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STUDIO 10
STUDIO 10 Space overview Fantastic visual art studio space available in the heart of Footscray. For artists and other creatives, will suit painters, small sculpture, photography etc Price includes unlimited wifi (NBN) and bills Some existing furniture (if wanted). Fully Lockable with 24/7 access.Approx 3 x 3 mtrs with good lighting (although no direct window)…
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CINE REDUX | FOOTSCRAY REIMAGINED
CineRedux: Footscray Reimagined A journey through Footscray’s cinematic past and its creative present. Hosted by Five Walls Gallery and Arcade Projects, CineRedux: Footscray Reimagined blends history, film, and contemporary art to revisit the suburb’s once-vibrant cinema culture through archival materials, local stories, and new artistic responses. Held across two weekends — June 5, 2026, and…
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NIGHT ARCADE | 64 WAYS OF BEING
[siteorigin_widget class=”TTrust_Spacer”][/siteorigin_widget] NIGHT ARCADE | 64 WAYS OF BEING Continues daily/nighty through 2023. Night Arcade – 64 Ways of Being is a collaboration between two artists: 64 Ways of Being founder Troy Innocent and Five Walls and Arcade Projects founder Aaron Martin. 64 Ways of Being – Night Arcade activates a forgotten 1960’s shopping arcade…
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ARCADE 2016 – 2018
Arcade ran as an exhibition space inside the Trocadero Arcade Building in Footscray for 3 years, from 2016-18. In 2018 a decision was made by the Five Walls Advisory Panel to retire Arcade to make way for expanded exhibition spaces for Five Walls. The Arcade website, however, will continue to serve as an archive of…
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SUPPORT 18 : EOY EXHIBITION & FUNDRAISER
Five Walls warmly welcomes you to join us on Friday, December 21st for SUPPORT 18, a group exhibition across all the gallery spaces. SUPPORT 18 CATALOGUE ABOUT SUPPORT EIGHTEEN is equally an exhibition and a fundraiser, with funds raised used to support the practices of artists and to fund Five Walls’ 2019 program – therefore,…
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KAREN WELLS | ROOM…FOR THE BREATHLESS
Karen Wells investigates painting and the abstract. She is impelled by her research on the neurology of perception, health and environments. As indicators of the constructed, hand- made and what is soon overlooked, initially, found and off-cut materials are partnered and combined unchanged to form collages. Then paintings, constructions and environments are made with a…
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PJ HICKMAN | SAME SAME
One painting, made again, and again. No endless variety. PJ Hickman explores ‘painting’ through the history and conventions of painting, the art world generally, and the context and function of the gallery. His approach is based on simplification and repetition, being straightforward, matter of fact, ordered, rational and systematic. Making the same painting,…
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YUNA CHUN | PERCEPTION
Artist Statement “Because it is empty anything becomes possible.” ‘공간’ literally can be translated as ’empty between’ in Korean. In the ’empty between’, we co-exist. Here, people create their own spaces, each experiencing and responding differently. This is where my artistic practice had started and has developed from. Initially I try to recreate ‘space’ on…
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PANAYIOTA PETA PETRAKIS | FLIT & DRAG
Flit & drag is a series of recent paintings that investigates the experience of perceptual refocussing between virtual and natural spaces. Petrakis’ polychromatic surfaces contain chaotic and ambiguous compositions that operate through sensations of colour, gesture and shifting depth of field. The paintings engage Neo-Baroque tendencies through ornamental painted forms, visceral pictorial spaces and visual…
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DAVID &: LOU HUBBARD, UDAY ARTS GROUP, EUGENE CARCHESIO
David & presents correspondence between David Sequeira and three artists – Eugene Carchesio, Lou Hubbard and the Uday Arts Group. Much of Sequeira’s art practice has involved sending selected objects and half made works to other artists with a request that they add something of their practice. There is little or no discussion…
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SIMONE NELSON | SPARE ROOM
Within the suburbs of Australia the spare room is at once everywhere and yet nowhere in particular. Existing within the familiarity of our home, the spare room houses the items we never use but can’t seem to part with. Inexplicably, these objects appear to multiply within this neglected place of limbo. What happens then, when…
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TAPE | CURATED BY PJ HICKMAN
TAPE showcases contemporary international and Australian artists who have adopted the myriad of tapes now available in their painting process. Some artists utilize the possibilities of ‘accident and control’ and the fusion of ‘concept and execution’ through the use of tape, while others consciously adopt a more impersonal ‘hard edge’ approach to paint application, using…
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FIONA SKELTON & SAM HATFIELD | FIXATION
FIXATION man[und]lady is a collaboration between artists Fiona Skelton and Sam Hatfield. They use humour and the Absurd to deconstruct psychosocial paradigms. Their work is also informed by their study of neuropsychology. This two-part video work uses provocative moving images and an insidiously earwormish voiceover to explore psychodynamic processes of fixation. Neurological advances now suggest…
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HANNAH MASKELL | BROKEN RECORD
Using the freehand grid formation as her subject and trademark starting base, Hannah Maskell is able to launch straight into a drawing and enjoy the way in which a medium is applied, colours have a dialogue and lines create rhythm and balance within the composition. Her wall-based and freestanding sculptural works extend the grid forms…
