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Exhibitions

Saturday 8 August
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 16 August

Badra Aji

Get the boy a dog and call it a day

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 16 August

Ray Thomas

Yeerung's Journey

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 30 May – Sunday 9 August

Lygin Ang

Window Seat

Benalla Art Gallery
Monday 1 June – Monday 31 August

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Group Show

Spilt Milk (and hard honey)

West Space
Saturday 13 June – Saturday 8 August

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Chogh چوغ

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Heidi Schoenheimer

Around Here

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Requiem in Power (RIP)

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Sally Ann McIntyre

Post-extinction huia soundings

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

The Solid Mandala

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

Kate Beynon

Talismanic: the Robe & Friends

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 9 July – Saturday 29 August

Jackson Farley

The Void View

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 9 July – Saturday 29 August

Group Show

Other Worlds

Arts Project Australia Studio
Monday 13 July – Friday 25 September

Grant Nimmo

Spirits of the Green Woods

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Matt Arbuckle

Public Capacity

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Martin Smith

The Elegant Hope

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 8 August

Group Show

Winter Selection: Part Two

Lennox St. Gallery
Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 15 August

Marie Hagerty

The Human Comedy

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Saturday 15 August

Pat Harry

Pat Harry

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 22 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

Pith and Seed

KINGS Artist-Run
Thursday 23 July – Sunday 16 August

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

Warsan Mohammed

To Ourselves

Hillvale Gallery
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 23 August

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Moya McKenna

Picture in a window

Neon Parc
Friday 31 July – Saturday 5 September

Eliza Hutchison

When are the aliens coming?

CAVES Gallery
Saturday 1 August – Saturday 22 August

Group Show

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

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

Saturday 8 August
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 16 August

Badra Aji

Get the boy a dog and call it a day

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 16 August

Ray Thomas

Yeerung's Journey

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 30 May – Sunday 9 August

Lygin Ang

Window Seat

Benalla Art Gallery
Monday 1 June – Monday 31 August

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Group Show

Spilt Milk (and hard honey)

West Space
Saturday 13 June – Saturday 8 August

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Chogh چوغ

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Heidi Schoenheimer

Around Here

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Requiem in Power (RIP)

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Sally Ann McIntyre

Post-extinction huia soundings

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

The Solid Mandala

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

Kate Beynon

Talismanic: the Robe & Friends

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 9 July – Saturday 29 August

Jackson Farley

The Void View

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 9 July – Saturday 29 August

Group Show

Other Worlds

Arts Project Australia Studio
Monday 13 July – Friday 25 September

Grant Nimmo

Spirits of the Green Woods

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Matt Arbuckle

Public Capacity

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Martin Smith

The Elegant Hope

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 8 August

Group Show

Winter Selection: Part Two

Lennox St. Gallery
Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 15 August

Marie Hagerty

The Human Comedy

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Saturday 15 August

Pat Harry

Pat Harry

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 22 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

Pith and Seed

KINGS Artist-Run
Thursday 23 July – Sunday 16 August

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

Warsan Mohammed

To Ourselves

Hillvale Gallery
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 23 August

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Moya McKenna

Picture in a window

Neon Parc
Friday 31 July – Saturday 5 September

Eliza Hutchison

When are the aliens coming?

CAVES Gallery
Saturday 1 August – Saturday 22 August

Group Show

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

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

Google

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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