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(False)-Relationality
9 April 2021 - 6 June 2021
(False)– Relationality presents complex questions surrounding the agency of place, and Indigenous ways of Knowing. Artists from both the ‘So-Called-Australian’ and New Zealand contexts, use their artistic practices and lived-experience to broach these dynamics in critical and emancipatory ways.
21_18031_304071: Priya Namana
9 April 2021 - 6 June 2021
21*18031*304071 builds on the themes of fragmentation, fractures and discomfort as part of the artists ongoing exploration. This iteration investigates the value of growth within the static of fissures.
Shadowlands: Aylsa McHugh
9 April 2021 - 6 June 2021
The work in Shadowlands is the result of my ongoing investigations into marrying seemingly heterogeneous subject matter to create new and ambiguous readings. This body of work sees me pairing images of vintage hair models with images of sculptures from the modernist period.
Silent Witness: Uncle Jim Berg
28 May 2021 - 6 June 2021
Silent Witness: A Window to the Past is a powerful body of work, originally developed in collaboration with Melbourne Museum, that tells the stories of People and Country through the photographic portraiture of scar trees from Wotjobaluk Country by Gunditjmara Elder, and Moonee Valley resident, Uncle Jim Berg.
Sky Orchestra: Cyrus Tang
18 June 2021 - 1 August 2021
This project is an exploration into Confucian values of filial piety through, the lens of Chinese history and pop culture, and how it relates to my existence within a Western context. Silent Orchestra is based on a Chinese poem was written by a well-known Chinese poet Su Shi, from the Song Dynasty, during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1076.
Beyond Rhetoric: Sha Sawari
18 June 2021 - 1 August 2021
Sha Sarwari is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Afghanistan and living in Australia since the year 2000. His work is percolation of material investigation and form, within his work, he embeds multiple layers with the intent to create a visually poetic encounter.
Baab 02: Mohamed Chamas
18 June 2021 - 1 August 2021
The work seeks a moment of spiritual awareness through one’s knowing of indivisibility (and the profound aloneness that intercedes it). Such knowing gives rise to witnessing an ubiquitous divine presence; Irfan. These qualities swirl through the installation’s sculptural offerings in geomantic and geometric harmony, ultimately stationing into the Virtual Reality device to create illuminated passage within the open air.
Charlotte Allingham
27 April 2021 - 1 August 2021
Charlotte Allingham is a 26-year-old Wiradjuri, Ngiyampaa woman from New South Wales, with family ties to Condobolin and Ivanhoe. She currently lives in Naarm, creating Illustrations about her culture and identity, and the impacts of colonisation.
Incinerator Art Award 2021: Art for Social Change
13 August 2021 - 31 October 2021
Incinerator Art Award (IAA) is Incinerator Gallery’s annual art award and exhibition. Established in 2015, IAA celebrates contemporary arts practices that are socially engaged, environmentally aware, and seek to enrich community through dynamic, creative practice.
Hyphenated Biennial
12 November 2021 - 28 November 2021
Hyphenated Biennial is a new artist-led project set to connect communities across Melbourne’s West, on the Lands of the Kulin Nation. The inaugural edition focuses on dialogues, solidarity and meaningful collaborations between First Nations and Asian diasporic artists.
Garden of Glass: Sharmayne Grace McLean
12 November 2021 - 28 November 2021
Sharmayne Grace McLean’s visual arts practice melts her own personal, lived experiences with the in-between blur of real and imagined worlds, sceneries and archetypes within pop cultures, sub-cultures and various folklores.
Fireworks 2021
10 December 2021 - 16 January 2022
The Fireworks exhibition and awards showcases the accomplishments of high achieving art and design students in Years 11 and 12 who live, work or study in Moonee Valley.
Bright Sparks 2021
10 December 2021 - 16 January 2022
Bright Sparks is an opportunity for one Moonee Valley school to work with Incinerator Gallery in 2021 for the display of students’ visual artworks in Boadle Hall.
