Archive
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Lisa Young: Thingification
11 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Sarah Scout Presents is delight to announce Thingification, a suite of new sculptural objects by Lisa Young, presented alongside a selection of new and recent hand-embroidered textile works. Thingification transforms a foyer space into a microcosmic reflection on retail, commerce, and architectural form. Young’s sculptural works are playful explorations of... Read more -
Sharon Goodwin: The back of my head is none of my business
11 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Sarah Scout Presents is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition in the gallery by Melbourne-based artist Sharon Goodwin. Goodwin's practice over three decades has engaged the visual language, artefacts, mythology and stereotypes found in popular culture, illustration and art history. The back of my head is none of my... Read more -
Milly James: New paintings
30 Aug - 5 Oct 2024 Milly James New paintings continues the artist's ongoing investigation into the possibilities and ambiguities of painterly abstraction and its peculiar temporalities. Read more -
Louise Blyton: Everydayness
30 Aug - 5 Oct 2024 Louise Blyton Everydayness comprises a suite of constructed, minimal canvases that occupy a liminal zone between traditional painting and sculpture; either designed to hang on a wall or be free standing. Blyton employs precise methods to create lucid, harmonious, and multidimensional artworks that merge colour, texture, and form: building her... Read more
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Jake Preval: Bloom
19 Jul - 24 Aug 2024 Bloom is Jake Preval’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, premiering a large-scale video installation alongside a new suite of photo-objects which comprise ambiguous and ruptured faces and bodies held in space. Read more -
Bryan Spier: Pseudo-iterative paintings
19 Jul - 24 Aug 2024 Bryan Spier: Pseudo-iterative paintings is the artist's sixth solo presentation with the gallery, and comprises a suite of new meticulously constructed paintings on paper and canvas. Read more -
Greg Creek: Paintings
7 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 Greg Creek: Paintings comprises a suite of new large-scale paintings that embody Creek's ongoing interest in issues of history, politics, identity and the everyday, and the connections between these distinct realms and registers. These complex paintings combine abstract and representational elements (key imagery is taken from Creek's own photographs) and... Read more -
Zilverster: štelo-stelo
7 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 Zilverster is an ongoing collaborative project, established in 2010 by Sharon Goodwin and Irene Hanenbergh; Melbourne-based artists renowned for their imaginative, elaborate and meticulously rendered solo practices. What began in 2010 as a problem-solving exercise—with one artist offering problematic, unfinished works to the other for advice on resolution—has evolved into... Read more
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Spiros Panigirakis: Variables & Settings
23 May - 1 Jun 2024 Variables originally comprised desks, doors and shirts made by Spiros Panigirakis to explore how bureaucratic systems and problematic masculinities might be expressed in the design of fashion and furniture. The project took Franz Kafka’s The Trial as a starting point, the text resonating so keenly with contemporary contexts that see... Read more -
Christian Thompson: Limerence
20 Apr - 1 Jun 2024 Christian Thompson’s work explores notions of identity, cultural hybridity, and history—often referring to the relationships between these concepts and the environment. Formally trained as a sculptor, Thompson’s multidisciplinary practice engages mediums such as photography, video, sculpture, performance, and sound. For Limerence, Thompson presents a suite of his signature immersive large-scale... Read more -
Anna Finlayson: Working Drawings, Bent Stripes
20 Apr - 1 Jun 2024 Anna Finlayson's new suite of works on paper Working Drawings, Bent Stripes extends on previous drawings that also relied on repeating gridded motifs, coupled with accumulated numeric and textual annotations transcribed throughout the making process. The fine hand-ruled grids that underpin these drawings remain as a link to previous works... Read more -
Simone Slee: Rocks holding up
20 Apr - 1 Jun 2024 Simone Slee's new suite of sculptural works Rocks holding up continues her ongoing investigation into the conceptual conditions and problems of sculpture. As with earlier works, she demands complicity from particular objects that she constructs and composes. Slee doesn’t just make her materials the subject of art, in this case... Read more
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Ella Dunn: I feel you there, I know you're there
