Bridesmaid #1 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Bridesmaid #1
Bridesmaid #1 2015
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Bridesmaid #12015
watercolour and gouache on paper
69 x 52 cm
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Bridesmaid #2 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Bridesmaid #2
Bridesmaid #2 2015
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Bridesmaid #22015
watercolour and gouache on paper
69 x 52 cm
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Mille Bises Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Mille Bises
Mille Bises 2015
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Mille Bises2015
watercolour and gouache on two vintage postcards c.1910
52 x 42 cm
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Venus And Venus #1 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Venus And Venus #1
Venus And Venus #1 2015
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Venus And Venus #12015
watercolour on paper
49 x 37 cm
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The Fisherman's Wife Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - The Fisherman's Wife
The Fisherman's Wife 2015
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The Fisherman's Wife2015
watercolour and gouache on six vintage postcards c.1910
62 x 52 cm
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Venus And Venus #2 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Venus And Venus #2
Venus And Venus #2 2015
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Venus And Venus #22015
watercolour on paper
49 x 37 cm
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Venus And Venus #3 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Venus And Venus #3
Venus And Venus #3 2015
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Venus And Venus #32015
watercolour on paper
49 x 37 cm
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Beaucoup (Mother) Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Beaucoup (Mother)
Beaucoup (Mother) 2015
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Beaucoup (Mother)2015
watercolour and gouache on two vintage postcards c.1910
52 x 42 cm
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Nouvelle Moon Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Nouvelle Moon
Nouvelle Moon 2015
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Nouvelle Moon2015
watercolour and gouache on two vintage postcards c.1910
52 x 42 cm
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Venus And Venus #4 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Venus And Venus #4
Venus And Venus #4 2015
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Venus And Venus #42015
watercolour on paper
49 x 37 cm
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Venus And Venus #5 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Venus And Venus #5
Venus And Venus #5 2015
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Venus And Venus #52015
watercolour on paper
49 x 37 cm
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Venus And Venus #6 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Venus And Venus #6
Venus And Venus #6 2015
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Venus And Venus #62015
watercolour on paper
49 x 37 cm
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Venus And Venus #7 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Venus And Venus #7
Venus And Venus #7 2015
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Venus And Venus #72015
watercolour on paper
49 x 37 cm
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Venus And Venus #8 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Venus And Venus #8
Venus And Venus #8 2015
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Venus And Venus #82015
watercolour on paper
49 x 37 cm
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Venus And Venus #9 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Venus And Venus #9
Venus And Venus #9 2015
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Venus And Venus #92015
watercolour on paper
49 x 37 cm
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Venus And Venus #10 Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Venus And Venus #10
Venus And Venus #10 2015
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Venus And Venus #102015
watercolour on paper
49 x 37 cm
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Mother Of Pearl Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Mother Of Pearl
Mother Of Pearl 2015
Mother Of PearlTara MarynowskyMother Of Pearl
Mother Of Pearl2015
watercolour and gouache on paper
69 x 52 cm
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Daisies Tara Marynowsky Tara Marynowsky - Daisies
Daisies 2015
DaisiesTara MarynowskyDaisies
Daisies2015
watercolour and gouache on paper
69 x 52 cm
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Tara Marynowsky 'Tide Is High'

Tara Marynowsky’s painterly interventions on vintage postcards and subtly rendered watercolours explore the raw power of the feminine. She knows that nostalgia for a perfectly contained female energy exists alongside the historical transformation of women’s self-identity, and she looks to bring poetic truth to light. Her process-oriented sensibility balances emotive intensity with delicate line, form and colour, and imbues the fragile figures of men and women, animals, ghostly apparitions and masked players inhabiting her work with an otherworldly honesty – connecting a strangely familiar past with an unsettling present.

Provocative and direct, confronting and comforting, Marynowsky’s ability to enter the viewer into an intimate relationship with the fragility and beauty of curiosity, play and subverted politesse forces dialogue with the tropes we use to define ourselves. In her work, cultural stereotypes, mythical archetypes and unspoken longings meet up with the subconscious currents that influence our daily lives.

