Tri
A solo exhibition by Mark Wotherspoon
2 April – 3 May, 2025
Wotherspoon’s work has evolved from large, cast glass sculptures to a fragmenting abstract style, which he has dubbed, Triangulism. This new form of abstraction, incited by the triangular shapes in his glass-soldered pieces, investigates the relationship between triangular geodesic forms and the two-dimensional space of painting.
Inspired by the 20th century Cubist movement and the glass studio movement of the 1960’s, the works move between sculpture, painting and a hybrid combination of both.
Comminisci…
to invent, contrive, devise.
12 – 30 March, 2025
A group exhibition featuring works by:
Rowena Henderson, Phresh Blood, Jane Jenevieve, Kasane Low, Carlos Velasquez, Kylie Monteleone, Will Coles, Sophie Bray, Samantha Fin, Adam Hill, Kate Holden, Mark Wotherspoon, Charlene Walker, Ilaria Mita, Keith Chidzey, David WW, Joel Cunningham, George Shaw, Miriam Montgomery, Beverley Paskin, Michaela James, Julia Kennedy-Bell & Jenny Hall
Return
Sophie Bray
23 November - 14 December, 2024
Return captures the mesmerizing beauty of the land through transparent layers of glaze, evoking the jewel-like quality of its rocks, reflections, and light.
Sophie was honoured in 2024 with the Mayor’s Award at the Waverley Art Prize.
Assembled: 80-20
25 September - 19 October, 2024
Ian Andrews, Katharine Tebbatt, Julie Bookless, Madeleine Preston, Garry Bradbury, Ian Hartley & Helen Jennings
This show will consist entirely of collages by a group of artists who have known, lived and worked with each other since the early 1980s. All the artists were part of the post-punk scene in Sydney in the early 80s. Of the six artists in the exhibition, sadly three are no longer with us. These collages are haunted by childhoods overshadowed by the Cold War and mass consumer culture which, I think, obliquely determined the choice of source material and subject matter, even though none of the work is explicitly political.
All artists in this show embrace(d) the constraint of hand cut paper collage and reject digital collage which they see as radically unrelated to their practices.
Ingeborg Girgensohn
What Are You Thinking About?
15 May – 8 June, 2024
I love creating a painting without any pressure of achieving correctness. For me it is not about reading the narrative but rather reacting to it.
What are you thinking about? What is correct anyway? Who is the judge?
Never play to the gallery!
In 2012 I was brave enough to have my first solo exhibition
Still. Abstract. Life.
10 April – 11 May, 2024
A select group exhibition featuring paintings and sculpture working predominantly in still life and abstract.
Featuring artists: Cat Jean Campbell, Clare Walker, Jane Park, Karin Dovel, Katie Zarco, Kumari Abeydeera, Lauren Starr, Mark Wotherspoon, Michael J Quill, Sophie Bray & Will Coles…
Collabor8Women Prize
CONNECTED
1 November - 31 December, 2023
A finalists' exhibition that shines a light on extraordinary female artists. Responding to the universal theme, Connected, one trailblazer crowned winner of the inaugural Collabor8Women Prize, Latin American artist Marisabel Gonzalez’s with her painting, entitled ‘Verde Montaña, Mañana (Mountain Green, Tomorrow)’.
The 2023 prize aims to shine a light on female artists, with the winner receiving a branding and visibility package worth more than $6,000. Five industry leaders from the Collabor8Women network will provide their services to promote the artist’s profile, including a photography session; hair/make-up, wardrobe styling; a PR and publicity strategy; a professionally-written feature article/biography; media training/presentation skills session; and two tickets to a Collabor8Women event.
Cat Jean Campbell... Clare Walker... Kristy Gordon... SubanginiBalendra... Amy Kinzett... Bridget Marie... Dana Dion... Jo Dyer... JaimeePaul... Denise Hojdyssek... Anastasia Parmson... Kylie Monteleone... Jude Hotchkiss... Jo Thorpe... Fiona Chandler... Rebecca Rath... Jane Park... Victoria Aleporos... Tracy Muche-Williams... Janet Clouston... Nikita Sheth... Michaela James... HayleJayde Atkins... Welch Maide... Sophie Bray... Karin Dovel... MarisabelGonzalez... PersefoneMaietta... Ariella Friend... KumariAbeydeera... Kate Stehr... Katherine Boland... Clare Brodie... Lauren Starr...
