Now Showing
Vipoo Srivilasa
Wellness Deity
22 May 2021 > 22 August 2021
Vipoo Srivilasa is a Thai-born Melbourne-based artist, curator and arts activist. This exhibition will present the Wellness Deity
Project, which Srivilasa undertook in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This collaborative, community-driven project invited people to
submit a drawing of their Wellness Deity, a being that has a special empowering or protective power.
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Natasha Bieniek
Halcyon
22 May 2021 > 22 August 2021
Natasha Bieniek is best-known for her miniature oil paintings. Bieniek’s paintings are meticulous in their execution and demand close
inspection. They link the ancient tradition of 16th century miniature painting with present-day image culture.
This exhibition brings together a suit of recent works that have not been seen together before, including Bieniek’s stand out painting, Biophilia,
which was the winner of the Wynne Prize in 2015.
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Ruth Höflich
To Feed your Oracle
22 May > 22 August 2021
Ruth Höflich is an artist and filmmaker, born in Munich, Germany, and currently based in Melbourne. In an installation of video, photography
and site intervention, To Feed Your Oracle will explore how we might understand, or predict, things that we can’t see and how our
expectations might affect how we experience the unknown.
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Anna Révész
Architecture of Memory
13 May > 13 June 2021
Anna Révész is an emerging, Adelaide-based artist whose practice encompasses drawing, painting and sculpture, with a particular interest in photography. Révész uses both digital and analogue photography to explore ideas relating to memory, such as how memories are created, sustained or reconstructed.
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Upcoming exhibitions
Design Fringe
4 September > 21 November 2021
This year, the Melbourne Fringe Festival will launch Design Fringe, a program that evolves the 34-year history of Fringe Furniture
to create a stunning new design exhibition and events program to reach design loving audiences across Melbourne. We are thrilled to be
hosting the first Design Fringe exhibition, which will be on display across all of our gallery spaces.
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Linden Postcard Show 2021-22
4 December 2021 > 27 February 2022
The iconic Linden Postcard Show will return for its 31st year.
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Past exhibitions
Güler Altunbas
Chrysalis; Recognition and Restitution
1 April > 9 May 2021
Güler Altunbas is a Melbourne-based artist practicing in a variety of media: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and digital
technologies. She has an extensive history as an advocate for the prevention of violence against women and children and successfully brings
her personal lived experience to her art practice, public speaking events and collaborations.
Nicholas Folland
Burn Down the House
13 February 2021 > 16 May 2021
Nicholas Folland’s practice explores the relationship between domestic objects and materials, natural forces and historical
references. His work speaks to uncertainty, ecological fragility and our perception of time.
Troy Emery
Sonder
13 February 2021 > 16 May 2021
Troy Emery’s practice encompasses sculpture, painting, and drawing. Emery’s artwork explores the way that representations of animals can be
used as decorative motifs, superficial icons for ecological issues or fetishised objects of adornment and entertainment.
Ash Keating
Duality
13 February 2021 > 16 May 2021
Ash Keating works within an expanded contemporary field, through painting, performance, sculpture, video and intervention. Keating’s large
outdoor murals, created with paint filled fire extinguishers, can be found across Melbourne.
Linden Postcard Show 30th Birthday Celebration
16 October 2020 > 31 January 2021
Let's celebrate the 30th Birthday of the Linden Postcard Show. Unlike any Postcard Show birthday you’ve seen before, we’ve invited
back some of the past winners, from 30 years of the show’s history, to exhibit their current work.
Linden Postcard Show 2020-21
5 December 2020 > 31 January 2021
Since 1990, this much-loved open-entry small artwork prize exhibition has been providing artists - from emerging to established - the
opportunity to present their artwork on the walls of Linden New Art's beautiful Victorian-era building.
Robert Fielding
Routes / Roots
22 February 2020 > 30 August 2020
Opening on Friday 21 February 2020, 6-8PM
Robert Fielding is a contemporary artist of Pakistani, Afghan, Western Arrente and Yankunytjatjara descent, who lives in Mimili Community in
the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Fielding’s work combines strong cultural roots with contemporary perspectives.
Karla Dickens
My Mother’s Keeper
22 February 2020 > 30 August 2020
Opening on Friday 21 February 2020, 6-8PM
My Mother’s Keeper will feature a film and a series of new photographs produced as a result of a collaboration between the artist
Karla Dickens and writer Bruce Pascoe. Initiated by the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation, the work focusses on the urgent need for us to
protect and conserve the land and our environment.
Jacqui Stockdale
The Long Shot
22 February 2020 > 30 August 2020
Opening on Friday 21 February 2020, 6-8PM
This new body of work extends Stockdale’s long-held fascination with early colonial times in Australia. The Long Shot explores the
dominant narratives of Australian folk history, mythology and iconography and challenges their potency within a contemporary context. Based
on extensive research, Stockdale presents a new version of Ned Kelly’s family history, with a focus on the experiences of Kelly’s mother,
Ellen.
Theatre Works
Reflect and Rejoice
27 February > 29 March 2020
Reflect and Rejoice celebrates forty years of theatrical excellence in the heart of St Kilda.
Jonathan Kim
Encounter
23 January > 23 February 2020
Jonathan Kim’s practice places deep importance on the relationship between a medium and its
environmental factors. The reconstructed structures made of found materials present various spatial concepts based on phenomenology.
Kim's art is deeply inspired by Korean artist Lee Ufan’s theory of Man-Nam (Encounter).
Alternating Current Art Space
Coalescence
28 November 2019 > 19 January 2020
Drawn together through friendship and a natural affinity to collaborate, Coalescence explores the
idea of connection via the work of six artists.
Linden Postcard Show 2019-20
23 November 2019 > 9 February 2020
Visit the iconic Linden Postcard Show! Since 1990, this much-loved open-entry small artwork prize
exhibition has been providing artists - from emerging to established - the opportunity to present their artwork on the walls of Linden New
Art's beautiful Victorian-era building.
Tully Moore
Foreign Objects
9 November > 24 November 2019
80km till the next town… endless horizon. This place should be more familiar. I have passed along this road endlessly. This particular piece
of bitumen is the thing that connects myself to those that are closest to me, yet it feels so foreign.
Julie Shiels
Hidden Life, A Domestic Study
3 October > 3 November 2019
Hidden Life, A Domestic Study turns the selfie function on a mobile phone away from the self in order to see what it can reveal
about the world of objects and the spaces.
Simon Finn
Breath-hold dwelling
7 September > 10 November 2019
Simon Finn creates multimedia installations, including video, drawing and sculpture that are informed by his professional experience in
Architecture, visualisation and freediving.
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