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PATRICK LARMOUR | PICTURES OF NOTHING
Patrick Larmour works at the intersection of artmaking and physical anthropology presenting paintings, commercially produced objects and machinery stripped of purpose that function together as installations exploring various relationships our selves as bodies have to time and our environments through material cultural remnants. Objects such as torches, medication, cutlery, gloves, and makeup lay claims on…
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SARAH RUDLEDGE & HELEN PALLIKAROS | FAMILY PORTRAIT
Family Portrait is a work that investigates complexities involved in externalising feelings of love and pride between two subjects for the camera. These concepts are explored through video works as two quintessential family portrait moments. In Living Room, poses are struck and the dynamics of power, status and partnership are subtly negotiated. Front Porch…
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EXTENDED GESTURES
Elyss McCleary | Khi-Lee Thorpe | Matthew Engert | Peter Aldrich Extended Gestures The title for this show is borrowed from the writers Claude Cernuschi and Andrzej Hercyznski who in their essay, The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock’s Abstractions, describe Pollock’s employment of gravity as a means “to extend the duration of his…
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ABSTRACTION TWENTYEIGHTEEN
ABSTRACTION TWENTYEIGHTEEN is an initiative showcasing Abstract and Non-Objective art: one exhibition, over one hundred artists, hosted by five Melbourne exhibition spaces. Each venue has selected works that demonstrate its particular curatorial practice and aesthetic, with artists from around Australia working in various in materials and formats. Such diversity reflects the range of contemporary artistic…
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LINDA LOH | PHONE BOOTH
This exhibition results from experiments with digital printing, after chance moments with a mobile phone camera. Capturing fleeting incidents of light reflecting or emanating from everyday shiny or luminous objects, then transforming their form and scale, the result is a set of abstract pieces detached from their source. Linda Loh is an artist based in…
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HANNAH GATLAND | WAVES OF CONVENTIONAL HARMONY
Waves Of Conventional Harmony considers the significance of personal experience within the Australian landscape and the influence of environment, atmosphere and urban detritus on a process driven practice. Everyday encountered scenery is captured through photography and digested into a succession of emotive paintings, employing old pianola rolls and enkindling them with new purpose. Working in…
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23º WEST | VANESSA WHITE
23° WEST brings together Australian interdisciplinary artist Vanessa White, Finnish choreographer Favela Vera Ortiz and Icelandic performer Thora Solveig Bergsteinsdottir. The work was filmed in the West region of Iceland around Snæfellsjökull (the glacier) and National Park. In a landscape rendered treeless by generations of human land use and millennia of successive glaciations White, Ortiz…
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MOUNTING THE AIR | JULIA BOROS
Mounting The Air speaks to the processes of a traditional taxidermic mount. This has been read as moving the skin. Here the arrangement of skin is determined by air. A mechanical interpretation of inhalation and exhalation are depicted in the spaces of Arcade. Photographic and sculptural mediums reflect an exploration of boundaries and containment. The…
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INTERMATTER | MARK HOFFMAN & CATARINA MIL-HOMENS
INTERMATTER is a collaborative project by Mark Hoffman and Catarina Mil-Homens. “Something big can often come out of something quite small…” – this is something one often hears said. When it comes to collaborative art practice it often helps to take the word small in a non-objective sense. Putting pen to paper, for example, is…
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MONUMENT (3: BUCKETSFUL) by GEN LOWN
Five Walls Projects is pleased to present Gen Lown’s exhibition, ‘Monument (3: Bucketsful)’ . The primary principles of the Monument series are exploring the complex relationship that humans have with the natural environment, and the nuanced relations of objects to their different localities. Bucketsful is a continuum of Lown’s practice of examining how contemporary societies…
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AIRPORTS | REBECCA JENSEN AND SARAH AIKEN
September 20 – October 7, 2017 Airports exists between two contemporary dance shows created by Rebecca and Sarah, OVERWORLD 2014 and Underworld 2017. This video installation is a reworked excerpt from Underworld where Claire, Sarah and Rebecca negotiate in-betweens, moving forward in real time, building a backward narrative. They perform movement imagining it in reverse,…
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Filomena Coppola
August 30 – September 16, 2017 Coppola’s work is a response to being born in the regional Victorian town of Mildura to Italian parents who migrated from the region of Campania. Her work explores the complexities of duality and what it is to navigate a journey between two cultures. Coppola’s exhibition, ‘I Stand Alone’, explores…
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CORINNA BERNDT | SOFT COPY
August 9 – 26th, 2017 ‘Soft Copy’ explores the intertwining of digital imaging technologies with the human subject. Merging the image of the artist’s body with day to day recordings of her experienced surroundings, Berndt’s inquiry into the digital image space and editing technology questions how the human body might be communicated by the image….
