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Tuesday 10 December
2024

Memo Akten

Memo Akten: Distributed Consciousness

ACMI
Wednesday 1 MayTuesday 31 December

Gio Ponti, Gae Aulenti, Joe Colombo, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini

Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 26 OctoberSunday 23 March

Beth Gibbeson

Eliminate Illuminate Elucidate

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Isobel Rayson

For As Long As It Lasts

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Brian Robinson

Current / Brian Robinson

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 7 DecemberSunday 23 February

Giulia Violanti

KI'N

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Bruce Rowe

Alter

The Front Room
Thursday 5 DecemberSaturday 14 December

Natalie Steer

Spirit Trees

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Edwina Edwards

North-East

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Ronald Chu

The Form of Nature

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Group Show

Centrepiece

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

David Griffith

Painting and Drawing

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Nunzio Miano

A Return to Italy

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Fleur Optekamp

Nature's Abstraction

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Holly Greenwood

After The Game

James Makin Gallery
Wednesday 27 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 NovemberSaturday 8 November

Simone Haag

Fables & Folklore

Craft
Thursday 14 NovemberSaturday 25 January

Laura de Carteret

I Forgot My Keys, So I Climbed Through The Window

Craft
Tuesday 10 DecemberSaturday 18 January

Albert Tucker

Albert Tucker's Grotesques

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 OctoberSunday 9 March

Richard Lewer

Making Contact

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 OctoberSunday 30 March

Danielle Brustman

I could have danced all night by Danielle Brustman

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 13 AugustSunday 9 March

Group Show

A Secret Chord: Music, Rhythm & Movement in the Jewish Museum of Australia Collection

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 31 OctoberSunday 16 March

Sean Hogan

Nevermore

Five Walls
Friday 15 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Akil Ahamat

Extinguishing Hope

West Space
Sunday 17 NovemberMonday 20 January

Kat Macleod

Dryads

Lamington Drive
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 25 January

Group Show

Gertrude Studios 2024 Curated by Amelia Winata and Brigid Moriarty

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 2 NovemberSunday 15 December

Group Show

The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 8 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Kathryn McCool

P.North

Centre For Contemporary Photography
Friday 25 OctoberSaturday 14 December

Group Show

The Charge That Binds

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Saturday 7 DecemberSunday 16 March

Kait James

Blak Flags

Neon Parc
Friday 15 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Tony Clark

Unsculpted

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 1 NovemberSunday 1 June

Group Show

The Future & Other Fictions

ACMI
Thursday 28 NovemberSunday 27 April

Group Show

Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition

ACMI
Tuesday 17 SeptemberSunday 16 February

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 DecemberMonday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 AugustSunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 AugustSunday 2 February

Jordan Prosser & Nathan Harrison

INT. SPACESHIP – NIGHT

ACMI
Thursday 28 NovemberSunday 27 April

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 DecemberMonday 1 December

Nicholas Quantock-Holmes

TRESSPASS

No Vacancy
Tuesday 10 DecemberSaturday 21 December

Darcy Vescio

That Sack of Air

Honey Bones Gallery
Friday 6 DecemberSunday 15 December

ArtLife Studio

Resonance

Footscray Community Arts Centre
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Emily Dober

Rhythm in Ruby Shoes

Footscray Community Arts Centre
Tuesday 1 OctoberSaturday 25 January

Group Show

Last Christmas (I Gave You My Heart)

Sarah Scout Presents
Thursday 21 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Raghav Kumar & Addin Sugarda

Crossing

Seventh Gallery
Thursday 28 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 NovemberSunday 15 June

Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns

Rauschenberg & Johns—Significant Others

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 NovemberSunday 9 February

Group Show

The Sweet Spot—Between Art & Design

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 NovemberSunday 9 February

Group Show

Social Studies

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 9 NovemberSunday 9 February

Noel Counihan

A People’s Press—Noel Counihan

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 2 NovemberMonday 10 March

Group Show

Linden Postcard Show 2024-25

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 DecemberSunday 2 February

Sean Mcdowell

And the World Turns

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 DecemberSunday 12 January

Scotty So

Maybe She Was There

MARS Gallery
Friday 6 DecemberFriday 20 December

Nick Mullaly

Courtly Love

MARS Gallery
Friday 6 DecemberFriday 20 December

Edie Duffy

A Severed Head

CAVES Gallery
Friday 29 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Brent Harris

Drawings and New Paintings

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 16 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Group Show

SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed

Science Gallery
Saturday 3 AugustSaturday 31 May

Elliat Rich

Mythica Ignota

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Wednesday 27 NovemberWednesday 18 December

Jason Phu

the deepest love in the deepest well of despair

Station Gallery
Saturday 16 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Group Show

Intimate Imaginaries

Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Saturday 30 NovemberMonday 10 March

Ara Dolatian

At The First Flood of Daylight

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 22 February

Cyrus Tang

Eclipsed Presence

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 22 February

Natalie Thomas

Selling Sunset

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 22 February

Group Show

Something like a dream

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 22 February

Group Show

Truth Telling Space

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 1 JulySaturday 21 December

Esther Erlich

Because

Fox Galleries
Thursday 28 NovemberFriday 20 December

Robby Wirramanda & Jackie Wirramanda

WALPA WARU [The Dance of Fire and Wind]

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 DecemberSunday 22 December

Mitch Pinney

Shortcuts

Hillvale Gallery
Friday 6 DecemberFriday 31 January

Group Show

Tapestry Treasures

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 31 OctoberSaturday 25 January

Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria

Strange Meadows

Oigall Projects
Thursday 28 NovemberWednesday 25 December

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 NovemberSaturday 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 NovemberSaturday 8 November

