Innovators 1 Exhibitions
23 March - 22 April

Gallery 1 (front) Untitled Anna Finlayson
This work, created during a residency in France, combines an accumulation of styles, techniques and influences developed over the last few years of practice.
Gallery 1 (rear) Untitled Jan Berg
Abstract spatial constructions, intricately inscribed drawings and delicate three-dimensional forms made from paper and mixed media.
Gallery 2 Men of Passion Simon Obarzanek
These large-scale photographic portraits of an amateur barbershop choir are part 1 of a series about passionate men.
Galleries 3 & 5 X Anniversary Dorata Mytych
With the gallery in darkness a spotlight moves across a charcoal drawing of a jester revealing a crowd of people drawn in minutiae.
Gallery 4 Zeitraum: Darkness Falling Helen Grogan & Tanja Kimme
This collaborative video installation incorporates twenty, urban landscapes into a display of projected animated images, dilating light boxes and sound recordings.

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Simon Obarzanek Men of Passion, 2006,
Type C print

Innovators 2 Exhibition
27 April - 27 May

Strange Beauty
Curator: Melissa Keys
Strange Beauty explores the dark and enigmatic dimensions of beauty in the work of seven Australian contemporary artists. Showcasing a range of media including painting, drawing, sculpture and video, Strange Beauty examines the disquieting undercurrents of contemporary beauty – ethereal, fantastic, dream-like imagery often commingled with the sensual or the abject. Featuring Del Kathryn Barton, Sarah crowEST, Colin Duncan, Viv Miller, Jennifer Mills, James Morrison, and Charles Robb Strange Beauty invites the viewer into a series of unsettling yet enticing private, interior worlds.

This exhibition has been supported by Arts Victoria and Melbourne Airport.

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Viv Miller Volcano, 2005,
oil, enamel, acrylic on canvas

Small Quiet Gestures
1 June - 1 July

Small Quiet Gestures
Artists: Linda Sproule, Barbara Campbell, Chris Bond, Rosemary Joy, Aleks Danko
Curators: Jan Duffy and Linda Sproule
This exhibition ponders on what the observable condition of visual performance art in the 21st century might be. The exhibition and program comprises installations, activations, performances and events. There will also be a regular Tuesday evening discussion group in the Linden Reading Room. During the season of Quiet Small Gestures, weekend performance programs that bring in other artists will be conducted on two weekends and provide the opportunity for sampling the nature of performance being explored and undertaken by a diverse range of Melbourne based artists.

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image: Barbara Campbell

Nguurramban: From Where We Are
6 July - 12 August

Four installation artists reflect on the traditions that permeate contemporary Indigenous life. In the language of the Wiradjuri, "nguurramban" means your country, home, and place of birth. These artists examine their own connection to country and the dislocation associated with changing environments. They do not necessarily live on their traditional lands yet nguurramban remains a consistent theme in their work.

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Jonathan Jones, white poles, 2003-2007.

Innovators 3 Exhibitions
17 August - 23 September

Gallery 1 Secrets From Home
Artists: Simone Ewenson, Narelle Desmond, Rohani Osman
An odd association between craft and domesticity allows for the exploration of the sinister undercurrents of violence within the home.
Gallery 2 Room: Scheme 2
Artists: Wilma Tabacco, Liliana Barbieri, Susan Knight, Sarina Lirosi, Trevor Mein
Curator: Wilma Tabacco
This is the second in a series of collaborative exhibitions by this group of artists. It explores the nature of specific domestic interior spaces and the variety of ritualistic activities that are performed therein.
Gallery 3 Transplanted Wiebke Brix
The artist explores the changing notions of home, from the stable, physical haven of the past to a society challenged by current global migratory lifestyles.
Gallery 4 In the Making Pam Clements
This site determined video installation uses the idea of construction, related to specific spaces, to explore the nature of memory.
Gallery 5 Supper Club Series 1 Ka-Yin Kwok
This 'documentary fiction', filmed at the monthly suppers in which a bunch of friends meet up at a Chinese restaurant to discuss jobs, drink and gossip, looks at the relationship between the artist and her father.

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image: Narelle Desmond

This Crazy Love 28 September - 11 November

This Crazy Love
Artists include: Elizabeth Gower, Megan Keating, Rob McHaffie, Elizabeth Presa, Christian Thompson, Michael Vale, Six Degrees Architects and Neil Taylor
Curator: Jan Duffy
Celebrating the way artists and galleries share 'a crazy love'– an essential love that nourishes our day to day existence, the exhibition will also acknowledge 21 years of Linden – Centre for Contemporary Arts. The show will feature new work by artists whose relationship with Linden is many layered and whose careers we have supported.

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image: Robert McHaffie

Innovators 4 Exhibitions
16 November - 16 December

Gallery 1 Play Narinda Cook
This installation investigates the ongoing importance of play in our lives by evoking emotions and memories associated with childhood dreams, fantasies and pure imagination.

Galleries 2 & 5 Becos I'm Worf It
Artists: Alice Amsel, Drew Bickford, Daniel M. Cunningham, Daniel Green, Richard Gurney, Tim Hilton, Gino Ho, Marius Jaskowiak, Sari TM Kivinen, Victoria Lawson, Luis Martinez, Tonee Messiah, Louis Pratt, Rachel Scott, George Tillianakis, Teo Treloar, Anastasia Zaravinos
Curators: Curators: Paris and Tacky Motel (aka. The Motel Sisters).
The ultimate parody of art awards, pop culture and the bizarre phenomenon of celebrity. Comprising large photographs, paintings, small sculptures and new media works. The aim is to create hybrid art forms that celebrate each artist's style and medium and expand the 'Motel Empire' (M.E). "It's, like, a multimedia Archy's-Bald Prize, only it's all about us! BCOS WE'RE WORF IT!" - Paris and Tacky

Gallery 3 TEXT-ile Mandy Gunn
Comprising three lengths of woven fabric in paper, wool and polyester and combines two of the most socially powerful mediums of all time - text and textiles.

Gallery 4 Repetition 2 Nicole Byrne
Large honeycomb structures, made from masking tape are Inspired by the way sea sponges and corals create intricate, interlocking repetitive patterns.

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image: The Motel Sisters