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EMILIE WALSH | SCOPE
Do you remember the excitement of looking through a kaleidoscope or a pair of binoculars as a kid? The very unique and intimate relationship those viewing devices create with the image generates a lasting memory and triggers nostalgia. For this exhibition, Emilie Walsh presents a couple of viewing machines giving access to short narratives that…
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KATE GOLDING | NEAR THIS SPOT
Arcade is pleased to present Kate Golding’s exhibition, ‘Near this spot’. In the Middlesborough suburb of Marton, a large granite urn marks the approximate location of the cottage in which James Cook was born. Similarly, on the island of Hawai‘i, at the edge of Kealakekua Bay, a decaying monument memorialises that “Near this spot” the…
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JOSH SIMPSON | DESTINATION STRANGE
‘Destination Strange’ is an installation-based artwork that examines “exoticised place” (often portrayed through the screen in social media, advertising, tourism and film) as a veil between authentic and inauthentic experience. With a focus on the natural world, the work uses the central motif of masking, to present an idiosyncratic construction of place, shaped by the…
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STUDIO 10
STUDIO 10 Space overview Fantastic visual art studio space available in the heart of Footscray. For artists and other creatives, will suit painters, small sculpture, photography etc Price includes unlimited wifi (NBN) and bills Some existing furniture (if wanted). Fully Lockable with 24/7 access.Approx 3 x 3 mtrs with good lighting (although no direct window)…
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CINE REDUX | FOOTSCRAY REIMAGINED
CineRedux: Footscray Reimagined A journey through Footscray’s cinematic past and its creative present. Hosted by Five Walls Gallery and Arcade Projects, CineRedux: Footscray Reimagined blends history, film, and contemporary art to revisit the suburb’s once-vibrant cinema culture through archival materials, local stories, and new artistic responses. Held across two weekends — June 5, 2026, and…
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NIGHT ARCADE | 64 WAYS OF BEING
[siteorigin_widget class=”TTrust_Spacer”][/siteorigin_widget] NIGHT ARCADE | 64 WAYS OF BEING Continues daily/nighty through 2023. Night Arcade – 64 Ways of Being is a collaboration between two artists: 64 Ways of Being founder Troy Innocent and Five Walls and Arcade Projects founder Aaron Martin. 64 Ways of Being – Night Arcade activates a forgotten 1960’s shopping arcade…
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ARCADE 2016 – 2018
Arcade ran as an exhibition space inside the Trocadero Arcade Building in Footscray for 3 years, from 2016-18. In 2018 a decision was made by the Five Walls Advisory Panel to retire Arcade to make way for expanded exhibition spaces for Five Walls. The Arcade website, however, will continue to serve as an archive of…
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SUPPORT 18 : EOY EXHIBITION & FUNDRAISER
Five Walls warmly welcomes you to join us on Friday, December 21st for SUPPORT 18, a group exhibition across all the gallery spaces. SUPPORT 18 CATALOGUE ABOUT SUPPORT EIGHTEEN is equally an exhibition and a fundraiser, with funds raised used to support the practices of artists and to fund Five Walls’ 2019 program – therefore,…
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KAREN WELLS | ROOM…FOR THE BREATHLESS
Karen Wells investigates painting and the abstract. She is impelled by her research on the neurology of perception, health and environments. As indicators of the constructed, hand- made and what is soon overlooked, initially, found and off-cut materials are partnered and combined unchanged to form collages. Then paintings, constructions and environments are made with a…
-
PJ HICKMAN | SAME SAME
One painting, made again, and again. No endless variety. PJ Hickman explores ‘painting’ through the history and conventions of painting, the art world generally, and the context and function of the gallery. His approach is based on simplification and repetition, being straightforward, matter of fact, ordered, rational and systematic. Making the same painting,…
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YUNA CHUN | PERCEPTION
Artist Statement “Because it is empty anything becomes possible.” ‘공간’ literally can be translated as ’empty between’ in Korean. In the ’empty between’, we co-exist. Here, people create their own spaces, each experiencing and responding differently. This is where my artistic practice had started and has developed from. Initially I try to recreate ‘space’ on…
