Grounded Allegories

Healing, Replenishing, Reconnecting

Anna Caione

Dr Jane Connory

Joanna Gardener

John Stanislav Sadar and Gyunju Chyon (Little Wonder)

Presented by Anna Caione

Balam Balam Place, Brunswick

Melbourne Design Week

https://designweek.melbourne/event/grounded-allegories-healing-replenishing-reconnecting/

'The Grounded Allegories exhibition and panel discussion aims to inspire dialogue about design’s responsibility in shaping resilient futures. Through the works, the exhibition asks: How might design mend relationships between humans and nature? What materials, systems and narratives could replenish what has been depleted in our society?'


Installation images from the closing talks May 24, 2026

Anna Caione

Joanna Gardener

Dr Jane Connory

John Stanislav Sadar

Five Walls Gallery

Exhibitions to May 30
1/119 Hopkins Street, Footscray

https://fivewalls.com.au

Abstraction 2026

Artists: Kubota Fumikazu, Sean Hogan, Daniel Hollier, Franky Howell, Emma Langridge, Keisuke Matsuura, Sarah Robson, Britt Salt, Vivian Cooper Smith, Lachlan Stonehouse, Max Lawrence White, and Michael Vandorpe.

Selected works

Sarah Robson, Open drawing, 2023.

Daniel Hollier

A red painting seen from a riverside pavilion, 2025.

Sean Hogan, CS02.01, 02, 03, 2021.

Vivian Cooper Smith
Interiors (matrix) and (halved circle), 2024.  

Keisuke Matsuura, Jiba pek 40, 2025.

Michael Vandorpe, La Chaussée d'Amour, 2025.

Britt Salt, Phasing in Space (I) and (II), 2026.

Emma Langridge, Coil, 2026.

Lachlan Stonehouse
Through on Over, 2024-2025.

Project Spaces

Steven Tonkin: Artworks & Bookworks

Installation View

George Huon: Solaris

Installation View

James Clayden

Breath Paintings
To April 2
Block Projects
759 Glenferrie Road
Hawthorn

https://www.blockprojectsgallery.com/

Untitled/Sheer, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 213.5 x 168 cm.

Installation image.

Untitled/Scent, 2025, acrylic on board, 168 x 122 cm.

Installation image.

Melbourne Art Fair

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
19 – 22 February 2026

Selected works:

Rose Nolan

John Davis

Shiraz Sadikeen

Jim Lambie

Barbara Puruntatameri

Ray James Tjangala

Justin Adian

Keisuke Matsuura

Winston Roeth

Lesley Dumbrell

Rana Begum

John Young

Harry Armanious

Elizabeth Newman

Arthur (Jalyirri) Dixon

Liat Yossifor

Dale Frank

Tony Tuckson

Aida Tomescu

Erin Lawlor

Christian Dimick

Newport Lakes

Taking advantage of the quiet time of the new year in Melbourne 

Newport Lakes reserve was constructed from an old blue stone quarry which over many decades and lots of work has become a wildlife sanctuary of sorts very close to the heart of Melbourne.

Views of the lakes.

It's a wonderful place for quiet reflection.

New Year

 at the botanical gardens, Melbourne

The water lilies stole the show but the cacti were extraordinary

As you do ...

A new year and seasons greetings. Photo portrait, Jen Coralie.

John Nixon

Song of the Earth 1968-2020
To March 9
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Melbourne

Drawing reference or influence from Russian Constructivism, John Nixon, 1949-2020, paid homage to simplicity and the everyday materials and methodology of the labourer or the unskilled. Using materials now symbolically associated with the Great Depression and interwar era of the 20th Century, including hessian, silver frost paint, wheat, tools and vessels.



Selected images.