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Thursday 10 April
2025

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Tony Clark

Unsculpted

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 1 November – Saturday 31 May

Group Show

The Future & Other Fictions

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Jordan Prosser & Nathan Harrison

INT. SPACESHIP – NIGHT

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Group Show

SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed

Science Gallery
Saturday 3 August – Saturday 31 May

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

John Norman Mann

The John Norman Mann Bequest

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 11 May

Roger Kemp

Sequence

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 18 May

Yvonne Audette

Observation and Experience

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 18 May

Group Show

PRICK! Needlework Now

RMIT Gallery
Thursday 20 February – Saturday 10 May

Aki Onda

Middle Of A Moment

The Substation
Friday 21 February – Saturday 12 April

Nicky Tsekouras

Rainbow Dissection;;

Seventh Gallery
Monday 10 February – Saturday 10 May

Bernhard Sachs

After History

Linden New Art
Saturday 15 February – Sunday 18 May

Benjamin Knock

Senectus Tempus

Backwoods Gallery
Friday 21 March – Thursday 17 April

Albert Tucker

Spirit Worlds and Dreamscapes

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 15 March – Sunday 31 August

Izabela Pluta

Lumina

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 5 October

Group Show

Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | جذور

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 1 March – Saturday 24 May

Group Show

Permanent Collection

Geelong Gallery
Sunday 9 March – Sunday 17 August

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Marc Martin

Marc Martin

Outré Gallery Fitzroy
Friday 21 March – Sunday 20 April

Kels O'Sullivan

Kels O'Sullivan

Outré Gallery Fitzroy
Friday 21 March – Sunday 20 April

Group Show

TarraWarra Biennial 2025: We Are Eagles

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 20 July

Tina Stefanou

You Can't See Speed

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 4 April – Monday 9 June

Georgia Morgan

Nothing's forever cause everything is

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 7 March – Saturday 12 April

Group Show

Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 5 April – Sunday 20 July

Teho Ropeyarn

Atagu Alumu

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 8 March – Sunday 15 June

Colleen Guiney

Side by Side

Boom Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Saturday 19 April

Liz Wickramasinghe

Shiftscapes

Boom Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Saturday 19 April

Kohl Tyler

To Return To

Craft
Thursday 6 March – Saturday 26 April

Stephen Benwell & Raphy

Trees and Animals

Craft
Thursday 6 March – Saturday 26 April

Alyssa Powell-Ascura

Firstborn

West Space
Saturday 8 March – Wednesday 16 April

Hugo Blomley

The same eyes as yesterday

Neon Parc
Saturday 5 April – Saturday 26 April

Serwah Attafuah

The Darkness Between the Stars

ACMI
Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

Cyrus Tang

Crystalline Echoes

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 5 March – Saturday 12 April

David Asher Brook

Paintings From Home

Fox Galleries
Thursday 20 March – Sunday 13 April

Group Show

Stitchin’ Stories: Blak and Threadly

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 1 March – Sunday 18 May

Yayoi Kusama

Kusama

NGV International
Sunday 15 December – Monday 21 April

Yayoi Kusama

Kusama for Kids - The Oblideration Room

NGV International
Sunday 15 December – Monday 21 April

Escher X nendo

A House for Escher

NGV International
Saturday 1 March – Monday 9 June

Lee Bul

Untitled

NGV International
Thursday 1 August – Friday 1 August

Group Show

Chaos becomes Rhythm

Futures Gallery
Saturday 15 March – Saturday 12 April

Sangeeta Sandrasegar and Rosie O’Brien

Artist In Residence Galleries

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 13 February – Thursday 17 April

Group Show

Slow Colour

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 13 February – Saturday 24 May

