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PAST EXHIBITIONS 2025
LUCENT: women treading lightly
12 March – 5 April
Artists: Chris Byrnes, Helen Dunkerley, Penny Dunstan, Emma Florence-May, Annemarie Murland, Dan Nelson, Mandy Robinson, Niomi Sands, Belinda Street, Linda Swinfield, Lezlie Tilley, Patricia Wilson-Adams
This exhibition aims to shine a light for those women artists who are not so easily heard above the clamour of “immediacy art”. These are women who work in the regions, who live lives on the periphery and those with very little profile despite having dedicated their lives with passion and integrity to art. We are women, old and young, mothers, partners, professionals and artists, all caught up with the vicissitudes of busy lives but in no way diminutive intellectually or aspirationally.
Here we highlight the art of a group of women who “treads lightly” in that there is a profound quietness and a sense of contemplation to be found in the works shown. There is also an integrity that is manifest in attention to technique, the free expression of ideas and the use of a wide range of materials.
Women artists almost never see themselves as being heroic nor do they aggrandise, but rather they work with their truths embedded in the experiential and/or their hard fought for beliefs and understandings. They fly under the radar. Here our artists are engaging with a range of concerns and are able to tell their unique stories - letting the light shine in.
Patricia Wilson-Adams
Mandy Robinson, at the end of the tunnel, pen and ink on paper, 2025
Queer Materials
Artists: Giacomo Budini and SAARA138
12 February - 8 March
Opening Event: 19 February
Queer Materials presents two emerging LGBTQIA+ textile artists that narrate Queer experiences through their practices. Textiles are an important part of Queer storytelling, having the ability to embody histories both personal and communal. Clothing and objects present opportunities for self-expression, while the making process itself can be an important communal and cultural practice - providing occasion for connection and exchange.
Part of Mardi Gras + Festival and Gallery Lane Cove Emerging Artists Programs.
soft tongues, gritted teeth
20 February – 8 March
Artists: Jack Ball, Holly Bates, Hannah Brontë, Chelsea Farquhar, Claudia Nicholson, Lucy Whitelaw
Curated by Sarah Rose
Featuring artists from across Australia, soft tongues, gritted teeth presents artworks as a chorus of queer voices, reverberating to blur the bounds between the individual and collective experience. Navigating personal narratives and queer ecologies, the exhibition considers counter-heteronormative ways of being and connecting; collapsing harsh edges as a refusal of linearity. Reckoning with queer (in)visibility, questions are posed surrounding what is held within our bodies, what of this we choose to share, and how this is externalised. Through various outputs, the artists playfully and tenderly explore the body, gender, desire, and kinship, to offer affective encounters with queer intimacy and resistance.
This exhibition is proudly funded by Women NSW as part of NSW Government.
Jack Ball, Shower scenes 5, 2019, Inkjet print on rag, framed, Edition of 5, 70x93cm. Image courtesy the artist.
about the curator
Sarah Rose is a Gadigal/Sydney-based curator and arts worker, and is currently the Associate Curator and Executive Assistant, Artspace, Sydney. In recent years, Rose has collaborated closely with artists to produce 30 group and solo exhibitions. Curatorially, their practice reflects their interests into trace and imbued materiality, navigating the experiences that underpin our innate humanness, from its inherent dualisms to how these experiences shift between the singular and collective. Their current research is focused on representations of queer and gendered experiences, as well as technological interventions in museological spaces.
They were identified as a curator to look out for in the ‘Tastemaker’ section of Art Collector Magazine’s ‘50 Things Collectors Should Know’ issue (Jan–Mar 2023), and their curated exhibition ‘In the fibre of her being’ (2021–22), Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, received a 2022 MGNSW IMAGinE Award. Rose has previously held positions at the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), Create NSW, and is currently Coordinator of Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia (CAOA). They are Co-founder and Project Coordinator for ‘More Than Reproduction’, an artist-run initiative for printmakers in Australia.
Sarah Rose
Image Credit: Masha Jayasiri
In the Mood for Love 良宵
22 January - 8 Feb
This exhibition invites you to embrace the spirit of being ‘in the mood for love’, capturing the essence of togetherness while honoring the rich diversity of all cultures. Featuring a dynamic blend of established and emerging artists, this exhibition reflects the intricate tapestry of both personal and shared narratives that flourish during this festive season—a time for reflection, renewal, and connection.
In the Mood for Love 良宵 not only highlights the vibrancy of the Lunar New Year but also emphasises the importance of intertwining our stories to offer fresh perspectives on our understanding of culture. The artworks embrace the dynamic interplay between tradition and contemporary expression, bridging the past and present and illuminating how tradition can inspire contemporary creativity and dialogue.
Artists: Guan Wei, Guo Jian, Geng Xue, Chen Wenling, Yang Xifa, Lin Chunyan, Zhang Xiao, Wang Yunyun, Laurens Tan, Charlie Sheard, Claudia Chan Shaw
Curated by: Abigail Kim and Dr. Yeqin Zuo from Vermilion Art
Charlie Sheard is represented by Olsen Gallery in Sydney, Guan Wei by Martin Browne Contemporary, and Claudia Chan Shaw and Laurens Tan by Art Atrium.
Vermilion Art
Established in Sydney in 2015, Vermilion Art is the first commercial gallery in Australia with a focus on Chinese contemporary art. Vermilion Art has played a major role to introduce leading Chinese artists to Australia through exhibitions, curatorial projects, and collaborations.
As a young and dynamic gallery, Vermilion Art has worked closely with a range of internationally renowned artists including Fang Lijun 方力钧, Li Jin 李津, Chen Wenling 陈文令, Geng Xue 耿雪, Cang Xin 苍鑫 and Chinese Australian artists such as Ah Xian 阿仙.
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Guo Jian, The Beauty No.6, 2024, inkjet pigment print, 116x83 cm, ed of 3+2AP Credits to the artist and Vermilion Art
Shaping Hands 2025
Students, teachers and staff annual exhibition
January 8 - 18