Salon 17 Mar - 6 May 2023 Sarah Scout Presents is delighted to announce Ella Dunn I feel you there, I know you’re there, part of a program of exhibitions by young unrepresented women artists in the gallery's salon space. Ella Dunn’s recent body of paintings delves beyond the surface, contemplating the fleeting nature of shadows. She... Read more -
Sally Smart: Danser Brut
17 Mar - 6 May 2023 Sally Smart Danser Brut is an exhibition of painting, photography and textile that extends the artist’s exploration of dance in relation to modernist legacies and contemporary art. Read more -
Drew Pettifer I Forget Me Not: a queer end to the bushrangers
Galleries 3 Feb - 11 Mar 2023 Drew Pettifer Forget Me Not: A queer end to the bushrangers is an exhibition of new work that unpacks the under-represented queer history of the bushranger Captain Moonlite and his lover James Nesbitt. Dr Drew Pettifer is an artist and academic who currently leads the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)... Read more -
Milly James I Recent Paintings
Salon 3 Feb - 11 Mar 2023 Milly James's exhibition debuts her ongoing investigation into the possibilities of painterly abstraction and its peculiar temporalities. James graduated from RMIT University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Art, and completed Honours at Monash University in 2022. Her practice has developed out of time spent in her studio contemplating... Read more
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Tony Garifalakis: Scum Salon
11 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Tony Garifalakis's SCUM SALON presents a new suite of the artist's 'SCUM' fabric banner works, together with a limited edition print, across the gallery's salon and office spaces. SCUM SALON continues the artist's longstanding interest in the disruption and obfuscation of images as a strategy to unsettle their meaning and... Read more -
Nadine Christensen: Mixed Feelings
11 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Nadine Christensen’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Mixed Feelings, comprises a selection of more than thirty domestically-scaled paintings made over the past five years, together with a new large-scale sculpture , and might be considered a compact and layered index to the artist’s broader art practice. For these recent... Read more -
Kisser / The Friend: Claire Lambe and Daniel Jenatsch
30 Sep - 5 Nov 2022 KISSER / The Friend is an installation of new works by Claire Lambe and Daniel Jenatsch, engaging various modes of constructed intimacy that straddle boundaries between gesture and material language. Claire Lambe’s five-channel film KISSER comprises a series of directed kissing actions by five different couples, performed and filmed separately,... Read more -
Love, Work (for KD)
Kate Daw with Stewart Russell and special guests 5 Aug - 17 Sep 2022 Sarah Scout Presents is delighted to presents Love, work (for KD), an exhibition in honour of Kate Daw – much-loved artist, teacher, mother, wife, sister, friend, collaborator and confidante – whose death in September 2020, during Melbourne’s lockdowns, left a huge hole in the fabric of our art community. Love,... Read more
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Zilverster (Goodwin & Hanenbergh): Amator (Jura Festo)
24 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 Amator (Jura Festo) is the third solo exhibition at the gallery by Zilverster (Goodwin & Hanenbergh), comprising a remarkable new suite of complex and layered drawings/engravings. These works are populated by apocalyptic scenes, landscapes, architectures, fountains, art historical references, and words and phrases in Esperanto – a language devised in... Read more -
Sanja Pahoki: A Detail Which Catches The Eye
29 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 Sarah Scout Presents is delighted to announce Sanja Pahoki - A Detail Which Catches The Eye, an official exhibition of PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography. You're walking. And you don't always realize it, but you're always falling. With each step you fall forward slightly. And then catch yourself from... Read more -
Susan Jacobs: Studio Works
29 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 Sarah Scout Presents is delighted to present three new studio works by Susan Jacobs: Cope, Coping evolved from a series of works which trace the etymological roots of the word COPE, extending from the Greek; Kolaphos and Old French; Colper ‘a blow’, ‘to come to blows’ – the meaning of... Read more -
Spiros Panigirakis: Variables
11 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Variables is an exhibition of desks, door and shirts by Spiros Panigirakis that explores how bureaucratic systems and problematic masculinities are expressed in the design of fashion and furniture. The project uses Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial as a starting point, interpreting characters’ visceral experiences within various authoritarian structures, queering... Read more
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Andrea Eckersley and Steven Rendall: the far-away faint glimmer of a consciousness more acute
