Incinerator Gallery - Melbourne - Free art exhibitions on now

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Open Tuesday to Sunday
11am to 4pm
Free entry

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Aeon Resurrection - 29 May

Aeon Resurrection
Main Gallery
19 April - 29 May

Explosive Forming - 29 May

Explosive Forming
The Atrium
19 April - 29 May

Even more beautiful IRL - 29 May

Even more beautiful IRL
Boadle Hall
19 April - 29 May

Now showing

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Even more beautiful IRL

19 April 2022 - 29 May 2022

Nicholas Burridge Sitting at the Edge of Eternity 2019 glass gunpowder residue timber steel cabling detail

Explosive Forming: Nicholas Burridge

19 April 2022 - 29 May 2022

MARS Diego Ramirez The Infinity of the Past Neon 2019 cropped 1

Aeon Resurrection

19 April 2022 - 29 May 2022

Coming soon

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Call me home

10 June 2022 - 17 July 2022

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Centre for Reworlding presents: Resurgence

10 June 2022 - 17 July 2022

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Soiled feet rammed dirt: Mira Oosterweghel

10 June 2022 - 17 July 2022

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There are still spaces left for our Incy Wincy Babies program happening this Friday 4 March!

Incy Wincy Babies is our creative program designed for babies under 2 with a carer. Develop bonds with your child and connect with other parents through engagement with art. The program is led by a Barking Spider Visual Theatre Artist.

There are two sessions:
11am to 12noon for babies aged 12 to 24 months
12.30 to 1.30pm for babies aged 0 to 12 months

Visit the link in our bio to book for Friday!

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Workshop: Loosen up! With Chelsea Arnott
Sunday, 6 March, 1-3pm.

Inspired by the artist’s ethos of art-making for everyone, in this workshop you will be encouraged to loosen up, relax, and work at your own pace as you explore the vast possibilities of making using text, paint, and found materials to create experimental new works on canvas.

Artist Chelsea Arnott's work is featured in our latest Boadle Hall exhibition, Hey, I have something to say. Chelsea is a visual artist interested in the performance of self; in its slipperiness, its fragmentation, its sincerity, and its failure.

Purchase tickets via the link in our bio!

Image Credit: Chelsea Arnott, Cool Ur Jets, 2014, work on paper, 21 x 14.8cm

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Our first Art Club session for the year is happening TOMORROW via Zoom! Have you booked your spot yet?

Join us and presenter Gina Panebianco for a discussion on women artists pre 1900, and connect with other like-minded creative thinkers.

Tickets are FREE, registration required.
Book into this online session on 1 March via the link in our bio.

Image Credit: Katsushika Ōi (1800–1866)
Three Women Playing Musical Instruments c. 1844 -1866
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Workshop: Loosen up! With Chelsea Arnott
Sunday, 6 March, 1-3pm.

Inspired by the artist’s ethos of art-making for everyone, in this workshop you will be encouraged to loosen up, relax, and work at your own pace as you explore the vast possibilities of making using text, paint, and found materials to create experimental new works on canvas.

Using Chelsea’s processes of generative writing and abstraction, participants will be supported to engage in text, painting, and collaging exercises to create their work in a safe and non-judgmental environment.

Suited to participants of all ages and abilities and can be tailored to children 12 years and up, teens, or adults. Basic materials will be provided, including paints and canvas panels.

Purchase tickets via the link in our bio.

Image Credit: Chelsea Arnott, May The Winds of Change Keep Blowing U My Way, 2021, mixed media on board, 120 x 60cm

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Don’t miss the bright, exuberant exhibition Return of wallabies to Maribyrnong by Matthew Clarke, currently showing in The Atrium space at the gallery.

Matthew 's (@matthewclarke86_art) colourful and enigmatic wallaby sculptures celebrate their return to his hometown of Kirkstall, Warrnambool and indeed to the upper stretches of the Maribyrnong River!

Now showing until Sunday, 6 March. FREE entry.

Learn more via the link in our bio.

Image Credit: Matthew Clarke, Return of wallabies to Maribyrnong, 2022, installation detail Incinerator Gallery.

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Curated by Essendon-based artist and illustrator, Tegan Iversen, Hey, I have something to say features the incredible work of emerging artists Batoul Ahmad, Savi Ross and Chelsea Arnott.

Now showing in Boadle Hall until Sunday, 6 February.

Learn more via the link in our bio.

Image Credit: 2021, Hey, I have something to say, installation view, Boadle Hall

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Applications are closing next Monday, 28 February for the Incinerator Gallery Volunteer Program.

Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to engage with your community, develop your skills and meet new people!

