Incinerator Gallery - Melbourne - Exhibitions and programs on now

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…and there’s no one around to hear it
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29 November 2025 - 17 January 2026

Now showing

dylan marelić, Public Rumination, 2024, installation view BLINDSIDE Gallery. Photograph by Sebastian Kainey (2)

…and there’s no one around to hear it

29 November 2025 - 17 January 2026

The Atrium

Celline Mercado, Untitled (Lavender bed), 2022, bedframe wrapped in acrylic wool, stainless steel wire rope, dimensions variable

Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)

29 November 2025 - 17 January 2026

Main Gallery

Brown Pillars II

29 November 2025 - 17 January 2026

Boadle Hall

Coming soon

Priyageetha Dia, Blood Sun II, 2024, 9:16 video, colour, 30 sec loop.

Molten Tongues

31 January 2026 - 28 March 2026

Programs and Events

Arty Tales

Fridays, 9.30 to 10.30 am

Tickets $14 | covers one child with their carer
For children aged 2 to 4

5 Dec

Incy Wincy Babies

Fridays
10.45 to 11.45 am for babies 12—24 months
12 noon to 1 pm for babies 0—12 months

Tickets $14 | covers one baby with their carer

5 Dec

Art Mondo

Fridays, 2.30pm – 3.30pm

Tickets required

5 Dec

Showing in Moonee Valley

It’s a home to me: David Booth

31 August 2024 - 3 September 2029

Cooper Street Community Centre, 101 Cooper Street, Essendon

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Arcade Way Reserve Public Art Project: Ash Firebrace

15 August 2022 - 16 August 2027

Arcade Way Reserve, Keilor East

Arts Project Indigenous Art Project 2003

Indigenous Arts Project: Paola Balla

1 May 2003 -

FJ Davies Reserve (Centreway) Keilor East

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View artist Celline Mercado’s stunning sculptural installations in our current group exhibition ‘Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)’.

As a Filipino woman of Japanese descent, she is thematically interested in migration, labor and colonial histories. Grounded in materiality, repetition and rigour, her work spans soft sculpture, installation, and drawing.

For Celline, the durational labour of wrapping found furniture in soft fibre threads has become a form of abstraction and embodiment of diasporic identity. In her sculptural installations, beds and chairs are presented outside the domestic sphere.

Suspended within the gallery space, they evoke the experience of migrants packing up and leaving their home country, illustrating the tension of precarity and displacement experienced along the way.

Now showing until Saturday, 17 January.

Learn more about the exhibition via the link in our bio.

Images:
1. Celline Mercado at the opening night of ‘Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)’, Incinerator Gallery, 2025.
2. ‘Untitled (Rocking Chair)’, 2022, rocking chair wrapped in acrylic wool, stainless steel wire rope.
3. ‘Two Chairs’, 2023, bent wood chair wrapped in acrylic wool, organza, felt, stainless steel wire rope.
4. ‘After-hours (Turqoise)’, 2025, bar stool wrapped in wool, stainless steel wire rope.

Photos by Thomas McCammon @tommccammon

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Now showing in our Atrium space is ‘...and there's no one around to hear it’, an exhibition exploring power structures and ways nature is shaped through human systems.

Artist dylan marelić approaches organic materials as living records—archives of environmental pressure, disruption, and resilience. Each twist or kink in a branch bears witness to its surroundings, responding to nearby construction, redirected light, or shifting soil as it seeks sunlight. These are trajectories of both growth and resistance.

Now showing until Saturday, 17 January.
Learn more via the link in our bio.

Images: '...and there's no one around to hear it', Incinerator Gallery, 2025. Installation view on opening night. Photography by Thomas McCammon @tommccammon

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Art Club is back tomorrow morning from 10am to 11.30am with our last session for the year.

Wood remains a vital artistic medium with endless creative possibilities 🌳

Join us as Adrian Montana examines why it continues to endure in contemporary practice, featuring artists including Ian Armstrong, Neil Turner, Olive Gill-Hille, Dave Doyle, and more.

Free - book your spot at the link in our bio

Image credit: Olive Gill-Hille Photo, Emma Pegrum Photography

#IncineratorGallery #ArtClub #ArtDiscusssion #ContemporaryArt #MooneeValley #IgnitingCreativity

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'Brown Pillars II' is now open in Boadle Hall. This exhibition is an ongoing body of work by artist Aida Azin that interrogates colonial hierarchies within the arts.