Salon Projects 11 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Andrea Eckersley and Steven Rendall's ongoing studio-based collaboration explores the material intersections of fashion and painting. Eckersley sympathetically adorns and embellishes the plastic supports (discarded plastic television and computer stands) painted with Rendall's fragmented images. The supports have protrusions and holes that interrupt the expected flat surface of a painting,... Read more -
Animal: Cate Consandine and Stephen Garrett
28 Jan - 5 Mar 2022 Read the exhibition text by Dr Kyla McFarlane. Sarah Scout Presents is delighted to announce Animal, the third exhibition together by Cate Consandine and Stephen Garrett. Animal continues the unfolding dialogue between the two artists, presenting work that challenges dominant paradigms of sexual power and gender while harnessing the historic... Read more -
Sandra Parker and Rhian Hinkley: Replacement
With performers Arabella Frahn-Starkie, Deanne Butterworth and Oonagh Slater 9 - 11 Dec 2021 PERFORMANCE TIMES THU 9 DEC 12.00–5.00PM FRI 10 DEC 12.00–5.00PM SAT 11 DEC 12.00–5.00PM REPLACEMENT is the third performance/installation created by Sandra Parker and Rhian Hinkley for Sarah Scout Presents. In REPLACEMENT, Parker and Hinkley overlay mixed materials and performance to create a spatial intervention into the gallery’s rooms. Body... Read more -
Spring1883 Group Show
King Houndekpinkou, Tony Garifalakis, Claire Lambe, Jake Preval, Kiron Robinson, Bryan Spier, Christian Thompson AO, Lisa Young, Zilverster 5 - 26 Nov 2021 Sarah Scout Presents has an ongoing interest in the presentation of work in intimate sites and contexts, which in part prompted the co-founding of Spring1883 in 2013. This year’s presentation, originally conceived for the Hotel Windsor’s expansive Sir James Munro suite, is now reconfigured for the gallery’s own domestically-scaled interiors... Read more
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Kiron Robinson: Dribble, Leak, Suck, Slip, Skin, Peel, Pick
27 May - 15 Jul 2021 Dribble, Leak, Suck, Slip, Skin, Peel, Pick is a suite of new photographic objects by Kiron Robinson, and the fourth solo presentation by the artist at the gallery. Read more -
Lani Seligman: Marrow Land
Salon Projects 27 May - 15 Jul 2021 Marrow Land, an exhibition of new photographic work by Melbourne-based artist Lani Seligman, draws together found and constructed imagery that weave together a shifting assemblage of landscapes, drawings and objects. Read more -
Christian Thompson: Beta City
15 Apr - 22 May 2021 BETA City by Dr Christian Thompson AO, is the second solo presentation by the artist at the gallery, comprised of new photographic and video work. Read more -
Jan van Schaik: Lost Tablets
Salon Projects 15 Apr - 22 May 2021 Jan van Schaik Lost Tablets s a series of objects that express a tension between a universally recognisable children’s toy and the grammar of architectural semiotics. Read more
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Not for the Sake of Something More
Janina Green, Tori Lill, Ali McCann, Sanja Pahoki, Aaron Christopher Rees, Kiron Robinson, Emanuel Rodriguez-Chaves 19 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 Not for the sake of something more expands an understanding of photography beyond its representational fidelity to engage with the doubtful action of looking. Read more -
Bryan Spier: Isolation Paintings
4 Dec 2020 - 13 Feb 2021 Isolation Paintings continues Bryan Spiers' enduring exploration of colour and abstraction, featuring. new works in a range of sizes, with custom framing by Greg Wood. Read more -
Spencer Harrison: Lyrical Metrical
Salon Projects 4 Dec 2020 - 13 Feb 2021 Lyrical Metrical is a series of new abstract paintings by Spencer Harrison drawing on the formal properties of poetry as a basis for investigating the experience of colour. Read more -
Lou Hubbard: Operative
30 Oct - 28 Nov 2020 Lou Hubbard: Operative follows solo exhibitions at the gallery by Hubbard in 2010 and 2016, collaborative projects with Claire Lambe in 2011 and 2014, and numerous group exhibitions. Hubbard’s practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and the moving image to interrogate the nature of training, submission and subordination. Basic materials... Read more
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Janina Green: Studio Games
Salon Projects 30 Oct - 28 Nov 2020 For the new Salon Projects series, gallery artists are invited to nominate an artist to present work in the gallery Salon, alongside their own solo exhibition. Lou Hubbard has invited the renowned Melbourne artist Janina Green. Green studied Printmaking at RMIT University, Fine Arts at Victoria College, Prahran and the... Read more -
Greg Creek: Paintings
1 May - 20 Jul 2020 Greg Creek: Paintings comprises a suite of new large-scale paintings that embody Creek's ongoing interest in issues of history, politics, identity and the everyday, and the connections between these distinct realms and registers. Read more -
Remie Cibis: Less is More. More or Less.
