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Exhibitions

Wednesday 2 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 – Sunday 1 June

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

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

Georgia Morgan

Nothing's forever cause everything is

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 7 March – Saturday 12 April

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

Nabilah Nordin

Scripts

Neon Parc
Friday 7 March – Saturday 5 April

Serwah Attafuah

The Darkness Between the Stars

ACMI
Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

Brenton Drechsler

Stripes 4 - In the Dark

MARS Gallery
Thursday 13 March – Saturday 5 April

Cyrus Tang

Crystalline Echoes

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 5 March – Saturday 12 April

Fred Fowler

Fred Fowler

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 18 March – Saturday 5 April

Rachel Milne

Rachel Milne

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 18 March – Saturday 5 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

Conor O’Brien

The Lost Light

Hillvale Gallery
Thursday 6 March – Sunday 6 April

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

In My Prime

Sullivan+Strumpf
Thursday 13 March – Saturday 5 April

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

A rose is a rose is a rose seeks to playfully acknowledge the overt impropriety of a toilet-as-gallery and the latent impropriety of the toilet in general. The exhibition includes several stretched canvas-style works on flyscreen and an in-toilet text work.

The exhibition takes cues from an early 90s British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, parodying its floral patterns, pastel palette and fixation on decorum. This comical series centres on Hyacinth Bucket, who comes from a working-class family but now lives a middle-class life and anxiously performs as an upper-class subject. This performance involves insisting her name is pronounced as Hyacinth ‘Bouquet’, constantly policing the behaviour of her husband and family and going to great lengths to demonstrate her sophisticated taste.

In the series, Hyacinth is obsessed with cleanliness, and cleanliness is regularly made synonymous with social and moral superiority. Superiority associated with cleanliness could also speak to the desire to deny the messier aspects of bodily experience. The toilet is a pesky reminder of the cyclical nature of the body and ultimately, its impermanence. This association could be the cause of the ‘ick’ brought about by anything that was part of the body but has become separate from it, such as loose hairs caught in the drain.

The exhibition title, A rose is a rose is a rose is a famous quotation from Gertrude Stein. While it is said to mean that ‘things are what they are’, Stein’s repeated use and variation of this phrase suggests things are what they are in a given context. This exhibition embraces the toilet as a context to consider the anxious desire for separation between the proper and improper.

Location

Craft
Watson Place, Melbourne VIC, Australia

Date

Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 2 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 – Sunday 1 June

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

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

Georgia Morgan

Nothing's forever cause everything is

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 7 March – Saturday 12 April

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

Nabilah Nordin

Scripts

Neon Parc
Friday 7 March – Saturday 5 April

Serwah Attafuah

The Darkness Between the Stars

ACMI
Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

Brenton Drechsler

Stripes 4 - In the Dark

MARS Gallery
Thursday 13 March – Saturday 5 April

Cyrus Tang

Crystalline Echoes

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 5 March – Saturday 12 April

Fred Fowler

Fred Fowler

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 18 March – Saturday 5 April

Rachel Milne

Rachel Milne

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 18 March – Saturday 5 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

Conor O’Brien

The Lost Light

Hillvale Gallery
Thursday 6 March – Sunday 6 April

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

In My Prime

Sullivan+Strumpf
Thursday 13 March – Saturday 5 April

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

A rose is a rose is a rose seeks to playfully acknowledge the overt impropriety of a toilet-as-gallery and the latent impropriety of the toilet in general. The exhibition includes several stretched canvas-style works on flyscreen and an in-toilet text work.

The exhibition takes cues from an early 90s British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, parodying its floral patterns, pastel palette and fixation on decorum. This comical series centres on Hyacinth Bucket, who comes from a working-class family but now lives a middle-class life and anxiously performs as an upper-class subject. This performance involves insisting her name is pronounced as Hyacinth ‘Bouquet’, constantly policing the behaviour of her husband and family and going to great lengths to demonstrate her sophisticated taste.

In the series, Hyacinth is obsessed with cleanliness, and cleanliness is regularly made synonymous with social and moral superiority. Superiority associated with cleanliness could also speak to the desire to deny the messier aspects of bodily experience. The toilet is a pesky reminder of the cyclical nature of the body and ultimately, its impermanence. This association could be the cause of the ‘ick’ brought about by anything that was part of the body but has become separate from it, such as loose hairs caught in the drain.

The exhibition title, A rose is a rose is a rose is a famous quotation from Gertrude Stein. While it is said to mean that ‘things are what they are’, Stein’s repeated use and variation of this phrase suggests things are what they are in a given context. This exhibition embraces the toilet as a context to consider the anxious desire for separation between the proper and improper.

Location

Craft
Watson Place, Melbourne VIC, Australia

Date

Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://craft.org.au/whats-on/all-events/a-rose-is-a-rose-is-a-rose/

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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