20 August to 7 September

Susan Dragon | Moments
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Moments will be Melbourne artist Susan Dragon's first
solo exhibition at 69 Smith Street Gallery. Moments consists of a large body of work developed over the past four years. Dragon's work explores notions of the frame and moments through a journey. As an artist Susan Dragon paint landscapes of places visited and photographed. The landscape is inviting, alienating, comforting and distressing, evoking beauty and nostalgia. The paintings capture the various emotions these landscapes evoke when experienced. Dragon's greatest desire "is for the audience to look at these paintings and see their own moments, to trigger their imagination to explore the possibilities beyond the confines of the canvas."

Opening: Sunday August 24, 2-4pm

Bernadette Pilli | Night after Nightness
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Night after Nightness features a series of oil on canvas works developed by Melbourne artist Bernadette Pilli over the past 9 months. Pilli's paintings are intricately crafted, deceptively simple and smooth to the touch and glance. Bernadette Pilli's paintings confront the viewer with metaphoric landscapes of familiar experience. Pilli says in context to her work "when we are most vulnerable, restless, anguished, emotional, angry, the fabric of our sheets is what we draw closest to us."

Opening: Saturday August 23, 4-6pm