13 Mar 2020 Less is More. More or Less. was a fashion performance that sought to produce a series of looks by using strategies of deletion and negation. As more and more of the body was redacted, a space was opened up and a series of garments began to emerge in its place.... Read more -
The Dark Mirror
Chantal Faust, Lou Hubbard, Hayley Millar-Baker, Mark Rodda, David Thomas, Christian Thompson, Julie Vinci 6 Feb - 14 Mar 2020 The Dark Mirror comprises reflexive, reflective, apocalyptic work by Chantal Faust, Lou Hubbard, Hayley Millar-Baker, Mark Rodda, David Thomas, Christian Thompson and Julie Vinci. Engaging strategies of concealment, revelation, unmasking and subversion, the exhibition considers the idea of post-identity in our post-truth world, largely via the domestic and the personal. Read more
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Veronica Kent: Island
14 Nov - 14 Dec 2019 Veronica Kent: Island is the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Just over a year ago Kent relocated from Brunswick to Bruny Island—off Tasmania’s south-east coast—to take up residence in, and restore a century-old farmhouse. Living on remote Bruny Island Kent has found herself, not surprisingly, more attuned to... Read more -
Fidelities
Kez Hughes, David Jolly, Sienna van Rossum 30 Aug - 28 Sep 2019 Fidelities is a series of solo projects by artists Kez Hughes, David Jolly and Sienna van Rossum exploring the artists respective relationships to photography and realist painting. Read more -
I don't rhyme right now
Ten year anniversary exhibition 25 Jul - 24 Aug 2019 I don’t rhyme right now features new and recent work by Sarah Scout Presents artists Fiona Abicare, Nadine Christensen, Cate Consandine, Greg Creek, Kate Daw, Carolyn Eskdale, Anna Finlayson, Tony Garifalakis, Bianca Hester, Lou Hubbard, Susan Jacobs, Veronica Kent, Claire Lambe, Sanja Pahoki, Spiros Panigirakis, Kiron Robinson, Simone Slee, Sally Smart, Bryan Spier, Christian Thompson, Kit Wise, Lisa Young and Zilverster (Goodwin & Hanenbergh). Read more -
Bryan Spier: Electric Paintings
7 Jun - 13 Jul 2019 Bryan Spier Electric Paintings comprises a new suite of works including large -scale canvases and smaller custom-framed works, all of which feature tense negotiations of shape, colour, ground and time. Read more
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Lisa Young: Walk Forward
7 Jun - 13 Jul 2019 Lisa Young Walk Forward is a suite of new hand embroidered textile works deriving from her interest in the decorative arts, architecture and interior display. Read more -
Anna Finlayson: Working Drawings
26 Apr - 1 Jun 2019 Anna Finlayson's suite of works on paper extends on previous bodies of work that rely on repeating gridded motifs, coupled with the accumulated numeric and textual annotations transcribed throughout the making process. Read more -
Simone Slee: Rocks Holding Up
26 Apr - 1 Jun 2019 SImone Slee: Rocks holding up comprised a suite of glass and stone sculptural assemblages continuing the artist's ongoing investigation into the conceptual conditions and problems of sculpture. Read more -
Sally Smart: Assembly (Daughter Architect)
15 Mar - 20 Apr 2019 Sally Smart: Assembly (Daughter Architect) comprises new drawings and textiles by the renowned Australian artist, whose practice has engaged with the female subject for over 30 years; employing women’s bodies, histories and legacies to consider female subjectivity within broader cultural frameworks. Working across film, performance, painting, collage and multi-layered installations,... Read more
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Adam John Cullen: Ghost
2 Feb - 9 Mar 2019 Adam John Cullen: ghost reflects the Melbourne-based artist's interest in the histories of found and personal objects. Cullen's installation-based practice employs an archaeological methodology, exploring themes of commodity and exchange and the ways in which objects and materials might transform over time. Aspects of personal memory, culture, history, and economic... Read more -
Tony Garifalakis and Sally Smart