Drawing on her experiences as a ‘third culture kid’ of Filipino-Iranian heritage on Aboriginal lands, Aida’s practice develops through studio painting, journal writing, and community conversations.

Her work reflects on the fragmented, non-linear nature of diasporic experience, shaped by the ongoing processes of learning, unlearning, and reconnecting.

Showing until Saturday, 17 January 2026.
Learn more via the link in our bio.

Images: 'Brown Pillars II', Incinerator Gallery, 2025. Installation view on opening night. Photography by Thomas McCammon @tommccammon.

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NOW SHOWING: 'Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)'.
Showing in our Main Gallery space, this group exhibition explores the lingering spectres of colonial history that follow the Filipino diaspora.

Within the dislocated space of migration, these artists both reinvent and reflect, acknowledging that Filipino identity remains deeply shaped by the Philippines’ violent history of Spanish and American colonisation.

The exhibition’s title is drawn from a bugtong, a Filipino riddle, with the answer being anino—shadow. These shadows of colonial history and injustice linger across time and place, ghost-like. But to hold the hand of your ghost is to face it, befriend it, play with it.

See the thought-provoking works from artists Celline Mercado, Jermaine Ibarra, and Justyne Allen until Saturday, 17 January 2026.

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Learn more about the artists and exhibition via the link in our bio.

Images: ‘Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)’, Incinerator Gallery, 2025. Installation view on opening night. Photography by Thomas McCannon @tommccammon

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Our three new summer exhibitions are now open!

Thank you to all who came along to our opening event on Friday for ‘Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)’, ‘…and there’s no one around to hear it’ and ‘Brown Pillars II’.

These three exhibitions were selected from last year’s Call for Proposals for their excellence in artistic and technical merit, and in recognition of our commitment to discovering emerging talent and fostering community involvement.

Now showing until Saturday, 17 January.

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Incinerator Gallery will be closed during the holiday period from Sunday, 21 December, reopening on Wednesday, 7 January. You can learn more about each exhibition and the artists via the link in our bio.

Photo credit: by Thomas McCammon @tommccammon

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CLOSING TOMORROW:
Pop into Crown Street Stables for the final day of Fireworks and Bright Sparks 2025.

Make sure you also vote for your favourite piece in the People’s Choice Award ✅

See the full opening hours session times at the link in bio

Photos: Jorge de Araujo @artificialstudios

#Fireworks2025 #BrightSparks2025 #MooneeValley#IncineratorGallery #CrownStreetStables #IgnitingCreativity

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Have you picked your favourite Fireworks piece? 🫶

Come down and cast your vote in the People’s Choice Award.

The exhibition is open daily until Saturday, 29 November. Check the link in our bio for the full exhibition opening session times

Photos: Jorge de Araujo @artificialstudios

#Fireworks2025 #BrightSparks2025 #MooneeValley#IncineratorGallery #CrownStreetStables #IgnitingCreativity

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We invite you to join us for the opening night of our three new exhibitions this Friday, 28 November, from 6-8pm. These exhibitions will round out our incredible 2025 program.

In ‘Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)’, the concept of the shadow symbolises the lingering spectres of colonial history that follow the Filipino diaspora – Australia’s fifth-largest migrant community.

'…and there’s no one around to hear it' by artist dylan marelić explores power structures and ways nature is shaped through human systems.

‘Brown Pillars II’ is an ongoing body of work by artist Aida Azin that interrogates colonial hierarchies within the arts.

These exhibitions will be showing until Saturday, 17 January.

Opening speeches will commence at 6.30pm, beginning with a Welcome to Country to acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. RSVP for this free event via the link in our bio.

Join us in celebrating the exhibiting artists and our vibrant local arts community!

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Images:
1. Celline Mercado, 'Untitled (Lavender bed)', 2022, bedframe wrapped in acrylic wool, stainless steel wire rope, dimensions variable.
2. Aida Azin, 'Untitled' (detail), 2025, digital collage.
3. dylan marelić, 'Public Rumination', 2024, installation view BLINDSIDE Gallery. Photograph by Sebastian Kainey.

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Come down to Crown Street Stables this weekend for our very special pop-up Fireworks and Bright Sparks exhibition.

While you’re there, cast your vote for the $200 People’s Choice Award!

The exhibition is open daily until Saturday, 29 November. Check our website for the full exhibition opening session times at the link in our bio!

