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Exhibitions

Thursday 4 December
2025

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

Nell

Face Everything

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 11 October – Sunday 1 March

Maria Kontis

And I Would Say These Things To No One But You

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 6 September – Monday 23 February

Group Show

Always Modern: The Heide Story

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 13 May – Sunday 25 January

John Nixon

Song of the Earth

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 26 November – Monday 9 March

Tammy Kanat

Circle of Her

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 18 September – Sunday 22 March

Inbal Nissim

Regards From Your Future

Jewish Museum of Australia
Monday 6 October – Sunday 22 March

Group Show

TXT XXV

Five Walls
Friday 14 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

Various Small Fires

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 31 October – Saturday 13 December

Hany Armanious

Stone Soup

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 21 November – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

Coral Futures

Linden New Art
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 February

Richard Lewer

I Only Talk to God When I Want Something

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Legacy 2025 - Part II

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 22 October – Saturday 31 January

Group Show

The City Wakes, The City Sleeps

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Rest Time

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Pia de Bruyn

Female Trouble

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Corinna Berndt

jpg Fossils

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 8 October – Saturday 14 February

Abbra Kotlarczyk & Briony Galligan

Arranging by chance

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Peter Thomas

New World Fauna

Fox Galleries
Thursday 13 November – Sunday 7 December

Nipa Doshi

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025

NGV International
Thursday 25 September – Wednesday 1 April

Group Show

Whispers in the Walls

Arts Project
Monday 13 October – Friday 19 December

Group Show

ABSTRACTION 25

Charles Nodrum Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Saturday 6 December

Caleb Shea

Stop Motion

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 19 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

Maquette: Sculpture Award

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 22 November – Sunday 22 February

Georgia Harvey

Bright Side

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 November – Saturday 6 December

Group Show

Landscape Salon

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 November – Saturday 6 December

Hop Dac

Buffalo

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 November – Saturday 6 December

Edwina Edwards

Along the Bush Track

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Rebecca Kilpatrick

Wallflower

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Conrad Square

Happiness Factory

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Chris Morgan

Breath of Light

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Nadia Valeska

The Weight of Heirlooms: Visual Narratives of Turbulent Times

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Group Show

In Review

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Group Show

DONE/UNDONE

Craft
Friday 14 November – Saturday 7 February

Ko Jou Chen

Portable Passages

Craft
Thursday 6 November – Saturday 24 January

Hiroyasu Tsuri

Physical Action as a Thinking Form

Backwoods Gallery
Friday 28 November – Sunday 21 December

Zoë Croggon

Asleep on Watch

Daine Singer
Saturday 8 November – Saturday 20 December

Matt Arbuckle

The Punch

Daine Singer
Saturday 8 November – Saturday 20 December

Group Show

I ♥ Lizzy

Neon Parc
Friday 21 November – Saturday 20 December

Group Show

Sign O' The Times

Sarah Scout Presents
Saturday 1 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

House of Ghosts

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 26 November – Saturday 17 January

Matlok Griffiths and Dan Moynihan

DREAMcreamcreakcrackcrockCLOCK

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 8 November – Saturday 6 December

Arlo Mountford

Doubling Down

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 8 November – Saturday 6 December

Group Show

New Directions

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 22 February

Group Show

A Moment in Time—Collecting Contemporary

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 November – Sunday 15 February

Kohl Tyler

Of Bodies Into Novel Shapes

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 12 November – Friday 12 December

Lilli Strömland

Spring & Weave

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 12 November – Friday 12 December

Prudence Wilkinson

Twenty Six by Twenty Nine

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 12 November – Friday 12 December

Anna Dunnill

Dense Matter

CAVES Gallery
Friday 21 November – Saturday 13 December

Andrew Browne

A kind of skin

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 15 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

Big Group

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 15 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

Sign O' The Times

Sarah Scout Presents
Saturday 1 November – Saturday 13 December

The lyrics of 'Sign o’ the Times', the title track from Prince’s 1987 album of the same name, address numerous socio-political concerns including the HIV/AIDS crisis, gang violence, drug use and poverty, among others, many of which disproportionately affected Black communities. Prince laments the state of America—and the world—suggesting that a deeper, spiritual struggle lies at the root of social issues: “…some say a man ain't happy unless a man truly dies”.

This exhibition similarly addresses the personal and the political, focusing on some of the ways artists use text, typography and the spoken word as tools of resistance, protest, cultural critique and as signs of existential tussle. Sign o’ the Times highlights how language—written, spoken, abstracted, fragmented—might function as a means not only of communication, but also of defiance.

