Join us to celebrate the opening nights of THREE exhibitions in our very own George Paton Gallery.

The opening event spans the Gallery itself on Level 1 of the Arts & Cultural Building and the Project Space on Level 3. 

Immerse yourself in thought provoking explorations of states of being, rules and the nature of memory.

1 hour, a search for thoughts that can’t be put together

Milly Borrack
(George Paton Gallery)

Milly Borrack is an artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice explores temporary rule-based structures such as games, rituals, and exercises. Milly is fascinated by the ways these structures can simultaneously produce freedom and constraint, depending on the choices we make to momentarily accept or disregard them. READ MORE.

a broadcast from nowhere that goes somewhere (i dream again of loving my destiny)

James Hazel
(George Paton Gallery)

The body holds the working-class score. A broadcast from nowhere that goes somewhere. Keeping up appearances amidst bourgeois coldness™. A para-archive of classed artefacts and Neighbours from Hell. Extended transcriptions from “the other side” of the road. Care-in-precarity. Calls on weight & call on hold. Non-property as non-self. Horizons that never arrive. Social security & life under the negative sign. A nervous garden held together by bread ties. Dad smells like White Ox after work. Lingering, loitering, & making do. Dream, dream, dream. READ MORE.

MEMORY IS MATERIAL 

Leon Bowers, Kitty Chrystal, Anna Devine, Virginia Guest, Gala Jane 
(Level 3 Project Space)

MEMORY IS MATERIAL brings together five artists working across diverse media, exploring the multi-layered nature of memory. Their work explores how memory is encoded; its function in our daily lives; its intrinsic relationship to experience, trauma and identity; and how it lives within our individual bodies and collective consciousness. READ MORE.

This event will include alcohol service for attendees aged 18+ only. UMSU is committed to the safe and responsible use and service of alcohol at our events.

George Paton Gallery