Linden New Art
Current exhibitions
Upcoming exhibitions
Past exhibitions
Linden Postcard Show 2014
25 October 2014 > 6 December 2014
The Postcard Show is Linden's annual open entry award exhibition. With all works for sale, the Linden Postcard Show is a unique
opportunity to purchase an original and affordable artwork.
Innovators 3
12 September 2014 > 12 October 2014
Linden's Innovators series of exhibitions presents new and innovative contemporary art.
Outlaws
9 August 2014 > 7 September 2014
Outlaws, brings together a young and daring group of Indigenous artists working across photography, textiles, video, installation and
performance.
Innovators 2
27 June 2014 > 3 August 2014
Linden's Innovators series of exhibitions presents new and innovative contemporary art.
Innovators 1
16 May 2014 > 22 June 2014
Linden's Innovators series of exhibitions presents new and innovative contemporary art.
Witness
4 April 2014 > 11 May 2014
Witness examines the way in which artists respond to disaster, trauma and crisis.
Linden Art Prize 2014
21 February 2014 > 30 March 2014
The inaugural Linden Art Prize is a non-acquisitive contemporary art award established for artists graduating from a Victorian University
PhD or Masters degree in 2013.
Born This Way
20 December 2013 > 16 February 2014
Born This Way: An exploration of LGBTI youth identity through art, brings together the creative works of LGBTI youth from across Victoria.
Wish You Were Here
20 December 2013 > 16 February 2014
The artists of the Swarm Collective take on notions of place and longing, in Wish You Were Here, initiating a creative dialogue dealing with
transience, dislocation and nostalgia.
Innovators 3
16 November 2013 > 15 December 2013
Art is often made with the intention of lasting forever, if not physically then at least by being recorded in history.
A Space Oddity
28 September 2013 > 10 November 2013
A Space Oddity explores the human condition in a contemporary world characterised by a sense of identity that is de-centered and multiple.
What Lies Buried Rises
17 August 2013 > 22 September 2013
Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts presents What Lies Buried Rises, the annual contemporary Indigenous exhibition in the gallery's
program.
Innovators 2
13 July 2013 > Sunday, 11 August 2013
The second installment of Linden’s Innovators exhibition series reflects on and challenges the condition of global market forces flowing
through and affecting the objects we encounter daily.
Like Mike
18 May 2013 > Sunday, 7 July 2013
Linden Centre of Contemporary Arts presents an ambitious homage to Australian artist Mike Brown (1938-1997).
Innovators 1
6 April 2013 > 12 May 2013
Innovators 1 presents the work of five artists who explore the human condition.
Linden Postcard Show 2013
2 February 2013 > 23 March 2013
The Linden Postcard Show celebrated its twenty-second year in 2013. The unique open entry prize is a nostalgic event in the Melbourne
cultural calendar.
Innovators 3
12 November 2011 > 11 December 2011
Throughout the evolution of the human species, we have sought refuge from our natural environment: to create alternative spaces to occupy
and inhabit.
Innovators 3
3 November 2012 > 9 December 2012
The works on display at Linden as part of Innovators 3 create environments and encounters that invite us to linger and reflect on the spaces
we inhabit.
omission
22 September 2012 > 28 October 2012
omission explores Australia's tragic colonial history, in particular the overt culture and practice of division, exclusion
and
omission of Indigenous peoples, their cultures, their landscapes and the creatures that occupy them.
Haunts and Follies
4 August > 16 September 2012
Picture some bizarre, spooky, pseudo ruin, partially overgrown. It is the kind of place that if you were watching a D-grade horror movie you
just know that the girl and the guy would go on to meet the unexpected.
Innovators 2
30 June 2012 > 29 July 2012
Each of these exhibitions, in their own particular way, deals with the meaning of life.
Symphonic Encounters
12 May 2012 > 24 June 2012
Six female artists will create site-specific works that respond to and engage with the historically rich and idiosyncratic architecture of
Linden, transforming the gallery into six new environments.
Innovators 1
31 March > 6 May 2012
Traditional and contemporary mediums and found objects are used to explore cycles and relationships within language, culture and nature.
Linden Postcard Show 2012
4 February 2012 > 17 March 2012
2012 This marks the twenty-first annual Linden Postcard Show and one of the only open entry award exhibitions remaining in Australia.
Jackey, Joey, Johnnie and Chockey
1 October 2011 > 6 November 2011
Curator Clinton Nain asked four Indigenous artists to respond to the reality of being indigenous men during this period of change in
Australia’s history.
Cuttings
17 September 2011 > 25 September 2011
Cuttings is an performative installation exploring divergent approaches to sculpture and sound by five artists.
What's Yours is Mine
30 July 2011 > 11 September 2011
This exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists from the United States and Australia that use creative activism as a vehicle to
draw attention to the overlooked, disregarded, concealed and sometimes illegal aspects of daily living.
Innovators 2
25 June 2011 > 24 July 2011
This Innovators series presents works that take colour, ideas of excess and intricate detail as their inspiration.
A Way of Calling
14 May 2011 > 19 June 2011
A Way of Calling, highlights six contemporary art practices that evoke, activate or engage mysterious forces, energies or
sensations.
Innovators 1
9 April 2011 > 8 May 2011
The Innovators 1 exhibition presents a mix of media exploring issues of identity and transformation.
Linden Postcard Show 2011
5 February 2011 > 26 March 2011
The Linden Postcard Show is the largest Australian open entry competition showing work across all media Linden Centre for
Contemporary.
Jus' Drawn, proppaNOW
7 August 2010 > 12 September 2010
‘As Aboriginal people, as Blackfellas, drawing is something we all do.’ For proppaNOW, drawing is an action and a tool that we use to
communicate our feelings and ideas and it is the beginning of our art-making processes.
Innovators 2
3 July 2010 > 1 August 2010
Innovators 2 explores old and new technologies and the spaces between.
The Politics of Art
15 May 2010 > 25 June 2010
The Politics of Art explores the art landscape and terms such as 'art-world' and 'art industry,' which suggest a community
dedicated to the production and consumption of art that is separate, yet similar to the 'real' world.
Innovators 1
10 April 2010 > 9 May 2010
Five artists explore ideas of scale, perspective and relationship with viewers.
The Linden Postcard Show 2010
6 February 2010 > 27 March 2010
The winner of the Bendigo Bank award of $5,000.00 was Hana Rajkovic who migrated to Australia from Serbia in 2009.