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PANAYIOTA PETA PETRAKIS | FLIT & DRAG
Flit & drag is a series of recent paintings that investigates the experience of perceptual refocussing between virtual and natural spaces. Petrakis’ polychromatic surfaces contain chaotic and ambiguous compositions that operate through sensations of colour, gesture and shifting depth of field. The paintings engage Neo-Baroque tendencies through ornamental painted forms, visceral pictorial spaces and visual…
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DAVID &: LOU HUBBARD, UDAY ARTS GROUP, EUGENE CARCHESIO
David & presents correspondence between David Sequeira and three artists – Eugene Carchesio, Lou Hubbard and the Uday Arts Group. Much of Sequeira’s art practice has involved sending selected objects and half made works to other artists with a request that they add something of their practice. There is little or no discussion…
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SIMONE NELSON | SPARE ROOM
Within the suburbs of Australia the spare room is at once everywhere and yet nowhere in particular. Existing within the familiarity of our home, the spare room houses the items we never use but can’t seem to part with. Inexplicably, these objects appear to multiply within this neglected place of limbo. What happens then, when…
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TAPE | CURATED BY PJ HICKMAN
TAPE showcases contemporary international and Australian artists who have adopted the myriad of tapes now available in their painting process. Some artists utilize the possibilities of ‘accident and control’ and the fusion of ‘concept and execution’ through the use of tape, while others consciously adopt a more impersonal ‘hard edge’ approach to paint application, using…
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FIONA SKELTON & SAM HATFIELD | FIXATION
FIXATION man[und]lady is a collaboration between artists Fiona Skelton and Sam Hatfield. They use humour and the Absurd to deconstruct psychosocial paradigms. Their work is also informed by their study of neuropsychology. This two-part video work uses provocative moving images and an insidiously earwormish voiceover to explore psychodynamic processes of fixation. Neurological advances now suggest…
-
HANNAH MASKELL | BROKEN RECORD
Using the freehand grid formation as her subject and trademark starting base, Hannah Maskell is able to launch straight into a drawing and enjoy the way in which a medium is applied, colours have a dialogue and lines create rhythm and balance within the composition. Her wall-based and freestanding sculptural works extend the grid forms…
-
PATRICK LARMOUR | PICTURES OF NOTHING
Patrick Larmour works at the intersection of artmaking and physical anthropology presenting paintings, commercially produced objects and machinery stripped of purpose that function together as installations exploring various relationships our selves as bodies have to time and our environments through material cultural remnants. Objects such as torches, medication, cutlery, gloves, and makeup lay claims on…
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SARAH RUDLEDGE & HELEN PALLIKAROS | FAMILY PORTRAIT
Family Portrait is a work that investigates complexities involved in externalising feelings of love and pride between two subjects for the camera. These concepts are explored through video works as two quintessential family portrait moments. In Living Room, poses are struck and the dynamics of power, status and partnership are subtly negotiated. Front Porch…
-
EXTENDED GESTURES
Elyss McCleary | Khi-Lee Thorpe | Matthew Engert | Peter Aldrich Extended Gestures The title for this show is borrowed from the writers Claude Cernuschi and Andrzej Hercyznski who in their essay, The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock’s Abstractions, describe Pollock’s employment of gravity as a means “to extend the duration of his…
-
ABSTRACTION TWENTYEIGHTEEN
ABSTRACTION TWENTYEIGHTEEN is an initiative showcasing Abstract and Non-Objective art: one exhibition, over one hundred artists, hosted by five Melbourne exhibition spaces. Each venue has selected works that demonstrate its particular curatorial practice and aesthetic, with artists from around Australia working in various in materials and formats. Such diversity reflects the range of contemporary artistic…
-
LINDA LOH | PHONE BOOTH
