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Exhibitions

Wednesday 22 July
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

Spilt Milk (and hard honey)

West Space
Saturday 13 June – Saturday 8 August

Caesar Florence-Howard

Recent Work

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Saturday 25 July

Gavin Bell

Day Anatomy

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Saturday 25 July

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Vincent Ward

Palimpsest | Landscapes

Void Melbourne
Thursday 2 July – Saturday 25 July

Group Show

Soft Geometries

Five Walls Gallery
Friday 3 July – Saturday 25 July

Adam John Cullen

Studio

Lon Gallery
Saturday 4 July – Saturday 1 August

Group Show

Of the Inland

Brunswick Street Gallery
Saturday 11 July – Sunday 26 July

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

Duncan Macarthur

Family Portraits

Red Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Sunday 2 August

Mark Misic

Diamond Flower-Talisman Jam

Red Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Sunday 2 August

Natali Papak

Elemental Coterie

Red Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Sunday 2 August

Marc Baptista

VARANASI ‘My Journey through an Ancient City’

Red Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Sunday 2 August

Gavin Bell

Day Anatomy

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Saturday 25 July

Sutton Gallery is pleased to present Day Anatomy, an exhibition by London-based Australian artist Gavin Bell. A re-presentation of the exhibition which took place at Mackintosh Lane, London in December 2025, the exhibition brings together a series of framed drawings and sculptural elements.

Bell’s drawings employ an assembly of mediums (graphite, pencil, watercolour, oil) and found museological materials (mountboard, glassine) to insinuate hidden, metaphysical structures that undermine theoretical understanding or representational logic. His draughting process kindles imagery without strict depiction, realising that any latent manifestations emerge through the moving towards and away from his own understanding. Registering meaning on and through the paper, Bell often applies oil to the surface in order to ease the friction between the meeting of pencil and paper; a preparatory methodology that makes room for transparencies and tonal shifts, destabilising the autonomy of the plane and ambiguating the imagery it fosters. A profoundly meditative process, borne of the negotiation of fine controlled mark making and looser, impairing gestures, Bell’s drawings convey a sense of revelation and apparition, approaching the medium as means to substantiate or materialise the matter of thought.

Alongside his framed drawings, Day Anatomy includes eleven sculptural elements clustered throughout the gallery floorspace. Glass vessels, each assuming a various form spanning from novelty animal to artisan geometry, hold a yellow-hued liquid produced through an alchemical leaching process that reclaims the gold plating from wristwatch casings. Sourcing both glass vessel and metallic parts via online resellers, Bell’s process of stripping and dissolution evokes the destiny of possessions, bodies and matter–an inevitability of decay and energy transfer. Visually the works make reference to discarded bottles of urine on roadsides witnessed by the artist, an observation of competing abject and attractive formalist qualities, described by the artist as appearing as readymade colour-field paintings. Bell’s careful imitation is now both aligned and at odds with the conditions of the white cube gallery, wherein a commodified, elegant understanding is at once imparted onto and repelled by the work.

British cultural critic and novelist Michael Bracewell has written the catalogue essay The Art of Gavin Bell for the exhibition at Sutton Gallery.

“For a viewer encountering Gavin Bell’s finely detailed, densely worked art for the first time, in which shadowy figures and seemingly psychic cloudscapes are conjured from meticulous, quasi-automatic mark-making, the predominant motif might be that of mountainous cumulus, at times ominous and storm dark, at others more resembling a supernova flare of celestial brightness.”

(Excerpt, Michael Bracewell, The Art of Gavin Bell, 2026.)

Location

Sutton Gallery
254 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia

Date

Saturday 27 June – Saturday 25 July

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Website

https://suttongallery.com.au/exhibitions/day-anatomy/

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 22 July
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

Spilt Milk (and hard honey)

West Space
Saturday 13 June – Saturday 8 August

Caesar Florence-Howard

Recent Work

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Saturday 25 July

Gavin Bell

Day Anatomy

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Saturday 25 July

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Vincent Ward

Palimpsest | Landscapes

Void Melbourne
Thursday 2 July – Saturday 25 July

Group Show

Soft Geometries

Five Walls Gallery
Friday 3 July – Saturday 25 July

Adam John Cullen

Studio

Lon Gallery
Saturday 4 July – Saturday 1 August

Group Show

Of the Inland

Brunswick Street Gallery
Saturday 11 July – Sunday 26 July

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

Duncan Macarthur

Family Portraits

Red Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Sunday 2 August

Mark Misic

Diamond Flower-Talisman Jam

Red Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Sunday 2 August

Natali Papak

Elemental Coterie

Red Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Sunday 2 August

Marc Baptista

VARANASI ‘My Journey through an Ancient City’

Red Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Sunday 2 August

Gavin Bell

Day Anatomy

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Saturday 25 July

Sutton Gallery is pleased to present Day Anatomy, an exhibition by London-based Australian artist Gavin Bell. A re-presentation of the exhibition which took place at Mackintosh Lane, London in December 2025, the exhibition brings together a series of framed drawings and sculptural elements.

Bell’s drawings employ an assembly of mediums (graphite, pencil, watercolour, oil) and found museological materials (mountboard, glassine) to insinuate hidden, metaphysical structures that undermine theoretical understanding or representational logic. His draughting process kindles imagery without strict depiction, realising that any latent manifestations emerge through the moving towards and away from his own understanding. Registering meaning on and through the paper, Bell often applies oil to the surface in order to ease the friction between the meeting of pencil and paper; a preparatory methodology that makes room for transparencies and tonal shifts, destabilising the autonomy of the plane and ambiguating the imagery it fosters. A profoundly meditative process, borne of the negotiation of fine controlled mark making and looser, impairing gestures, Bell’s drawings convey a sense of revelation and apparition, approaching the medium as means to substantiate or materialise the matter of thought.

Alongside his framed drawings, Day Anatomy includes eleven sculptural elements clustered throughout the gallery floorspace. Glass vessels, each assuming a various form spanning from novelty animal to artisan geometry, hold a yellow-hued liquid produced through an alchemical leaching process that reclaims the gold plating from wristwatch casings. Sourcing both glass vessel and metallic parts via online resellers, Bell’s process of stripping and dissolution evokes the destiny of possessions, bodies and matter–an inevitability of decay and energy transfer. Visually the works make reference to discarded bottles of urine on roadsides witnessed by the artist, an observation of competing abject and attractive formalist qualities, described by the artist as appearing as readymade colour-field paintings. Bell’s careful imitation is now both aligned and at odds with the conditions of the white cube gallery, wherein a commodified, elegant understanding is at once imparted onto and repelled by the work.

British cultural critic and novelist Michael Bracewell has written the catalogue essay The Art of Gavin Bell for the exhibition at Sutton Gallery.

“For a viewer encountering Gavin Bell’s finely detailed, densely worked art for the first time, in which shadowy figures and seemingly psychic cloudscapes are conjured from meticulous, quasi-automatic mark-making, the predominant motif might be that of mountainous cumulus, at times ominous and storm dark, at others more resembling a supernova flare of celestial brightness.”

(Excerpt, Michael Bracewell, The Art of Gavin Bell, 2026.)

Location

Sutton Gallery
254 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia

Date

Saturday 27 June – Saturday 25 July

Save to Calendar

Website

https://suttongallery.com.au/exhibitions/day-anatomy/

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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