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Thank you for joining Gertrude and Liquid Architecture for Inter.Sonix 14: Priyageetha Dia (SG/NL), Pratyay Raha at Hope...
18/06/2026

Thank you for joining Gertrude and Liquid Architecture for Inter.Sonix 14: Priyageetha Dia (SG/NL), Pratyay Raha at Hope St Radio.⁠
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Inter.Sonix 14 centred on Priyageetha Dia’s sound work ‘litany for a failing machine’, and included an artist talk and a sonic piece delivered by Pratyay Raha in dialogue to Dia’s work.⁠
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This program is supported by Yarra City Council.⁠
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Curated by Rohan Rebeiro and Brigid Moriarty⁠
Produced by Vicki Nguyễn⁠
Food by My Name Chef⁠
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Inter.Sonix 14 is presented in association with salt, Priyageetha’s first solo exhibition in Australia presented at Gertrude Contemporary from 13 June – 8 August 2026.⁠
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About the artists:⁠
Priyageetha Dia (b. Singapore, 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist working across time-based media and installation, currently based in the Netherlands. Her ongoing research into necrosonics explores how death is sensed and apprehended through auditory and vibrational registers.⁠
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Pratyay Raha is a sonic arts and music practitioner interested in field recording, sound arts, soundscape composition and ecological awareness. He is interested in developing artistic works to enhance awareness, dialogue, and action related to the preservation of endangered environments.⁠
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Photography by Machiko Abe. ⁠
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Now Open & Artist Talk⁠Grace Culley⁠Get Away⁠⁠29 May – 27 June 2026⁠Gertrude Glasshouse⁠44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood⁠...
16/06/2026

Now Open & Artist Talk⁠
Grace Culley⁠
Get Away⁠
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29 May – 27 June 2026⁠
Gertrude Glasshouse⁠
44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood⁠
Wurundjeri Country⁠
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Join us on Saturday 20 June at 3pm for a discussion of the exhibition between artist Grace Culley and Gallery & Engagement Coordinator Vicki Nguyen.⁠
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Grace Culley’s Get Away explores the desire for escapism, the means by which it can be carried out, and the factors that motivate this type of thinking. The exhibition’s title alludes to the choice of removing oneself from unideal circumstances, a statement telling someone to leave, and a common phrase referring to a holiday. ⁠
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As a starting point, Get Away draws upon Culley’s experience of moving between regional Victoria and the inner-city suburbs, before returning to the outskirts of Metropolitan Melbourne. What began as a personal exploration was later expanded through lateral-thinking research into different cultural movements that were, in part, motivated by a desire to escape aspects of the times in which they existed. In this new installation, Culley patchworks botanical paintings and sculptures over airbrushed images of architectural remains of the British Industrial Revolution, cottages and references to her various homes. ⁠
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By leaning into botanical shapes and naturalistic interior decor, Culley blurs the lines between internal and external spaces, both real and imagined. Layering these works over a backdrop of smoke-like paintings, Culley selectively covers or reveals specific memories and references driving her daydreams of escaping to an isolated cottage – each work forming a unique yet important piece of an incomplete puzzle. ⁠
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Gertrude Glasshouse is generously supported by Michael Schwarz and David Clouston.⁠
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Grace Culley, Get Away, installation view, Gertrude Glasshouse, Naarm, Melbourne, 2026, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Christian Capurro⁠

https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/grace-culey-get-away
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Thank you for joining us for the opening event of two new solo exhibitions – Shireen Taweel, pacing seven circles, and P...
16/06/2026

Thank you for joining us for the opening event of two new solo exhibitions – Shireen Taweel, pacing seven circles, and Priyageetha Dia, salt, at Gertrude Contemporary. ⁠
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The exhibitions are open Tuesday – Saturday, 11am - 5pm. ⁠
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13 June – 8 August 2026⁠
Gertrude Contemporary ⁠
21-31 High Street, Preston South⁠
Wurundjeri Country⁠
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https://gertrude.org.au/exhibitions

Event documentation by Machiko Abe.⁠
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11/06/2026

INVITATION

Join us this Friday 12 June from 6 – 8pm for the opening event of 'salt' – Priyageetha Dia’s first solo exhibition in Australia.⁠ ⁠

13 June – 8 August 2026⁠
Gertrude Contemporary ⁠
21-31 High Street, Preston South⁠
Wurundjeri Country⁠
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As a mineral compound, salt (NaCl) precedes human history and has long been implicated in the structures of trade and labour. It has shaped, scarred and sustained life across this planet in ways that continue to unfold. Salt preserves, extending the life of organic matter beyond its natural limit, while also corroding, gradually compromising whatever it encounters over time. Salt also plays a crucial role in the human body, present in blood, tears and sweat. Any account of salt should therefore contend with its simultaneous presence in geological formation, economic structure and bodily process, none of which can be understood in isolation from the others.⁠
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It is within this refusal – of the partition between ecological, corporeal, and technological analysis – that Priyageetha Dia’s new solo exhibition locates itself. As an artist working between Singapore and The Netherlands, Priyageetha approaches salt not simply as a material, but as a connective agent through which the entanglements of colonial history, diasporic experience and extractivist regimes across Southeast Asia and the broader Asia-Pacific region can be traced.⁠
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salt binds three key moving image works along a crystalline axis: The Sea is a Blue Memory (2022), Lament H.E.A.T. (2023), and Night Shift (2025), each engaging salt through one of its bodily registers.⁠
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Priyageetha Dia (b. 1992, Singapore) is an interdisciplinary artist working across time-based media and installation. Her practice examines entangled afterlives of colonial extraction and racialised labour, tracing their mutations within contemporary digital infrastructures. ⁠
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Priyageetha Dia, LAMENT H.E.A.T (excerpt), 2023, single-channel digital video, colour, sound, image courtesy of the artist and The Ryder Projects, Madrid © the artist⁠
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https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/priyageetha-dia-salt

