Even more beautiful IRL

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Even more beautiful IRL is a group exhibition which seeks to savour moments of human intimacy and physical tenderness amidst the backdrop of a global pandemic. Artists Aaron Billings, Amelia Dowling, Ema Shin, Josephine Mead, Karima Baadilla, Luciano, Mig Dann, Madeline Bishop and Celine Dore have utilised multiple mediums, including photography, textiles, painting, poetry, and storytelling…

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Create 6: IWAMHS

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Create is an annual exhibition by a collective of artists associated with the Inner West Area Mental Health Service, and now in its sixth year at Boadle Hall. The exhibition aims to make use of the expansive potential of art to showcase the talent, perspective, and stories of emerging local artists with lived experiences of…

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Return of wallabies to Maribyrnong: Matthew Clarke

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Enamoured with the vibrant world that surrounds him, Matthew Clarke paints his subjects with an unquestionable spontaneity and conviction. His works tell of an effervescent ecology bursting at the seams with eccentric and dynamic characters. Return of wallabies to Maribyrnong is a jubilant exhibition that celebrates local, thriving ecosystems. Up until the 1870s, swamp wallabies…

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Frank Bonnici

Bodies and identities are always in flux and changing, never stable. My work represents and (re)imagines the possibilities of what we are and what we might become. Each of my works is formed using a number of life models. Their fractured shapes and bodies show us the delusion of separated bodies and truly formed identities, whether that be gender, nationality, or age; just to name a few of the ways we are often separated from each other and siloed into “the individual”.

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