AMANDA SCHUNKER | We Are All Shady Schists
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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FINAL DAY.
Come by our Woolloomooloo gallery today, Saturday 20 June to experience the peace and intrigue of Amanda Schunker`s latest solo exhibition, `We are all Shady Schists.`
Open till 5pm, this exhibition is anchored in the rugged geometry of the Australian environment. Schunker`s works investigate notions of belonging, memory, and human interconnectedness.
Geological formations and fragmented outcrops become both metaphor and structure - grounding devices through which Schunker examines the relationship between place and self.
If you can`t make it into the gallery today, all works available to view via the link in bio.
OPENING SOON.
Curatorial+Co. presents `The Beast In Me`.
Join us next Wednesday, 24 June from 5:30-8pm to celebrate the opening of Curatorial+Co.`s upcoming group show, featuring 16 of Australia`s most exciting emerging and established at practices.
We expel the animal, the bodily, the base in favour of the intellect, yet it is the beast that holds what is most irreducibly human—impulses and desires that precede thought: love, rage, care, protection, connection.
Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist Martina Clarke`s paintings explore her deeper subconscious. The body folds in on itself, a sense of heaviness and gravity giving momentum to the figure. Multiple limbs are recognisable, but it’s uncertain whether there is still one person or many. The abstraction of the body pushes it to the limits of creature, animal, and cryptid. Yet still, that heaviness remains a deep feeling that belongs to the human spirit.
Featured work: Martina Clarke, `Mounds`, 2026, oil on linen
Exhibition on show from 24 June - 4 July in our Woolloomooloo gallery. Explore artworks via the link in bio.
OPENING SOON.
Curatorial+Co. presents `The Beast In Me`.
Join us next Wednesday, 24 June from 5:30-8pm to celebrate the opening of Curatorial+Co.`s upcoming group show, featuring 16 of Australia`s most exciting emerging and established at practices.
Abjection is not simply about disgust, but about the complexity of what we suppress. Rather than revealing which parts of ourselves are more animal, `The Beast in Me` considers which parts of ourselves we have expelled in order to become more human. What makes these works transgressive is not their subject matter but how they collapse the border between human and animal, self and body, civility and instinct.
Featured work: Aleisa Miksad, `Hairy Mary`, 2026, porcelain mid-fire clay, glaze.
Exhibition on show from 24 June - 4 July in our Woolloomooloo gallery. Explore artworks via the link in bio.
FINAL DAYS.
Experience Amanda Schunker`s `We Are All Shady Schists` in our Woolloomooloo gallery before it concludes this Saturday, 20 June.
Central to this body of work is an intuitive process of translating the physical energy of the landscape into layered fields of colour, texture, and gesture. Rhythmic mark-making and visceral applications of pigment, allow a distinct “sense of place” to emerge.
Visit the gallery from 9:30am-5:30pm weekdays and 10am-5pm Saturdays, or explore available works via the link in bio.
Featured work: `Boundary in Time`, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 93 x 69 cm
ART CONSULTANCY HIGHLIGHT.
First Nations and Hungarian artist Tiarna Herczeg recently brought the vibrant spirit of the Whitsundays to life through a major site-specific commission for The Sundays, Hamilton Island’s newest luxury resort.
Drawing on her distinctive visual language and connection to Far North Queensland through her Kuku Yalanji family, Herczeg created a suite of original paintings alongside a monumental 17-metre mural that transforms the resort`s beachfront boardwalk into an immersive visual journey, guiding guests through the landscape towards the water`s edge.
From concept development and artist commissioning through to project delivery, Curatorial+Co. was proud to lead the art consultancy for this landmark project. Working closely with the client, design team and artist, we developed a cohesive artwork strategy that seamlessly integrates contemporary art into the guest experience while responding to the unique environment of the Whitsundays.
The result is a vibrant, site-responsive body of work that captures the warmth, colour and energy of island life, demonstrating the power of thoughtfully curated large-scale public art to elevate a destination and create a lasting sense of place.
Explore this project and more via the link in bio.
Artist: @tiarnaherczeg
Designer: Carrie Williams
Client: @hamiltonisland
Photography: @karlahuezo
OPENING SOON.
Curatorial+Co. presents `The Beast In Me`.
Join us next Wednesday, 24 June from 5:30-8pm to celebrate the opening of Curatorial+Co.`s upcoming group show, featuring the work of 16 artists united by an exploration of the subconscious, the primal, and the abject.
Abjection is not simply about disgust, but about the complexity of what we suppress. Rather than revealing which parts of ourselves are more animal, `The Beast in Me` considers which parts of ourselves we have expelled in order to become more human. What makes these works transgressive is not their subject matter but how they collapse the border between human and animal, self and body, civility and instinct.
Exhibition on show from 24 June - 4 July in our Woolloomooloo gallery. More details via the link in bio.