FIGURES & FACES ALONG THE WAY
Michael J Quill
6 – 30 September, 2023
Michael is a self taught painter creating autobiographical paintings that explore form and composition using abstraction as a tool to take the audience inside the artists mind. Layering shapes, colour, textures and line work he is continuing to create work with great depth and emotion.
His latest body of works 'Figures & Faces Along the Way', a collection of portraiture and figurative paintings that have been kept safe in the studio over the past decade. Each painting, in their own way capturing a piece of self & shedding light on the artists journey coping with the severe highs and lows that can come with Bipolar Disorder.
AI Review
16 August – 2 September, 2023
Artificial Intelligence is changing the way the world operates. Computers can create essays, websites, video and image. It is being used as inspiration for some artists and as complete means to the finished work by others.
In this, our inaugural AI review, we are looking at examples of how AI can be used as a tool for art creation.
Extended Memory
Mark Wotherspoon
19 July - 12 August, 2023
A collection of paintings and sculpture working predominantly with glass 3D extensions (copper foil soldered glass). The works play with ideas of memory and human interaction. Giving a space for contemplation on how we are perceived by others… or the memory that remains when we have left the room.
AD/DRESSING THE WOUND
Tom Isaacs
21 June - 8 July, 2023
Opening event and launch of exhibition catalogue
Wednesday 21 June, 6-9pm
'Ad/dressing the Wound' is an exhibition of performance and textile works that creatively engage with ideas of mental health and wellbeing, trauma and healing. Drawing inspiration from psychoanalytic theories about mental health, such as Sigmund Freud’s writings on repression and the symptom, and from the work of German artist Joseph Beuys, with his iconic use of felt and his exhortation to 'Show Your Wounds', Tom Isaacs has used covering and uncovering as metaphors for the repression of and care for psychic wounds. Joseph Beuys proposed that we uncover our wounds so that they do not fester, but covering with a medical dressing, an emergency blanket or a humble quilt may also constitute a powerful act of care.
Visions of the Secret Gardens of the Moon…
Dàvid W W
24 May – 17 June, 2023
Montage Exhibition of an Outsider from No-Man’s-Land of a (Dissident of Central Europe).
Essence of Cloud
Mark Eliott
26 April - 20 May, 2023
Essence of Cloud is a multi-faceted project comprised mainly of Glass objects and text but also carved wood, mixed media, watercolour sketches, performance, music, scent and animation. It represents a major turning point for Mark as a long-form body of work which delves deeply into narrative and character development through detailed articulation of an imagined family history which at some points intersects with the real.
Serious ideas are embedded in its predominantly whimsical terrain.
Driven Out
Steven Fasan
5 - 22nd April, 2023
These images are not about cars. Nor are they about car culture.
However, titles do suggest an automotive connection - a rev-head lexicon.
That’s as far as that goes. The images refer to an imposed position of being, of a place and, of a time. An unwilling passenger driven to this place. A fleeting revisit of the absurd or the surreal?
The mistake was reading Camus at a too young age.
‘For years I’ve wanted to live according to everyone else’s morals. I’ve forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life a sort of lie’.
Albert Camus. Albert Camus died in a car crash on January 4, 1960. He was 46 years old. (The car was a Facel Vega)
Scintillation
Philip Lindsay
22 February – 11 March, 2023
Abstract Expressionism is the subconscious mind in a visual reality. Lindsay’s work is a psychological whirlpool which consumes the viewers' attention evoking primordial emotions and thoughts which embody that concept.
What’s He Building In There?
Rhett Boland
2 - 26 November, 2022
Rhett’s artwork explores the Jungian concept of a ‘collective unconscious’, and the idea of the ‘active imagination’, in the present day and from generations past. His work is a vehicle that allows us to explore our thoughts, emotions and memories with images that are both distant and somehow familiar. Presenting the joys and feeling of being immersed in the representational or surreal landscape.
Shattered Habitats
A solo exhibition by Mark Wotherspoon raising funds to support the planting and protection of black cockatoo habitats.
ellipsis gallery has partnered with Birdlife Australia for Shattered Habitats. 25% of all art sales will assist with support programmes for black cockatoos, who’s habitats have been decimated in recent years by logging and bush fires.
The exhibition presents an experiment with glass as a canvas, using the shattered elements to inform the image, forming wings, eyes, or movement. The works juxtapose the beauty of the black cockatoo against these fractures.
INAUGURAL
Inaugural is a group exhibition featuring contemporary works from Sydney emerging and established artists