FEBRUARY 3 – 14

ADRIAN DOYLE
'HIDE AND SEEK'
Adrian works between the conscious and the unconscious. It's explorative process using stencils/spraying and the line, offers multiple and open-ended possibilities.

DANIELA MARTIN
'TRANSIENCE'
Solely analogue photography, with movements and shutter speeds creating painterly brush strokes effects, in essence, painting with light. Poetic and evocative work stemming from ideas within science and philosophy.

FEBRUARY 18 – 28

JODY JANE STITT & MARK HARPER
'ONE DIVIDED BY TWO'
The elements of this collaborative exhibition portray the environment, the nude, the individual, the inanimate, the sublime and the everyday.

CHERYL OSBOURNE
'ARCADIAN DREAMS'
Combinations of media which are used to create textured, layered surfaces that explore vivid and subtle nuances of colour. Created to arouse a feeling of peace and joy within the viewer.

MARCH 2 – 21

PETER DAVERINGTON
Large abstract oil paintings using a minimal palette of black, whites and silver in expressive patters. Work concerning movement, and inspired by whirling Dervishes the artist met in Turkey.

KERRY CANNON
'BLOCKHEADS'
Figurative bronze sculptures with painted blocks of wood for heads are a collection of jokes that poke fun at society and anyone else in their way. More about comedy than cynicism, the works contain copious amounts of both.

MARCH 23 – APRIL 1

MARTHA LORD
Paintings expressing abstract moods with emphasis on geometric shapes and contexts. Based on feeling experienced in a single moment, these works cannot be repeated, and can be compared to a musical score which holds a single note for a prolonged period of time.

JASON WATERHOUSE
(Statement unavailable at time of publishing)

APRIL 13 – MAY 1

JAMES McARDLE [profiled artist]
"Why do we have two eyes? McArdle’s digital prints exploring the differences and similarities between human and camera vision. Focusing on the Central Victorian landscape, it's deep structure, and it's history, all revealed in the primal forms of the spiral and the vortex.

BASIL KOUVELIS
It is human nature to rationalise one's surroundings, feelings and thoughts. Language performs this task. Kouvelis prefers the language of colour and form; innate, immaterial, the foreviewer achieving the final outcome.

MAY 4 – 22

YOLANDA PILEPICH
(Statement unavailable at time of publishing)

DALE COX [profiled artist]
The idea of a dichotomy, both a reverence and a flagrant, tragic exploitation of the various creatures of the Earth is, as with the whale series of paintings, a continued theme of this work. The archetypal 'charismatic vertebrates' celebrated almost universally in mythology - the Lion, Tiger, Elephant, Whale, Dolphin, Monkeys and Apes etc, trained to perform acrobatic or 'amusing' tasks for spectators, neatly portrays this dichotomy.

MAY 25 – JUNE 12

ANSELM VAN ROOD
The bridge, as a metaphor for the bridge between abstraction and empathy, between seeing from the mind and seeing from the heart, and the relationship of the physical subject to the flatness of the artwork.

JUNE 15 – 26

ALAN GARCIA
(Statement unavailable at time of publishing)

GROUP PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHBITION
JANINA GREEN, DANIELLE MARTIN, GAYLE SLATER, VIRGINIA STOBART

JUNE 29 – JULY 10

EROS ANCESCHI [profiled artist]
FAWKNER PARK SERIES
Evocative studies of Fawkner Park painted on-site with oils on board.

DANA ASHLAKOFF
EGALITARIAN FORMS
(Statement unavailable at time of publishing)

JULY 13 – 24

ADAM LEE
Large, colourful, figurative works focusing on children from Indian prisons. Lee's paintings avoid negating the innocence of a child's experiences in his or her difficult circumstances.

AUGUST 10 – 28

RAFFAELLA TORRESAN
LABYRINTHS
Paintings of oil on linen that seem cubist and endless, and begin to resemble Van Gogh. Strange and florid, revolving highways with an added funky inventiveness that are both mysterious and enigmatic.

BRIAN SPITERI
Mixed media, collage, oil paintings on paper depicting contemporary semi-abstract landscapes of the mind.

AUGUST 31– SEPTEMBER 11

LINDA JUDGE
I was recently invited to a botox party, I was intrigued to discover that these events are really popular with the parents at my children's school. What beauty ideal would inform my choice of treatment? Whose lips, eyes and nose should I aspire to own? Should I decline the invitation?

GROUP EXHIBITION
MICHAEL JEWEL, PAUL JURASEK, PETR HEREL,
JASON WATERHOUSE, SIMON MEE, ADRIAN PAGE.
Various fine artworks displayed from the gallery stockroom.

SEPTEMBER 14 – 25

RECENT WORKS - GROUP EXHIBITION
GABRIELLE ALEXANDER, ANTHEA WILLIAMS, GARRY ADAMS, VAS RENN
Artworks examining symbols of social and political systems, technology, social construction, homogenous values and paradoxical spaces.

SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 9

BEE LEE THIA
HUMAN FORMS
Semi-abstract oil paintings using the human body as reference and inspiration.

IAN VARNEY
THE OXIDISED LANDSCAPE
Varney captures the essence of the dynamism in nature within the landscape. To do so, he has used materials from the earth itself — iron and copper — which are oxidised to create a transformation in the surface of the artwork.

OCTOBER 12 – 23

TWO POINTS IN TIME
Group photographic exhibition celebrating 20 years of the Photographic Imaging College. Examining the journey from point in time of study, to point in time of artwork creation.

OCTOBER 26 – NOVEMBER 6

RMIT MEDIA ARTS GRADUATE EXHIBITION
(Information on this exhibition is coming soon. It was unfortunately unavailable at time of publishing)

NOVEMBER 8 – 12

NEWS LIMITED
RETHINK GALLERY
The Rethink gallery travels around Australia showcasing the world's best press advertisement, featuring award winning creative from home and overseas.

NOVEMBER 16 – DECEMBER 9

DAVID PARKER
INTERFERENCE
Parker's work is based on taking stills from video and television, which allows him to emphasise the distance between himself and the subject. Large scale mixed media work encompassing photograph, glass, digital printing and paint.

BEN BEETON [profiled artist]
590 MILLION YEARS ON A FLAT SURFACE
A culmination of six years of research and a year of creation, this exhibition shifts the layout of evolutionary representation so that time is a variable in the work. Scientific data is delicately interwoven in a multi-layered fashion with the concept of the painting as a time-scape.

DECEMBER 6 – 13

GUY BROWNING
Through years of progressive drawing and painting, Browning has developed a natural and unique style. Portraits not only of people but of words and language, and the subjects interpretation of them.

GWYNEDD DAVIES
FROM THE FOREST
The duality of inner and outer worlds is reflected in an architecture of groups of oil paintings. Imagery is based on visual and poetic analogies between tree/forest, building elements, and body.

DECEMBER 23 – JANUARY 31

SMYRNIOS GALLERY CLOSED