5.7.25 – 27.7.25OPENING SATURDAY 5 JULY Statement by Wouter Van de Voorde: Opgelicht, Dutch for “lit-up” or “scammed,” speaks directly to the material nature of this exhibition. The hand-made processes and techniques I use reflect an embrace of imperfection and human error. Not being a classically trained photographer has often left me with a sense … Wouter Van de Voorde: OPGELICHT

Platform by Canberra Contemporary, 19 Furneaux St, Forrest ACT 260330 May – 8 June 2025 Aral Sea, 2001 (Memento Mori), 2023, oil, oxide on linen, 162 x 138cm Aral Sea, 2001 (Memento Mori), 2023, oil, oxide on linen, 162 x 138cm The Lost Sea/Boat for Charon (diptych 2), 2025, oil, oxide on linen, 116 x … Lizzie Hall: THE LOST SEA

Opening reception 3pm Saturday 31 May 2025 Showing in the Civic Art Bureau window gallery in June is Chris Carmody’s Fluorescent Array, eight paintings on board from his ongoing preoccupation with the “inconclusive meaning” of the fading in sunlight and wear of found materials. “These paintings are based on faded books I’ve documented in different … Chris Carmody: Fluorescent Array

3.5.25 – 25.5.25 Ria Tierney, Full chop, 2025 Catalogue (PDF) Benny Chop has well and truly earned his nickname over decades of chopping bicycles, motorcycles and hot rods, tattooing skin, bashing drum skins in bands, cooking tacos and slinging cocktails, and fabrication and installation for Australia’s national museum and gallery collections. NEVER PERFECT is a … Benny Chop: NEVER PERFECT

[De-historisation] cognitive geography, 2019 [De-Historisation] Value proposition, 2024 [De-historisation] Symbolic communication, 2019 [De-historisation] Algorithmic surfacing, 2024 Reclaimed commercial signage, office supplies, spray paint. each $2000 Dan Maginnity (Byrd) is Canberra’s pre-eminent mural artist. The themes of his work have grown out of his longstanding inquiry into Australiaís natural environment. He splinters and bends contemporary politics, … Byrd: NOW HERE: DE-HISTORISATION

4.4.25 – 20.4.25 DOUBLE DUTCH catalogue [PDF] Exhibition essay A poetry in assemblage by Hetty Gascoigne Leo Loomans Kurangaitu at Hatupatu’s rock, 2025painted steel39.5 x 20.5 x 33cm Peter VandermarkSpace Junk, 2024Found objects, paint30 x 30 x 30 cm Double Dutch is a language that is slippery and strange. It also refers to each artist’s … Leo Loomans and Peter Vandermark: DOUBLE DUTCH

26.03.25 – 30.03.25 Jonas Balsaitis, #LIVEWIRE, 1999synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 143 x 173 cm OPENING Friday 28 March, 6pm  Catalogue of works #LIVEWIRE is a satellite exhibition of paintings by Jonas Balsaitis from the 1990s, including his series of Palette Paintings (1994), some electrifying-outtakes from the Drill Hall Gallery Analogue exhibition, and the screening of Balsaitis’s film Erratica (1982, M15+) on … Jonas Balsaitis: #LIVEWIRE

4.4.25 – 20.4.25 LAND AND LANGUAGE catalogue [pdf] Over the past 25 years, Tasmanian born, Melbourne-based artist and producer Lucie Thorne has made a lot of music; writing and releasing over a dozen albums and touring prodigiously across Australia, Europe and North America. She’s been lauded for writing “some of the most beautiful songs you … Lucie Thorne: LAND AND LANGUAGE

22.2.25 – 22.3.25 Elegy is a response to personal and collective grief made by two artists whose works are in conversation with each other in a way that reflects their daily conversations on paint and life. Lizzie Hall’s paintings are of the Aral Sea, now a desert because of Soviet mismanagement. Her late father worked … ELEGY: Lizzie Hall and Kate Stevens

Civic Art Bureau is thrilled to present Flip Out an Exhibition of Skateboard Art by Matt Green in the Art Bureau Window, co-inciding with Belco Bowl Jam, Feb 14-16 2025. Matt Green is a Geelong born Melbourne based artist, painter, skateboarder and musician. Matt has been commissioned to do many album covers and band posters … MATT GREEN: Flip Out

UNTIL 14.12.24 Curated By Mark Bayly The UNHINGED project opens a conversation dealing with aspects of the close personal and working relationship between two of the Canberra region’s most senior artists, Richard Larter and Peter Maloney. In doing so, the exhibition examines each artist’s relationship with individual models in serial fashion. Larter became a close … UNHNGED: Richard Larter & Peter Maloney

5.10.24 – 26.10.24 Eleven distinguished artists working in and around Canberra: Download catalogue [PDF] Selected by Adam Bell and Dionisia Salas.Installed by Drew Halyday and Benny Chop.Wine by MADA.Installation photos by David Hempenstall. Installation: Dionisia Salas, Lucy Chetcuit, Vivienne Binns. Installation: Vivienne Binns, Emma Beer, Liz Coats, Merryn Lloyd. Installation: Dionisia Salas, Lucy Chetcuti, Vivienne … Exhibition no.1