Group Show

So Fresh

Arts Project Australia Studio
Wednesday 5 February – Thursday 17 April

Miles Howard-Wilks

Magpie and Mates

Benalla Art Gallery
Saturday 1 March – Saturday 31 May

Group Show

Missing and Longing

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 26 April

Annie Forster

Some Place Better Than This

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Brendan Parkes

Man Dancing In An Emu Mask And One Blue Stocking

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Isobel Kingswell

Translate

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Sarah Stewart

Read between the lines

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Ira Mitchell

Echoes Of Australia

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Shannon Syme

The Infinite Between

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Ponce A Delph

We See Eye to Eye

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Group Show

James Makin Gallery Represented Artists

James Makin Gallery
Sunday 30 March – Wednesday 30 April

Group Show

Old School

Craft
Saturday 15 March – Saturday 3 May

Wanda Gillespie

Of Counting and Devotion

Craft
Thursday 6 March – Saturday 26 April

Mark Raphael Baker

The Things You Cannot See: Photography of Mark Raphael Baker

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 1 April – Sunday 6 July

Ian Wells

Blocked

Five Walls
Friday 4 April – Saturday 26 April

Jordan Marani

Warehouse

Daine Singer
Saturday 22 March – Saturday 26 April

Bronwyn Hack

Organs

Daine Singer
Saturday 22 March – Saturday 26 April

Group Show

Counter Encounter

No Vacancy
Tuesday 8 April – Saturday 19 April

Doug Hall and Rosslynd Piggott

nothing — a drift

Sarah Scout Presents
Friday 28 March – Saturday 10 May

Group Show

Never keep both feet on the ground

Sarah Scout Presents
Friday 28 March – Saturday 10 May

Group Show

the way a stranger looks

Bus Projects
Wednesday 9 April – Saturday 3 May

Dhishni De Silva

Unseen Threads

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

Group Show

Disco Inferno

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

Anne-Marie May

A Glow That Casts

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 5 April – Saturday 10 May

Group Show

Modern Lives—Prints by Australian Women Artists 1900s–1950s

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 March – Sunday 18 May

Aurora Burnett Kuhn

The Residue of Intimacy

Linden New Art
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 4 May

Group Show

She Paints Her

MARS Gallery
Thursday 10 April – Saturday 3 May

Group Show

Disco Inferno

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

What if learning and unlearning could feel like a spell? Like letting go? Like dancing through fire?

Disco Inferno takes its title from a popular anthem of ecstatic release, a scene of a fire in a top-floor ballroom and a loose translation. I learn through suffering. It’s a phrase that flickers between pop spectacle and something slower, more interior. On one level, it conjures the dancefloor - a site of freedom, rhythm, and communal transcendence. On another, it speaks to the transformative textures of pain, repetition, and ritual. This exhibition moves between these registers, bringing together three artists - Nithya Iyer, Asha Maria Madge, and Leo Bagus Purnomo - whose practices engage in layered, often embodied ways, with memory, identity, ancestry.

The idea of movement - across bodies, borders, and belief systems - threads through the exhibition. Nithya’s two-channel video work Sītā anchors the show with a poetic excavation of diasporic inheritance and feminine visibility. Drawing from the Hindu epic Ramayana, Nithya stages the performative act of digging and lying in her own grave - a gesture both symbolic and corporeal. The grave here becomes not only a site of mourning, but a threshold; a furrow that marks and un-marks territory, identity, and time. Her merging of mythic and personal lineages suggests an alternate passage for South Indian diasporic women. One in which fragmentation can also be a site of reclamation.

In dialogue with this, Asha’s paintings offer a sensorial counterpoint. Her layered and gestural works meditate on the slippages between memory and place, abstraction and the body. Asha paints from a perspective shaped by geographic and cultural transience, allowing multiple temporalities, textures, and registers to coexist. Her work resists linearity, embracing instead a kind of painterly improvisation that echoes the visual rhythms of dream, movement, and sensual recall. What emerges is a painted archive of feeling and fugitive memory.

Leo’s installation practice expands these ideas into the atmospheric and the mystical. His fabric-based works, accompanied by the lingering scent of jasmine, conjure thresholds into unseen worlds. Drawing from Javanese mysticism, conceptual art, and critical theory, Leo’s work probes the porousness of identity. Refusing static representation in favour of multiplicity and the ineffable. His approach reflects an ongoing interest in epistemic crossings: where inherited knowledge systems meet posthuman and spiritual frameworks; to disrupt and reimagine what it means to belong.

These artists resist the instrumentalisation of identity demanded by institutional diversity frameworks. Their works illustrate complex, embodied practices that ask us to sit with the messier, more human parts of who we are. Nithya, Asha, and Leo offer more than representation; they’re offering transformation! Suggesting how art might generate new methods of knowing, and new forms of movement, both within and beyond the self.

Image | Still from Sīta (2023), a two-channel projection installation (9′14″) by Nithya Iyer, created during a residency at AADK, with shooting and editorial support from Vlad Mizikov.

