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Portraits of Will brings together the works of Will Murray, an emerging figurative artist working in various mediums on paper including pastel, gouache, ink and graphite. With soft pastels as his choice of medium, each work possesses a deep sense of character, the outlandish nature of the subject’s posture and expression granting his artworks an air of mystery. Will Murray has worked in the studio at Arts Project Australia since 2016 and has exhibited in Arts Project Australia’s annual group…

Pleased to Meet You is an exhibition that celebrates the ever-evolving nature of the Arts Project Australia studio, presenting works by artists who are recent additions to Arts Project. Curated by James McDonald, Pleased to Meet You showcases the exciting potential of this group of diverse and engaged individuals in the formative stages of their creative lives. Featuring works by Suzanne Barnes, Oriana Ciarma, Jacob Cartelli, Michelle Coulson, Elizabeth Dunkley, Sam Forster, Lionel Grijalva, Will McConnell, Joanne Nethercote, Andrew Nicolaides Ross O’Meara, Paul…

3x3 presents three solo shows by Arts Project studio artists. James MacSporran works primarily in painting and drawing on paper and canvas, blending abstraction and graffiti. Contrastingly, Samraing Chea works with pencil on paper to present humorous and startling social commentary. Finally, Rebecca Scibilia works on paper and canvas, often utilising texta, to conjure hyper-vivid images that blend text, pop culture and Scibilia's own visions, showing a lurid use of texture and colour. Opening | Saturday 21 March, 3-5pm Dates | 21…

Flesh After Fifty is an exhibition challenging negative stereotypes of ageing while celebrating positive images of older women through art. Alongside bringing to the fore images that need revisiting or have been overlooked, Flesh After Fifty includes 10 new commissioned art installations that explore social issues, health and empowerment of older women. Amongst these is Catherine Bell's "The Artist and The Mermaid" (2020), a silent film documenting Cathy Staughton painting a series of nude portraits of Bell while she performs the role of a mermaid that Staughton discovers…

FEM-aFFINITY will travel throughout Australia in 2020 and 2021, with the exhibition touring to Benalla Art Gallery in April following its launch at Devonport Regional Gallery. Curated by academic and artist Catherine Bell, FEM-aFFINITY brings together female artists from Arts Project Australia and wider Victoria whose work share an affinity of subject and process. By situating female Arts Project studio artists alongside other female contemporary artists, the exhibition uncovers shared perspectives on female identity. Drawing upon interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches, and understanding artworks as a…

This exhibition reflects multidisciplinary artist Georgia Szmerling’s fascination and ongoing research with landscape. From her richly textured and highly coloured paintings, we are drawn in by the linear contours that make these works so lively. Szmerling’s photographs capture the same fulsome vistas although the treatment of the subject in Photoshop often imbues an altogether calmer mood to the subject. To complement her oeuvre, Szmerling brings together a group of striking and evocative works by Arts Project artists who share her…

Material World refers to a personal world created in response to our physical surroundings. Using tactile fabrics and media, the artists in Material World represent themes of corporal curiosity, sexual politics, the home, possessions, consumerism and the imaginary world. Within this practice there is a stark transition from idea and concept into visceral threads and textiles. Co-curated by Peter Douglas and Jodie Kipps and featuring artists Terry Williams, Chris O'Brien, Bronwyn Hack, Mathew Gove, Megan Sloan, Rosie O'Brien, Daniel Pace…