Exhibitions
InterPlay
Gabriel GalleryInterPlay, presented through the collaborative efforts of Environmental Film Festival Australia (EFFA), Curatorial Collective, and Footscray Community Arts, is a playful and community-minded interactive art exhibition with public events. This exhibition invites audiences to experience art in a way that explores our environment, and the themes of gender, time, space, memory and essentialism. Led by Environmental…
Citizen
Entrance GalleryThrough Citizen, FONI seeks to normalise the place of South Sudanese communities within Australian society. In developing Citizen, FONI’s process involved inviting South Sudanese Australians to take part in conversations while being photographed for their portraits. Stories were shared about diasporic feelings of longing to belong, of achieving dreams, of racial issues, the generational disconnects, communication challenges, the…
BOLDER
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia“My favourite thing about this exhibition is that it is in my style and I recognise myself” – Steven Tran BOLDER is an interdimensional art exhibition that celebrates visibility and individuality by artist Steven Tran. Building on his first solo exhibition, BOLD in 2021, BOLDER takes Steven’s drawings and paintings to new realms with Augmented…
Wominjeka Festival
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaUpdate: Wominjeka festival will be going ahead this Saturday rain, hail, or shine! The area along the Maribyrnong River where the festival is taking place is not flood affected. The protection of our community – our visitors, our artists, our elders and our staff – remains our top priority. To make it safe for community, we…
House of Mother Tongue, House of Other Tongue
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaBấm vào đây để nhận bản dịch tiếng Việt (click here to get the Vietnamese translation) An exploration of place, language and migrant-settler positionalities, House of Mother Tongue will be presented at Footscray Community Arts, whilst a second exhibition, House of Other Tongue, will be presented at West Space Inc. Created particularly for the Vietnamese…
Electric Man
Gabriel GalleryInspired by the qualities of Superman, Batman and Spiderman, Electric Man is a tracks worker who becomes a superhero when he encounters an electric fuse box at a local railway station. Electric Man is the brainchild of Diego Pizarro, a comic-book artist who is currently undertaking an ArtLife Residency at Footscray Community Arts. Loosely based…
HIDDEN Footscray
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaDelve deep enough beneath the cosmopolitan charm of Footscray and you can find hidden stories of lost heritage, unknown traditional cultural practices, forgotten memories and more. Presented by Maribyrnong City Council, the HIDDEN Footscray exhibition features artworks by six local artists including David Hourigan, Deb Bain-King, Jody Haines, Kerrie Poliness, Jason Waterhouse, Felicity Watson and…
Faces of Footscray
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaWhat makes the West a thriving and vibrant community to be a part of? Our people of course! Located on the hoarding of the New Footscray Hospital site (Geelong Road, Federal Street end), Faces of Footscray is a photographic portrait series celebrating the people of the West. A community arts collaboration between Footscray Community Arts…
Sekala Niskala Line Drawing and Linocut Workshops
Footscray Community Arts, ArtLife Studio 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaWorkshop Date and Time: 22 April 2023, 11am–2:30pm Cost: $15 Location: Footscray Community Arts' ArtLife Studio Presented in collaboration with Project 11, you will also be able to join in the magic of Sekala Niskala by taking part in two special workshops run by the artists. Both workshops include materials and there will be a break in…
Between Islands
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaBetween Islands is an afternoon of performance and conversation exploring the artists and ideas of the TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili. Between Islands deeply and joyfully explores a key theme of the Biennial: the survival and transmission of knowledge outside of Western Culture. The knowledge systems sustained and practiced by the artists of ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili – ancestral, trans,…