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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

Linden Postcard Show 2026

Linden New Art
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 1 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

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

Judy Watson

Shadow Breath

Tolarno Galleries
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

kuweni Dias Mendis

Running Rivers: People of Place

Linden New Art
Thursday 2 July – Saturday 1 August

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

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

The Solid Mandala

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

Of the Inland

Brunswick Street Gallery
Saturday 11 July – Sunday 26 July

Group Show

Winterlude

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 15 July – Saturday 1 August

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

kuweni Dias Mendis

Running Rivers: People of Place

Linden New Art
Thursday 2 July – Saturday 1 August

This exhibition brings together selected works from Pigments of Place and People of Place, offering a retrospective reflection on Running Rivers: a body of work created over four years across Sri Lanka and Australia. Though produced at different moments and in different places, these works emerged through the same vein of inquiry, each deepening and extending a way of thinking cultivated through sustained engagement with rivers.

Looking back, I realise that Running Rivers was not simply a body of artwork but an attunement to another way of being in the world. Like a meandering river, the project unfolded through unexpected encounters, pauses, and redirections, seeking depth while also moving towards a destination. It taught me to move beyond linear and predetermined ways of thinking and instead trust emergence.

The rivers became Deities and Temples, and Temples became Rivers. They taught me the art of slowing down and allowing, of dwelling with places, materials, and relationships long enough for their complexities and nuances to reveal themselves. They taught me to become comfortable with ambiguity and the unknowable, to embrace hybridity and think in terms of and rather than or, and to hold seemingly opposing perspectives while remaining attentive to what might emerge through that holding.

Through sustained engagement with rivers in Sri Lanka and Australia, I came to understand place as multidimensional and relational. Rivers revealed themselves as living assemblages of ecological, cultural, historical, spiritual, and embodied relationships. They cultivated in me a systems thinking that perceives interconnection and recognises that everything is situated within complex webs of relations, where each action reverberates throughout the whole.

Most importantly, Running Rivers became a journey of returning home: to my body and to my place within the family of things. Through walking, gathering, making, and drawing with earth and plant pigments, I learned to listen more deeply to the intelligence of my body and to enter into reciprocal relationships with the lands and waters that have shaped me. Belonging came to be understood not as a destination to be reached, but as a continual practice of becoming at home in my own being and negotiating that becoming within the living world.

In returning home to my body and my place, I also discovered my purpose: to reclaim and reimagine priestesshood within Sri Lankan cosmologies through contemporary art. The rivers became both teacher and initiation, revealing pathways into ritual, embodiment, and the entangled relationships between land and body that are continually enacted through ritual practice and that continue to guide my artistic and research journey

Running Rivers became an apprenticeship in meandering: a practice of listening deeply, remaining open to uncertainty and transformation, and trusting slower ways of knowing. The works presented here are traces of that journey and an invitation to follow a river’s course: slowly, attentively, and with openness to what may reveal itself on the way.

- Kuweni Dias Mendis, 2026.

Location

Linden New Art
23 Acland Street, St Kilda VIC, Australia

Date

Thursday 2 July – Saturday 1 August

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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

Linden Postcard Show 2026

Linden New Art
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 1 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

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

Judy Watson

Shadow Breath

Tolarno Galleries
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

kuweni Dias Mendis

Running Rivers: People of Place

Linden New Art
Thursday 2 July – Saturday 1 August

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

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

The Solid Mandala

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

Of the Inland

Brunswick Street Gallery
Saturday 11 July – Sunday 26 July

Group Show

Winterlude

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 15 July – Saturday 1 August

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

kuweni Dias Mendis

Running Rivers: People of Place

Linden New Art
Thursday 2 July – Saturday 1 August

This exhibition brings together selected works from Pigments of Place and People of Place, offering a retrospective reflection on Running Rivers: a body of work created over four years across Sri Lanka and Australia. Though produced at different moments and in different places, these works emerged through the same vein of inquiry, each deepening and extending a way of thinking cultivated through sustained engagement with rivers.

Looking back, I realise that Running Rivers was not simply a body of artwork but an attunement to another way of being in the world. Like a meandering river, the project unfolded through unexpected encounters, pauses, and redirections, seeking depth while also moving towards a destination. It taught me to move beyond linear and predetermined ways of thinking and instead trust emergence.

The rivers became Deities and Temples, and Temples became Rivers. They taught me the art of slowing down and allowing, of dwelling with places, materials, and relationships long enough for their complexities and nuances to reveal themselves. They taught me to become comfortable with ambiguity and the unknowable, to embrace hybridity and think in terms of and rather than or, and to hold seemingly opposing perspectives while remaining attentive to what might emerge through that holding.

Through sustained engagement with rivers in Sri Lanka and Australia, I came to understand place as multidimensional and relational. Rivers revealed themselves as living assemblages of ecological, cultural, historical, spiritual, and embodied relationships. They cultivated in me a systems thinking that perceives interconnection and recognises that everything is situated within complex webs of relations, where each action reverberates throughout the whole.

Most importantly, Running Rivers became a journey of returning home: to my body and to my place within the family of things. Through walking, gathering, making, and drawing with earth and plant pigments, I learned to listen more deeply to the intelligence of my body and to enter into reciprocal relationships with the lands and waters that have shaped me. Belonging came to be understood not as a destination to be reached, but as a continual practice of becoming at home in my own being and negotiating that becoming within the living world.

In returning home to my body and my place, I also discovered my purpose: to reclaim and reimagine priestesshood within Sri Lankan cosmologies through contemporary art. The rivers became both teacher and initiation, revealing pathways into ritual, embodiment, and the entangled relationships between land and body that are continually enacted through ritual practice and that continue to guide my artistic and research journey

Running Rivers became an apprenticeship in meandering: a practice of listening deeply, remaining open to uncertainty and transformation, and trusting slower ways of knowing. The works presented here are traces of that journey and an invitation to follow a river’s course: slowly, attentively, and with openness to what may reveal itself on the way.

- Kuweni Dias Mendis, 2026.

Location

Linden New Art
23 Acland Street, St Kilda VIC, Australia

Date

Thursday 2 July – Saturday 1 August

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Website

https://www.lindenarts.org/exhibitions/linden-projects-space/kuweni-dias-mendis/

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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