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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

Meric Brettle

Psychopomp 3 – Surface Tension

Five Walls
Friday 31 July – Saturday 22 August

Psychopomp 3 – Surface Tension presents a new body of work by Melbourne-based artist Merric Brettle, exploring how we experience an increasingly image-saturated world.

Drawing on collected and remade imagery, Brettle’s exhibition reflects an ongoing process of observing, analysing and reinterpreting the visual information that surrounds us. The works move between two interconnected approaches: Pattern Finding, which investigates the images we encounter every day, and Reflection, which considers how these images shape our understanding of ourselves and the world.

Central to this investigation is Brettle’s experience of living and studying in Tokyo during the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Immersed in Japan’s highly mediated urban environment, he encountered a visual culture defined by the sensory intensity of game centres, pachinko parlours, shopping arcades and streets illuminated by neon signage. Saturated colour, abstract imagery, rhythmic patterns, glossy surfaces and the relentless layering of visual information became part of his visual vocabulary. These experiences continue to inform his practice, not as subjects to be depicted, but as a way of understanding how surfaces communicate, seduce and obscure meaning.

Within Psychopomp 3 – Surface Tension, the notion of surface becomes more than a physical condition. Like the reflective facades, illuminated screens and commercial displays of the contemporary city, Brettle’s works operate as sites of continual negotiation between image and object, depth and appearance, attraction and interpretation. Their polished surfaces draw the viewer in while simultaneously resisting fixed meaning, inviting a slower and more attentive encounter with the visual world.

Working across formal and conceptual abstraction, Brettle transforms familiar visual motifs into layered compositions that encourage slow looking and personal interpretation. Rather than offering fixed meanings, the works invite viewers to discover their own connections through the interplay of image, material and title.

Psychopomp 3 – Surface Tension considers how meaning is constructed in a contemporary culture where images increasingly mediate our experience of reality, asking us to look beyond the immediacy of the surface and consider the complex ways images shape perception.

Merric has maintained a sustained engagement with the arts over the past three decades, with an extensive exhibition history spanning institutional, commercial and independent spaces across Australia and Asia. His work has been presented at venues including Terajima Kashiwa, Omotesando Garo Tokyo, Neu Contemporary Bangkok, Cartel Bangkok, Genkan Gallery Tokyo, The Japanese Consulate Melbourne, Brenda May Sydney, Peloton Sydney, Blindside Melbourne, Deutscher & Hackett Melbourne, Block Projects and NKN Melbourne.

A recipient of the Monbusho (Japanese Government) Research Scholarship, Merric holds multiple degrees, including Master of Visual Art degrees from Tokyo University of the Arts and Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. His practice has been shaped by an ongoing investigation into cultural exchange, with a particular focus on artistic dialogue across the Asia-Pacific region. Through both curatorial and artistic projects, he has developed significant Japan–Australia exchanges since the early 2000s, followed by Thailand–Australia exchange initiatives throughout the 2010s.

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

Meric Brettle

Psychopomp 3 – Surface Tension

Five Walls
Friday 31 July – Saturday 22 August

Psychopomp 3 – Surface Tension presents a new body of work by Melbourne-based artist Merric Brettle, exploring how we experience an increasingly image-saturated world.

Drawing on collected and remade imagery, Brettle’s exhibition reflects an ongoing process of observing, analysing and reinterpreting the visual information that surrounds us. The works move between two interconnected approaches: Pattern Finding, which investigates the images we encounter every day, and Reflection, which considers how these images shape our understanding of ourselves and the world.

Central to this investigation is Brettle’s experience of living and studying in Tokyo during the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Immersed in Japan’s highly mediated urban environment, he encountered a visual culture defined by the sensory intensity of game centres, pachinko parlours, shopping arcades and streets illuminated by neon signage. Saturated colour, abstract imagery, rhythmic patterns, glossy surfaces and the relentless layering of visual information became part of his visual vocabulary. These experiences continue to inform his practice, not as subjects to be depicted, but as a way of understanding how surfaces communicate, seduce and obscure meaning.

Within Psychopomp 3 – Surface Tension, the notion of surface becomes more than a physical condition. Like the reflective facades, illuminated screens and commercial displays of the contemporary city, Brettle’s works operate as sites of continual negotiation between image and object, depth and appearance, attraction and interpretation. Their polished surfaces draw the viewer in while simultaneously resisting fixed meaning, inviting a slower and more attentive encounter with the visual world.

Working across formal and conceptual abstraction, Brettle transforms familiar visual motifs into layered compositions that encourage slow looking and personal interpretation. Rather than offering fixed meanings, the works invite viewers to discover their own connections through the interplay of image, material and title.

Psychopomp 3 – Surface Tension considers how meaning is constructed in a contemporary culture where images increasingly mediate our experience of reality, asking us to look beyond the immediacy of the surface and consider the complex ways images shape perception.

Merric has maintained a sustained engagement with the arts over the past three decades, with an extensive exhibition history spanning institutional, commercial and independent spaces across Australia and Asia. His work has been presented at venues including Terajima Kashiwa, Omotesando Garo Tokyo, Neu Contemporary Bangkok, Cartel Bangkok, Genkan Gallery Tokyo, The Japanese Consulate Melbourne, Brenda May Sydney, Peloton Sydney, Blindside Melbourne, Deutscher & Hackett Melbourne, Block Projects and NKN Melbourne.

A recipient of the Monbusho (Japanese Government) Research Scholarship, Merric holds multiple degrees, including Master of Visual Art degrees from Tokyo University of the Arts and Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. His practice has been shaped by an ongoing investigation into cultural exchange, with a particular focus on artistic dialogue across the Asia-Pacific region. Through both curatorial and artistic projects, he has developed significant Japan–Australia exchanges since the early 2000s, followed by Thailand–Australia exchange initiatives throughout the 2010s.

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/16695

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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