#Fireworks2025 #BrightSparks2025 #MooneeValleyArts #MooneeValleyCouncil #IncineratorGallery #CrownStreetStables #LocalArtists #YoungArtists #CommunityArts #MelbourneArts #ArtExhibition #CreativeMooneeValley #SupportLocalArtists #EmergingArtists #ArtInMooneeValley

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On Friday night we opened the 2025 Fireworks and Bright Sparks exhibition 🎆

Congratulations to our 2025 award winners:
The Fireworks Art Award - Elin Oveisi, ‘Tabriz, Iran, 2010’
The Fireworks Design Award - Mary Doufas, ‘Lotus Modular Solution - Domestic Violence Refuge’
The Mayoral Award for Excellence in Art - Samantha Gelsomino,
‘Hiding in Normalcy’
The Mayoral Award for Excellence in Design - Aidan Borg McGlone, ‘Lieni’
The Bright Sparks Mayoral Award - Lachie Wiseman, ‘A handy piece of artwork’
The Bright Sparks Art Award - Alexis Mantzis, ‘Happy place to fly’

A huge congratulations to all our shortlisted artists for 2025!

Don’t forget to come along to view the exhibition and cast your vote for the $200 People’s Choice Award!

The exhibition is open daily until Saturday, 29 November. Check our website for the full exhibition opening session times at the link in our bio

Photos: Jorge de Araujo @artificialstudios

#Fireworks #BrightSparks #YoungArtist #IncineratorGallery #MooneeValley #IgnitingCreativity

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We can’t wait to announce our winners of the 2025 Fireworks and Bright Sparks Awards this Friday night!

The exhibition will be open at Crown Street Stables for TWO WEEKS only this year – from Saturday 15 November to Saturday 29 November. Make sure you come along, celebrate Moonee Valley’s youngest artists and cast your vote in the People’s Choice awards!

Throwback to the 2024 Fireworks exhibition, image credit: Gianna Rizzo @meaty

Check our website for the full exhibition opening session times at the link in our bio

#BrightSparks2025 #MooneeValleyArts #MooneeValleyCouncil #IncineratorGallery #CrownStreetStables #LocalArtists #YoungArtists #CommunityArts #MelbourneArts #ArtExhibition #CreativeMooneeValley #SupportLocalArtists #EmergingArtists #ArtInMooneeValley #IgnitingCreativity

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Join us for the final Gallery Sketchers of the year at Incinerator Gallery this Thursday, 13 November at 10am. Connect with art, architecture, and community in a relaxed outdoor drawing session exploring the gallery’s iconic design by Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin. We’ll also sketch the playable sculptures, including Moonee Valley’s First Nations Playable Public Art Sculpture by Trawlwoolway artist Edwina Green.

All are welcome—no experience needed. Materials provided or bring your own.
Register via the link in our bio.

Photo by Timothy Burgess.

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That’s a wrap on The Playground Project Melbourne
150 years of design history
1 international project partner
1 guest curator
6 playgrounds
27 thought leaders
6 Australian artists and designers
More than 6,000 visitors
More than 3,000 kids
More than 600 school and community members
More than 300 playground designs

We’re proud to have created a thought-provoking exhibition that celebrates and questions the role of design and children’s free play in and around our neighbourhoods.

But this isn’t goodbye, just see you soon! The Lozziwurm will be popping up near you this summer… stay tuned for details!

Curated by Gabriela Burkhalter
Exhibition design by @boardgrove
Produced by @incinerator_gallery

Project Partner - @kunsthallezurich
Major Partner - @jelliscraig | Jellis Craig Foundation
Education Partner - @monash_uni | @monashada @Monasharchitecture @mada_fine_art

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Now showing

…and there’s no one around to hear it

29 November 2025 - 17 January 2026

Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)

29 November 2025 - 17 January 2026

Brown Pillars II

29 November 2025 - 17 January 2026

Coming soon

Molten Tongues

31 January 2026 - 28 March 2026

Programs and Events

Arty Tales

Incy Wincy Babies

Art Mondo

Showing in Moonee Valley

It’s a home to me: David Booth

31 August 2024 - 3 September 2029

Arcade Way Reserve Public Art Project: Ash Firebrace

15 August 2022 - 16 August 2027

Indigenous Arts Project: Paola Balla

1 May 2003 -

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