11/06/2026

INVITATION

Join us tomorrow Friday 12 June from 5pm for a discussion with Artistic Director Mark Feary and exhibiting artist Shireen Taweel on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition 'pacing seven circles' at Gertrude Contemporary.⁠
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The artist talk will celebrate the launch of significant monograph Shireen Taweel: The Trig Point (2026), published by Art Ink, and be followed by the exhibition opening event from 6 – 8pm.⁠
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13 June – 8 August 2026⁠
Gertrude Contemporary ⁠
21-31 High Street, Preston South⁠
Wurundjeri Country⁠
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pacing seven circles looks at the mobility of sanctuary, in which relocation, adaptation and repurposing form a process of sacred place making. Existing outside of the representation of past and future, the installation as sacred space sits in a temporal geography of existence and fabulation. pacing seven circles assembly of geometry, is the architectural infrastructure of a future oriented ritual. Draped in a fabric of blazing red pigment, it is unclear and fragile, although resilient in its radiating magnitude. Sculptural forms settle in the circles of fabric. The pierced copper forms are dislocating temporal markers of time, faith and science. Resonating with abstraction and vibration the pulse of the installation is of one who finds sanctuary in the unacquainted landscape.⁠
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Shireen Taweel is represented by , Naarm Melbourne and Sydney.⁠
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This project is supported by Creative Australia’s Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy (VACS) Major Commissioning Projects fund. ⁠
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pacing seven circles is an iterative exhibition presented with the trig point at Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney (2026) and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand (2027).⁠
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Shireen Taweel, pacing seven circles (excerpt), 2026, two channel mixed media installation, video courtesy and © the artist⁠

https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/shireen-taweel-pacing-seven-circles
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In 2025, Gertrude celebrated 40 years as an organisation, presenting 14 exhibitions featuring 90 artists and supporting ...
06/06/2026

In 2025, Gertrude celebrated 40 years as an organisation, presenting 14 exhibitions featuring 90 artists and supporting 21 local artists through its two-year studio program.

Your support helped us welcome over 26,000 visitors across our two venues and deliver 89 public and education programs.

Donations strengthen the foundations of what we do by keeping entry free, supporting the presentation of public programs, original writing and education activities that enhance audience understanding and experience of contemporary art.

Help build the Gertrude you want to be a part of, donate before 30 June.

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Thank you for joining us for the opening event of Grace Culley's exhibition, Get Away.⁠29 May – 27 June 2026⁠Gertrude Gl...
02/06/2026

Thank you for joining us for the opening event of Grace Culley's exhibition, Get Away.⁠

29 May – 27 June 2026⁠
Gertrude Glasshouse⁠
44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood⁠
Wurundjeri Country⁠

Join us on Saturday 20 June at 3pm for a discussion of the exhibition between artist Grace Culley and Gallery & Engagement Coordinator Vicki Nguyen.
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Grace Culley’s Get Away explores the desire for escapism, the means by which it can be carried out, and the factors that motivate this type of thinking. The exhibition’s title alludes to the choice of removing oneself from unideal circumstances, a statement telling someone to leave, and a common phrase referring to a holiday. ⁠
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As a starting point, Get Away draws upon Culley’s experience of moving between regional Victoria and the inner-city suburbs, before returning to the outskirts of Metropolitan Melbourne. What began as a personal exploration was later expanded through lateral-thinking research into different cultural movements that were, in part, motivated by a desire to escape aspects of the times in which they existed. In this new installation, Culley patchworks botanical paintings and sculptures over airbrushed images of architectural remains of the British Industrial Revolution, cottages and references to her various homes. ⁠
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By leaning into botanical shapes and naturalistic interior decor, Culley blurs the lines between internal and external spaces, both real and imagined. Layering these works over a backdrop of smoke-like paintings, Culley selectively covers or reveals specific memories and references driving her daydreams of escaping to an isolated cottage – each work forming a unique yet important piece of an incomplete puzzle. ⁠
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Gertrude Glasshouse is generously supported by Michael Schwarz and David Clouston.⁠
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https://gertrude.org.au/public-program/in-conversation-grace-culley-and-vicki-nguyen