Tara Marynowsky graduated from the University of New South Wales School of Art and Design (Honours) in 2002 where she studied Time Based Arts and is currently the Senior Curator of Content and Interpretation at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Recent exhibitions include solo shows as well as the group show Femme-Maison: Imagined Boundaries at Macquarie University. Tara was commissioned to create new work for The National 2019: New Australian Art at Carriageworks. In 2015 she received a Marten Bequest Scholarship for Painting. Her video works have screened internationally at Filmmuseum Düsseldorf and The Centre Pompidou. Her work is held by Artbank, dLux MediaArts, Goulburn Art Gallery and in private collections. She has been featured in publications including Art Collector, Juxtapoz, Broadsheet and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Tara Marynowsky

Born 1979

Lives and works in Sydney

EDUCATION

2002

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

AWARDS AND PRIZES

2021

  • Finalist, Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize

2015

  • Marten Bequest Scholarship, Painting

2014

  • Artist in Residence, Wis(c)h, Supported by City of Sydney

2012

  • Second Place, Linden Postcard Prize, Linden New Art, Melbourne

2011

  • Best Sydney Artist Award, FBI Radio, Sydney

2010

  • Fraser Studios Artist Residency, Queen Street Studios, Sydney
  • Rising Star Award, Cosmopolitan Fun Fearless Female'

2008

  • Finalist, Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney

2006

  • Australia Council Inter-Arts grant, RUN_WAY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

  • 'Light, Blue, Disco', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2020

  • 'Movies', Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

2018

  • 'Balancing Act', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'Volta', Chalkhorse Gallery, Sydney

2015

  • 'Brain Rain', Chalkhorse Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Tide is High', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2014

  • 'Venus of Venus', Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Open Studio', Art Month Sydney

2011

  • 'Wallflower', Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne

2010

  • 'Gods and Monsters', Chalk Horse, Sydney

2007

  • 'I Really Like What You’ve Done To Me', Kings Ari, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

  • Tara Marynowsky, Kate Mitchell, Madeleine Pfull, Jason Phu, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

2021

  • 'Shaping Wit', Willoughby Art Centre

2020

  • 'UN-TV', The Unconformity, Tasmania

2019

  • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, EDWINA CORLETTE, Sydney
  • The National 2019: New Australian Art, Carriageworks, Sydney
  • 'The New Gallery Show', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2018

  • Art Fair, Art Central Hong Kong, Chalkhorse Gallery, Stand E11
  • 'Sauced Material', Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
  • 'Flame Seed', Incinerator Art Space, Sydney

2017

  • '1717 Painting/not painting', Galerie pompom, Sydney
  • Group Show, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

2016

  • 'Rawhide with Abbey McCulloch', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2015

  • Alaska Studios Group Show, Alaska Projects, Sydney
  • 'Mug Shot', Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, New South Wales
  • 'Octopus15', Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
  • Art Central Hong Kong (Art Fair), Chalk Horse Gallery, Hong Kong
  • 'Lost and Profound', curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

2014

  • 'Sealed Section', curated by Miriam Kelly, Artbank, Sydney
  • 'Beastly', Delmar Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Sense of Surround', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • Melbourne Art Fair, Chalkhorse Gallery, Melbourne

2013

  • 'Still Life', Delmar Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Rue de Belleville', Galerie Pom Pom, Sydney
  • 'Rumble', Wellington St Projects, Sydney
  • Linden Postcard Prize, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

2012

  • 'Invitation on Paper', Chi Chi Potter Gallery, Copenhagen
  • 'Still Life', Delmar Gallery, Sydney

2011

  • 'Still Life', Delmar Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Ten Degrees of Separation', Poimena Art Gallery, Tasmania
  • 'Transcendental Freakout', Remote (online)

2010

  • 'The Shilo Project', S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Chalk Reindeer', Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

