Five new exhibitions open at Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts on Thursday 10 January 2002 at 6pm.

Siobhan Jackson uses everyday 'handmade' objects, found, sought, bought or discarded to create her work in Idle Hands (Gallery One). She has scoured opportunity shops for badly crafted baby layettes, ill-conceived doilies, crocheted pillow slips and hand knitted jumpers with sleeves the length of your legs. These forgotten treasures are then cut away, re-oriented and re-constructed until their original function becomes ambiguous.

Rebecca Hobb's To April Love May in Gallery Two represents a series of youthful, romantic and sensual self portraits. These representations, deceptively mundane and confrontingly oversized, are reminders of the bloated realities of pleasure. The work is loaded with the visual aesthetics of symmetry, of woman, of the recurring motifs of art history.

In Pin it Down (Gallery Three) Matthew Swift has become fascinated with Cane-ite, a 'pin-board' material made as a by-product of sugar cane. He is intrigued by its dichotomy - a low-tech material which, after a few coats of paint, has an 'easy-going sophistication' and alluringly invite him to pin things onto or into it.

Sophie Kahn's Luminosity in Gallery Four centres on construction sites in the East End of London and on the fringes of the city's financial district. These construction sites, which have been photographed through glass windows, are visible to the street for only a few days. They are architecturally raw: strewn with rubble, lit by strip lights and hung with a forest of electrical wire.

Inertia by Miles Brown in Gallery Five explores the dynamic between virtual motion and physical stillness. In order to engage with virtual media (television, internet etc) our bodies are fixed to one spot: inert, vacant, devoid of motion and seemingly demoted to the status of just another link in the communications chain.

All exhibitions continue until Sunday 3 February 2002 Gallery hours are: Tuesday - Sunday 1.00pm - 6.00pm

For further information and/or images please contact Amy Barrett-Lennard on 9209 6794 or email info@lindenarts.org.