Create 5
12 March 2021 - 21 March 2021
Now in its fifth iteration Create is an annual exhibition that makes use of art’s expansive potential by providing consumers of mental health services with a platform to showcase their talent, perspective, and stories. Every year these inspiring exhibitions are developed by Inner West Area Mental Health Services (IWAMHS). The programs contribute to the artists’…
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Seeking New Gold Mountain
8 December 2020 - 17 December 2020
Seeking New Gold Mountain is a photographic project that gives visual representation to those who have left home to seek a better life in another country.
Instants
8 December 2020 - 17 January 2021
Instants is a newly developed work by Naarm-based artists Isabel and Lina Buck performed at Incinerator Gallery between COVID-19 lockdowns. A mediation of architectural and material echoes within the gallery, Instants approaches an environment led by time and physicality – constructing an overlapping melody of activity.
Fireworks 2020
8 December 2020 - 17 January 2021
Art and design by emerging young creatives This exhibition could also be seen via the online catalogue. Incinerator Gallery’s Fireworks exhibition is Moonee Valley’s annual art and design award for Years 11 and 12 students who live, work or study in Moonee Valley. Fireworks 2020 now aligns with the end of the school year to mark students’…
Landscape Familia
10 November 2020 - 29 November 2020
Initially intended as a non-figurative portrait project exploring the lives of ancestors that lived within the Moonee Valley City Council area; both the onset of COVID-19 and the aspects of family research that called to her insistently, have seen Anzara’s exhibition focus turn to family identity and inheritance across a number of domains
Social Justice Art
6 August 2020 - 16 August 2020
Social Justice Art for Teens online exhibition is a time capsule of young people in Moonee Valleys experiences and perceptions through the COVID- 19 pandemic. It provides a glimpse into the concerns of young people and how this time has affected them.
Incinerator Art Award 2020
28 August 2020 - 1 November 2020
The Incinerator Art Award is Moonee Valley’s premier visual arts prize attracting artists from across Australia to respond to the Award’s call to action – art for social change. Throughout the month-long call for entries the gallery received a high number of submissions and the selection committee with Dr Kent Wilson (Senior Curator, La Trobe Art Institute), has shortlisted 22 works to be finalists.
Musings: reflections of art and life from the Moonee Valley community
23 June 2020 - 26 July 2020
In Musings we celebrate the personal significance of artmaking for artists within the Moonee Valley community.
Some artists in this exhibition create as an avenue for self-reflection; a way to process and ponder life experience, celebrate family connections, or better understand the inner workings of the mind. Others view creative practice as a way to intently observe the natural environment in order to contemplate nature, ecology and sustainable living. For others, art is synonymous with education, with art classes viewed as an opportunity to gain skills as well as foster community connections. At the core of all of the works in Musings is the belief that the process of making art elevates the activity of the mind and creates an internal, private space to reflect on art and life.
Silent Witness: A Window to the Past
27 May 2020 - 3 June 2020
Silent Witness: A Window to the Past. is a powerful body of work, originally developed in collaboration with Melbourne Museum, that tells the stories of People and Country through the photographic portraiture of scar trees from Wotjobaluk Country by Gunditjmara Elder, and Moonee Valley resident, Uncle Jim Berg.
HTTP.PARADISE
24 April 2020 - 7 June 2020
HTTP.PARADISE is a virtual exhibition and immersive experience in digital realms.
The Billboard Project
2 March 2020 - 23 May 2020
This series of artworks in The Billboard Project are about the journey of an iceberg. They are also a comment on global warming, and the impermanence of the landscape.
Bright Sparks
5 February 2020 - 16 March 2020
Bright Sparks is a presentation of art and design work by young creatives who in 2019 were undertaking their VCE and live, work or study in Moonee Valley.
This exhibition is facilitated by Incinerator Gallery and proudly presented at Ascot Vale Library, Avondale Heights Library, Flemington Library, and Niddrie Youth Hub.
Gramineae
19 June 2020 - 16 August 2020
This site-specific installation in the Atrium Gallery incorporates grass species found and researched in the Moonee Valley area.
