, Jackson McLaren, John Nixon, Ron Robertson-Swann, David Serisier, Madeline Simm, Lachlan Stonehouse, David Thomas, Sam George & Lisa Radford, Barbara Puruntatameri, Hayden Stuart and Hootan Heydari alongside APA artists Julian Martin, Wendy Dawson and Ruth Howard.

Opening event: 3 – 5PM, Saturday 6 April, Arts Project Australia gallery, Collingwood Yards. 

The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.

Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.

Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.

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Premiering as part of PHOTO24

In The little things we fight for, Eden Menta addresses the Photo 2024 thematic strand of Social Futures, exploring the intersections of queerness and neurodiversity through ideas around a sense of self and place in the contemporary landscape.

Drawing from deeply personal experiences, Menta unpacks the past and contemplates the present, teasing out what it means to belong – or not – as the case may be. By addressing these realities, Menta fights for a future that recognises the intersectionality of different identities and fosters safe, inclusive spaces to feel valued and supported.

Presented as a solo exhibition at the Arts Project Australia gallery in Collingwood Yards, The little things we fight for addresses universal tensions and ideas through Menta’s intimate lens.

Opening event: 4 – 6pm, Saturday 2 March 2024, Arts Project Australia gallery, Collingwood Yards. Exhibition opened by Richard Lewer.

The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.

Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.

Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.

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Benalla Art Gallery and Arts Project Australia proudly present Oh, The Places I’ve Seen! — a Summer Gallery Shop exhibition by Chris O’Brien.

Chris O’Brien is a multi- disciplinary artist who works in painting, printmaking, sculpture, video and artist zines. He is interested in representing domestic dwellings that feature him, his friends and the TV personalities living there. Works are imbued with narratives, whether drawn from memory, or invented stories involving thieves, ghosts and animals.

Beyond his personal memories, works are visually informed by materials such as real estate brochures, photos, Google Earth maps, and architectural plans.

Chris will also feature as part of Benalla Art Gallery’s First Mondays series with an in coversation style talk at 10am on Monday 5 February 2024. To rsvp your attendance at this event please contact gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au

Benalla Art Gallery has full wheelchair access via a ramp entrance at the front of the building.  The café deck and floor can also be accessed via a ramp.

Disabled toilets and infant facilities are also available within the building.

Arts Project Australia’s Annual Gala Exhibition is an end of year celebration of the achievement of the studio and satellite artists and acknowledges their unique contribution to contemporary art.

Over 200 artworks spanning painting, photography, drawing, printmaking, ceramics and textiles will be on display and available to purchase. Also available will be calendars, cards and merchandise.

Held at APA’s Collingwood Yards gallery, artwork sales will commence at 3pm, 9 December 2023 in conjunction with an end of year celebration.

The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.

Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.

Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.

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Arts Project Australia is excited to announce that Terry Williams will be included in Craft Victoria’s end-of-year exhibition Everyone’s heard of a dragon.

Guest curated by artists James Lemon and Bobby Corica, Everyone’s Heard of a Dragon explores the profound impact of fantasy and material practice as tools for navigating one’s experiences. This charged realm, situated between the truths of our immediate reality and the expansive realm of possibilities, shapes our surroundings, offering solace and imbuing the world with meaning.

Materiality plays a pivotal role in shaping both fantasy and truth. It demands meticulous attention and immersion, serving as a bridge that connects things that were, things that are, and some things that have not yet come to pass. What joys can we toil, passing threads between our fingers or simply bringing a vessel to the lip to sip? Everyone’s Heard of a Dragon invites artists, designers, and craftspeople to consider our shared obsessions with materials and how they can affirm and expand our unique stories.

To paraphrase Ursula K. Le Guin: If imagination is the instrument of ethics, what forms shall our melodies take?

Everyone’s heard of a dragon will open at Craft on Thursday 16 November, 6-8pm.

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Craft is wheelchair accessible, with a wheelchair-accessible bathroom. For those with limited mobility, Craft’s premises have a lift which takes you to our opening space.

Please note that the laneway to Craft has a sloped surface.

Craft also welcome guide and assistance animals in the gallery.

Tones of Home draws together artists from APA, Melbourne, regional Victoria, and north Queensland to present works inspired by domestic and urban spaces.

The exhibition extends beyond these settings to consider ‘what makes a place, a home?’, touching on notions of family, community, belonging, connection, love, comfort, safety, and personal histories. 

Featuring APA artsits Steven Ajzenberg, Miles Howard-Wilks, Chris Mason, Chris O’Brien, Lisa Reid, Anthony Romagnano, Georgia Szmerling and Amani Tia alongside Atong Atem, Susie Buykx, Cooper+Spowart, Erub Arts Torres Strait and Ghost Net Collective, Aishah Kenton and Ron McBurnie.

Tones of Home is curated by Eric Nash, Director Benalla Art Gallery.

The Arts Project Australia gallery has accessible toilets in the Perry Street Building. They are located in the northern end of the building. On the upper ground level they are located off the northern side of the service corridor. On L1 and L2 they are located behind blue manual double doors.

Entry 30A Perry Street is wheelchair accessible and offers direct access to the Courtyard, Perry Street Building upper ground and Johnston Street Building upper ground.

Lift access is available to visit other buildings and levels.

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Paul Quick is an emerging artist whose work reflects the trivialities, joys, and interactions of day-to-day life.

Adult Human Being is an exhibition of self-portraiture showcasing Quick’s vivid colour palette, expressive and incidental mark making, and discerning use of text, all employed to articulate astute observations of self and place.

Adult Human Being will open on Thursday 12 October at Res Artis. This exhibition will continue until Saturday 11 November.

Res Artis is open on Thursdays and Fridays (12-5pm) during the exhibition period.

Entry to Res Artis Project Space is through Gertrude Glasshouse during gallery hours, or by private appointment at other times.

Gertrude Glasshouse is fully wheelchair accessible, however Glasshouse Road is an uneven bluestone street. Glasshouse Road can be accessed by car from Wellington Street and passengers can be dropped off at the door.

Ambulant toilet and baby change facilities available.

For more information please email office@resartis.org