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Exhibitions

Thursday 30 October
2025

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Stephen Benwell

People Now: Recent Ceramics and Paintings

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 15 October – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

Eternal Oblivion death and the afterlife

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 23 August – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Chroma II

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Carla McRae & Morgan Blue

Blooming And Buzzing Confusion

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Carla McRae & Morgan Blue

Blooming And Buzzing Confusion

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

ARTIST STATEMENT

"This exhibition began with a shared curiosity: how might our individual practices converge and express within the space between them? We found a guiding metaphor in the phrase “blooming, buzzing confusion,” coined by psychologist William James to describe the newborn’s first encounter with the world—a vibrant, unfiltered sensory flood.

Collaboration, in many ways, is an allegory of this beginning again. It asks us to step outside the familiar and fold into a space shaped by both perspectives—sharing a frequency, sitting with the intelligence of another’s hands and heart, shifting attention outside of the self, into the unknown.

These works arrived after a two-year long conversation sharing archives and sketchbooks, swapping notes and references, offering drawings up for remix and reclamation and, eventually, challenging our own notions of ownership by borrowing, reworking, blending our visual language. They meet at the heart of our two practices and speak to the ways that we organise the chaos of the world through curiosity and playfulness—looking closely to find small moments that crack open to reveal treasures both familiar and mysterious.

Blooming And Buzzing Confusion is a celebration of sensory excess and imaginative construction—a vibrant blur of form and feeling. We hope it reflects the feverish joy of meaning-making, and the way our distinct worlds inform, challenge, and illuminate one another."

Location

Boom Gallery
41 Pakington Street, Geelong West VIC, Australia

Date

Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

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Website

https://boomgallery.com.au/blogs/exhibition/carla-mcrae-and-morgan-blue-blooming-and-buzzing-confusion

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Exhibitions

Thursday 30 October
2025

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Stephen Benwell

People Now: Recent Ceramics and Paintings

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 15 October – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

Eternal Oblivion death and the afterlife

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 23 August – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Chroma II

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Carla McRae & Morgan Blue

Blooming And Buzzing Confusion

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Carla McRae & Morgan Blue

Blooming And Buzzing Confusion

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

ARTIST STATEMENT

"This exhibition began with a shared curiosity: how might our individual practices converge and express within the space between them? We found a guiding metaphor in the phrase “blooming, buzzing confusion,” coined by psychologist William James to describe the newborn’s first encounter with the world—a vibrant, unfiltered sensory flood.

Collaboration, in many ways, is an allegory of this beginning again. It asks us to step outside the familiar and fold into a space shaped by both perspectives—sharing a frequency, sitting with the intelligence of another’s hands and heart, shifting attention outside of the self, into the unknown.

These works arrived after a two-year long conversation sharing archives and sketchbooks, swapping notes and references, offering drawings up for remix and reclamation and, eventually, challenging our own notions of ownership by borrowing, reworking, blending our visual language. They meet at the heart of our two practices and speak to the ways that we organise the chaos of the world through curiosity and playfulness—looking closely to find small moments that crack open to reveal treasures both familiar and mysterious.

Blooming And Buzzing Confusion is a celebration of sensory excess and imaginative construction—a vibrant blur of form and feeling. We hope it reflects the feverish joy of meaning-making, and the way our distinct worlds inform, challenge, and illuminate one another."

Location

Boom Gallery
41 Pakington Street, Geelong West VIC, Australia

Date

Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Save to Calendar

Website

https://boomgallery.com.au/blogs/exhibition/carla-mcrae-and-morgan-blue-blooming-and-buzzing-confusion

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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