Offsite exhibitions
Offsite exhibition projects
Celebrate the new mural in Strathmore
We're creating a new mural in Strathmore! Strathmore based artists Eva Giannoulidis and Jasper Killick have worked with students from local schools to create a new mural on the underpass at Pascoe Avenue, Strathmore.
- Community viewing day, Saturday, 23 March from 10am to 4pm
Pop down throughout the day to see the progress of your new mural and have a chat to the artists about the process of creating the artwork.
- Mural celebration event, Saturday, 6 April, 1pm–3pm
Help us celebrate the new artwork with an afternoon of free food and music
About the artists
Melbourne ceramicist Eva Giannoulidis is owner and operator of Ceramica Mechanica: an artist-run warehouse studio, gallery and store located in Strathmore. Drawing inspiration from the aliveness of plants, Eva’s art practice involves wheel throwing, hand-building and colourist painting techniques. Rich pastel colours and textures are evident in Eva’s distinctive ceramics.
Jasper Killick (a.k.a Toggles) is a Strathmore based multi-disciplinary artist who holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture and Mechanical Engineering. He uses a variety of digital fabrication techniques to produce complex interlocking structures which fit together like puzzles to make functional psychedelic playgrounds for all ages. Toggles' work has been featured at Festivals across Australia.
The Billboard Project
The Billboard Project is a series of large format photographic billboards that create unexpected public galleries in and around the Keilor Road Shops in Niddrie.
The locations can be discovered around Wallace Mall, and they connect to the billboard in the front garden of the Incinerator Gallery.
These public sites feature changing exhibitions by some of Melbourne's best contemporary artists. Elvis Richardson, Clare Rae, Zoe Croggon, Petrina Hicks, Mike Read, Genevieve Grieves, Dianne Jones, James Voller and Steven Rhall have all exhibited in these spaces.
Wallis Mall, 457 Keilor Rd, Niddrie
Honey Long and Prue Stent
25 January – 22 May, 2019
Amobea Phase II, 2015, archival pigment print
Working across photography, performance, installation and sculpture, Honey Long and Prue Stent (both b. 1993, Sydney, Australia) have been making art together since they were teenagers. The collaborative artists employ the body, the Australian landscape, and unconventional materials to distort and fragment the bodily form - often with unexpected outcomes. Dreamy, fluid, saccharine, gritty and fleshy, Long and Stent challenge and captivate audiences with powerful imagery that crosses the subversive and the surreal.
In their photographic series, Phanta Firma, Long and Stent quote and appropriate signs, tropes, and motifs of women from contemporary culture and the canon of art history as an erotic lure that guides the viewer into unfamiliar territory. Embodying Botticelliean nymphs and Venuses, Classical sculptures, and sirens, their bodies are draped in material that clings or billows in a seductive Monroe-esque fashion. Their gaze never confronts the viewer. Rather than passive, still and compliant, these young figures are in control, self-assured, and enjoying their own agency as they completely immerse themselves in their hyper real earthly landscapes.
Long and Stent currently live and work in Melbourne, Australia and are represented by ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne.
Muse Hair, 342A Keilor Rd, Niddrie
Honey Long and Prue Stent
25 January – 22 May, 2019
Dust Flood, 2018, archival pigment print
7-Eleven, 387 Keilor Rd, Niddrie
Honey Long and Prue Stent
25 January – 22 May, 2019
Venus Milk, 2015, archival pigment print
Incinerator Gallery, 180 Holmes Rd, Aberfeldie
Honey Long and Prue Stent
25 January – 22 May, 2019
Sub-soil, 2018, archival pigment print
The Clocktower Gallery
Frank Bonnici
Wednesday, 13 March – Wednesday 8 May, 2019
Bodies and identities are always in flux and changing, never stable. My work represents and (re)imagines the possibilities of what we are and what we might become. Each of my works is formed using a number of life models. Their fractured shapes and bodies show us the delusion of separated bodies and truly formed identities, whether that be gender, nationality, or age; just to name a few of the ways we are often separated from each other and siloed into “the individual”.
My work is mixed medium, comprising of acrylic paints and markers, ink pens, and oil pastels. I'm particularly interested in bodies and their shapes, and as such have developed a life drawing business (@lastpeekstudio) as a means to ongoing access to life models and the inspiration they provide.
Image: Frank Bonnici, Song, 2017, mixed media on paper (detail)
Crown Street Stables
Amy Cornall
Space to Consider Absence
Wednesday 13 March – Wednesday 8 May, 2019
Through drawing, the artist attempts to reconcile the familiar with the unfamiliar. The works contain elements of botanical drawing and abstraction, whilst featuring the white ground of the paper as a tangible metaphor for absence.
'Space to Consider Absence’ began when the artist's older sibling moved to Darwin. After visiting her sister in Darwin, the artist began making work that combined these two very different landscapes; her own suburban Melbourne garden with tropical Darwin and surrounds. In the title artwork, broad-leafed, ubiquitous garden plant Fatsia Japonica contrasts with strappy Pandanus growing wild along the riverbanks.
Plants and landscapes are a primary source of inspiration for the artist, with other influences including textile art, etchings and an interest in natural history illustration.
Amy Cornall has a BFA (Honours) (Tapestry).
She worked professionally as an Artist Weaver at the Australian Tapestry Workshop.
Image: Amy Cornall, Return to the Beginning II (detail), 2018, pigment ink on paper
Ascot Vale Library
Fireworks 2019
Selection of Portraits
2 April – 13 July
Fireworks 2019 was originally exhibited at Incinerator Gallery, and showcased the art and design of Year 11 and 12 students who live, work or study in Moonee Valley.
Fireworks aims to provide a platform to display our local emerging artists and designers’ work, and to encourage their ongoing development. In this collection of works we celebrate portraiture in multiple forms. These works explore ideas of identity, acceptance, family, entropy and vulnerability.
Image: Kathryn Dellaportas, Family Portraits, 2018, oil paint on wood panels, varnish
Flemington Library
Frank Bonnici
Tuesday, 26 February – Sunday, 26 May
Bodies and identities are always in flux and changing, never stable. My work represents and (re)imagines the possibilities of what we are and what we might become. Each of my works is formed using a number of life models. Their fractured shapes and bodies show us the delusion of separated bodies and truly formed identities, whether that be gender, nationality, or age; just to name a few of the ways we are often separated from each other and siloed into “the individual”.
My work is mixed medium, comprising of acrylic paints and markers, ink pens, and oil pastels. I'm particularly interested in bodies and their shapes, and as such have developed a life drawing business (@lastpeekstudio) as a means to ongoing access to life models and the inspiration they provide.
Image: Frank Bonnici, Song, 2017, mixed media on paper (detail)
Avondale Heights Library
Wednesday Art Group – Painting Maribyrnong
This group of artists meets weekly to paint and draw on the banks of the beautiful Maribyrnong River. After several years under the skillful guidance of Graeme Drendel, exploring a range of art techniques and mediums including watercolour, guache, oils, pastels, pencil, charcoal and mixed media, they are now a self-led group continuing to encourage and learn from each other.
This exhibition showcases some of the group's favourite pieces, selected to mark International Women's Week.
Image: Joy Dench, Jude, pastel
Exhibit your work!
Incinerator Gallery presents off-site exhibitions in a range of spaces in various Moonee Valley neighourhoods.
The off-site exhibition program is an opportunity to liven up new spaces with ever changing artwork throughout Moonee Valley. It is also an opportunity for the community to engage with visual art in new and maybe even surprising encounters.
For availability please email incinerator@mvcc.vic.gov.au or call on 8325 1750.