The 69 Smith Street Gallery is exhibiting numerous negatives and positives taken by an innovative group of artists. This fine display of photography is unique in that all photographs have been taken by a pinhole camera containing no mirror or lense. A display of negatives and positives will be available to the general public together with the actual cameras transformed into artworks.

In Alice in Tartland, Melbourne Artist Debbie Harman uses a graphic novel, paint, clay and textiles as mediums to render well-known characters in an 'other' version of the story.

In this humorous retelling, Harman uses an adolescent Alice’ to explore ideas of sexual discovery and inhibiting cultural moraes.

Franz Kafka once said, "Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

Girls & Boys Come Out to Play is a collection of paintings which attempt to explore the beauty of youth, while challenging society’s sentimentality about childhood.

Open Ground, Opened Spaces is an exploration of the extraordinary that resides within the banal. Ian is drawn to what goes unnoticed or unrecognised within our 'usual', everyday experience. He is moved by the worn textures and colours of pavements and road surfaces, by the unexpected, sometimes mysterious beauty he sees in them. Stephen's work is an exploration of the emotional world of men, the deeper feelings hidden behind personal and cultural barriers to intimacy and self-disclosure, and as by limitations in expression and empathy. As part of this, Stephen also explores the emotional void left by people who are, for whatever reason, absent from our lives.

Time flies will showcase a diverse range of works in all mediums and practices creating a stimulating and exciting exhibition of current art work.

“The DARE Group” (stands for “Daring Art Really Exciting”) is a recently formed group of artists who follow a non traditional approach to their painting.
Artists who work together to seek out new challenges and expand their vision and boundaries. They are “daring” to be different with varying degrees of abstraction and by working outside each individual’s own particular “square”. Some of the group are traditionally trained artists and teachers.

Ackroyd Curtis has a fascinated with the breaking of waves on rocks and the violence and menace it entails. She has tried to capture the seas treachery and beauty in her drawings.

Little’s work in this exhibition were inspired by the landscape of Wilson’s Prom after the 2005 bushfire burnt and left naked a large part of the Prom. The cast and manipulated handmade paper, combined with drawings and mixed media, create a highly individual interpretation of the Prom landscape.

Hollway’s works are a personal reflection of the fascinating complexity of New York as a unique and surprisingly friendly city from the talented subway buskers to the sparkle of the Manhattan skyline at sunset seen from the Brooklyn Bridge.

Pavlovich provides the viewer with a kinaesthetic and visual experience of walking through and over the glacier, by remembering the glacial walls and deep crevasses in large frottage drawings in dry pastel on paper.

O’Shea’s exhibition shows her ongoing and persistent interest in natural forms, prehistoric cultural traditions, natural history and the aesthetic of the ‘curious.

An exhibition featuring work by a group of artists who meet while sharing a studio space at the Easey Steeet Artists Complex, while studying for their Diploma of Visual Arts.

This exhibition encompasses painting and printmaking in various media, often using different approaches and interpretations of similar subject matter eg landscape and still life.

The work in this exhibition is presented as a culmination of their friendship, support and a collaboration of ideas in their art practice.

Post - Photography by Mardi Sommerfeld

Following an intense period of grief, this series was developed through an exploration of decay, death and loss. The inevitable alteration of perception, as a consequence of loss, is portrayed in these images as a lived experience.

Danse Macabre – Installation by Aneta Bozic and Cristy Gilbert

Aneta and Cristy have collaborated to create a collection of complimentary works based on a common theme. Traditional and unconventional materials have been used to create an installation of natural artefacts and representations celebrating the dance of death.

Intrusion - Photography by Emma Blee

A collection of images of things that are not a natural part of Antarctica.

Untitled - Paintings by Eleni Rivers

Rivers preoccupation for some time has been with the world of seeds, plants and gardens. It is this delicate connection between our human state and nature, that fascinates her. Through alignment with cycles, moods and rhythms of nature Rivers finds a way to explore the foundations of her own humanity in the great cycle of things.

One work – A mixed media Installation by Trish Round

For the last exhibition of the year our members will show their thoughts on our exhibition theme, “Two Feet”. It could be the literal view of two feet, the imperial measurement of two feet or meditations on our two feet and their connections to the earth and nature.
Then again we may be swept off our feet, land on our own feet or more dangerously, for the last exhibition, off on the wrong foot!