Leo Loscher and Michael Doyle

2 - 24 April 2026
Opening celebration: Thursday 2 April, 5-7pm

This exhibition explores the gaps and spaces that exist between objects, focusing on how intuitive processes and repetitive acts of assembly allow the histories embedded within materials to be read. Here, the spaces between works are as significant as the works themselves, drawing attention to presences held within absences. Through the weaving of found and manipulated materials, tensions and openings emerge, forming a landscape of connections and residue, or a map shaped by weight and texture. The installation will comprise a series of improvised sculptures developed within the gallery space using primarily found materials, alongside photographs, paintings and other sculptural elements. Construction materials such as wood, bricks and concrete will serve as key components, referencing other inhabited spaces and the traces they leave behind. These structures will extend from walls, occupy corners and spread across the floor, subtly shaping how visitors move through and experience the gallery.

----

Leo Loscher is an artist based in Naarm, studying Fine Art (Painting). His work consists of elements of painting, sculpture and photography, often combined to highlight the relations between these mediums. He is particularly interested in depicting weight and tension, and the way something solid can be molded by something soft. With most of his work beginning with wandering with the goal of being lost, he is concerned with found objects, materials and patterns that hold quiet histories, and the traces of inhabited spaces.

Michael Doyle is an artist based in Naarm. His work consists of elements of Sculpture, assemblage, field work, and relational art-making. Aiming to build networks of textures, thoughts, ideas, forms, and logics that feed into one another, he sees his work as a barnacle, an organism in its own right, yet always connected and shaped by forces beyond itself. Through this, he attempts to make work that is a grappling with ideas rather than a set path, one that expands and contracts, is positive and negative, and looks inward and outward, hoping to create a more nuanced, layered, and collaborative way of engaging with ideas and the world.