Exhibitions


  • Transmission: Legacies of the Television Age

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    May 15th, 2015 to September 13th, 2015

    This thematic exhibition considers a range of artists’ responses to, and engagement with, television, sets and screens, visual broadcasting and the transmission of information. It includes Australian and international practitioners, with works dating from the late 1950s, when television was becoming a mass medium, to today. Within the exhibition there is consideration of television as a means of global communication; a mediator of technology; a distributor of pop culture and consumerism; a filter of media and the news; a vehicle for a new ‘reality’; and a transmitter of information.… Continued


  • Remain in Light: Photography from the Museum of Contemporary Art collection

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    March 29th, 2014 to October 4th, 2015

    Curated by Glenn Barkley, Remain in Light: Photography from the MCA Collections is a MCA Australia touring exhibition of over 70 artworks by Australian and international artists collected by the University of Sydney and the Museum of Contemporary Art during a period spanning more than 50 years. The exhibition provides a broad overview of photographic practice by artists, many who have been recognised as contributing significantly to critical debates in art from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring the influence of photographic theory and technique in contemporary art.… Continued


  • Arcadia

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    May 22nd, 2015 to July 12th, 2015

    Works from Lost Psyche (2014)  will be shown in Arcadia at Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Curated by Diane Soumilas, the exhibition explores the realms of history, cultural identity, migration, storytelling and the natural world, immersing the viewer in constructed, staged landscapes and exotic utopian environments. The artists concerns with memory, scientific exploration, place, cultural, colonial and natural history are investigated, traversing fictional dream worlds and local environments.… Continued


  • The Windsor: A Future for the Past

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    April 24th, 2015 to May 23rd, 2015

    Concentrating on one of Melbourne’s finest architectural monuments, The Hotel Windsor, Papapetrou delves into the archive to discover how the grand Victorian edifice looked around the time of Federation, how it formed a backdrop for public ritual and witnessed the growth of Melbourne into the age of the electrical tramway. Joining forces with Stewart Russell from Spacecraft Studio, Papapetrou has transformed the photographic record, recreating the images in silver and gold, on linen and glass. … Continued


  • Australia in Berlin

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    January 30th, 2015 to March 27th, 2015

    Between Worlds was exhibited in a group exhibition of Australian Art art at the Australian Embassy Berlin

     


  • Do you see what I see?

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    December 20th, 2014 to March 1st, 2015

    In this new century where a digital deluge increasingly dominates how people live, the camera, and subsequent photographs, are treated with a duality of narcissism and suspicion. Through smart phones and social media, photographs, particularly the ‘selfie’, can be captured and disseminated globally in seconds. With practically everyone owning a camera, this device operates under the veil of potential for surveillance, documentation, and voyeurism. … Continued