Exhibitions
Queer PHOTO: Orange Grove
Gabriel GalleryClifford Prince King documents his intimate relationships in traditional, everyday settings that speak on his experiences as a queer black man. His monograph, Orange Grove, is dark and handsome, filled with King’s warm and intricate portraits that flow like tapestries while witnessing lovers and friends in the ether of vulnerability. With eyes wrapped around each…
Queer PHOTO: An Artsy Queer Bus Ride Tour
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaJoin queer icon 2joocee for the queer, arty bus ride of your dreams! Starting at Footscray Community Arts, join us on a guided bus tour as we journey across all the venues within the Queer PHOTO Festival! 2joocee will be your host with the most who will keep you well informed throughout your afternoon adventure.…
TILDE Exhibition
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFull Scale Curated by Sapphic Flicks, Full Scale speaks to the wide-ranging diversity, visibility and musical talent of trans and gender expansive artists from Indigenous and diaspora communities. A collection of music videos, documentaries and online art. Works include queer opulence from Kee'ahn, Goddess Naavikaran, Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson. Date: 3 May—5 May 2024…
Chinese Restaurant Playground
Entrance Gallery & Gabriel Gallery 45 Moreland St, Footscray, Victoria, AustraliaChinese Restaurant Playground by Steffie Yee 余淑婷, is an exhibition about childhood, imaginative play, and finding joy within the frenetic settings of her parents’ Chinese restaurant. The exhibition presents a multimedia collection of finished works, and works in progress, exploring the artist’s experience growing up in the regional NSW town of Branxton. Through multilingual animations,…
Sutures
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFootscray Community Arts is delighted to present Sutures, an exhibition by Sophie Cassar that explores the sexual politics of disability through photography, text, and artist books. Sutures emerges from Cassar’s research into online archives of disability-based fetish material. These works confront the often-blurred lines between medical intervention and non-consensual touch. In her artist books, Cassar…
Home Bound
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaIn Home Bound, diverse rope materials and practices are woven together to create a massive social tapestry. Members of different communities who do not typically share the same space collaborate to build a giant rope installation. As the fibres intertwine, Home Bound enacts the social entanglement of life in Naarm/Melbourne. It is a choreography of…
ArtLife Studio – RESONANCE
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFootscray Community Arts proudly presents RESONANCE, a celebration of creative expression from the incredible artists of ArtLife Studio! Running exclusively from 30 November to 14 December, 2024 in the Roslyn Smorgon Gallery at Footscray Community Arts, immerse yourself in a showcase featuring acrylic, watercolour, printmaking, and digital works. Each piece tells a story of artistic…
Chronotopia
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaDoes history move in a line, or in circles? Can we remake the past we inherit, before handing it on? Are memories and trauma inscribed in our bodies passed on generationally? Chronotopia is a specifically-curated exhibition accompanying Sim Chi Yin’s Asia TOPA performance, One Day We’ll Understand. The works in Chronotopia raise questions of trans-generational…
Revolution & Joy
Entrance Gallery & Gabriel Gallery 45 Moreland St, Footscray, Victoria, AustraliaRevolution and Joy is an exhibition that seeks to uncover and celebrate the moments of joy that exist within revolutionary work, particularly in the context of resistance movements and struggles for liberation. At its core, this exhibition does three things: it empowers those committed to activism and community organizing; it amplifies the voices of marginalised…
One Day We’ll Understand
Performance Space 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia"Sim Chi Yin's miraculous counter-archive is brought to life ...Ong's percussive soundscape broadens the ambit of the story into something mythic ... an epic journey." The Straits Times One Day We'll Understand is a new multimedia performance exploring memory and inheritance through the compelling family history of visual artist Sim Chi Yin. Set against the Malayan Emergency,…