Fluidity
19 June 2020 - 16 August 2020
Fluidity explores the force of soft power to affect change in the world.
Waiting until the last minute
21 January 2020 - 22 March 2020
A kinetic sound sculpture, Waiting Until the Last Minute looks to the distant future when the dying sun will transform; expanding enormously, engulfing the closest planets in fire.
The Deaf Culture
21 January 2020 - 1 March 2020
Deaf Culture is being portrayed through spatial movements of Auslan, our sign language in the form of paper/fabric sculpture pieces that pop off the wall and trail into a crowd. We are conversing in a Deaf club room talking about memories of living in the 1980’s before mobile phones and social media when we relied on the old teletype phone and the Austext on television.
Dark Sepia
21 January 2020 - 22 March 2020
Dark Sepia gives trust to listening between worlds. It is drawn from respecting undocumented knowledge, oral culture and uncertainty, it gives physical form to a life experienced between celebrating imagination as a universal treasure and a tool of survival.
Figure in the Round
7 December 2019 - 12 January 2020
In this exhibition Atchison explores the ways in which the sculptural conventions of stability, opacity and monumentality can be used to reflect one’s personal narrative, and can inform both how one sees and is seen.
Cut from the same cloth
7 December 2019 - 12 January 2020
Textiles are so embedded in everyday life that their significance is easily overlooked. Betty Musgrove draws inspiration from her families textile and photographic collection, interviews with family, and personal symbols to celebrate and explore skills taught within the domestic sphere through a contemporary lens.
Hospitality
7 December 2019 - 12 January 2020
The Incinerator Gallery is proud to present an extravaganza of food and art for this year’s summer show, Hospitality. Exploring local culinary specialties, food producers and social enterprises this exhibition highlights our cultural ties to food and its role in creating shared values and a sense of belonging.
Fireworks 2019
- 15 January 2020
Council Chambers, 9 Kellaway Ave, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039 Fireworks 2019 was originally exhibited at Incinerator Gallery to showcase the art and design of Year 11 and 12 students who live, work or study in Moonee Valley. Fireworks aims to provide a platform to display our local emerging artists and designers’ work, and to encourage…
Ready, Set, Equity! Women and girls in sport
- 20 November 2019
Avondale Heights Library and Learning Centre, 69 Military Road Avondale Heights VIC 3034 These profiles were been developed as part of the Ready, Set, Equity! project to increase the visibility, profile, representation and participation of girls and women in sport in Moonee Valley. The profiles – which were released at Moonee Valley’s Women and Girls…
Lily Kojic
17 October 2019 - 13 December 2019
Clocktower Café Gallery, 750 Mt Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039 Create is an annual event that makes use of art’s expansive potential by providing consumers of mental health services with a platform to showcase their talent, perspective, and stories. It is one of a number of initiatives offered by the Inner West Area Mental…
Amna Hamid
18 October 2019 - 14 February 2020
Along Keilor Road, Niddrie VIC 3042 In this photographic series Amna Hamid documents the work of chef Seba Hadara from Cakesnplates. Ever since I was young, I’ve loved being in the kitchen. I learn through tactile experiences and hands on activities, and I realised my lack of motivation at school was an indication that I’m…
Jaci Williams
1 August 2019 - 23 October 2019
Jaci’s art explores the relationship she has to the environment, the different elements in nature, the atmosphere, light or simply the beauty. Inspired by certain locations and she is compelled to capture the essence of what she sees and express it through the work.
Habitat and Domicile
1 August 2019 - 19 December 2019
This series of paintings reference places we live or dwell in. The strong use of colour recalls children’s building blocks and our innate urge to create and build. Habitats are indicative of a particular time and place and the smaller acrylic works depict architectural details found locally in our neighborhood.
Incinerator Art Award
12 October 2019 - 1 December 2019
The Incinerator Art Award is the Gallery’s annual contemporary art prize of national significance, with entries received from across Australia. The award showcases 28 shortlisted works inspired by the theme of art for social change.