Sarah Scout Presents at Darren Knight Gallery 8 Nov - 9 Dec 2018 A gallery swap with highly respected Sydney gallerist Darren Knight saw Sarah Scout Presents relocate to Sydney for a month, while Darren Knight Gallery occupied our Melbourne gallery spaces. The exhibition in Sydney comprised new and recnt works by artists Tony Garifalakis and Sally Smart, including Garifalakis’s humorous and politically-charged... Read more -
Nadine Christensen: The Long Echo
19 Oct - 10 Nov 2018 Nadine Christensen: The Long Echo comprises paintings and sculptures deployed as devices by the artist to sample from everyday rituals and activities. Read more -
Kate Daw and Stewart Russell: The Waiting Room
15 Sep - 13 Oct 2018 The Waiting Room is the most recent iteration of Kate Daw and Stewart Russell’s ongoing collaborative project that engages the political gesture of Australian athlete Peter Norman at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, and its social and cultural legacy. Read more
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The Enigma Code
Fiona Abicare, Jeremy Eaton, Lou Hubbard, John Meade, Tully Moore, Nick Ryrie, Curated by Kate Daw 14 Jul - 25 Aug 2018 The Enigma Code featured work by six Melbourne-based artists: Fiona Abicare, Jeremy Eaton, Lou Hubbard, John Meade, Tully Moore and Nick Ryrie. Curated by Associate Professor Kate Daw, Head, VCA School of Art, University of Melbourne. Read more -
Cate Consandine: Her/e
8 Jun - 7 Jul 2018 Cate Consandine: Here/e comprised a series of bronze sculptural works presented alongside A Woman of the Future, the artist's major video work from 2016. Located somewhere between here and her, Here/e continued Consandine's investigation of the body and its relation to various states or conditions; both interior, such as desire and anxiety, and external, such as landscape or the built environment. Read more -
Christian Thompson: Moonlight Cactus
19 Apr - 19 May 2018 Christian Thompson: Moonlight Cactus, comprising new photographic works, is the artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition includes a major large-scale immersive ‘flower wall’, alongside work made following the artist’s recent participation in an exhibition in Israel. These works contnue Thompson’s interest in exploring his Sephardic Jewish matrilineal... Read more -
Zilverster (Goodwin & Hanenbergh): Patrino-patrino
10 Mar - 14 Apr 2018 Zilverster (Goodwin & Hanenbergh): Patrino-patrino comprised a series of glass objects and furniture, together with a suite of twenty-one new intricate drawings; a number with carved and engraved custom frames and glass. Read more
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Tony Garifalakis: Information Discharge Systems
2 Feb - 3 Mar 2018 Tony Garifalakis: Information Discharge Systems comprises three new discrete bodies of work produced in 2017-18, individually titled Future History, Romance and Conosci Il Tuo Prodotto, presented across the gallery spaces. Read more -
Simone Slee: rocks and things, happy to help
16 Nov - 16 Dec 2017 Simone Slee's third solo exhibition with the gallery, rocks and things, happy to help, comprised a series of sculptural objects and video works developed following a residency undertaken by the artist at Berlin Glas e.V., as part of Australian Now-Germany 2017. Read more -
Bryan Spier: Divided Paintings
5 Oct - 11 Nov 2017 Bryan Spier: History Paintings is the artist's fourth exhibition with the gallery, presenting a suite of new paintings with bold geometric compositions that belie the lengthy process of doubt, erasure and layering that underpins their structure. Read more -
Kiron Robinson: "ummm... no"
25 Aug - 30 Sep 2017 Kiron Robinson: “ummm…no” presents drawing, photography, neon and sculptural forms that continue Robinson's thinking around doubt, belief and failure as constructive devices, projecting a world where everything is in some regard uncertain. A suite of tightly cropped and curiously composed photographs reveal a woman’s hands, handbags and accessories. With images... Read more
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Carolyn Eskdale: objects drawings
