Exhibitions opening & live music, 5pm Saturday, 5 April 2025. FREE entry, with full bar, great food, & spectacular views over the Derbal Yerrigan.

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Kieron Broadhurst and Ash Tower, Border Chronicle (Gallery 1)

Kieron Broadhurst and Ash Tower’s new work Border Chronicle proposes the existence of a museum of nothing-in-particular. Within this space authoritative taxonomies and systems of knowledge production are rejected in favour of poetics. Novel arrangements take priority over the production of hierarchies. Things are not known, they are felt.

This exhibition borrows from the non-conventional modes of display found within community and hobby museums. It prioritises these alternative systems over more dominant, institutional modes of knowledge production. In doing so, Border Chronicle explores the poetic potentiality that exists between objects, images, and ideas within these unconventional spaces.

Exhibition open 5 April, continues until 20 May 2025.

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Katie Ryan, A Venn diagram (Gallery 2)

A Venn diagram is a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Naarm-based artist Katie Ryan. Made using flyscreen, clay and everyday objects, these works examine the intersection of contradictory or opposed spheres.

Produced through abstraction, diagrams present the relationship between a set of ideas as logical, contained and self-evident through ‘empirical’ aesthetics. In this exhibition, the diagram is imbued with absurd content, alluding to its fraudulent potential.

These works are further informed by cultural theorist Sianne Ngai’s concept of the gimmick, a contradictory and uniquely capitalist form. Frequently uttered, the judgement of ‘gimmick’ demonstrates an everyday understanding of value, labour and time. A gimmick is a device that makes dubious but attractive promises of saving us time, reducing labour or increasing value.

Both diagrams and gimmicks contain fraudulent potential. For A Venn diagram forms and metaphors are stretched and everyday materials are encouraged to perform in unexpected or dubious ways.

Exhibition open 5 April, continues until 20 May 2025.

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Goolugatup Sounds 24 (!)

From 5pm Saturday, 5 April 2025.

GOOLUGATUP SOUNDS returns for its 24th edition ~ acts TBA

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Image: Kieron Broadhurst and Ash Tower, Border Chronicle (detail), ceramic, acrylic, pva, tea, jarrah, and felt, dimensions variable, artists' own image.

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