Nightwatch: Urban Nocturnes and the Power of Narrative
5 April 2013 - 12 May 2013
This is an exhibition that examines photography’s ability to document the world and inspire the viewer. The exhibition comprises of a selection of photographic nocturnes that reflect many of the vistas in Australia’s suburbia. Under the cover of darkness the city is transformed and people are empowered to imagine new possibilities for the spaces they inhabit. There is space for personal narratives among the cars, roads, industry and architecture.
Fireworks: Art and Design by Bright Young Things 2014
14 February 2014 - 30 March 2019
Fireworks was established in 2013 for VCE art and design students who live or go to school in Moonee Valley and was a huge success for the gallery and the community. In 2014 we are celebrating another bumper crop of young talent with a professional-level exhibition from our local bright young things.
Beg Borrow Steal
10 April 2015 - 24 May 2019
This exhibition explores the many different ways in which people are stimulated by other cultures. The works display a fascination with other cultures and draw on the other worldly experience of travel.
Mudsumma: All you need is love
22 January 2016 - 14 February 2016
All You Need Is Love is an exhibition by Lisa White that originated from her original project, in support of marriage equality, the In Bed Project and is a exploration of love, equality and family.
Midsumma: Convergent Pathologies
21 January 2017 - 12 February 2017
This group exhibition by trans and gender diverse (TGD) artists from Melbourne explores the experiences of TGD people living with mental illness: from making choices to resist against or comply with being pathologised, to negotiating multiple identities and realities.
LBGTIQA+ in Moonee Valley
20 January 2018 - 20 February 2019
To coincide with Moonee Valley’s participation in Midsumma Festival there will be an installation that relates to local LBGTIQA+ issues in Boadle Hall. This space is prepared by Moonee Valley’s LBGTIQ working group in collaboration with Council’s Community Planning department.
The eyes that saw her were closed
11 August 2018 - 30 September 2018
The eyes that saw her were closed is an installation referencing the architectural drawings of Marion Mahony Griffin who was the architect and co-designer of the Essendon Incinerator, now the Incinerator Gallery, alongside Walter Burley Griffin.
The Patterns of Displacement
2 June 2018 - 29 July 2018
The Patterns of Displacement was made in collaboration with students in a refugee camp in Kurdistan/Iraq. It questions ideas about individuality and communality in the context of current global refugee crises.
The Mind on Fire
7 April 2018 - 20 May 2018
The Mind on Fire is a site-specific chalk drawing on the walls of the Incinerator Gallery Atrium that considers the ‘nature’ of aesthetics and the sensory, exploring what we are naturally drawn to, and what we consider to be ‘natural’ anyway.
Made of Holes
20 January 2018 - 18 March 2019
Made of Holes is a captivating work that explores how we further our knowledge. Lucy Irvine has woven the artwork without predetermined design as a way of grappling with how we approach the unknown The result is an intriguing and enigmatic installation for the atrium space.
Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change 2018
13 October 2018 - 25 November 2018
The Incinerator Art Award is the Gallery’s annual contemporary art prize of national significance, with entries received from across Australia. The award showcases 33 shortlisted works inspired by the theme of art for social change.
Printing as Process
11 August 2018 - 30 September 2018
Printing as Process explores the collaborative nature of art production in the printmaking studio. Featuring works created in collaboration with over 50 artists from across Australia, this exhibition reasserts the idea that art production can be a social enterprise.
standing still; looking back, looking forward
2 June 2018 - 29 July 2018
standing still; looking back, looking forward celebrates First Nations identities today, yesterday and tomorrow. Featuring new works by Dean Cross, Brad Darkson, Amala Groom & Nicole Monks, Ashley Perry and Katie West, this exhibition is a testimony to the non-prescription of the Aboriginal experience, asserting the complexities of navigating culture and sovereign knowledge through a range of interdisciplinary ideas, methods and media.
With Seeing Hands
7 April 2018 - 20 May 2018
With Seeing Hands is an accessible and inclusive exhibition that presents a range of multisensory works made by artists with and without disabilities. The audience is invited to explore non-visual artworks including tactile paintings, a pressed plasticine intervention, and a hanging installation.