There are banners, protest signs, noticeboards, signposts and more banners in Sign o’ the Times. Disruptive and transformative, both Kait James and Kate Just use language to challenge dominant narratives and articulate marginalised experiences; their works serve as a site of resistance—politically, socially, and culturally. As do those of both Emily Floyd and Tamsen Hopkinson et al., who reframe and repurpose text to critique systems of control; illustrating the power of language to resist dominant power structures. Tony Garifalakis and Lisa Radford incorporate text and imagery to create disruptive modes of expression—using specific words that have become increasingly weaponised in our political and social realms.

On the other hand, works by Nell, Badra Aji, Tiyan Baker and Ellen Koshland variously embrace the poetic and generative potential of language, where abstraction, fragmentation, and multilingualism become strategies for expressing identity, memory, and emotion. Michelle Neal’s aluminium signs assert a moment of absurdity.

Writing about the first Trump presidency, American essayist Andrea Scrima notes: “Slowly, steadily, we watched the erosion of language morph into a state of cacophony in which objective fact became replaced with alternative narratives among which, it was implied, one could freely choose.”[1] She discusses the misogyny, the smug logic of white supremacy, the vulgarisation of language that was popularised during this time, and which has been doubled down within public life since. In the intervening time, we’ve been witness to loss of meaning as words are used to signify their polar opposite; as arguments are flipped upside down and appropriated by politically opposing points of view.

It is within this context that artists harness the aesthetic and rhetorical power of words to expose injustice, confront censorship and provoke dialogue. Text is not merely a formal element, but a means of engaging with politics, identity and memory. Whether through poetic subversion, linguistic play or the visual violence of redacted or silenced speech, the artworks in Sign o’ the Times might remind us that language is never neutral—it can disturb and disrupt, conceal and reveal, wound and heal.

“Sign o’ the times mess with your mind/Hurry before it’s too late/Let’s fall in love, get married, have a baby/We’ll call him Nate if it’s a boy/Time.”

Location

Sarah Scout Presents
47 Easey St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia

Date

Saturday 1 November – Saturday 13 December

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Exhibitions

Thursday 4 December
2025

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

Nell

Face Everything

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 11 October – Sunday 1 March

Maria Kontis

And I Would Say These Things To No One But You

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 6 September – Monday 23 February

Group Show

Always Modern: The Heide Story

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 13 May – Sunday 25 January

John Nixon

Song of the Earth

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 26 November – Monday 9 March

Tammy Kanat

Circle of Her

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 18 September – Sunday 22 March

Inbal Nissim

Regards From Your Future

Jewish Museum of Australia
Monday 6 October – Sunday 22 March

Group Show

TXT XXV

Five Walls
Friday 14 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

Various Small Fires

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 31 October – Saturday 13 December

Hany Armanious

Stone Soup

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 21 November – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

Coral Futures

Linden New Art
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 February

Richard Lewer

I Only Talk to God When I Want Something

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Legacy 2025 - Part II

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 22 October – Saturday 31 January

Group Show

The City Wakes, The City Sleeps

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Rest Time

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Pia de Bruyn

Female Trouble

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Corinna Berndt

jpg Fossils

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 8 October – Saturday 14 February

Abbra Kotlarczyk & Briony Galligan

Arranging by chance

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Peter Thomas

New World Fauna

Fox Galleries
Thursday 13 November – Sunday 7 December

Nipa Doshi

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025

NGV International
Thursday 25 September – Wednesday 1 April

Group Show

Whispers in the Walls

Arts Project
Monday 13 October – Friday 19 December

Group Show

ABSTRACTION 25

Charles Nodrum Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Saturday 6 December

Caleb Shea

Stop Motion

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 19 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

Maquette: Sculpture Award

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 22 November – Sunday 22 February

Georgia Harvey

Bright Side

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 November – Saturday 6 December

Group Show

Landscape Salon

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 November – Saturday 6 December

Hop Dac

Buffalo

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 November – Saturday 6 December

Edwina Edwards

Along the Bush Track

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Rebecca Kilpatrick

Wallflower

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Conrad Square

Happiness Factory

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Chris Morgan

Breath of Light

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Nadia Valeska

The Weight of Heirlooms: Visual Narratives of Turbulent Times

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Group Show

In Review

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 4 December – Sunday 21 December

