Scott Darling: From Melbourne to the Mountains

Scott Darling's paintings celebrate the wonderful attractions of the city of Melbourne and the Dandenong mountain ranges.  He sets out to portray the city as having the romance of Paris, the history akin to London and the towering skyscrapers that are synonymous with New York or Chicago.

Andrea Verstegen: A Brush with Nature

Andrea Verstegen's latest exhibition is a collection of abstract paintings and other expressions that reflect her captivation with the bush and nature. The paintings are not realistic representations but rather intuitive feelings that come from inside herself.

Juet Sculpture & Naturally Dyed: Journeys In - Journeys Out

‘Journeys In, Journeys Out’ is a collaborative exhibition by Juet Sculpture (Michael Hyett and Martin Judd) and Naturally Dyed (Jude Craig), fusing metal and fabrics in response to the ideas in Gulliver’s Travels. Three individuals, three minds with the challenge to explore perspective, scale and stare into The Giant’s Eye.

Eleanor Healy-Wills: Etchings

Eleanor Healy-Wills wishes to congratulate her students on their endeavour in exploring the fine art of copper-plate etching in the traditional method.

The work is printed on 100% rag paper and shows each student's individual style and diversity of this exciting medium.

ARTISTS: Eleanor Healy-Wills, Jeanette Coe, Carolyne Michener, Marlene Tozer, Katalin Horvath, Rosamund Mortimer, Sara Hobbs, Jim Manning, Michelle Manning and Lola Robins.

Jodie Cooper: Off the Edge

Self-taught artist Jodie Cooper combines sculpture and painting onto canvas, using a texture medium and then paint using acrylic. This allows her to sculpt off the edges and out from the canvas, giving her works a three-dimensional effect, representing nature that has no boundaries.

Rudy Azzola: Expressions of Interest

Rudy Azzola continues to explore his fascination with the human condition in his latest offering 'Expressions of Interest'.

A unique ability to capture a range of emotions is beautifully expressed in these succinct figurative paintings. These expressive interpretations of the human spirit call on a range of cultures and experiences. He is not intimidated by trying new techniques or ideas. The images are unashamedly candid, driven more by instinct that by intellect, which only serves to make them more powerful yet not over-stated. He intentionally steers away from being a social commentator, but succeeds at being an instrument in reflecting us as unique creatures capable of expressing a vast range and depth of emotions.

McLeod Gift Collection: Memories - Contact with White People

Based on Patsy Lulpanda’s canvas painting with the same title comes an exhibition of artworks from the Burrinja Collection that explores the theme of contact with white colonisers from the Aboriginal perspective. Depictions of policemen, cattle, prison trees, massacre sites and nuclear test sites tell stories of dispossession, disempowerment and destruction, and yet their telling provides future hope. 

ProppaNow Collective: Jus' Drawn

Jus’ Drawn is touring exhibition of works on paper by eight of Australia’s most important urban Indigenous artists.

Known collectively as ‘Proppa NOW’ this Queensland-based group consists of urban Aboriginal artists who have already won individual acclaim, Richard Bell, Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Hookey and Laurie Nilsen, as well as formidable emerging artists such as Jennifer Herd, Andrea Fisher, and Tony Albert. This group dispels the notion that indigenous art needs to be from a remote area to be ‘authentic’.