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Exhibitions

Tuesday 10 December
2024

Memo Akten

Memo Akten: Distributed Consciousness

ACMI
Wednesday 1 MayTuesday 31 December

Gio Ponti, Gae Aulenti, Joe Colombo, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini

Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 26 OctoberSunday 23 March

Beth Gibbeson

Eliminate Illuminate Elucidate

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Isobel Rayson

For As Long As It Lasts

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Brian Robinson

Current / Brian Robinson

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 7 DecemberSunday 23 February

Giulia Violanti

KI'N

Boom Gallery
Thursday 21 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Bruce Rowe

Alter

The Front Room
Thursday 5 DecemberSaturday 14 December

Natalie Steer

Spirit Trees

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Edwina Edwards

North-East

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Ronald Chu

The Form of Nature

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Group Show

Centrepiece

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

David Griffith

Painting and Drawing

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Nunzio Miano

A Return to Italy

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Fleur Optekamp

Nature's Abstraction

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 DecemberFriday 20 December

Holly Greenwood

After The Game

James Makin Gallery
Wednesday 27 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 NovemberSaturday 8 November

Simone Haag

Fables & Folklore

Craft
Thursday 14 NovemberSaturday 25 January

Laura de Carteret

I Forgot My Keys, So I Climbed Through The Window

Craft
Tuesday 10 DecemberSaturday 18 January

Albert Tucker

Albert Tucker's Grotesques

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 OctoberSunday 9 March

Richard Lewer

Making Contact

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 OctoberSunday 30 March

Danielle Brustman

I could have danced all night by Danielle Brustman

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 13 AugustSunday 9 March

Group Show

A Secret Chord: Music, Rhythm & Movement in the Jewish Museum of Australia Collection

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 31 OctoberSunday 16 March

Sean Hogan

Nevermore

Five Walls
Friday 15 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Akil Ahamat

Extinguishing Hope

West Space
Sunday 17 NovemberMonday 20 January

Kat Macleod

Dryads

Lamington Drive
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 25 January

Group Show

Gertrude Studios 2024 Curated by Amelia Winata and Brigid Moriarty

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 2 NovemberSunday 15 December

Group Show

The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 8 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Kathryn McCool

P.North

Centre For Contemporary Photography
Friday 25 OctoberSaturday 14 December

Group Show

The Charge That Binds

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Saturday 7 DecemberSunday 16 March

Kait James

Blak Flags

Neon Parc
Friday 15 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Tony Clark

Unsculpted

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 1 NovemberSunday 1 June

Group Show

The Future & Other Fictions

ACMI
Thursday 28 NovemberSunday 27 April

Group Show

Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition

ACMI
Tuesday 17 SeptemberSunday 16 February

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 DecemberMonday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 AugustSunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 AugustSunday 2 February

Jordan Prosser & Nathan Harrison

INT. SPACESHIP – NIGHT

ACMI
Thursday 28 NovemberSunday 27 April

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 DecemberMonday 1 December

Nicholas Quantock-Holmes

TRESSPASS

No Vacancy
Tuesday 10 DecemberSaturday 21 December

Darcy Vescio

That Sack of Air

Honey Bones Gallery
Friday 6 DecemberSunday 15 December

ArtLife Studio

Resonance

Footscray Community Arts Centre
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Emily Dober

Rhythm in Ruby Shoes

Footscray Community Arts Centre
Tuesday 1 OctoberSaturday 25 January

Group Show

Last Christmas (I Gave You My Heart)

Sarah Scout Presents
Thursday 21 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Raghav Kumar & Addin Sugarda

Crossing

Seventh Gallery
Thursday 28 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 NovemberSunday 15 June

Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns

Rauschenberg & Johns—Significant Others

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 NovemberSunday 9 February

Group Show

The Sweet Spot—Between Art & Design

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 NovemberSunday 9 February

Group Show

Social Studies

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 9 NovemberSunday 9 February

Noel Counihan

A People’s Press—Noel Counihan

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 2 NovemberMonday 10 March

Group Show

Linden Postcard Show 2024-25

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 DecemberSunday 2 February

Sean Mcdowell

And the World Turns

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 DecemberSunday 12 January

Scotty So

Maybe She Was There

MARS Gallery
Friday 6 DecemberFriday 20 December

Nick Mullaly

Courtly Love

MARS Gallery
Friday 6 DecemberFriday 20 December

Edie Duffy

A Severed Head

CAVES Gallery
Friday 29 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Brent Harris

Drawings and New Paintings

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 16 NovemberSaturday 14 December

Group Show

SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed

Science Gallery
Saturday 3 AugustSaturday 31 May

Elliat Rich

Mythica Ignota

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Wednesday 27 NovemberWednesday 18 December

Jason Phu

the deepest love in the deepest well of despair

Station Gallery
Saturday 16 NovemberSaturday 21 December

Group Show

Intimate Imaginaries

Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Saturday 30 NovemberMonday 10 March

Ara Dolatian

At The First Flood of Daylight

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 22 February

Cyrus Tang

Eclipsed Presence

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 22 February

Natalie Thomas

Selling Sunset

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 22 February

Group Show

Something like a dream

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 NovemberSaturday 22 February

Group Show

Truth Telling Space

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 1 JulySaturday 21 December

Esther Erlich

Because

Fox Galleries
Thursday 28 NovemberFriday 20 December

Robby Wirramanda & Jackie Wirramanda

WALPA WARU [The Dance of Fire and Wind]

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 DecemberSunday 22 December

Mitch Pinney

Shortcuts

Hillvale Gallery
Friday 6 DecemberFriday 31 January

Group Show

Tapestry Treasures

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 31 OctoberSaturday 25 January

Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria

Strange Meadows

Oigall Projects
Thursday 28 NovemberWednesday 25 December

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 NovemberSaturday 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 NovemberSaturday 8 November

Save to Calendar

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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