20 Jul - 19 Aug 2017 Carolyn Eskdale: objects drawings comprised the third solo exhibition at the gallery by the renowned Melbourne artist. Eskdale’s practice engages the transformation and reconstruction of actual, remembered and imagined objects in domestic space. As its title suggests, objects drawings comprises a suite of new drawings presented in relation to a... Read more -
Lisa Young: Black & Gold
8 Jun - 15 Jul 2017 Lisa Young: Black & Gold is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery following Big World (2011), Cabriole Leg (2012) and Curveball (with Louise Paramor) (2014). For Black & Gold Young’s major sculptural work Goldrush — conceived for and first presented as part of SPRING1883 at The Hotel Windsor... Read more -
Sally Smart: The Choreography of Cutting
10 Mar - 15 Apr 2017 A solo exhibition by esteemed Australian artist Sally Smart, The Choreography of Cutting is part of a major ongoing project that reframes and refigures the historical avant-garde dance company Ballets Russes and its experimental choreography, costume and theatre design as well as its legacies. In this latest iteration, Smart premieres... Read more -
Spiros Panigirakis: Close
4 Nov - 10 Dec 2016 Spiros Panigirakis: Close is the artist's third solo prject with the gallery, and continues Panigirakis’ interest in the way in which presentational devices, furniture and organisational frameworks might influence the construction of meaning as well as the ways in which they facilitate sociability. The suite of new sculptural works highlights... Read more
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Fiona Abicare: Americano
22 Sep - 29 Oct 2016 Fiona Abicare: Americano explores the role of sculpture and its image in relation to film production and the interior design practices of the 'Golden Age of Hollywood'. Art direction, furniture and costume design, and set dressing, along with their related contexts and histories, form the basis of Abicare's new body... Read more -
Eleanor Duffin and Susan Jacobs
11 Aug - 17 Sep 2016 Eleanor Duffin and Susan Jacobs share an interest in the transformative possibilities of materials as well as the latent potential of both site and context. Their two-person exhibition at Sarah Scout Presents brings their various material experiments into focus, through sculpture, drawing, sound and installation as they respond to the... Read more -
Lou Hubbard: Table Land
1 Jul - 6 Aug 2016 Lou Hubbard: Table Land brings a significant – but previously never shown – painting ‘Untitled (Landed)’ (1993), into focus with three major sculptural works by Hubbard. The painting refers to popular – and iconic – Australian modernists such as Charles Blackman and Sidney Nolan, yet actually reveals a more personal,... Read more -
Sanja Pahoki: Being Kazimir Malevich
12 May - 11 Jun 2016 Sanja Pahoki: Being Kazimir Malevich has been inspired by a profound moment at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg when the artist found herself in front of paintings by the Russian painter, Kazimir Malevich. Pahoki says: A black square was next to a black circle which was next to... Read more
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Veronica Kent: I get nervous at bulls and eagles
12 Feb - 26 Mar 2016 Veronica Kent: I get nervous at bulls and eagles represents the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery and comprises new collaged sculptural assemblages incorporating painting, photography, mirrors and found elements. The exhibition’s title is drawn from Ovid’s The Erotic Poems: I got nervous at bulls and eagles Trying... Read more -
Cate Consandine: Still Point / Turning World
12 Nov - 14 Dec 2015 Cate Consandine: still point/turning world, the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery, comprises ambitious new sculptural works together with a presentation of her major video work Cut Colony. Consandine’s new sculptural works respond to an early piece of 19th century Australiana, the Macquarie collector’s chest (c.1817–18), held by the... Read more -
Anna Finlayson: Subjective grid