Location

Seventh Gallery
215 Church Street, Richmond VIC, Australia

Date

Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

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Exhibitions

Thursday 10 April
2025

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Tony Clark

Unsculpted

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 1 November – Saturday 31 May

Group Show

The Future & Other Fictions

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Jordan Prosser & Nathan Harrison

INT. SPACESHIP – NIGHT

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Group Show

SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed

Science Gallery
Saturday 3 August – Saturday 31 May

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

John Norman Mann

The John Norman Mann Bequest

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 11 May

Roger Kemp

Sequence

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 18 May

Yvonne Audette

Observation and Experience

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 18 May

Group Show

PRICK! Needlework Now

RMIT Gallery
Thursday 20 February – Saturday 10 May

Aki Onda

Middle Of A Moment

The Substation
Friday 21 February – Saturday 12 April

Nicky Tsekouras

Rainbow Dissection;;

Seventh Gallery
Monday 10 February – Saturday 10 May

Bernhard Sachs

After History

Linden New Art
Saturday 15 February – Sunday 18 May

Benjamin Knock

Senectus Tempus

Backwoods Gallery
Friday 21 March – Thursday 17 April

Albert Tucker

Spirit Worlds and Dreamscapes

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 15 March – Sunday 31 August

Izabela Pluta

Lumina

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 5 October

Group Show

Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | جذور

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 1 March – Saturday 24 May

Group Show

Permanent Collection

Geelong Gallery
Sunday 9 March – Sunday 17 August

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Marc Martin

Marc Martin

Outré Gallery Fitzroy
Friday 21 March – Sunday 20 April

Kels O'Sullivan

Kels O'Sullivan

Outré Gallery Fitzroy
Friday 21 March – Sunday 20 April

Group Show

TarraWarra Biennial 2025: We Are Eagles

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 20 July

Tina Stefanou

You Can't See Speed

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 4 April – Monday 9 June

Georgia Morgan

Nothing's forever cause everything is

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 7 March – Saturday 12 April

Group Show

Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 5 April – Sunday 20 July

Teho Ropeyarn

Atagu Alumu

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 8 March – Sunday 15 June

Colleen Guiney

Side by Side

Boom Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Saturday 19 April

Liz Wickramasinghe

Shiftscapes

Boom Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Saturday 19 April

Kohl Tyler

To Return To

Craft
Thursday 6 March – Saturday 26 April

Stephen Benwell & Raphy

Trees and Animals

Craft
Thursday 6 March – Saturday 26 April

Alyssa Powell-Ascura

Firstborn

West Space
Saturday 8 March – Wednesday 16 April

Hugo Blomley

The same eyes as yesterday

Neon Parc
Saturday 5 April – Saturday 26 April

Serwah Attafuah

The Darkness Between the Stars

ACMI
Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

Cyrus Tang

Crystalline Echoes

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 5 March – Saturday 12 April

David Asher Brook

Paintings From Home

Fox Galleries
Thursday 20 March – Sunday 13 April

Group Show

Stitchin’ Stories: Blak and Threadly

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 1 March – Sunday 18 May

Yayoi Kusama

Kusama

NGV International
Sunday 15 December – Monday 21 April

Yayoi Kusama

Kusama for Kids - The Oblideration Room

NGV International
Sunday 15 December – Monday 21 April

Escher X nendo

A House for Escher

NGV International
Saturday 1 March – Monday 9 June

Lee Bul

Untitled

NGV International
Thursday 1 August – Friday 1 August

Group Show

Chaos becomes Rhythm

Futures Gallery
Saturday 15 March – Saturday 12 April

Sangeeta Sandrasegar and Rosie O’Brien

Artist In Residence Galleries

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 13 February – Thursday 17 April

Group Show

Slow Colour

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 13 February – Saturday 24 May

