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Exhibitions

Wednesday 19 August
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Lygin Ang

Window Seat

Benalla Art Gallery
Monday 1 June – Monday 31 August

Francesca Pezzimenti

Love and Desire

Red Gallery
Wednesday 19 August – Sunday 30 August

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

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

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

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

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

Group Show

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

Warsan Mohammed

To Ourselves

Hillvale Gallery
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 23 August

Kate Beynon

Talismanic: the Robe & Friends

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 9 July – Saturday 29 August

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

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

Group Show

Views and Vistas of the Valley

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 31 October

George Johnson

George Johnson: Centenary Exhibition

Charles Nodrum Gallery
Saturday 15 August – Saturday 5 September

Barton Price

Thin Places

Red Gallery
Wednesday 19 August – Sunday 30 August

Linda Marie

Haptic Elements

Red Gallery
Wednesday 19 August – Sunday 30 August

Aileen Napaljarri Long

Wanakiji

Alcaston Gallery
Wednesday 5 August – Friday 28 August

Group Show

On Iridescence

Void Melbourne
Thursday 30 July – Saturday 22 August

Sonya Lacey

Sleep Metal

Futures Gallery
Saturday 25 July – Saturday 22 August

Naminapu Maymuru-White

They are shining on us

Sullivan+Strumpf
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 22 August

Dr Kirsten Garner Lyttle

After Spectacle: Photography, Authority and the Archive

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 1 August – Sunday 23 August

Tia Ansell

Duality

Lon Gallery
Saturday 8 August – Saturday 5 September

Alison Tedesco

Street Stories

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Amanda Johnson

Enclosure Acts: New Landscapes

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

Kels O'Sullivan

Refractions

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

Brassaï

Secret Paris

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 15 November

Group Show

Watch These Hands

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 4 July – Sunday 25 October

Meric Brettle

Psychopomp 3 – Surface Tension

Five Walls
Friday 31 July – Saturday 22 August

Group Show

Silver

Five Walls
Friday 31 July – Saturday 22 August

Jacquie Meng

I’ve got bells ringing in my big toe

West Space
Friday 7 August – Tuesday 8 September

Group Show

Silver

Five Walls
Friday 31 July – Saturday 22 August

Silver is less a colour than a condition of light. It exists in continual negotiation with its surroundings, changing with atmosphere, reflection and time. Never entirely fixed, it oscillates between presence and absence, surface and depth, object and perception. In this exhibition, silver becomes an active field through which material, space and experience are brought into relation.

Across the practices of Andrew Browne, John Nixon, Lachlan Stonehouse and Shuhei Fukuda, silver is approached not as a shared aesthetic but as a conceptual proposition. It reflects, absorbs and transforms. It carries associations of industry and technology, ritual and ornament, the celestial and the everyday. Simultaneously reflective and elusive, silver resists certainty, continually returning the viewer to the act of looking itself.

For John Nixon (1949–2020), whose lifelong investigation of the monochrome remains a significant contribution to Australian abstraction, colour functioned as a point of departure rather than conclusion. His practice sought to reduce painting to its essential conditions, stripping away narrative and representation to reveal the possibilities of material, form and process. Through his rigorous yet experimental approach, Nixon explored the monochrome as both an idea and an ongoing field of enquiry. Silver extends this investigation, occupying the fertile space between neutrality and luminosity, where colour becomes not an image, but a proposition — a way of thinking through the fundamental conditions of art itself.

Lachlan Stonehouse (b.1999) similarly examines the fundamental structures of painting through the language of repetition, pattern and the grid. Drawing upon the legacies of Modernism, Minimalism and Post-Minimalism, his meticulously constructed surfaces merge hand-made and fabricated processes to produce optical rhythms that shift with changing light. The reflective qualities of silver heighten these perceptual effects, activating the surface as something continually experienced rather than simply observed.

