UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Opening 19.09.25 | 6-8pm.
First Space
milaythina muka-ta
Warena Burgess
In my photography, I try to capture the beauty and stories held by our lands and seas. Through each image, I try to express my love for Country.
Bio: My name is Warena Burgess known by many as Reen.
I have had the absolute pleasure of spending my childhood and adult years growing up on Truwana, with the surrounding islands in Tayaritja being my play and teaching grounds. Muttonbirding – my favourite time of year – is a time I cherish spent with family, working hard and laughing even harder. Our islands, our waterways and muttonbirding is embedded in me.
I have fallen in love with our oceans and all that it holds. The way the sand formations appear to tell a story of their own.
I once said to my mum as a youngin, ‘look, the sea is shining and glittering mum’. Her reply – ‘yep, it glitters for us because we are lucky people’.
And my word was she right.
Inner Space
the nail saLOL
jaja
Over the years, my work has evolved from paintings and photographs to varying forms and material assemblages dictated by conceptual ideas. I explore themes of intersectionality, diversity and belonging, and utilise humour as a tool for delivery where possible. I’d like to think of my works as vessels of memories and consciousness through which stories are told. Lived experiences, interactions, societal observations, musings and the everyday, are fertile grounds in my art making. I am intrigued by the intricacies of the human condition and examine its multi-layered facets through a critical lens.
Bio: I live and work in Melbourne. I completed my BFA Honours with Victorian College of the Arts and I am one of the resident artists of Linden New Art.
Back Space
Heart Eyes Emoji
Abbie Whitton
This exhibition is about the personalisation of consumption and how contemporary individualism contributes to a loss of faith in something collective or bigger than oneself.
Bio: Abbie restages online digital culture and popular entertainment references in response to the impression these formats leave on our everyday experience (and vice versa).
The Space
Nature makes me feel something
Aisha Sherman-Noth and Isabella Hayes
Nature makes me feel something is an exploration of the interrelationships between people and the Tasmanian landscape, with attention being focused on the abundance of beauty and diversity within local environments, both natural and manmade.
Through a collaborative investigative approach, artists Isabella Hayes and Aisha Sherman-Noth have developed works that respond to a naive reflection on connection with their surroundings, questioning and examining methods of interaction with these spaces in attempt to identify what it is that nature evokes within oneself. Nature makes me feel something offers a culmination of work born from a practice of connection and a joyful and intuitive interpretation of the artists’ home of Lutruwita/Tasmania.
Bio: Aisha Sherman-Noth is an emerging artist based in nipaluna/Hobart. Primarily an oil painter, her works often focus on individual and interpersonal relationships with place. Sherman-Noth completed her bachelor's in Fine Arts and Science at UTAS in 2024 and was the 2025 winner of the prestigious landscape painting prize, The Glover Prize.
Isabella Hayes is a queer artist based in Lutruwita/Tasmania, living and making on the lands of the Palawa Kani people. Working in a practice based on reflective exploration, creating emotive and deeply personal works. Specialising in oil and acrylic painting, with a passion for experimental techniques involving textiles, text, collage, and mark making.
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Image credit courtesy of the artist.
the nail saLOL, 2024. Neon signage, audio, tablet, silicone practice hands, soft fills, acrylic nails, ceramics, fabric, miscellaneous salon paraphernalia. Image courtesy of the artist.
Image credit courtesy of the artist.
Aisha Sherman-Noth, Diana's Basin 2025, oil on linen, 30x36cm. Image courtesy of Aisha Sherman-Noth.