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OCTOBER 2024
MOM x PROP
INTERSTATE GROUP SHOW
‘Pallarel’OCTOBER 4TH - OCTOBER 27TH
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (DOWNLOAD NOW)
We wave the white flag by bringing together two great cities through two great art shows.
‘Parallel’ is an interstate group show where each artist has contributed one colour piece and one black and white piece. The colour works will be presented in Melbourne at MOM Gallery and the black and white works in Sydney at Prop Gallery.
Show at MOM is from October 4 - 27
Show at PROP is from October 11 - 27
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SEPTEMBER 2024
CARLA MILENTIS
& KASHI RUFFILLI O’SULLIVAN
‘How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?’
SEPTEMBER 6TH - SEPTEMBER 29TH
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (DOWNLOAD NOW)
What is beautiful?
Limitless potential.
The reconciliation of contraries.
The awesome drama of nature unfold.
The union of two bodies. The metaphysical pull that draws organisms together.
The magical images that come to us in dream.
The vehicle by which faith and myth are conveyed. Truths and stories.
Comedy and tragedy.
Agony and ecstasy.
Life is beautiful.
Milentis’s work is a result of her process-based practice that discusses
and explores the existing structures that create a necessity for constant individual self-critique and evaluation. Milenti’s
incorporates objects and imagery within her work that imbue a sense of lust, longing, aspiration, failure and
disappointment as a way of constructing a particular monologue. The artist’s practice is both personal and objective as
the parameters of her work discuss issues that can be read as individual or ubiquitous because they pertain to certain
emotional responses, resulting from social and capitalist structures. Carla Milentis often works with provisional objects;
clothing, jewellery, shoes, food, trash, ornaments, as well as other sculptural materials; clay, plaster, wood and tile. The
materials incorporated within Milentis’s work highlight the humour and the tragedy that balance themselves within her
practice as a reminder that we often laugh through our own pain. This moment is fixed within the artists practice as she
uses humour as a mechanism to discuss ideas of vulnerability, embarrassment and inadequateness.
Kashi Ruffilli-O’Sullivan is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist based on Wurundjeri country, Naarm (Melbourne).
Her work focuses on the reconciliation of contraries, with a particular emphasis on psychological and spiritual
experiences. Through a range of processes and materials, opposing forces are scrutinised in an attempt to illuminate and
harmonise the complexities of the human condition.
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AUGUST 2024
MIMI LIBRO
‘Everything Is Real’AUGUST 2ND - SEPTEMBER 1ST
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (DOWNLOAD NOW)
Everything is real - beyond vision and reason, there is movement.
The supernatural scratches at our door, whispering through the cracks. Arrested, our cynicism clouds us from feeling everything, from the depth of our reality.
‘Everything is real’ is a consideration of all that we tend to dismiss. The energy shift in a room, the weight of a soul, the force of intention - Mimi Libro’s body of work is an expression of her openness to that which lies beyond the proven, the tangible. By lending personality to the strange and ghoulish, Mimi subverts the darkness of the unknown. Her signature sense of play encourages us to accept all that we do not understand.
What happens if we open the door? Are we being haunted or offered a new perspective? Are we being given the chance to uncover everything that is real, that which was not here before?
If we choose curiosity instead of fear, embracing all that is real, we might be guided to a hopeful future.
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JULY 2024
CHUCKY EDGE
‘The Bottom End’JULY 5TH - JULY 28TH
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (DOWNLOAD NOW)
Throughout the extremely long winded and heavy lockdowns in Naarm during covid, Chucky took to the streets and did the only thing he know how, to document and explore.
This show presents images of the people Chucky met through that time in some of this city’s darker and unseen corners.
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JUNE 2024
GROUP SHOW
‘Papery’Curated by Lilly Skipper and Aaron Ashwood
JUNE 7TH - JUNE 30TH
FEATURING
Lilly Skipper, Aaron Ashwood, Ebben Saunders, Cael Gilmour, Oscar Paxton, Annie Wallwork, Yolanda Scholz Vinall, Mirjana Savic, Jacob Sturgeon, Lilyan Stark, Lily Baxter.