3 Oct - 7 Nov 2015 Anna Finlayson: subjective grid comprises two distinct yet related components: a suite of drawings using pencil and gouache and paintings on various china, crystal and glass plates. The obsessively gridded works on paper continue Finlayson’s investigation into the subjectification of the grid through the creation of a narrative of process.... Read more -
Bryan Spier: History Paintings
3 Jul - 15 Aug 2015 Bryan Spier: History Paintings was the artist's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, and built upon ideas explored in his previous solo exhibitions Heavy Images (2013), Simultaneous Paintings (2011) and Expandable Paintings (2010). However History Paintings saw a substantial shift in Spier's studio process with his new paintings not planned... Read more
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Kiron Robinson: Hello. You’ve made it.
21 May - 27 Jun 2015 Hello. You’ve made it. Where? Where have I made? Where the fuck is It? Fog clouds in, I can’t see, I can’t see, I’m drowning, I’m by myself. Where? Kiron Robinson: Hello. You’ve made it presents new neon, video, photography and sculptural forms that continue the artist's ongoing interest... Read more -
Kate Daw: Love, Work (Show Me Grace)
27 Mar - 16 May 2015 Kate Daw: Love, Work (Show Me Grace), the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, explores the complex relationships we have with the world of ‘work’ and the spaces in which we engage in labour and creativity. Central to the exhibition is Daw’s role as an artist and teacher. Much... Read more -
Zilverster (Goodwin & Hanenbergh): ZIlverster
13 Feb - 21 Mar 2015 Zilverster is the first collaboration at the gallery between Melbourne based artists SHARON GOODWIN and IRENE HANENBERGH. ZIlverster was the girlfriend of a friend - a beautiful, alluring and mysterious woman, imbued with desirable female traits. She was gentle, empathetic, sexy; perfect in very way, except - as it turned... Read more -
Akira Akira and Bianca Hester: Hold
9 Oct - 9 Nov 2014 Akira Akira and Bianca Hester: Hold comprises new sculptural works by two artists who have engaged in one another's practices at various times over several years. However, Hold is the first time their work is brought into focus together, and represents an opportunity for the artists to tease out some... Read more
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Susan Jacobs: Force Work
9 May - 21 Jun 2014 Susan Jacobs: Force Work comprises new sculptural installations conceived for the new gallery spaces in the Victor Horsley Chambers. The exhibition extends Jacobs'experimental drawing process, which investigates the latent potential of both site and material. Force Work expands on recent projects, notably Wood flour for pig iron as part of... Read more -
Spiros Panigirakis: Settings
5 Sep - 5 Oct 2013 Spiros Panigirakis: Settings comprised three major new sculptural works that both referred to and derived from the context and specific architectures of Sarah Scout Presents. The materials, measurements and modes of the works were developed in situ, with materiality, scale and function corresponding directly to the specifics of the space,... Read more -
Fiona Abicare: De-pose
26 Jun - 27 Jul 2013 Fiona Abicare: De-Pose blurs the boundaries between abstraction and décor, reconfiguring the display formats which distinguish and determine sites for the presentation of art within private settings, highlighting their focus and form. Presenting the de-constructed domestic interior as a space that responds to the fashion for sport as a subject,... Read more -
Like Mike
Claire Lambe, Pat Larter, Richard Larter, Nell 23 May - 22 Jun 2013 Like Mike featured work by Claire Lambe, Pat Larter, Richard Larter and Nell. Curated by Geoff Newton, Like Mike paid homage to Mike Brown, taking place across five Melbourne galleries, with each venue loosely reflecting an artistic period of Mike Brown's ouevre. The artists assembled for Like Mike have in... Read more
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Sanja Pahoki: To The Centre of The Earth and Back (Iceland)