2009

  • 'Chalk Reindeer', Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Post-flux', Maison des Auteurs asbl, Bussels
  • T'ara Marynowsky, Danny Morse & Tim Moore', Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Hors Pistes', Pompidou Centre, Paris
  • 'Hard Party', Sydney Harbour Art Cruise, Sydney

2008

  • 'Chalk Reindeer', Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
  • Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney
  • 'Great Whites & Tan Lines & Tales', Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Videoformes 2008', Clermont Ferrand

2007

  • 'Ecoutez les Zimages', Reunion, Pacific Ocean
  • 'Panoramic Perturbations', 'a little blah blah’, Ho Chi Minh City
  • International Festival of Video art of Casablanca, Casablanca
  • 'Videoformes: Prix De La Creation Video', Clermont-Ferrand
  • 'Sin City Pompidou film program', ACMI, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS

Artbank

Freshwater Place

Private Collections in Australia and Internationally

COMMISSIONS

Coming Attractions for The National 2019: New Australian Art, Carriageworks, Sydney curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, commissioned by Carriageworks.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019

  • Naomi Riddle, Artist text for ‘Coming Attractions’, The National 2019: New Australian Art, catalogue, 2019
  • Andrew Frost, The National 2019 Review: Contemporary Art from the Uncanny to the Inviting, The Guardian, March 29, 2019
  • Anna Dunhill, Monstrous Feminine, Art Guide, April 2, 2019
  • Will Cox, The National: Five Artists to Watch, Broadsheet, 01 March, 2019

2015

  • Preview, Tracey Clement, Art Guide Australia, 26 November
  • Editor’s Pick 6til8, Art Collector Magazine, Tide is High: Tara Marynowsky, January
  • Daniel Mudi Cunningham, Art Collector Magazine, Collector’s Love: Tara Marynowsky, January

2014

  • Andrew Frost, Sydney Morning Herald: Top 5 Critics’ Picks, 26 May
  • Andrew Frost, The Art Life: Venus of Venus, 16 May

2013

  • Juxtapoz Magazine Online: Tara Marynowsky, April
  • Interview, The Interview Zine: Women Artists, New York, February

2012

  • Commissioned Artwork, Please! Magazine: Birthday Issue, curated by Leslie David, France, June

2011

  • Interview, FBI Radio, Canvas, Mon, 10 January

2010

  • Andrew Frost, Sydney Morning Herald: Ten Rising Visionaries Make Their Mark: Next Big Things, October
  • Adam Fulton, Sydney Morning Herald: Neil Diamond Tribute not such a dotty idea, July 2
  • Commissioned Artwork, ‘Helter Skelter’, Runway Magazine, Issue 17
  • Millie Stein, The Blackmail: Gods and Monsters, July

2008

  • Andrew Frost, Australian Art Collector: Smart Art, Issue 45
  • Josephine Tovey, The Sydney Morning Herald: Open Gallery, April
  • Adam Jasper, Time Out Sydney: MOP vs. Chalk Horse, April

2007

  • Andrew Frost, The Sydney Morning Herald: Screen Tests, 24 November

March 4, 2022

TARA MARYNOWSKY: Australians and Hollywood

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia first major original exhibition in two decades opened to the public on Friday, bringing with it an insight into Australian films and film talent - both behind and in front of the camera.

"Australians & Hollywood is both a celebration and a provocation to rethink Australian cinema today, at home, in Hollywood and beyond. Visitors will be taken on a journey through the pivotal moments in recent and contemporary Australian cinema, starting from the ‘70s." - Tara Marynowsky

Curator Tara Marynowsky shares how this treasure trove of beloved cinema moments came to life.

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March 22, 2019

TARA MARYNOWSKY: FIVE AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS TO WATCH

In 2017, three of Sydney’s major galleries – Carriageworks, Art Gallery of NSW and the Museum of Contemporary Art – presented the first instalment of the The National, an ambitious look at contemporary art in Australia.

