ACAE Gallery
Australasian Cultural Arts Exchange
82A Wellington Street,
Collingwood, VIC 3066 [Map 3]
0406 711 378
Tue to Sun 10am–5pm.
16 September–22 October
Tony Smibert: Tao Sublime
Following on from the major survey exhibition Tony Smibert: Tao Sublime, at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (GVMAG), in Launceston Tasmania, ACAE Gallery is excited to present selected works from Tony’s Tasmanian studio.
“A singular voice in traditional, minimal and abstract art - a painter whose work blends eastern and western traditions.” -Damian Smith, Director ACAE Gallery.
ACMI
Fed Square,
Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
03 8663 2200
Open daily 10am–5pm.
5 April—1 October
Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion Curated by Bethan Johnson.
Alcaston Gallery
84 William Street,
Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
03 8849 9668
Anna Schwartz Gallery
185 Flinders Lane,
Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
Tue to Fri 12noon–6pm,
Sat 1pm–5pm.
Until 16 September
holding several threads at once, figuring a future together
Louisa Bufardeci
Until 23 September
Straight torque, twin series
Amrita Hepi
Until 16 December
Mike Parr
Art Gallery of Ballarat
40 Lydiard Street North,
Ballarat, VIC 3350 [Map 1]
03 5320 5858
Open daily 10am–5pm.
See our website for latest information.
Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2023:
26 August–22 October
People Power – Platon
Celebrity photographs by well-known
photographer Platon. Ticketed exhibition.
26 August–22 October
Instant Warhol
A selection of polaroids by Andy Warholl.
Ticketed exhibition.
12 August–5 November
The Stephanie Collection
Yvonne Todd
New Zealand-based photographer known for her unique and unconventional approach to portraiture.
26 August–5 November
Pro Femina
Ramak Bamzar
A celebration of the strength of Iranian women by Iranian photographer Ramak Bamzar.
12 August–19 November
Effacement
Karenne Ann and Heather Horrocks
Crocheted video tapes form masks, which feature in powerful photographs
17 August–22 October
Neverlasting
Ian Kemp
Photographs of Andean plateus, exploring transience of life.
Artscreen In Alfred Deakin Place:
29 August–22 October
Digital Anthropocene
Serwah Attafuah and Jonathan Zawada
Exploration of the merging of art amnd science at the virtual forefront.
26 October–3 December
Where the Light Enters
Anzara Clark
Paper artist Anzara Clark explores the ideas that wounds allow light to penetrate hidden spaces.
ArtSpace at Realm and Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery
ArtSpace at Realm:
179 Maroondah Highway,
(opposite Ringwood Station)
Ringwood, VIC 3134
03 9298 4553
Mon to Fri 9am–8pm,
Sat & Sun 10am–5pm.
Maroondah Federation Estate
Gallery: 32 Greenwood Avenue,
Ringwood, VIC 3134
03 9298 4553
Mon to Fri 9am–5pm.
See our website for latest information.
ArtSpace at Realm:
Until 17 September
Neighbourhood Tales
Selina Ou
Neighbourhood Tales is an exhibition of photographs produced in Maroondah and surrounding suburbs between 2020 and 2022 by Selina Ou in collaboration with her two sons who appear in each of the images, sometimes together, sometimes alone. Ou, an Australian artist of Malaysian Chinese descent, describes these artworks as “narrative landscape photographs”, meaning that she has invited her children to pose as figures within colour documentary images of local landscapes to tell stories about their shared experience of suburban life. Each image (or tale) is carefully staged and subtly lit, bringing a theatrical scenography to these familiar environments. As those of us who are old enough to remember know, this project was conceived in the thick of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Ou, as an artist and mother – like all Australian parents of young children – was thrust into lockdown and subjected to public health measures that could hardly have been imagined: home schooling, severely limited physical interaction beyond the family unit, and heavily restricted outdoor activity.
The artist’s more usual subjects – documentary portraits of people at work and play – were suddenly off limits. Neighbourhood Tales is Ou’s creative solution to remaining productive through this unusual and challenging time. The result is a compelling series of images that is at once intensely personal and universally relatable.
Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery:
Until 1 September
The Texture of Memory
T-Collective
T-Collective is four mature-age artists, Simon Crosbie, Mig Dann, Yiwon Park, Jude Worters, whose work is based on the lived experience of personal trauma. The artists connected as PhD candidates in the School of Art at RMIT University. As a collective they bring four distinct perspectives of agency and resilience to this subject.
Working with diverse media, the artists explore the mutability and complexity of memory, the inherent problems in interpreting childhood experience and negotiate multiple trajectories through a visual language of trauma. The Texture of Memory creates a dialogue around this common theme that departs from the perception that trauma-informed art is purely about catharsis and isolates the artist as victim. As such, the exhibition creates ground from which emotion and feeling may flow, acting as the impetus for new discourse on this topic.
Until 1 September
Our Plants, Our Heritage Leila Ashtiani, Sofie Dieu, Humaira Fayazi, Abouk Giir and Rahila Zeeshan
In partnership with Multicultural Women Victoria, artists Leila Ashtiani (Iran), Sofie Dieu (France), Humaira Fayazi (Afghanistan), Abouk Giir (Sudan) and Rahila Zeeshan (Pakistan) exhibit together for the first time to explore cultural traditions through the plants that are sacred to their people.
This project sits at the intersection of ecological preservation, decolonisation and transmission of ancestral belief systems. Using textiles, graphic design and photography the artists explore the floras of their birth places and their uses in medicine, ceremony and cooking. In Our Plants, Our Heritage the artists immerse the viewer in stories about their family affinities with the intangible, emotional qualities of plants.
Arts Project Australia
Level 1, Collingwood Yards,
35 Johnston Street,
Collingwood, VIC 3066 [Map 3]
03 9482 4484
Wed-Fri 11am–5pm,
Sat 12noon–4pm.
See our website for latest information.
2 September—7 October
Within My Skin
Co-curated by Jodie Kipps and Alysia Rees. Featuring works by Emily Dober, Bronwyn Hack, Sammi-Jo Matta, Lisa Reid, and Ema Shin.
Within My Skin explores the bodily connection and presence of the female figure within a contemporary landscape. Arts Project Australia artists Emily Dober, Bronwyn Hack, Sammi-Jo Matta and Lisa Reid in collaboration with Ema Shin explore themes of sexuality, fragility, and identity through an alluring and interactive symposium of textiles, installation, collage, photography and the drawn line.
Ararat Gallery TAMA
82 Vincent Street,
Ararat, VIC 3377 [Map 1]
03 5355 0220
Open daily 10am—4pm.
Until 29 October
Hearts of Absent Women
Ema Shin
Until 19 November
WAMA Art Prize
ARC ONE Gallery
45 Flinders Lane,
Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
03 9650 0589
Wed to Sat 11am–5pm,
Tues by appointment.
Until 16 September
Our Lives Are Full Of Sunshine: 我们的生活
充满阳光
Guo Jian
20 September–21 October
Desmond Lazaro
25 October–25 November
Guan Wei
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)
111 Sturt Street,
Southbank, VIC 3006 [Map 2]
03 9697 9999
Tue to Fri 10am–5pm,
Sat & Sun 11am–5pm.
16 September–19 November
James Nguyen: Open Glossary In collaboration with Tamsen Hopkinson, Budi Sudarto, Kate ten Buuren and Chris Xu.
Curator: Shelley McSpedden.
James Nguyen’s multi-lingual installation Open Glossary interrogates the politics of language, cultural exchange, activism and belonging. Born in Vietnam and based in Narrm (Melbourne), his practice examines ways to decolonise and interrogate the politics of family history, translation, displacement and diaspora.
For Open Glossary, Nguyen and his collaborators, Tamsen Hopkinson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pāhauwera), Budi Sudarto, Kate ten Buuren (Taungurung) and Chris Xu, present dynamic installations, videos, performances and events across all four ACCA galleries, each carrying multi-lingual conversations on a range of contemporary issues including gender diversity and sexual identity, the linguistic and spiritual connections of Southeast Asia, First Nations Australian and Moana neighbours, as well as Land Rights and Indigenous Constitutional Recognition.
This project is presented in partnership with the Copyright Agency as part of the 2023 Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) Commission, supporting midcareer and established Australian visual artists to produce a major new commission. The first in the series was TextaQueen’s at the 4A Centre for Contemporary
