Sampling the City reveals the complex web of personalities, factions and trajectories that make up Melbourne’s vibrant contemporary architectural culture. Presented in an i…
Born to Malaysian and Australian parents, Sangeeta Sandrasegar lived in both countries before settling in Melbourne at the age of ten. Her work explores perceptions of home…
Gareth Sansom has exhibited his paintings, drawings and collages since the late 1950s and is well known as former Head of Painting and Dean of the School of Art at the Vict…
Born in Woomera, Yhonnie Scarce’s glass works are informed by research into her Kokatha/Nukunu family’s experiences. Her work for Melbourne Now memorialises a mid-nineteent…
Multidisciplinary artist Nick Selenitsch adapts motifs from games, sports and street markings to create open-ended visual systems that flirt with the rules and procedures t…
Drawing inspiration from Scottish poet Edwin Muir’s 1949 collection The labyrinth, Jan Senbergs’s Extended Melbourne labyrinth renders, in his distinctive graphic style, th…
Over the past fifty years, Jan Senbergs has explored built and natural environments, more recently creating what he calls ‘picture maps’ – visual documentation of the …
Contemporary printmaker Tama Sharman’s 1999 Pacific Transformer linocuts explore the idea that male spiritual identity can be expressed through iconographic tattooing…
Caleb Shea’s colourful and dynamic sculptures reflect on modernism through a contemporary lens. His series What are you looking at Balzac comprise geometric sculptures made…
A resurgence in bespoke shoemaking practices has resulted in small studios emerging across Melbourne. This installation reveals the extraordinary craftsmanship involved in …
Glenn Sloggett’s series Filthy: A White Trash (Lost) Love Story explores the dilapidated fringes of Australian suburbia. Things are often not quite right in Sloggett’s imag…
Founded in 2009, and positioned within the broader ‘slow movement’, the Slow Art Collective, with members Tony Adams, Chaco Kato and Dylan Martorell, explores ethics relate…
Through her use of bold colours and energetic patterning, Kate Smith’s paintings seem to lift off the surface and take on a three-dimensional quality. The subtle gestures e…
Charlie Sofo documents everyday findings and happenings through his art practice. The video work 33 objects that can fit through the hole in my pocket comprises short vigne…
Since the 1960s, Stelarc’s performance art has considered the obsolescence of the human body and looked to alternative anatomical architectures. From 2006-13 Stelarc was Ch…
Emily Floyd’s widely exhibited prints and sculptures explore literature, typography, protest, public art and the legacies of modernism. Her work Students in dissent is a co…
Darren Sylvester’s multidisciplinary practice reflects upon the tropes and conventions of consumer culture, advertising, pop music and cinema, appropriating international p…
