Exhibitions

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. 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 is a virtual exhibition and immersive experience in digital realms.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.