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Exhibitions

Sunday 1 June
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

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Albert Tucker

Spirit Worlds and Dreamscapes

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 15 March – Sunday 31 August

Izabela Pluta

Lumina

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 5 October

Group Show

Permanent Collection

Geelong Gallery
Sunday 9 March – Sunday 17 August

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Group Show

TarraWarra Biennial 2025: We Are Eagles

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 20 July

Tina Stefanou

You Can't See Speed

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 4 April – Monday 9 June

Group Show

Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 5 April – Sunday 20 July

Teho Ropeyarn

Atagu Alumu

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 8 March – Sunday 15 June

Phuong Ngo

Inheritance

West Space
Saturday 12 April – Saturday 7 June

Serwah Attafuah

The Darkness Between the Stars

ACMI
Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

Escher X nendo

A House for Escher

NGV International
Saturday 1 March – Monday 9 June

Lee Bul

Untitled

NGV International
Thursday 1 August – Friday 1 August

Mark Raphael Baker

The Things You Cannot See: Photography of Mark Raphael Baker

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 1 April – Sunday 6 July

Group Show

Chutzpah: Spirit. Recollection. Self

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 1 May – Sunday 27 July

Group Show

1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 11 April – Sunday 8 June

Amber Stokie

Layers Of Life

Boom Gallery
Thursday 22 May – Saturday 14 June

James Price

Higher Frequency Medicine

Boom Gallery
Thursday 22 May – Saturday 14 June

Group Show

Big Smart

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 12 April – Sunday 8 June

Group Show

ngurrak-al marram-u / body of the mountain

Burrinja Gallery
Saturday 24 May – Sunday 13 July

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

A rose is a rose is a rose seeks to playfully acknowledge the overt impropriety of a toilet-as-gallery and the latent impropriety of the toilet in general. The exhibition includes several stretched canvas-style works on flyscreen and an in-toilet text work.

The exhibition takes cues from an early 90s British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, parodying its floral patterns, pastel palette and fixation on decorum. This comical series centres on Hyacinth Bucket, who comes from a working-class family but now lives a middle-class life and anxiously performs as an upper-class subject. This performance involves insisting her name is pronounced as Hyacinth ‘Bouquet’, constantly policing the behaviour of her husband and family and going to great lengths to demonstrate her sophisticated taste.

In the series, Hyacinth is obsessed with cleanliness, and cleanliness is regularly made synonymous with social and moral superiority. Superiority associated with cleanliness could also speak to the desire to deny the messier aspects of bodily experience. The toilet is a pesky reminder of the cyclical nature of the body and ultimately, its impermanence. This association could be the cause of the ‘ick’ brought about by anything that was part of the body but has become separate from it, such as loose hairs caught in the drain.

The exhibition title, A rose is a rose is a rose is a famous quotation from Gertrude Stein. While it is said to mean that ‘things are what they are’, Stein’s repeated use and variation of this phrase suggests things are what they are in a given context. This exhibition embraces the toilet as a context to consider the anxious desire for separation between the proper and improper.

Location

Craft
Watson Place, Melbourne VIC, Australia

Date

Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

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Exhibitions

Sunday 1 June
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

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Albert Tucker

Spirit Worlds and Dreamscapes

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 15 March – Sunday 31 August

Izabela Pluta

Lumina

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 5 October

Group Show

Permanent Collection

Geelong Gallery
Sunday 9 March – Sunday 17 August

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Group Show

TarraWarra Biennial 2025: We Are Eagles

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 20 July

Tina Stefanou

You Can't See Speed

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 4 April – Monday 9 June

Group Show

Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 5 April – Sunday 20 July

Teho Ropeyarn

Atagu Alumu

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 8 March – Sunday 15 June

Phuong Ngo

Inheritance

West Space
Saturday 12 April – Saturday 7 June

Serwah Attafuah

The Darkness Between the Stars

ACMI
Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

Escher X nendo

A House for Escher

NGV International
Saturday 1 March – Monday 9 June

Lee Bul

Untitled

NGV International
Thursday 1 August – Friday 1 August

Mark Raphael Baker

The Things You Cannot See: Photography of Mark Raphael Baker

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 1 April – Sunday 6 July

Group Show

Chutzpah: Spirit. Recollection. Self

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 1 May – Sunday 27 July

Group Show

1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 11 April – Sunday 8 June

Amber Stokie

Layers Of Life

Boom Gallery
Thursday 22 May – Saturday 14 June

James Price

Higher Frequency Medicine

Boom Gallery
Thursday 22 May – Saturday 14 June

Group Show

Big Smart

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 12 April – Sunday 8 June

Group Show

ngurrak-al marram-u / body of the mountain

Burrinja Gallery
Saturday 24 May – Sunday 13 July

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

A rose is a rose is a rose seeks to playfully acknowledge the overt impropriety of a toilet-as-gallery and the latent impropriety of the toilet in general. The exhibition includes several stretched canvas-style works on flyscreen and an in-toilet text work.

The exhibition takes cues from an early 90s British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, parodying its floral patterns, pastel palette and fixation on decorum. This comical series centres on Hyacinth Bucket, who comes from a working-class family but now lives a middle-class life and anxiously performs as an upper-class subject. This performance involves insisting her name is pronounced as Hyacinth ‘Bouquet’, constantly policing the behaviour of her husband and family and going to great lengths to demonstrate her sophisticated taste.

In the series, Hyacinth is obsessed with cleanliness, and cleanliness is regularly made synonymous with social and moral superiority. Superiority associated with cleanliness could also speak to the desire to deny the messier aspects of bodily experience. The toilet is a pesky reminder of the cyclical nature of the body and ultimately, its impermanence. This association could be the cause of the ‘ick’ brought about by anything that was part of the body but has become separate from it, such as loose hairs caught in the drain.

The exhibition title, A rose is a rose is a rose is a famous quotation from Gertrude Stein. While it is said to mean that ‘things are what they are’, Stein’s repeated use and variation of this phrase suggests things are what they are in a given context. This exhibition embraces the toilet as a context to consider the anxious desire for separation between the proper and improper.

Location

Craft
Watson Place, Melbourne VIC, Australia

Date

Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://craft.org.au/whats-on/all-events/a-rose-is-a-rose-is-a-rose/

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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