Far from a quick snapshot of the art world, The National is a six-year project encompassing three shows at three galleries every two years. It features more than 100 emerging, mid-career and established artists. Each iteration speaks to the present, charting a brief arc in the story of Australian contemporary art.

Daniel Mudie-Cunningham, senior curator at Carriageworks, has worked on his section of the show for two years. He travelled around the country to meet artists and find new voices to add to a list of already-established names.

“There are connections between what we’re doing,” Mudie-Cunningham says of the three galleries and their curators. “Often there’s a particular zeitgeist, or political themes that recur.”

There are 65 artists involved in The National 2019. Tara Marynowsky is one to seek out:

Tara Marynowsky: the interventionist

'At a glance: A Sydney-based artist who doesn’t start with a blank canvas but builds on existing images, interacting with and subverting the past. She has appeared in exhibitions here and overseas.

What she’s known for: Her watercolour and gouache “interventions” on vintage postcards, which merge colour and surrealism with sepia-tinted images of young women. Her 2018 exhibition at Brisbane’s Edwina Corlette Gallery, Balancing Actress, featured vintage images of nude dancing “girls” with their faces obscured, bathed in pastel textures.

For The National: Her work starts with a more recent jumping-off point, and an angrier, more overtly political tone. For her piece, Coming Attractions, Marynowsky found 35-millimetre reels of ’90s Hollywood film trailers, including Pretty Woman, Shakespeare in Love, Species and Indecent Proposal, and took to the negatives with a knife, scratching each frame. It’s a labour-intensive and imprecise process. When the film is scanned and played back the result is a series of frenzied animations. Julia Roberts’s face is removed, making her almost monstrous. Gwyneth Paltrow is given a Medusa-like head of snakes. The dodgy gender politics of each film is subverted by force.' BROADSHEET March 2019

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March 20, 2019

TARA MARYNOWSKY IN ART GUIDE REVIEW OF 'THE NATIONAL'

Anna Dunnill reviews Tara Marynowsky's work in The National for Art Guide. She writes:

'Artist Tara Marynowsky has long been fascinated with the monstrous feminine – the twin forms of female beauty and ugliness. She collects old photographic portraits from the first half of the 20th century, often sent as postcards, and applies delicate layers of watercolour and gouache – giving the women bulging brains, greenish skin and purple rouge; eyes blank or goggling.

In addition to her well-known drawing practice, Marynowsky has long worked with film and video; in fact, video came first, having majored in time-based art at Sydney’s College of Fine Arts (now University of New South Wales, Art & Design). However, after focusing on video for some time, her drawing practice came out of a yearning for the tactile: “I just really wanted to get back to using my hands,” she says.

In her forthcoming installation for The National, she has managed to do both. To be exhibited at Carriageworks, Marynowsky’s work Coming Attractions consists of four videos, each taking as its raw material a film trailer from the 1990s: Pretty Woman (1990), Indecent Proposal (1993), Species (1995), and Shakespeare in Love (1998). While at one level these films may spark nostalgia, in each of them the female character is an object of men’s pursuit and desire: variously bought, sold, rescued, hunted and bargained over. Their release dates mark out Marynowsky’s adolescence and highlight some of the female role models available for mass consumption at that time.'

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March 12, 2019

TARA MARYNOWSKY'S WORK FEATURED IN THE GUARDIAN REVIEW OF 'THE NATIONAL'

Andrew Frost writes:

Key works at Carriageworks include Sean Rafferty’s Cartonography (FNQ), a wall of cardboard fruit boxes, everyday objects given a monumental treatment that highlights the surreal oddity of their design, and in Coming Attractions (2017-19) there’s another use of found objects. Tara Marynowsky takes 35mm feature film trailers sourced from eBay and scratches out key figures from the image, such as Julia Roberts from Pretty Woman. The result is amusing but pointed – the pretty woman is erased.

