Current exhibitions
Robert Fielding
Routes / Roots
22 February 2020 > 17 May 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.
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Jacqui Stockdale
The Long Shot
22 February 2020 > 17 May 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.
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Karla Dickens
My Mother’s Keeper
22 February 2020 > 17 May 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.
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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).
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Upcoming exhibitions
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.
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Dean Golja
Pseudonym
2 April > 10 May 2020
This photographic project is an elegy to a fallen street-based sex-worker and the town of St Kilda. It invokes the genre of paranormal
photography to observe a re-visitation of moments and places, like an envisioned environmental portrait of an invisible subject.
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Past exhibitions
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.
Alicia King
Our Long Conversation with the Sun
7 September > 10 November 2019
Alicia King works with new and experimental media to raise questions about the use of technology to manipulate nature and its increasing
impact on biological systems, including the human body.
Brodie Ellis
Heavy Launch
7 September > 10 November 2019
Brodie Ellis will present a video, sculpture and sound installation. Beautifully abstracted fragments of dozens of rocket launches are
blended together in a fluid animation that focuses on jet propulsion and the burning of resources.
William Holt
Crashing by Design
23 August > 29 September 2019
Crashing by Design is an exhibition of new work by Melbourne-based abstract artist William Holt.
Linden Locals
29 June > 1 September 2019
Linden Locals is a project to celebrate you; the many people – visitors, artists and locals – that make Linden New Art what it is today.
Mona Ruijs
Sympathetic Resonance
29 June > 1 September 2019
Mona Ruijs creates and performs sound baths and sound meditations featuring gongs.
Lucreccia Quintanilla
A Ripple and an Echo
29 June > 1 September 2019
Lucreccia Quintanilla makes work that explores structures of amplification, both natural and technological.
Cat Hope
Sub Decorative Sequences
29 June > 1 September 2019
Cat Hope is a composer, musician, songwriter and performance artist. Taking the decorative elements of Linden’s Hope will create unique
graphic scores that will be displayed in the gallery and performed by musicians in a series of special events.
Erin Coates & Anna Nazzari
Dark Water
4 May > 23 June 2019
Presented by Perth-based artists Erin Coates and Anna Nazzari, Dark Water examines psychological thresholds and the limits of the human body
in relation to oceanic environments.
Baluk Arts
Elements
4 May > 23 June 2019
This group exhibition showcases works made by artists from Baluk Arts, an urban Aboriginal Arts Centre based in Mornington.
Linden Art Prize 2019
23 February > 28 April 2019
The Linden Art Prize is a non-acquisitive contemporary art award established for artists graduating from a Masters or PhD from a Victorian
University.
Linden Postcard Show 2018-19
23 November 2018 - 10 February 2019
Visit the iconic Linden Postcard Show! Since 1990, this much-loved open-entry small artwork prize exhibition has been providing artists