Papery is a group exhibition curated by Lilly Skipper and Aaron Ashwood exploring the medium of drawing through the diverse practices of eleven Naarm-based artists. Some of the chosen artists have established drawing practices whilst others are generally working outside the medium. Each artist has been asked to produce a ‘drawing’ with no specific parameters other than its size, being no larger than A3. What may be considered a ‘drawing’ has been left up to personal interpretation. Through this vague prompt, Lilly and Aaron aim to share a collection of works that contemplate the medium of drawing and highlight its precariousness.
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MAY 2024
HANNAH NIKKELSON
‘Portal’MAY 10TH - JUNE 5TH
Based in Naarm, Hannah is a photographer and the co-founder of Assignment.
‘Portal’ is a collection of anonymously submitted phone notes alongside portraits of their donors.
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APRIL 2024
SAMMY-JO & AANEKE
‘Dominiqua’s Dark Carnivl’MARCH 29TH - MAY 5TH
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (DOWNLOAD NOW)
Dominiqua was kicking it all by her ownsome n it was cold as and she couldn’t feel her fingers n jamie weren’t there no more n it’s like when your 16 n got no where to go no place to b n no one not one cunt knows where tf u r or where ur goin not even u and it hurts so bad in the most fuckedest way cos u thought he was gonna take it away and you’d be solid sweet ok cos loving feels so good n ur the hero in ur own life cos ur loved touched by love and grace of a merciful g_d n give it away for free , hand it over where’s it gone whatd he do with it. I don fucken know ain’t there no more
n turns out love don’t kill the demon didn’t kill urs n u got a rumble in ur tummy n then ur just walking and keep walking n u can’t feel ur fingers I can’t feel my fingers and I can’t dream that way no more
Based off St Kilda’s nun legend Dominiqua and her wall stories, Sammy-Jo and Aaneke combine dream fasting and hitting legs to depict the ascension of fuckedism in biddies to born again juggalettes shivving the jugular of anger management. Dominiqua’s Dark Carnivl is for all of youse Lo’s and Lette’s who get down for the clown
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MARCH 2024
AUSTIN HAIRE
‘OZ’MARCH 1ST - MARCH 24TH
OZ by Austin haire is the Second exhibition of Austin’s art works and the first time his hand made clothing has been presented and available for order. Over the last 6-8 years he has created, cut up, copied, destroyed and amended his own clothing, in doing that slowly a personal styling and fit has become a part of each piece. His latest creation’s are focusing on the outline of the object and what’s perceived as key features that would show and define its character.
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FEBURARY 2024
SPIDER X DEATH
‘The Artwork of Winter Garden Records’FEB 2ND - FEB 25TH
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (DOWNLOAD NOW)
MOM is proud to present a retrospective exhibition of Winter Garden records, a boutique lathe cut record label, founded by tattoo artist Spider X Death.
The name is taken from the apartment back where the label was first born, many years ago in the turbulent suburb of Kings Cross, NSW.
After decades of playing in many punk and hardcore bands, Spider stepped away from the mic and lived in the shadows…
Each wintergarden release is hand crafted and cut on a record lathe in true diy fashion.
This method can create a lofi sound in the records (especially in the earlier releases), so to compensate, Spider creates over the top artwork, packaging and concepts for each release.
These records are extremely limited and usually sell out in a day or sometimes an hour . Record fanatics would murder each other just to get a glimpse of a WG record.
With that in mind, for the first time ever, Spider is exhibiting all the artwork from the majority of these releases. To coincide with this event, Winter Garden will be releasing a limited Straight Jacket Nation fanzine 7” pack, which also comes with a beautiful poster and patch!
Come down early to avoid disappointment and witness Spiders first ever solo show in Melbourne .
Record collectors are potential millionaires….
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JANUARY 2024
COME BACK SOON
Group ShowJAN 12TH - JAN 28TH
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DECEMBER 2023
ROBYN DALY
‘Latin Mass’DEC 1ST - DEC 24TH
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (DOWNLOAD NOW)
Robyn Daly is a Melbourne based photographer and ceramicist, her ongoing work chases the candid moments, nondescript spaces, and in-between episodes of everyday life.
