Exhibitions

The Incinerator Gallery is open during exhibitions from Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 4pm, except public holidays.

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Main Gallery

Prime Movers

Daniel von Sturmer, Michael Prior, Laura Woodward, Simon MacEwan and Taree Mackenzie

Opening Night: Friday, 4 August 6pm to 8pm (all welcome)
Exhibition dates: 5 August – 24 September 
Artist and Curator Talk: Saturday, 26 August at 1pm 

You are invited to Prime Movers, an exhibition that considers how elemental forces like gravity, wind and light can be harnessed by artists to create mysterious and playful outcomes.

Comprised of non- traditional art materials, these kinetic installations and action based works explore changing states in matter and the transference of energy between people and things. 

Incinerator Art Awards: Art for Social Change

Opening Night: Friday, 6 October, 6pm – 8pm

Exhibition dates: 7 October – 26 November

Artist and Curator Talks: Saturday, 28 October at 1pm

Jacob Raupach, Hayley Millar-Baker, Sheena Colquhoun, Sophie Takach, Cigdem Aydemir, Paul Trefry, Thea Jones, Alana Hunt, Phuong Ngo, Rew Hanks, Yandell Walton, Georgia Robenstone, Heather Hesterman, Matthew Vaughan, Becc Ország, Jacquelene Drinkall, Mohsen Meysami, Aaron Martin, Perdita Phillips, Sharon West, Carly Fischer, Kelly Hussey-Smith.

The Incinerator Art Award is an award of national significance with entries received from every state and territory in Australia. The award is a show case of 22 artists whose work interrogates contemporary culture in their practices to achieve and influence social change.

The award is inspired by the original architects of the Incinerator Gallery, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony, who believed that art and architecture practices are ethical enterprises that should aim to bring about positive social change. 

The prize recipients of the $10,000 Boathouse Award and the $3,000 Incinerator Gallery Award will be announced at the exhibition’s opening night. 

The $1,000 People’s Choice Award will be announced at the exhibition’s conclusion. 

An Auslan interpreter will be available on the opening of the Incinerator Art Award.

The Incinerator Art Award is proudly sponsored by The Boathouse. 

The Atrium  

Rocky Mountain (Circling) 

Lizzy Sampson and Alica Bryson-Haynes

Saturday 4 August - Sunday 24 September

Rocky Mountain (Circling) is the result of a collaborative residency between Lizzy Sampson and Alica Bryson-Haynes, which focused on an exploration of walking and its relationship with artistic practice. 

Audiences are invited to circle the mountain in the Atrium space. 

IMAGE: Lizzy Sampson & Alica Bryson- Haynes, Rocky Mountain (Circling) 2014 – 14 (detail), papier mache, wire, paint, dimensions variable. 

Boadle Hall Community Gallery  

Strange Music

Domenica Vavala

Opening Night: Friday, 4 August 6pm to 8pm (all welcome)

Domenica Vavala’s practice uses symbolism to explore the relationship between the past and the present. Combining archaic symbols with natural imagery in finely rendered dreamscapes, Strange Music presents viewers with non-linear narratives both familiar and abject.

IMAGE: Domenica Vavala, Death Cycle, 2016, watercolour and graphite on fabriano artistico paper 640gsm, 1580 x 2133