Exhibitions
Ibby Ibrahim: BLM
Entrance GalleryArtist Ibby Ibrahim invites you to explore his second solo exhibition Ibby Ibrahim: BLM. His work references police violence, the media and the impact this has on the Black community. This exhibition is a protest against systemic racism, a platform to share important perspectives on the Black Lives Matter movement as a Deaf person of colour. Ibby…
PHOTO2022: A Bell Rings Across the Valley Exhibition
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaA bell rings out across the valley. A deep resonance that begins in the Himalayas and echoes out across the Bay of Bengal. Growing in vibration and meaning as it sings out. Complex and tender, a many headed figure forms. Both of alarm and joy. Photography’s roots here can be traced to empire, anthropology and…
Why Can’t They Dance
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaExperience Ahmad Sabra’s solo exhibition Why Can’t They Dance, exploring a futurist perspective where White Australia no longer holds the power, providing a unique perspective of the tables turning. In this world, once ethnic minorities are now in a position to reframe and explain history with little experience, knowledge, or care for the meaning behind White…
HRAFF Westside
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaJoin us in a gathering filled with conversation, art, music and performance in response to A Bell Rings Across The Valley as part of PHOTO2022: International Festival of Photography. Conversations will be led by Curator Shivanjani Lal, who has brought together works by five artists from across South Asia and its Diaspora to speak of complex…
What I Wish I’d Told You
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia'What I Wish I'd Told You', by Claire Bridge and Chelle Destefano with Deaf community, centres Deaf voices, identity, language and culture. Auslan storytellers affirm Deaf experiences and diverse, complex identities, in an immersive exhibition of large scale video projections, which bring visitors into a Deaf world. In this collaboration of over seventy Deaf and…
Same River Twice
Gabriel GalleryIf the flow of the water is constant, and the only constant is change, where does that leave memory? What does the river carry, and for how long? Ten writers and artists reflect on what water, place, memories and inheritances can contain. With Freya Alexander, Kelly Bartholomeusz, Gloria Demillo, Sam Elkin, Ryan Gustaffson, Gurmeet Kaur,…
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…