10 Oct - 11 Nov 2012 Sanja Pahoki: To The Centre of The Earth and Back (Iceland) is the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. In July of this year Pahoki travelled to Germany and Scandinavia, undertaking a road trip through Iceland. This was the artist’s third visit since her first studio residency in Iceland... Read more -
Claire Lambe: Lazyboy
11 Mar - 28 Apr 2012 Claire Lambe: LazyBoy comprises the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition draws on and extends Lambe’s interest in pleasure, ritual, commodity culture as well as public and domestic modes of collecting, arranging and displaying objects. Comprising a series of new sculptural works that include both assembled as... Read more -
Kate Daw: In Between Days
5 - 29 Oct 2011 pop songs do it better I walked into Kate’s house and noticed the artwork pop songs do it better in the hallway, as usual. It’s by Janice McNab. Kate and Janice used to show work together and on this day it reminded me of the first time I came across... Read more -
Lou Hubbard and Claire Lambe: Yakety Sax
17 May - 11 Jun 2011 Yakety Sax presented new work by Melbourne based artists Lou Hubbard and Claire Lambe, comprising floor-based sculptural assemblages, together with a number of object-based works by both artists. Read more
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Bianca Hester: these circumstances: temporarily generating forms, improvising encounters
13 Apr - 7 May 2011 Read more -
Spiros Panigirakis: Ferntree Gully
6 - 30 Oct 2010 Spiros Panigirakis: Ferntree Gully was an exhibition of a major new body of work by Melbourne based Panigirakis, who is interested in how presentational devices and frameworks influence meaning. In the case of Ferntree Gully, the work derives from the actual site of its presentation – Sarah Scout Presents being... Read more -
Kit Wise: Explosion
1 - 25 Sep 2010 Flooding back Kit Wise's video Explosion (Operation Cue, 1955) is a strange nocturnal landscape in endless motion - part lunar landscape, part movie set, part night-vision military surveillance footage. A building explodes and disappears into its own cloud - enveloped by the detritus of its own obliteration - only to... Read more -
Lou Hubbard: Witless
24 Jun - 17 Jul 2010 Lou Hubbard: Witless comprises the first exhibition at the gallery by acclaimed Melbourne based artist Lou Hubbard. Hubbard’s art practice references the expanded fields of drawing, sculpture, painting, photography and the moving image. Obsessed by the nature of training, submission and subordination, her lateral and poetic approach to materials and... Read more
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Simone Slee: Houses that are happy to help with at least one of the possible problems of art
15 Apr - 8 May 2010 Sculpture. Questions. Simone Slee drives through her neighbourhood, stops in front of particular houses, puts up a sign with the inscription ‘Are Your Materials Honest?’ and takes a photograph of the scene. Nobody sees her. The streets are empty and the houses’ inhabitants don’t show or are absent. The houses... Read more -
Carolyn Eskdale: untitled after room
11 Mar - 3 Apr 2010 Carolyn Eskdale: untitled after room is a room of ink drawing on matte photographic prints. The prints record a prior state of the gallery space when it was decorated with a heavy layer of brown, crimson and blue wall paint that had become scuffed, worn, flaked and scored. There are... Read more -
Bryan Spier: Expandable Paintings
3 - 27 Feb 2010 In the J.G. Ballard story The Overloaded Man, Faulkner, the man of the title, while going through a sort of mid-life crisis, teaches himself to forget to interpret what he can see, except for the most basic properties of light and movement. The story describes how Faulkner, with eyes unfocussed... Read more -
Greg Creek: Amendments
21 Oct - 14 Nov 2009 Standing in Greg Creek's studio, surrounded by his latest painted Amendments, I feel as if I'm listening to them. Its absurd, of course, and I understand that it's my eyes I'm using, not my ears. Nevertheless, listening is what I stubbornly consider myself to be doing. Much later, away from... Read more
