Brown Pillars

Aida Azin, Pink Head, 2017, mixed media, acrylic and digital print on canvas. Photography by Tyrone Ormsby (crop)

In Brown Pillars, Aida Azin transforms the gallery into a space that critiques institutional racism within the art world, drawing attention to the nuanced experiences of diasporic identities in systems built on exclusion and appropriation. Through recurring motifs like food wrappers, Aida invokes Asian grocery stores—a place of comfort and cultural familiarity—as a counterpoint to the…

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

Lance Zuniga Im Filipino but I cant sing 2024

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, Justyne Allen, and Lance Zuniga engage with familiar symbols of domesticity and architecture—the bed, the window, the TV—to explore Filipino identity, cultural visibility, and ancestral legacy. Blending…

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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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The Playground Project Melbourne

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Book Now The Playground Project Melbourne is an interactive, international travelling exhibition with a playground takeover. It explores a unique chapter of late 19th century to early 21st century art, design, urbanism and activism; and strives to inspire local audiences, children, students, city planners, artists and designers to imagine a bright and brilliant future for…

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