Fireworks 2018
24 February 2018 - 18 March 2018
Discover the next generation of artists from Moonee Valley at the Fireworks 2018 exhibition.
Fireworks is an annual art and design awards and exhibition for Years 11 and 12 students who live, work or attend school in Moonee Valley.
Black Magic
20 January 2018 - 18 February 2019
Black Magic features works by queer, trans, gender diverse and sistergirl/brotherboy Indigenous artists. Who explore the impact of Christian white sensibility on sexual politics in Australia.
Smashed Tack
26 February 2019 - 24 March 2019
Justin Garnsworthy’s art practice uses technology to decompose then recompose imagery of mundane materials, in a process akin to alchemical transformation. In this exhibition he has used digital frottage to create large format compositions of compressed Blu-Tack.
Rocking Reflections
22 January 2019 - 17 February 2019
Paula Mahoney’s portraits of heavy metal, rock and punk fans and musicians are created in the early morning in her makeshift studio, metres from the stage.
As performers scream and rage, each individual considers their own death, connected by a common affinity with the music.
Moonee Valley Art Collection: Geoff Hogg
8 December 2018 - 19 January 2019
This summer, Boadle Hall will host a series of painted mural works from the Moonee Valley Art Collection by celebrated public artist Geoff Hogg.
I feel the earth move under my feet
26 February 2019 - 24 March 2019
Carly Fischer’s work responds to research undertaken at The Living Museum of the West. Through sampling oral archives, sounds and objects collected on site. The installation reconstructs an alternate audio and sculptural narrative of Melbourne’s West.
Cancelled
22 January 2019 - 17 February 2019
Farnaz Dadfar’s practice addresses issues of culture and language. She investigates the idea of linguistic diaspora through the examination of fragmented text and sound.
SWARM
8 December 2018 - 13 January 2019
SWARM is a poetic envisioning of the intermingling of the digital and the physical by Munich-based Australian artist Gretta Louw.
The work is informed by research into the recent spread and evolution of Medusozoa (jellyfish) in contaminated oceans. Darkly optimistic about unexpectedly thriving lifeforms, the work looks at the issue of digitalisation through the lens of non-human subjectivity.
Fireworks 2019
26 February 2019 - 24 March 2019
Fireworks is Moonee Valley’s annual art and design exhibition and award for VCE students who live, work, or study in Moonee Valley.
Midsumma: Personal Touch
22 January 2019 - 17 February 2019
Throughout history, self-portraiture has provided a means for artists to critically examine perceptions about themselves and their place in society. In the time of the ubiquitous camera phone, challenging forms of self-representation by artists provide cut through and provoke needed discussion on the problematic binaries associated with gender and identity.
Summer Show: Woven Together
8 December 2018 - 13 January 2019
Every year the Incinerator Gallery celebrates creativity in the community with the Summer Show.
This year the Summer Show: Woven Together will celebrate the fruits of textile workshops held throughout the year at Flemington Community Centre and the Incinerator Gallery.
Voula Christopoulos
28 May 2019 - 12 August 2019
Voula Christopoulos’ current work is focused on memories, dreams and the subconscious.
The work is an exploration of domestic interiors, since the home is where we dream and memories are made. It is also an intimate place, where we can retreat into our own mind space.
Billboard Project
30 May 2019 - 23 September 2019
Kent Morris art practice reveals the continued presence and patterns of Aboriginal history and culture in the contemporary Australian landscape, despite colonial interventions that have irreversibly altered the environment.
Strategies to Slowing a Fall
4 June 2019 - 28 July 2019
Andrew Tetzlaff’s practice looks at ways in which barely visible or the intangible energies—things such as the weight of air, the force of gravity or the warmth of light—mark and are revealed through material.
Personality Merged
20 August 2019 - 15 September 2019
Joshua Hede is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media. Most recently he has been utilising photography and painting to explore self-portraiture.