Group Show

DONE/UNDONE

Craft
Friday 14 November – Saturday 7 February

Ko Jou Chen

Portable Passages

Craft
Thursday 6 November – Saturday 24 January

Hiroyasu Tsuri

Physical Action as a Thinking Form

Backwoods Gallery
Friday 28 November – Sunday 21 December

Zoë Croggon

Asleep on Watch

Daine Singer
Saturday 8 November – Saturday 20 December

Matt Arbuckle

The Punch

Daine Singer
Saturday 8 November – Saturday 20 December

Group Show

I ♥ Lizzy

Neon Parc
Friday 21 November – Saturday 20 December

Group Show

Sign O' The Times

Sarah Scout Presents
Saturday 1 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

House of Ghosts

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 26 November – Saturday 17 January

Matlok Griffiths and Dan Moynihan

DREAMcreamcreakcrackcrockCLOCK

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 8 November – Saturday 6 December

Arlo Mountford

Doubling Down

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 8 November – Saturday 6 December

Group Show

New Directions

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 22 February

Group Show

A Moment in Time—Collecting Contemporary

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 November – Sunday 15 February

Kohl Tyler

Of Bodies Into Novel Shapes

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 12 November – Friday 12 December

Lilli Strömland

Spring & Weave

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 12 November – Friday 12 December

Prudence Wilkinson

Twenty Six by Twenty Nine

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 12 November – Friday 12 December

Anna Dunnill

Dense Matter

CAVES Gallery
Friday 21 November – Saturday 13 December

Andrew Browne

A kind of skin

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 15 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

Big Group

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 15 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

Sign O' The Times

Sarah Scout Presents
Saturday 1 November – Saturday 13 December

The lyrics of 'Sign o’ the Times', the title track from Prince’s 1987 album of the same name, address numerous socio-political concerns including the HIV/AIDS crisis, gang violence, drug use and poverty, among others, many of which disproportionately affected Black communities. Prince laments the state of America—and the world—suggesting that a deeper, spiritual struggle lies at the root of social issues: “…some say a man ain't happy unless a man truly dies”.

This exhibition similarly addresses the personal and the political, focusing on some of the ways artists use text, typography and the spoken word as tools of resistance, protest, cultural critique and as signs of existential tussle. Sign o’ the Times highlights how language—written, spoken, abstracted, fragmented—might function as a means not only of communication, but also of defiance.

There are banners, protest signs, noticeboards, signposts and more banners in Sign o’ the Times. Disruptive and transformative, both Kait James and Kate Just use language to challenge dominant narratives and articulate marginalised experiences; their works serve as a site of resistance—politically, socially, and culturally. As do those of both Emily Floyd and Tamsen Hopkinson et al., who reframe and repurpose text to critique systems of control; illustrating the power of language to resist dominant power structures. Tony Garifalakis and Lisa Radford incorporate text and imagery to create disruptive modes of expression—using specific words that have become increasingly weaponised in our political and social realms.

On the other hand, works by Nell, Badra Aji, Tiyan Baker and Ellen Koshland variously embrace the poetic and generative potential of language, where abstraction, fragmentation, and multilingualism become strategies for expressing identity, memory, and emotion. Michelle Neal’s aluminium signs assert a moment of absurdity.

Writing about the first Trump presidency, American essayist Andrea Scrima notes: “Slowly, steadily, we watched the erosion of language morph into a state of cacophony in which objective fact became replaced with alternative narratives among which, it was implied, one could freely choose.”[1] She discusses the misogyny, the smug logic of white supremacy, the vulgarisation of language that was popularised during this time, and which has been doubled down within public life since. In the intervening time, we’ve been witness to loss of meaning as words are used to signify their polar opposite; as arguments are flipped upside down and appropriated by politically opposing points of view.

It is within this context that artists harness the aesthetic and rhetorical power of words to expose injustice, confront censorship and provoke dialogue. Text is not merely a formal element, but a means of engaging with politics, identity and memory. Whether through poetic subversion, linguistic play or the visual violence of redacted or silenced speech, the artworks in Sign o’ the Times might remind us that language is never neutral—it can disturb and disrupt, conceal and reveal, wound and heal.

“Sign o’ the times mess with your mind/Hurry before it’s too late/Let’s fall in love, get married, have a baby/We’ll call him Nate if it’s a boy/Time.”

Location

Sarah Scout Presents
47 Easey St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia

Date

Saturday 1 November – Saturday 13 December

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://www.sarahscoutpresents.com/exhibitions/115-sign-o-the-times-badra-aji-tiyan-baker-emily-floyd-tony-garifalakis/

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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