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September 30, 2018

TARA MARYNOWSKY IN THE NATIONAL 2019

The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) today announced that The National 2019: New Australian Art will present the work of 65 emerging, mid-career and established Australian contemporary artists living across the country and abroad.

A major collaborative venture, The National 2019 is the second edition of a six-year initiative presented in 2017, 2019 and 2021, exploring the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art.

Connecting three of Sydney’s key cultural precincts – The Domain, Redfern and Circular Quay – The National 2019 follows a successful first edition of the exhibition held in autumn of 2017 that attracted 286,631 visitors.

Tara Marynowsky will present new work for the National 2019 at Carriageworks.

Exhibition Dates

Art Gallery of New South Wales: 29 March – 21 July 2019

Carriageworks: 29 March – 23 June 2019

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia: 29 March – 23 June 2019

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March 6, 2018

TARA MARYNOWSKY AT GOULBURN REGIONAL ART GALLERY

Chris Bond, Ricky Emmerton, Tara Marynowsky, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Nicola Smith

Sauced Material brings together a group of artists who extend the narrative or form of existing media. Their works have been shaped, moulded and crafted from film, music, personal histories and literature but with flavour anew and enhanced. This adaptive approach orients audiences to and from a new point of orbit in reference to the work. Memory is at play - but so is the politics of origin and ownership.

Within the breadth of time that has passed between the first and the now, a clear history has been created. These artists reveal that distance in their own remaking. Their approaches differ but the commentaries and techniques are crystallised and ready for service.

From 2 March - 14 April 2018

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March 10, 2015

Tara Marynowsky Wins Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship

Congratulations Tara Marynowsky for receiving a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship worth $20,000. The scholarship is paid over a two year period to support the scholars in furthering their artistic careers.

Tara Marynowsky will travel widely with her scholarship funds, including to New York, where she will engage with contemporary art practices, and the UK, where she will collect Edwardian and Victorian documents and artefacts. These experiences will inform her new work, which she will commence during a four month residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris). Her overarching aim is to investigate symbolism in art and cultural belonging through African American art, French symbolism and English culture.

March 3, 2015

Tara Marynowsky Features in Art Collector

Congratulations Tara Marynowsky for featuring in the latest issue of Art Collector magazine. Tara was listed as one of Art Collector’s ’50 Things Collectors Need to Know About’ and is considered to be one of the artists who will be shaping the Australian and New Zealand art worlds in 2015.

December 19, 2014

Tara Marynowsky features in Artbank’s ‘Sealed Section’ Exhibition

Tara Marynowsky features in Artbank’s exhibition ‘Sealed Section’ curated by Miriam Kelly, showing from 28 November, 2014 until 7 February, 2015.

“Tearing open the ‘perforated pages’ of the Artbank collection, Sealed Section reveals works that canvas the topics of impolite dinner conversation: sex, politics and religion. Underpinning these often controversial topics is a consideration of the complexities of human relations and the human condition. As a result, Sealed Sectionincludes a rich and diverse group of works that highlight the strength and pertinence of contemporary art as a response to the key issues of our time.”

TARA MARYNOWSKY AT THE NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE

3 – 18 December 2024
‘SMALL WORKS’ featuring Ari Athans, John Bokor, James Drinkwater, Bridie Gillman, Dan Kyle, Rhys Lee, Belem Lett, Tara Marynowsky, Tim McMonagle, Peta Minnici, Sally M Nangala Mulda, Natalie O'Loughlin, Bundit Puangthong, Paul Ryan, Vipoo Srivilasa

3 – 24 September 2024
THE SPRING SHOW

7 – 21 December 2023
SMALL WORKS - Click and Collection

26 June 2019 – 17 July 2019
THE NEW GALLERY SHOW — A Group Exhibition

29 August 2018 – 15 September 2018
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

21 April 2015 – 9 May 2015
Tara Marynowsky ‘Tide Is High’

9 – 27 September 2014
Sense of Surround (Gallery 2)