Andrew Browne (b.1960)’s paintings inhabit a quieter, more poetic register. For decades his work has explored the intersection of the natural and the constructed world, where illumination, atmosphere and the poetics of the nocturne become vehicles for psychological reflection. Hovering between representation and abstraction, Browne’s restrained surfaces evoke landscapes that feel at once familiar and estranged. Silver becomes a vehicle for this ambiguity, capturing fleeting moments of light while suggesting the spectral, the remembered and the unknowable.

In Shuhei Fukuda (b.1997)’s practice, silver is both medium and collaborator. Working with traditional Japanese materials and techniques, he embraces the inherent instability of silver leaf, allowing it to tarnish through its interaction with air, humidity and sulphur. Rather than resisting change, Fukuda understands transformation as the work’s essential condition. Time is not represented but materially inscribed, with each work becoming a record of the ongoing relationship between nature, material and human intervention. His works propose an Eastern understanding of impermanence, where beauty emerges through continual transformation rather than permanence.

Silver has long occupied an ambiguous position within art and culture. It is the colour of mirrors and machinery, precious objects and industrial manufacture, the moon, memory and preservation. It suggests both permanence and impermanence: valued for its brilliance, yet destined to oxidise and change. Its reflective nature denies a singular image, instead incorporating its environment and those who stand before it.

Although each artist approaches abstraction from a distinct position, all are concerned with the capacity of materials to generate meaning beyond representation. From Nixon’s enduring exploration of the monochrome, to the disciplined logic of Stonehouse’s grids, Browne’s atmospheric investigations of light and perception, and Fukuda’s evolving relationship with material transformation, the works invite sustained attention to process, perception and duration.

Rather than presenting silver as a unified symbol, the exhibition proposes it as a mode of encounter. Each work asks the viewer to attend to subtle shifts in light, material and time, revealing perception itself as something contingent and continually unfolding. Silver emerges not simply as a colour, but as a living surface where reflection, transformation and observation converge.

Location

Five Walls
1/119 Hopkins St, Footscray VIC 3011, Australia

Date

Friday 31 July – Saturday 22 August

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 19 August
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Lygin Ang

Window Seat

Benalla Art Gallery
Monday 1 June – Monday 31 August

Francesca Pezzimenti

Love and Desire

Red Gallery
Wednesday 19 August – Sunday 30 August

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

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

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

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

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

Group Show

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

Warsan Mohammed

To Ourselves

Hillvale Gallery
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 23 August

Kate Beynon

Talismanic: the Robe & Friends

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 9 July – Saturday 29 August

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

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

Group Show

Views and Vistas of the Valley

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 31 October

George Johnson

George Johnson: Centenary Exhibition

Charles Nodrum Gallery
Saturday 15 August – Saturday 5 September

Barton Price

Thin Places

Red Gallery
Wednesday 19 August – Sunday 30 August

Linda Marie

Haptic Elements

Red Gallery
Wednesday 19 August – Sunday 30 August

Aileen Napaljarri Long

Wanakiji

Alcaston Gallery
Wednesday 5 August – Friday 28 August

Group Show

On Iridescence

Void Melbourne
Thursday 30 July – Saturday 22 August

Sonya Lacey

Sleep Metal

Futures Gallery
Saturday 25 July – Saturday 22 August

Naminapu Maymuru-White

They are shining on us

Sullivan+Strumpf
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 22 August

Dr Kirsten Garner Lyttle

After Spectacle: Photography, Authority and the Archive

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 1 August – Sunday 23 August

Tia Ansell

Duality

Lon Gallery
Saturday 8 August – Saturday 5 September

Alison Tedesco

Street Stories

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Amanda Johnson

Enclosure Acts: New Landscapes

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

Kels O'Sullivan

Refractions

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

Brassaï

Secret Paris

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 15 November

Group Show

Watch These Hands

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 4 July – Sunday 25 October

Meric Brettle

Psychopomp 3 – Surface Tension

Five Walls
Friday 31 July – Saturday 22 August

Group Show

Silver

Five Walls
Friday 31 July – Saturday 22 August

Jacquie Meng

I’ve got bells ringing in my big toe

West Space
Friday 7 August – Tuesday 8 September

Group Show

Silver

Five Walls
Friday 31 July – Saturday 22 August

Silver is less a colour than a condition of light. It exists in continual negotiation with its surroundings, changing with atmosphere, reflection and time. Never entirely fixed, it oscillates between presence and absence, surface and depth, object and perception. In this exhibition, silver becomes an active field through which material, space and experience are brought into relation.