Apply now: https://bit.ly/VolunteerIncinerator

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Keen to improve your drawing skills in a safe and affirming environment? Join one of our FREE Gallery Sketchers workshops with artist educators Carly Richardson and Fiona Cabassi.

Our next one is taking place on Wednesday, 23 March at 10:30am. Recommended for people of all drawing abilities.

Register for your free spot via the link in our bio.

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Art Club Zoom Event (once only)
Tuesday 1 March, 10am
FREE, registration required.

Our first Art Club session will now take place online via Zoom this Tuesday. Join us for 'Part 1 of the Art Story: Discovering Select Women Artists pre-1900'.

Women artists have made art across the centuries, but we are often less familiar with their names and their art. Tuesday's session will focus on both well and less known women artists before 1900, their professional and personal challenges and their legacy.

Book into this online session on 1 March via the link in our bio.

Image Credit: Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) The Last Supper c. 1550s Santa Maria Novella Museum, Florence
Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Research has proven that positive health and developmental outcomes for babies depends on shows that responsive, warm and consistent interactions with caregivers that are responsive, warm and consistent.

Our Incy Wincy Babies program for babies aged 0-24 months helps to facilitate these interactions in the stimulating Gallery setting.

Bookings are essential as places are limited. Book now for our next sessions on 4 March via the link in our bio.

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Emiko Artemis is a South Australian artist working across various visual media that engages phenomenology-the philosophy and theory of experience. In the series ‘Conceal and Dissemble’, Emiko utilises costumes and masking to create beguiling environments where bodily movement and space may intersect. These spaces give rise to the uncanny and unbound potentiality, questioning preconceived narratives surrounding queerness and disability.

"I have often felt that I needed to wear different hats to adapt to different situations. I realise now that the feeling of being an outsider needing to change to fit in was more a reflection of my own inner state than reality. I have since learned to embrace who I am and just be myself."

"In the work presented, I explore my experience of adapting to everyday life, wearing different costumes and masks as
I become extreme versions of myself. Both playful yet serious, I hide behind the unreal and let fantasy take hold. Is there any one underneath the costume anymore? These are self-portraits, but of a self concealed and eventually dissembled self."— Emiko Artemis (@emikoartemis).

ID: A series of framed photographs on a white wall that picture a masked woman emerging from the darkness.

Image Credit: Pink Lady Looking Through, from the series Conceal and Dissemble, 2021, archival digital print

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Have you been down to the gallery yet to view Return of wallabies to Maribyrnong in The Atrium space?

A jubilant exhibition by artist Matthew Clarke (@matthewclarke86_art), Return of wallabies to Maribyrnong celebrates local, thriving ecosystems. His works tell of an effervescent ecology bursting at the seams with eccentric and dynamic characters.

Now showing until Sunday, 6 March. FREE entry.

Learn more via the link in our bio.

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Curated by Tegan Iversen, Hey, I have something to say highlights the importance of self-reflection and discovery in the life and journey of the artist through playful and intimate works of art.

Showing in the Boadle Hall until Sunday, 6 March.

Learn more via the link in our bio.

Image Credits:
(pictured left) Batoul Ahmad, There is a bluebird in my heart, 2020, photograph, 35 x 28cm.
(pictured right) Chelsea Arnott, Both Things Can Be True, 2021, mixed media on board, 60 x 47cm.

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Penn Gabona is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes leatherwork, piercing, tattooing, and performance art. Their practice is mostly self-taught, combined with dressmaking and patternmaking skills learnt from their mother. Their artworks explore 'crip sensuality' and trans excellence, and draw upon lived experiences with psychosis, altered states, as well as kink and rave subcultures.

"My art garments are frequently made from offcuts and found materials. This is most clear in the Veils I and Veils II, which incorporate medication vials and syringes. For years, I've kept my medication vials and blister packs, a sort of tally, keeping track of the medications and interventions pumping through my body. I've been under psychiatric treatment since I was 17 and was diagnosed with a psychotic disorder; this lives on in my work. I've experienced what I now know as psychotic dysphoria since I was very young; a mixture of psychosis and dysphoria as I turn into the insects that come to me. My garments are confronting for the viewer and empowering for the wearer, they make a statement in freedom of expression while being restrictive in their nature." — Penn Gabona (@gabonaleather).

ID: An abstract mannequin made of calico, wears several ostrich-leather pieces including a corset, choker and headgear.

Image Credit: Penn Gabona, Lizard Queen, 2021, ostrich, python, veg tan leather, steel hardware, and waxed thread.

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Volunteering here with us at the Gallery is a fantastic way to get involved in exhibitions and openings and provides great networking opportunities.

You can find out more about what’s involved in our Volunteer Program here: https://bit.ly/VolunteerIncinerator

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