Exhibition Description
Situated in Gallery one, as you enter through
the open sliding door and face the white wall, Felix Oliver’s Sculptural web of photographs encased in metal frames,
will sprawl across the left corner of the gallery.
To the left of this work, Parminder Kaur Bhandal’s intricate solar prints rest on a floating shelf.
Intricate familial depictions delicately printed on to foliage using only the sun.
To the right-hand side of Oliver’s work, Nick Currie’s beeswax painting
hangs just above eye level. Currie’s gentle incisions into a textured wax covered canvas, is reminiscent of tally marks.
The material condition of this painting holds an omnipresent reminder of the work's impermanent nature.
To the left of the video program nook, two of Liv Moriarty’s hand drawn and emotive diagrams
are held by thick clips on the wall just above eye level.
Projected on two screens suspended to the right of centre in gallery 1 is Ezz Monem’s
hypnotic 16mm two channel video work ‘So This Is Power?, Golden Eagle’. One channel
depicts an eagle flapping rapidly while in the other, the eagle has been methodically
removed using a hole puncher.
THE CULTURE OF SPEED; THE COMING OF IMMEDIACY
Liv Moriarty makes work about interrelations–
focusing on middle grounds and connecting threads in an attempt to understand and to be understood.
Felix Oliver
My practice is positioned around my interest in the photograph as a container for memory.
Not just as a static image, but as a mutable surface, a vulnerable record, a crafted
Resemblance. I entangle with the potential for my images to act as desire lines - as a trajectory into
reminiscence. A stand in for unmarked graves of recall. Like reaching into a dream from the
night before - You were here before, I'm sure of it.
Ezz Monem is an Egyptian artist based in Melbourne, Australia. He works primarily with photography, as
well as video and sound installations. Monem graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo
University and has been working as a software engineer alongside his art practice. His work has been
exhibited in Egypt, Australia, and various other countries in Europe and the Middle East. In 2021, he
completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, and
joined Gertrude Contemporary’s Studio Program (2022–24). Monem has exhibited at the NGV Triennial,
Gertrude Glasshouse, Blindside ARI, KINGS Artist-Run, Seventh Gallery, and the Museum of
Photography in Braunschweig, Germany. Ezz Monem is represented by THIS IS NO FANTASY gallery.
John Elcatsha is an Australian-Egyptian multimedia artist based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Working primarily in sculpture and installation, his work explores intersections
of the scientific, historical, and political, and considers ideas of
re-worlding through materialism.
John has a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art
from the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts
and a BFA (Honours) from Monash University.
Recent exhibitions include Bureaucracy of Feelings 2025 Gertrude Contemporary,
Kings Artist Run Stray Voltage commission 2025, Compline 2025 Oddany,
2024 MADA Now graduate exhibition, 2024 Blindside Fundraiser, 2023,
Moving Without Travelling group show at No Vacancy,
2022 Singing Praises group show Seventh Gallery,
2021 Ge.Label showcase at Haydens.
Parminder Kaur Bhandal is a North Indian born artist, poet,
and librarian living in 'so-called Australia'.
Her practice is rooted in the soil of Punjabi-Sikh heritage
and guided by feminine mysticism.
Often shaped by a neurodivergent sensitivity to place.
She works through photography, video, poetry,
and installation, weaving together nature
and language to create works that speak to the quiet forces
that connect body, land, and memory.
Using creation as a form of resistance,
an offering in response to the ongoing destruction of body and land.
Through adorning bodies with flowers and leaves,
honouring the body as a sacred site.
TIMELINE
TASK
WRITER'S FIRST DRAFTS OF ESSAYS DUE
EDITS GIVEN TO WRITERS TO CONFIRM
WRITER'S SECOND DRAFTS OF ESSAYS DUE
EDITS GIVEN TO WRITERS TO CONFIRM
ARTIST CONTRIBUTION DUE
FINAL ESSAYS DUE
INDESIGN DRAFT PUBLICATION DUE
PUBLICATION GOES TO PRESS @ STRAY PAGES
PUBLICATION COMPLETE
EXHIBITION OPENING @ KINGS
DATE
1 JULY
10 JULY
24 JULY
30 JULY
10 AUGUST
30 AUGUST
30 SEPTEMBER
30 OCTOBER
10 NOVEMBER
FEBURARY
ABOUT
Nicholas Currie is an artist and curator working with painting, sculpture and performance.
Currie is from the Mununjali clan of the Yugambeh language group,
with connection to Kuku Yalanji, and currently lives on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne.
Humour and kindness are undercurrents to the major themes addressed in his works:
contemporary Indigenous perspectives, hauntology and exploration of identity within current Australia.
In 2026 Currie will present a large commissioned body of work in
his first exhibition within a major institution, and will also hold solo exhibitions at Daine Singer,
Black Dot and Caves, as well as a number of curated group projects. Currie has exhibited at Daine Singer,
Connors Connors, Sullivan + Strumpf, Futures, Kings Artist Run Space, Blak Dot Gallery,
Koorie Heritage Trust, Outer Space, Craft, Incinerator Gallery, Ordinance Gallery,
and the Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
He recently presented ‘Stars, Scars, Sagas' together with Amelia Griffin-Toovey
through the Public Art Melbourne Test Site program.
Currie has published two artist books with Stray Pages: I can laugh with you and OBSERVATION NOITAVRESBO.
He has a BFA Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts.