9 April - 4 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 9 Apr, 630-8pm

This collection of works demonstrates the development of Sarah Coffey's interest in the interplay of botanical materials, museological display and our place within the natural world. 

Coffey's concern about the increasing degradation of our environment is evidenced in the depiction of these imagined creatures as extinct, untouchable and revered. The works highlight the fragile beauty of the materials and remind us of the constant encroachment of the built environment on the natural world.

9 April - 4 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 9 April, 630-8pm

Inspired by the sublime beauty of nature, Kylie Fogarty creates atmospheric drawings which evoke a sense of wonder and adventure. 

With a poetic response to time and place, her signature line work and expressive marks serve as a narration on the ever-changing natural world we share. Propelled by the possibility of new discoveries, Fogarty embraces a visceral approach, continually searching for the unexpected.

In this body of work, long gestural lines are employed as a connection to the terrain, while reflecting on the tranquillity found on mountainsides and near waterfalls. Revisiting past hikes in the mountains, treks through the rainforest and long walks, Fogarty is often transported back to discoveries when exploring the diverse ecosystems of Bundjalung National Park and Nightcap National Park around the Northern NSW area of Australia.

9 April - 4 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 23 Oct, 630-8pm

Imagined, remembered or mythical - in the corners of our collective and personal memories, the vast space of inland Australia informs our national identity.

A recent road trip to Western Queensland where both my mother and I were born, a place of fading and shrinking towns of this marginal country. She is my link to our family’s colonial past and embodies the optimism and confidence of generations of Settlers.

With visions of Arcadian splendour, they imposed European farming practices onto the Australian landscape - blind to the sophistication of existing systems. In this new body of work, remnants of this vision appear like forgotten memorials being reabsorbed by the landscape. Rusting metal artefacts, faded signage and lost fence lines retain only traces of their original purpose. And between petrol stops, small towns laden with too many buildings and no services quietly disintegrate. Meanwhile, the population is still waiting for rain.

9 April - 4 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 9 Apr, 630-8pm

Lynden Stone's current body of artwork questions the unique role human observation, or consciousness, might play in collapse of quantum superposition. Through the use of metaphor and installation, she intends to disrupt viewers’ expectations of material reality.

In exploring human consciousness as the possible agent of collapse of quantum superposition, Stone examines the role of the observer in creating observed phenomena, highlighting the fact that we may be in a participatory universe. She uses the Klein bottle as a metaphor for the possible creative relationship between ourselves and the material world.

The Klein bottle is a mathematical construct existing in four dimensions where it is: both open and closed; continuously one-sided; and without the need for self-penetration. In essence it is describing the continual creative dynamic and interplay of subject, object and space - the dynamic relationship between observation and creation.

Stone also uses marbles as a reference to Newtonian physics - that is to say, the way we ordinarily experience material reality of cause and effect and also of gravity. 

7 - 25 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 7 May, 630-8pm

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7 - 25 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 7 May, 630-8pm

'As a printmaker, I am interested in translating the natural world, into the quite graphic medium of black and white lino print. With each new body of work, I set myself a challenge to create an aspect of the real world in a way I have not done before. 

A couple of years ago, on the road to Adelaide, I came across some wetlands, just as the sun was going down. I had been here before, even dismissed this place as a mere swamp, but the transformation wrought by the setting sun, was nothing short of glorious. I knew I would have to try and capture this stunning waterscape, so with this show, I decided to explore water. 

Water is an interesting challenge. It can really only be seen in relation to its surrounds. Sometimes water seems black, at other times, it reflects the sky. A puddle on the side of the road can hold a whole landscape in its depths.'

7 - 25 May 2025

Opening Night: Wed 7 May, 630-8pm

These monotypes were made as a response to the paintings in my previous exhibition at Tacit, The Gathering. Their essence is drawing, the core of all the work that I make.

It’s how I bear witness and make sense of my subject, myself and the world around me. I wanted to give these animal skulls a new life; to find and create new meaning that is a continuum of their painted history.

They arouse in me questions of life and death, and through this process I have been confronted with both the seriousness and the light, the land and storytelling.