Vanishing Point
20 August 2019 - 29 September 2019
Vanishing Point is a new site-specific video installation that considers the influence of the camera and the screen on the way reality is received, framed and experienced. The work consists of perspective modulations and affective imagery, which create points of dissection between the visible and invisible; internal and external.
Playing with Matches
29 August 2019 - 29 September 2019
Join us for the opening of Playing with Matches, an exhibition that uses a spark to illuminate, defy and deconstruct. Playing with Matches is about the potential to be creative and destructive, to create a space of comfort for ourselves or to destroy the tinder of our discontent.
Ode to Marion
4 June 2019 - 28 July 2019
Ode to Marion pays homage to Marion Mahony Griffin’s often overlooked architectural and artistic legacy.
The exhibition includes the works of female artists whose practices are informed by the fields of architecture and Modernism, inspired by Mahony Griffin’s oeuvre, her spirit as a pioneering woman and the design of the Incinerator building.
Fireworks Offsite exhibition
2 April 2019 - 13 July 2019
Ascot Vale Library – 165 Union Rd, Ascot Vale VIC Fireworks 2019 a selection of portraits. Fireworks 2019 was originally exhibited at Incinerator Gallery, and showcased the art and design of Year 11 and 12 students who live, work or study in Moonee Valley. Fireworks aims to provide a platform to display our local emerging artists…
Painting Maribyrnong
19 April 2019 - 1 September 2019
10 April – Onwards
Avondale Heights Library – 69 Military Rd, Avondale Heights VIC
This group of artists meets weekly to paint and draw on the banks of the beautiful Maribyrnong River. After several years under the skillful guidance of Graeme Drendel, exploring a range of art techniques and mediums including watercolour, guache, oils, pastels, pencil, charcoal and mixed media, they are now a self-led group continuing to encourage and learn from each other.
Frank Bonnici
26 February 2019 - 26 May 2019
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”.
Space to Consider Absence
13 March 2019 - 8 May 2019
Through drawing, the artist Amy Cornall attempts to reconcile the familiar with the unfamiliar. The works contain elements of botanical drawing and abstraction, whilst featuring the white ground of the paper as a tangible metaphor for absence.
Frank Bonnici
13 March 2019 - 8 May 2019
Frank Bonnici’s, 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”.
Billboard Project
25 January 2019 - 22 May 2019
The Billboard Project is a series of large format photographic billboards that create unexpected public galleries in and around the Keilor Road Shops in Niddrie.The locations can be discovered around Wallace Mall, and they connect to the billboard in the front garden of the Incinerator Gallery.
Strathmore Mural
23 March 2019 -
We’ve created a new mural in Strathmore! Strathmore based artists Eva Giannoulidis and Jasper Killick have worked with students from local schools to create a new mural on the underpass at Pascoe Avenue, Strathmore.
The Turn
2 April 2019 - 12 May 2019
The Turn is a collaborative installation by Melbourne based artists and educators, Kym Maxwell and Ali McCann.
Their readymade life-sized tableaux takes the form of a hypothetical education interior. The use of school furniture, didactics, and photographs culminate in a project that explores the education system through its aesthetics.
Overlooking
2 April 2019 - 19 May 2019
The design and implementation of Fiona Morgan’s wall works take inspiration from the architectural features against which they are displayed.
They draw upon sometimes overlooked design characteristics, illuminating their surroundings with colour and playfulness.
Without Fail
2 April 2019 - 19 May 2019
Without Fail brings together artworks that embrace risk taking, a sense of humour and an extroverted spirit. Together these characteristics provide a framework for accepting failure as an expected outcome in art practice and life.
Billboard Project
The Billboard Project is a series of large format photographic billboards that create unexpected public galleries in and around the Keilor Road Shops in Niddrie.
The locations can be discovered around Wallace Mall, and they connect to the billboard in the front garden of the Incinerator Gallery.
These public sites feature changing exhibitions by some of Melbourne's best contemporary artists. Elvis Richardson, Clare Rae, Zoe Croggon, Petrina Hicks, Mike Read, Genevieve Grieves, Dianne Jones, James Voller and Steven Rhall have all exhibited in these spaces.