02/06/2026

Join us on Friday 12 June from 6-8pm for the opening of salt, Priyageetha Dia’s first solo exhibition in Australia.
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13 June – 8 August 2026⁠
Gertrude Contemporary ⁠
21-31 High Street, Preston South⁠
Wurundjeri Country⁠

As a mineral compound, salt (NaCl) precedes human history and has long been implicated in the structures of trade and labour. It has shaped, scarred and sustained life across this planet in ways that continue to unfold. Salt preserves, extending the life of organic matter beyond its natural limit, while also corroding, gradually compromising whatever it encounters over time. Salt plays a crucial role in the human body, present in blood, tears and sweat. Any account of salt should therefore contend with its simultaneous presence in geological formation, economic structure and bodily process, none of which can be understood in isolation from the others.⁠

Working between Singapore and The Netherlands, Priyageetha approaches salt not simply as a material, but as a connective agent through which the entanglements of colonial history, diasporic experience and extractivist regimes across Southeast Asia and the broader Asia-Pacific region can be traced.⁠

The exhibition binds moving image works along a crystalline axis: The Sea is a Blue Memory (2022), Lament H.E.A.T. (2023), and Night Shift (2025), each engaging salt through one of its bodily registers.⁠
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Recent exhibitions include: everything you need to see is already in front of you, Riga Photography Biennale, Riga (2026); kokki, The RYDER Projects, Madrid (2026); Motherboards, San Jose Museum of Art, California (2026); Reworlding, starch, Singapore (2026); AUTOPOIESIS: A Song for Resuscitation, Arthshila Goa, Nachinola, India (2026); Munch Triennale: Almost Unreal, Munchmuseet, Oslo (2025); Aichi Triennale: A Time Between Ashes and Roses, Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya (2025); Synthetic Fever, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul (2025); Avatars, Proxies, and Digital Twins, Tate, London (2025).
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Priyageetha Dia, LAMENT H.E.A.T (excerpt), 2023, single-channel digital video, colour, sound, image courtesy of the artist and The Ryder Projects, Madrid © the artist⁠
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https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/priyageetha-dia-salt

Join us on Friday 12 June from 5-8pm for the artist talk and opening event of pacing seven circles, a solo exhibition by...
02/06/2026

Join us on Friday 12 June from 5-8pm for the artist talk and opening event of pacing seven circles, a solo exhibition by artist Shireen Taweel.⁠
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13 June – 8 August 2026⁠
Gertrude Contemporary ⁠
21-31 High Street, Preston South⁠
Wurundjeri Country⁠
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The artist talk beginning at 5pm will celebrate the launch of significant monograph Shireen Taweel: The Trig Point (2026), published by Art Ink, and will be followed by the exhibition opening event from 6 – 8pm.⁠
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pacing seven circles looks at the mobility of sanctuary, in which relocation, adaptation and repurposing form a process of sacred place making. Existing outside of the representation of past and future, the installation as sacred space sits in a temporal geography of existence and fabulation. pacing seven circles assembly of geometry, is the architectural infrastructure of a future oriented ritual. Draped in a fabric of blazing red pigment, it is unclear and fragile, although resilient in its radiating magnitude. Sculptural forms settle in the circles of fabric. The pierced copper forms are dislocating temporal markers of time, faith and science. Resonating with abstraction and vibration the pulse of the installation is of one who finds sanctuary in the unacquainted landscape.⁠
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Shireen Taweel is represented by STATION, Naarm Melbourne and Sydney.⁠
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This project is supported by Creative Australia's Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy (VACS) Major Commissioning Projects fund.⁠
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pacing seven circles is an iterative exhibition presented with the trig point at Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney (2026) and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand (2027).⁠
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Shireen Taweel, the trig point, 2026, installation views, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, images courtesy of the artist and Station, Naarm Melbourne and Sydney © the artist, photography: Jacqui Manning
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https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/shireen-taweel-pacing-seven-circles

It is the final week of Octopus 26: Melange⁠, curated by Krisna Sudharma⁠.⁠Until 30 May 2026⁠Gertrude Contemporary⁠21-31...
26/05/2026

It is the final week of Octopus 26: Melange⁠, curated by Krisna Sudharma⁠.
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Until 30 May 2026⁠
Gertrude Contemporary⁠
21-31 High Street, Preston South⁠
Wurundjeri Country⁠
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Noviadi Angkasapura, Kadek Armika, Mia Boe, Nyoman Darmawan, Maharani Mancanagara, Gian Manik, Todd McMillan, Galih Adika Paripurna, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Isadora Vaughan and Pande Wardina⁠

Read the full curatorial essay, ‘Melange’ written by Krisna Sudharma, in English and Bahasa translations online. 🔗⁠
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English:
https://gertrude.org.au/article/octopus-26-melange-essay-by-krisna-sudharma

Bahasa:
https://gertrude.org.au/article/octopus-26-melange-essay-by-krisna-sudharma-bahasa

The Octopus series of exhibitions has been supported by Proclaim since 2002.⁠
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Supported by DESA Projects, Kemenbud and MTN.⁠
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Octopus 26: Melange, installation view, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2026, image courtesy and © the artists, photography: Christian Capurro

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