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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Chelsea Lehmann emphasises the performativity and artifice of Baroque and surrealist bodies, echoing the way Western art has traditionally grafted constructs of feminine identity onto the illusions of representation itself. Lehmann’s work offers creative interventions which ‘undo’ these constructs by imaging the female form in conflict with painting’s weighty history and stable surfaces.
`Spring Rites` (2025) draws loosely on the myth of Leda and the Swan, exploring themes of transformation and embodiment. Suspended between emergence and dissolution, the work inhabits an ambiguous space where human and animal forms intersect, and where vulnerability and unease coexist.
`The Beast in Me` is on view till 4 July.
Featured work:
1. `Spring Rites`, 2025, oil on linen
@chelseajlehmann
Liss Finney examines the boundaries and slippages between artefacts, rituals, and the corporeal realities of decay. Her works function as vessels for reflection on mortality, interweaving memory, material experimentation, and existential philosophy to consider how ritual and objecthood mediate our relationship to death. `Clinging to Something` lingers around questions of material attachment, the body, beauty, and spiritual contingencies.
Presented as part of `The Beast in Me`, Liss Finney`s practice is informed by personal and familial proximity to funeral culture, situates death as a relational field activated through objects and ritual.
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. `Clinging to Something`, 2026, synthetic hair, wire, cement, plaster
@lissfinney
Says Deborah Kelly of her work: "The broken face of a goddess of beauty statue is the basis of this work contemplating abiding demands on women to appear fertile in a compulsory political economy of female value of no benefit to women.
"The work suggests that this economy, while patriarchal, is also upheld, articulated, woven and mended by women themselves.
"It further invokes the depredations of time that are the destiny of every embodied being on the earthly plane."
Presented as part of `The Beast in Me`, 16 emerging and established artists explore the boundaries between human and animal, self and body, civility and instinct. On view till 4 July.
Featured work:
1. `Fertility Cult`, 2017, paper collage, ink, pigments on handmade Garza Papel paper
2. `Pandora at Prayer, 2023, paper collage, watercolour, gouache on found paper
3. `Little Birdie Told Me`, 2019, paper collage, pigments, ink on Gazel Papel paper
4. `The Erl King`, 2024, paper collage, gouache on found paper
@deborahkellyartist
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Projects featured:
1. Artist @amber.hearn, for Turbine Health Club at The Star, Sydney
2. Artist @tiarna.herczeg, for Urban Logistics Co. Rockdale
Photography: Robert McGrath
3. Dharug aritsts Leanne and Chris Tobin, for Arthur Phillip High School, Parramatta. Photography: Robert McGrath
4. @dianamillerartist + @kate_florence_art for Cucina Regina, The Star, Brisbane. Photography: Joseph Byford | Designer: Tom Mark Henry
Final days to experience ‘The Beast In Me.’
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us for the exhibition launch, shared conversations, connected with the works, and helped make the night so memorable. It was a joy to gather and celebrate the remarkable artists behind this exhibition.
‘The Beast In Me’ invites us to consider the parts of ourselves that exist beyond convention — exploring the space between instinct and restraint, humanity and animality, self and body.
The exhibition continues this week at our Woolloomooloo gallery.
Visit us Monday–Friday, 9:30am–5:30pm and Saturdays, 10am–5pm, or explore the exhibition online via the link in our bio.
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Theresa Hunt and Kerryn Levy`s art curated beautifully into `The Strand House` designed and styled by @kelliemargetsondesignstudio.
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Architecture: @ben_giles_architect
Builder: Genuine Building Services
Joiner: Simon Isherwood