Across the practices of Andrew Browne, John Nixon, Lachlan Stonehouse and Shuhei Fukuda, silver is approached not as a shared aesthetic but as a conceptual proposition. It reflects, absorbs and transforms. It carries associations of industry and technology, ritual and ornament, the celestial and the everyday. Simultaneously reflective and elusive, silver resists certainty, continually returning the viewer to the act of looking itself.

For John Nixon (1949–2020), whose lifelong investigation of the monochrome remains a significant contribution to Australian abstraction, colour functioned as a point of departure rather than conclusion. His practice sought to reduce painting to its essential conditions, stripping away narrative and representation to reveal the possibilities of material, form and process. Through his rigorous yet experimental approach, Nixon explored the monochrome as both an idea and an ongoing field of enquiry. Silver extends this investigation, occupying the fertile space between neutrality and luminosity, where colour becomes not an image, but a proposition — a way of thinking through the fundamental conditions of art itself.

Lachlan Stonehouse (b.1999) similarly examines the fundamental structures of painting through the language of repetition, pattern and the grid. Drawing upon the legacies of Modernism, Minimalism and Post-Minimalism, his meticulously constructed surfaces merge hand-made and fabricated processes to produce optical rhythms that shift with changing light. The reflective qualities of silver heighten these perceptual effects, activating the surface as something continually experienced rather than simply observed.

Andrew Browne (b.1960)’s paintings inhabit a quieter, more poetic register. For decades his work has explored the intersection of the natural and the constructed world, where illumination, atmosphere and the poetics of the nocturne become vehicles for psychological reflection. Hovering between representation and abstraction, Browne’s restrained surfaces evoke landscapes that feel at once familiar and estranged. Silver becomes a vehicle for this ambiguity, capturing fleeting moments of light while suggesting the spectral, the remembered and the unknowable.

In Shuhei Fukuda (b.1997)’s practice, silver is both medium and collaborator. Working with traditional Japanese materials and techniques, he embraces the inherent instability of silver leaf, allowing it to tarnish through its interaction with air, humidity and sulphur. Rather than resisting change, Fukuda understands transformation as the work’s essential condition. Time is not represented but materially inscribed, with each work becoming a record of the ongoing relationship between nature, material and human intervention. His works propose an Eastern understanding of impermanence, where beauty emerges through continual transformation rather than permanence.

Silver has long occupied an ambiguous position within art and culture. It is the colour of mirrors and machinery, precious objects and industrial manufacture, the moon, memory and preservation. It suggests both permanence and impermanence: valued for its brilliance, yet destined to oxidise and change. Its reflective nature denies a singular image, instead incorporating its environment and those who stand before it.

Although each artist approaches abstraction from a distinct position, all are concerned with the capacity of materials to generate meaning beyond representation. From Nixon’s enduring exploration of the monochrome, to the disciplined logic of Stonehouse’s grids, Browne’s atmospheric investigations of light and perception, and Fukuda’s evolving relationship with material transformation, the works invite sustained attention to process, perception and duration.

Rather than presenting silver as a unified symbol, the exhibition proposes it as a mode of encounter. Each work asks the viewer to attend to subtle shifts in light, material and time, revealing perception itself as something contingent and continually unfolding. Silver emerges not simply as a colour, but as a living surface where reflection, transformation and observation converge.

Location

Five Walls
1/119 Hopkins St, Footscray VIC 3011, Australia

Date

Friday 31 July – Saturday 22 August

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://fivewalls.com.au/archives/16680

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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