Group Show

So Fresh

Arts Project Australia Studio
Wednesday 5 February – Thursday 17 April

Miles Howard-Wilks

Magpie and Mates

Benalla Art Gallery
Saturday 1 March – Saturday 31 May

Group Show

Missing and Longing

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 26 April

Annie Forster

Some Place Better Than This

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Brendan Parkes

Man Dancing In An Emu Mask And One Blue Stocking

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Isobel Kingswell

Translate

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Sarah Stewart

Read between the lines

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Ira Mitchell

Echoes Of Australia

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Shannon Syme

The Infinite Between

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Ponce A Delph

We See Eye to Eye

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 13 April

Group Show

James Makin Gallery Represented Artists

James Makin Gallery
Sunday 30 March – Wednesday 30 April

Group Show

Old School

Craft
Saturday 15 March – Saturday 3 May

Wanda Gillespie

Of Counting and Devotion

Craft
Thursday 6 March – Saturday 26 April

Mark Raphael Baker

The Things You Cannot See: Photography of Mark Raphael Baker

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 1 April – Sunday 6 July

Ian Wells

Blocked

Five Walls
Friday 4 April – Saturday 26 April

Jordan Marani

Warehouse

Daine Singer
Saturday 22 March – Saturday 26 April

Bronwyn Hack

Organs

Daine Singer
Saturday 22 March – Saturday 26 April

Group Show

Counter Encounter

No Vacancy
Tuesday 8 April – Saturday 19 April

Doug Hall and Rosslynd Piggott

nothing — a drift

Sarah Scout Presents
Friday 28 March – Saturday 10 May

Group Show

Never keep both feet on the ground

Sarah Scout Presents
Friday 28 March – Saturday 10 May

Group Show

the way a stranger looks

Bus Projects
Wednesday 9 April – Saturday 3 May

Dhishni De Silva

Unseen Threads

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

Group Show

Disco Inferno

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

Anne-Marie May

A Glow That Casts

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 5 April – Saturday 10 May

Group Show

Modern Lives—Prints by Australian Women Artists 1900s–1950s

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 March – Sunday 18 May

Aurora Burnett Kuhn

The Residue of Intimacy

Linden New Art
Thursday 27 March – Sunday 4 May

Group Show

She Paints Her

MARS Gallery
Thursday 10 April – Saturday 3 May

Group Show

Disco Inferno

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

What if learning and unlearning could feel like a spell? Like letting go? Like dancing through fire?

Disco Inferno takes its title from a popular anthem of ecstatic release, a scene of a fire in a top-floor ballroom and a loose translation. I learn through suffering. It’s a phrase that flickers between pop spectacle and something slower, more interior. On one level, it conjures the dancefloor - a site of freedom, rhythm, and communal transcendence. On another, it speaks to the transformative textures of pain, repetition, and ritual. This exhibition moves between these registers, bringing together three artists - Nithya Iyer, Asha Maria Madge, and Leo Bagus Purnomo - whose practices engage in layered, often embodied ways, with memory, identity, ancestry.

The idea of movement - across bodies, borders, and belief systems - threads through the exhibition. Nithya’s two-channel video work Sītā anchors the show with a poetic excavation of diasporic inheritance and feminine visibility. Drawing from the Hindu epic Ramayana, Nithya stages the performative act of digging and lying in her own grave - a gesture both symbolic and corporeal. The grave here becomes not only a site of mourning, but a threshold; a furrow that marks and un-marks territory, identity, and time. Her merging of mythic and personal lineages suggests an alternate passage for South Indian diasporic women. One in which fragmentation can also be a site of reclamation.

In dialogue with this, Asha’s paintings offer a sensorial counterpoint. Her layered and gestural works meditate on the slippages between memory and place, abstraction and the body. Asha paints from a perspective shaped by geographic and cultural transience, allowing multiple temporalities, textures, and registers to coexist. Her work resists linearity, embracing instead a kind of painterly improvisation that echoes the visual rhythms of dream, movement, and sensual recall. What emerges is a painted archive of feeling and fugitive memory.

Leo’s installation practice expands these ideas into the atmospheric and the mystical. His fabric-based works, accompanied by the lingering scent of jasmine, conjure thresholds into unseen worlds. Drawing from Javanese mysticism, conceptual art, and critical theory, Leo’s work probes the porousness of identity. Refusing static representation in favour of multiplicity and the ineffable. His approach reflects an ongoing interest in epistemic crossings: where inherited knowledge systems meet posthuman and spiritual frameworks; to disrupt and reimagine what it means to belong.

These artists resist the instrumentalisation of identity demanded by institutional diversity frameworks. Their works illustrate complex, embodied practices that ask us to sit with the messier, more human parts of who we are. Nithya, Asha, and Leo offer more than representation; they’re offering transformation! Suggesting how art might generate new methods of knowing, and new forms of movement, both within and beyond the self.

Image | Still from Sīta (2023), a two-channel projection installation (9′14″) by Nithya Iyer, created during a residency at AADK, with shooting and editorial support from Vlad Mizikov.

Location

Seventh Gallery
215 Church Street, Richmond VIC, Australia

Date

Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://www.seventhgallery.org/content/exhibition-disco-inferno-leo-bagus-purnomo-asha-maria-madge-nithya-iyer

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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