Brown Pillars II

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Brown Pillars is an ongoing body of work by artist Aida Azin that interrogates colonial hierarchies within the arts. The project was first presented in 2019 at Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, where it critiqued institutional racism in the art world. In 2025, Aida has reworked Brown Pillars to examine the overlooked and appropriated cultural production and…

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

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

In this exhibition, the concept of the shadow symbolises the lingering spectres of colonial history that follow the Filipino diaspora—Australia’s fifth-largest migrant community. Artists Celline Mercado, Jermaine Ibarra, and Justyne Allen engage with familiar symbols of domesticity and architecture to explore Filipino identity, cultural visibility, and ancestral legacy. Blending Indigenous Filipino, Western, and hybrid iconographies,…

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…and there’s no one around to hear it

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

..and there’s no one around to hear it is 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,…

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