GROUP SHOW | The Beast In Me
Discover an expansive showcase of original artworks by emerging and established artists, spanning Australia and beyond.
Courtney McClelland navigates the complicated experience of existing within a body — the restlessness under the skin, the poetics of sensation. Familiar in its form yet multifarious in its translations, the body is a repository of histories, desires, intimacies, and vulnerabilities that articulate our corporeal being. Sometimes celebratory, sometimes escapist, McClelland’s figures reveal their connective […]
With equal measure of fascination and concern, William Versace began ‘Future Unearthed’ with his own creations of plastiglomerates. Known colloquially as ‘plastic gems’, these naturally fused anthropogenic rocks are made from a mixture of natural debris and plastic, and are found embedded in the earth’s surface. As a physical marker of human impact on the […]
Personal memory, historical knowledge, and ways of remembering take form in André de Vanny’s latest body of work, negotiating between the weight of the past and the instability of the present. Both linear and cyclical, Mantle unfolds as a repository of memory, storytelling, and iconography through which de Vanny explores how we recall and make […]
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UPCOMING.
Tiarna Herczeg`s upcoming exhibition `Bird Watching Me` will be on show in our Woolloomooloo gallery from 8-25 July. Join us for the opening celebration on Wednesday, 8 July from 5:30-8pm.
Says Herczeg of her upcoming exhibition, "My paintings are not figurative, abstract, or portraiture in any fixed sense. They operate somewhere between these categories. They are not illustrations of memories or beliefs – they are evidence. Proof to myself that what I experience emotionally, spiritually, and intuitively is real, tangible, and alive."
More details via the link in bio.
Featured work: `The Ocean Remembers`, 2026, 150 x 110 cm
Photo: James Hinds
@tiarna.herczeg
Influenced by science fiction, abstract art, and Renaissance sculpture, Brad Gunn`s practice reflects his love for figurative forms and supernatural themes. Focusing on characters and otherworldly themes they present an askew reflection of a known world that feel familiar yet alien.
Presented as part of `The Beast in Me`, `Moth` is a study of the Luna moth which can symbolise change, transformation, inner guidance, and adaptability which are paralelled in artistic pursuits.
Featuring 16 emerging and established artists, `The Beast in Me` explores the boundaries between human and animal, self and body, civility and instinct. On view till 4 July.
Featured work:
1. `Moth`, 2026, rresin, synthetic fibres, gold leaf, studs
@bradgunnart
A thoughtful curation for Elemental House.
Designed by @alexandrakidd and styled by @corina_koch_stylist
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Welcome to Elemental House
Some houses sit on their site. This one was carved from it.
Elemental House is a four-year new build in Sydney’s eastern suburbs - a vertical journey from earth to sky, dense and grounded at its base, lifting through four levels until the uppermost floor floats at canopy height. It is a house that changes with the passage of light - never quite the same experience twice.
The design was anchored by a line from sculptor Giuseppe Penone: “The definition of art is the vitalisation of nature, revealing the vitality of the material.” Three ideas held the work together - human trace and nature, material expression, and the tension between organic and geometric form.
Living finishes are chosen to age, to mark, to carry memory. The bathrooms are jewel boxes: intimate, unexpected, each entirely their own. And at the home’s most earthbound points, two bespoke terrazzo panels - made by hand from stone off-cuts gathered across four years of construction - are set permanently into the floor. The family’s signature, built into the place where the house begins.
The result is not a home you settle into, but one that settles into you.
Featured on @vogueliving, article now live.
Photography: @_pabloveiga
Stylist: @corina_koch_stylist
Build: @cumberlandbuild
Architect: @m_____a_____r_____s
`Embrace` by Samuel Chan explores the beast not as something external to be defeated, but as something internal that is inherited, learned, and ultimately surrendered to. Comprised of one clear and one opaque resin form, the work uses materiality to speak to shifting temporal states of past, present and future.
Two intertwined duck necks appear suspended between tenderness and violence, their entanglement suggesting a sense of fate, as though fragmented aspects of the self are drawn toward one another through states of becoming and unbecoming. The work gestures toward surrender as an act where fear, desire and selfhood are not resisted, but transfigured through intimacy.
Presented as part of `The Beast in Me`, Samuel Chan`s practice draws upon the language of mythology, alternate realities and allegory to explore both shared and private histories.
Featuring 16 emerging and established artists, `The Beast in Me` explores the boundaries between human and animal, self and body, civility and instinct. On view till 4 July.
Featured work:
1. `Embrace`, 2024, resin, stainless steel
@__szwc
It was an incredible evening celebrating the opening of `The Beast In Me` last week. Thank you to everyone who joined us, filled the gallery with conversation, and continues to support our artists and exhibition program.
Rather than revealing which parts of ourselves are more animal, The Beast In Me asks which parts of ourselves we have expelled in order to become more human. These works are transgressive not because of their subject matter, but because they dissolve the boundaries between human and animal, self and body, civility and instinct.
The exhibition continues this week.
Visit our Woolloomooloo gallery: Monday–Friday, 9:30am–5:30pm and Saturdays, 10am–5pm.
If you can`t make it in, explore the exhibition via the link in our bio.
Ana Young reflects on her `Hidden Paintings` series, "The processes behind my paintings are always marked by destruction on the path to resolution. The works become acts of repair and reuse. I confront the rage and struggle that can accompany the making process by reconstructing and salvaging, creating a new order for the painting—a slow reveal of paintings within paintings."
Presented as part of `The Beast in Me`, Young`s works consider what is discarded, concealed, and recovered in the pursuit of wholeness.
Featuring 16 emerging and established artists, `The Beast in Me` explores the boundaries between human and animal, self and body, civility and instinct. On view till 4 July.
Featured work:
1. `Hidden Painting II`, 2026, silk organza, cotton, acrylic, oil on canvas
2. `Hidden Painting I, 2026, silk organza, cotton, acrylic, oil on canvas
@anayoungartist