This exhibition results from experiments with digital printing, after chance moments with a mobile phone camera. Capturing fleeting incidents of light reflecting or emanating from everyday shiny or luminous objects, then transforming their form and scale, the result is a set of abstract pieces detached from their source. Linda Loh is an artist based in…
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HANNAH GATLAND | WAVES OF CONVENTIONAL HARMONY
Waves Of Conventional Harmony considers the significance of personal experience within the Australian landscape and the influence of environment, atmosphere and urban detritus on a process driven practice. Everyday encountered scenery is captured through photography and digested into a succession of emotive paintings, employing old pianola rolls and enkindling them with new purpose. Working in…
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23º WEST | VANESSA WHITE
23° WEST brings together Australian interdisciplinary artist Vanessa White, Finnish choreographer Favela Vera Ortiz and Icelandic performer Thora Solveig Bergsteinsdottir. The work was filmed in the West region of Iceland around Snæfellsjökull (the glacier) and National Park. In a landscape rendered treeless by generations of human land use and millennia of successive glaciations White, Ortiz…
-
MOUNTING THE AIR | JULIA BOROS
Mounting The Air speaks to the processes of a traditional taxidermic mount. This has been read as moving the skin. Here the arrangement of skin is determined by air. A mechanical interpretation of inhalation and exhalation are depicted in the spaces of Arcade. Photographic and sculptural mediums reflect an exploration of boundaries and containment. The…
-
INTERMATTER | MARK HOFFMAN & CATARINA MIL-HOMENS
INTERMATTER is a collaborative project by Mark Hoffman and Catarina Mil-Homens. “Something big can often come out of something quite small…” – this is something one often hears said. When it comes to collaborative art practice it often helps to take the word small in a non-objective sense. Putting pen to paper, for example, is…
-
MONUMENT (3: BUCKETSFUL) by GEN LOWN
Five Walls Projects is pleased to present Gen Lown’s exhibition, ‘Monument (3: Bucketsful)’ . The primary principles of the Monument series are exploring the complex relationship that humans have with the natural environment, and the nuanced relations of objects to their different localities. Bucketsful is a continuum of Lown’s practice of examining how contemporary societies…
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AIRPORTS | REBECCA JENSEN AND SARAH AIKEN
September 20 – October 7, 2017 Airports exists between two contemporary dance shows created by Rebecca and Sarah, OVERWORLD 2014 and Underworld 2017. This video installation is a reworked excerpt from Underworld where Claire, Sarah and Rebecca negotiate in-betweens, moving forward in real time, building a backward narrative. They perform movement imagining it in reverse,…
-
Filomena Coppola
August 30 – September 16, 2017 Coppola’s work is a response to being born in the regional Victorian town of Mildura to Italian parents who migrated from the region of Campania. Her work explores the complexities of duality and what it is to navigate a journey between two cultures. Coppola’s exhibition, ‘I Stand Alone’, explores…
-
CORINNA BERNDT | SOFT COPY
August 9 – 26th, 2017 ‘Soft Copy’ explores the intertwining of digital imaging technologies with the human subject. Merging the image of the artist’s body with day to day recordings of her experienced surroundings, Berndt’s inquiry into the digital image space and editing technology questions how the human body might be communicated by the image….
-
EMILIE WALSH | SCOPE
Do you remember the excitement of looking through a kaleidoscope or a pair of binoculars as a kid? The very unique and intimate relationship those viewing devices create with the image generates a lasting memory and triggers nostalgia. For this exhibition, Emilie Walsh presents a couple of viewing machines giving access to short narratives that…
-
KATE GOLDING | NEAR THIS SPOT
Arcade is pleased to present Kate Golding’s exhibition, ‘Near this spot’. In the Middlesborough suburb of Marton, a large granite urn marks the approximate location of the cottage in which James Cook was born. Similarly, on the island of Hawai‘i, at the edge of Kealakekua Bay, a decaying monument memorialises that “Near this spot” the…
-
JOSH SIMPSON | DESTINATION STRANGE
‘Destination Strange’ is an installation-based artwork that examines “exoticised place” (often portrayed through the screen in social media, advertising, tourism and film) as a veil between authentic and inauthentic experience. With a focus on the natural world, the work uses the central motif of masking, to present an idiosyncratic construction of place, shaped by the…