In this body of work, Robyn explores the concept of Latin Mass as a metaphor for her own medium; photography as spiritual practice. Escapism comes in many forms. Some visit a church while others play video games or doom scroll in bed. In an overstimulating and irony-poisoned world, can we still veil ourselves from the dark and twisted complexities of contemporary society? These photographs are an attempt at carving out little dips in time to reflect and consider the elemental world around us. These observations are not a rejection of reality but a forced bonding with it. Moments of appreciation to behold the mundane beauty of life and embrace duality. Honour the high-brow with the low-brow. See beyond the cracked screen and into the sunset.
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NOVEMBER 2023
COSMO
‘Dopamine Suppository’OCTOBER 27TH - NOVEMBER 26TH
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (DOWNLOAD)
Cosmo Feltham is an illustrator, tattooist and the vocalist for the industrial-electronic trio Cutting Room. For this show, Cosmo will be hybridising painting, screen printing and painted clothing, and marker illustrations on tracing paper. These works are made in the spirit of collectors, the beach combers and dumpster divers.
Cosmo invites you to bring your own clothes, trinkets or refuse for him to rejuvenate and reimagine. Cosmo also invites you to idle away the hours with him, watch him work, bring him juice, or heckle him during the duration of the show.
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OCTOBER 2023
AIDAN LINK-FREEMAN
‘i think i’m missing the point’SEPTEMBER 29TH - OCTOBER 22ND
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (DOWNLOAD)
Terra Madre Love Story - A short story by Aidan Link-Freeman (DOWNLOAD)
MOM presents ‘i think i’m missing the point’ a debut solo exhibition by Aidan Link-Freeman
Aidan is a multi media artist who works with the relationship between the written word and painting in an attempt to obscure and reveal understanding of consciousness and the physical environment.
At the cafe a man in his 30’s is reading Jack Kerouacs On the Road
I am doom scrolling an instagram page titled DailyDoseOfCringe
We are one in the same
I am afraid to get my tarot read
the same way I’m afraid to go to the doctors
Despite my ibs
True love will have to guide me
If I’m missing the point please let me know
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SEPTEMEBER 2023
JACK SUMMERS
‘Wasn’t Me’SEPTEMBER 1ST - SEPTEMBER 24
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE ︎︎︎ (DOWONLOAD)
MOM Gallery presents ‘Wasn’t Me’, a solo exhibition of paintings by Melbourne based artist Jack Summers.
In the exhibition, Summers’ paintings are the final product of a relationship between painting mediums and the collective and personal unconscious. The artist works with meditation, dreaming, movement, flow and symbology in order to create a series of works that do not solely feel like his own doing.
I think of gardening together
Trying to pry oxalis from the ground without breaking their delicate clusters
of tiny chickpea-sized bulbs.
But they would always snap
And we knew that even if we extracted thousands of them, all their dormant children waited to sprout again.
An eruption of yellow laughter, from their foamy carpet of goats feet.
Bermuda Buttercup
a will o’ the wisp, in the shadow of the sea,
We spoke of dreams.
Crouched beneath maples, recalling the hazy week of visions.
Trying to reconstruct the glisten of night dew, into a clear prism, as to split darkness, into the colour of day.
Or the other way round.
Or somewhere in between,
a pure volcanic glass, of dark rainbow obsidian
knocked over by mistake, spilling all that Self into self, or the entire circumference of time into a moment of space
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Reminds me of that sludge in the well we used to play in.
That game,
Where you conceal your head from your body and then forget where you buried it.
propagating and multiplying.
Like those weeds.
thousands of pure silica spheres, compressed atop one another, endlessly refracting light into the most brilliant of opalescent hues, without a grain of pigment
It's the same as the colours bleeding through the raw cotton,
There were a lot of wells, we got lost in -pores in the skin - but that was the point right?
You get the muck, and its Rorschach stains, and our imprisoned associations. And his free radicals,
And hold the unbearable mystery beneath the magic of its laughing flowers.
And in company, you inhabit the rubble of broken buildings
and monasteries,
or a hospital bed, or that train that foretold it all.
And then you remember,
(You’ve always been gifted at that)
and the deluge evens out into a blossoming wetland.
of tiny yellow oxalis
- text by Adam Gottlieb
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AUGUST 2023