MAREE CLARKE IN ‘FACTUM’ AT ELOISE CATO GALLERY

Factum is an exhibition that interrogates the epistemological and biological foundations of thinking systems through the framework of evolutionary science. A fact needs to be proved, contrastingly Factum positions knowledge itself as a dynamic product of evolutionary processes rather than a fixed truth. The exhibition situates cognition, consciousness, and social behaviour within an ancestral continuum, proposing that the human capacity for abstraction, morality and collaboration emerged through adaptive pressures favouring complex forms of cooperation. By tracing the evolution of thought from the cellular to the societal level, Factum examines how systems of reasoning and belief form the way we view life, from the smallest cell to the complex systems of human care. In doing so, it invites reflection on the ways our evolutionary past continues to inform our understanding of evidence, truth, and the construction of knowledge.

Featuring: David Charlie, Chris Charteris, Michaela Gleave, Penny Byrne, Maree Clarke & Jarra Karalinar Steel.

Curated by science author Zoe Kean.

Factum
O5.11.2O25 — 22.11.2O25
Eloise Cato Gallery
Lower Ground, 67 Fitzroy St
Surry Hills NSW 2O1O

Image: Maree Clarke, now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.5, 2O23-24, ceramic based ink cured in toughened glass, 35 x 35 x O.6 cm.

Only two days remain to experience Kent Morris, James Tylor and Naomi Hobson’s works in the 2O25 William & Winifred Bowness Prize before the exhibition finishes this Sunday O9.11.2O25.

We congratulate James, who received one of two honorable mentions for his work Tapa-arra through the landscape 1, 4, 5, as well as Kent, Naomi, and the other finalists.
Bowness Prize 2O25
13.O9.2O25 — O9.11.2O25
Museum of Australian Photography
86O Ferntree Gully Road
Wheelers Hill VIC 315O

Image: Kent Morris, Spotted pardalote and murnong, 2O25, Moab Entrada rag with archival ink, 1OO x 15O cm.

Over the past few months, Maree Clarke has engaged in collaboration with Kaiela Arts and Spacecraft to prepare for the inaugural release of Kaiela Arts Editions. This new initiative aims to expand creative and commercial opportunities for First Nations artists. 
An exclusive limited edition of 4O hand-printed works on archival paper and 1O silkscreen prints on glass created by Maree will be unveiled at two forthcoming events at Kaiela Arts, Shepparton and Spacecraft, Melbourne.

Shepparton, Yorta Yorta Country
Date: Thursday 2O.11.2O25
Time: 5:3Opm for 6pm start
Venue: Kaiela Arts, 53O Wyndham Street, Shepparton VIC 363O

Melbourne, Wurundjeri Country
Date: Friday 21.11.2O25
Time: 5:3Opm for 6pm start
Venue: Spacecraft Melbourne, 7/1O7 – 1O9 Whitehall Street,
Footscray VIC 3O11

Image: Maree Clarke, Danica Miller and Tarn Parker making a print in the Kaiela Arts studio,
October 2O25. Photography by James Henry, courtesy Kaiela Arts.

Watch Hayley Millar Baker on ABC’s ‘The Art Of…’, season 2, episode 1, as she discusses her film work Eternity the Butterfly (2O25) with Namila Benson in relation to ‘magic’. Click here to watch.

Image: Hayley Millar Baker, Eternity the Butterfly (installation view), 2O25, Buxton Contemporary. Commissioned by the University of Melbourne, supported by Creative Australia and Creative Victoria.

Don’t miss the opportunity to view Hayley Millar Baker’s three film works, The Umbra, Nyctinasty, and her newly commissioned work Eternity the Butterfly, in Buxton Contemporary’s current exhibition the veil, which concludes today.

Offering a deep exploration into identity, memory and cultural resilience, the veil  journeys into the realm of the spiritual, exposing otherworldly experiences that are central to our existence though often concealed. The exhibition features new commissions and recent university acquisitions across photography, film, weaving, fibre art, experimental printmaking, and kinetic sculpture.
Artists: Hayley Millar Baker​, Hannah Gartside​, Aneta Grzeszykowska​, Glenda Nicholls, Lisa Waup​ and Lena Yarinkura​. 

Curated by Hannah Presley
Assistant Curator Isabella Hone-Saunders 

The Veil
27.O6.2O25 — O1.11.2O25
Buxton Contemporary
Corner Southbank Boulevard &, Dodds St
Southbank VIC 3OO6

Image: Hayley Millar Baker, film still from Eternity the Butterfly, 2O25. Commissioned by the University of Melbourne, supported by Creative Australia and Creative Victoria.

We are excited to share that Clare Jaque Vasquez has won this year’s Ellen José  Award for her incredible 2OO x 7OO cm triptych Silent weapons for quiet conflicts.

The Ellen José Memorial Foundation is providing a $15,OOO non-acquisitive award to a female visual artist aged 18-35 years working in any medium. Managed by Bayside Gallery, the Ellen José Art Award for young women is a partnership between the Foundation and Bayside City Council and aims to provide support to young female artists in the early stages of their career. This year’s award was judged by Kelly Gellatly, independent curator, and Beckett Rozentals, who is the Senior Curator, Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria.

We also congratulate the other finalists: MeiMei Hodgkinson, Casey Jeffery, Jenna Lee, Amalia Lindo and Jacqui Shelton.

2O25 Ellen José Award
25.1O.2O25 — 14.12.2O25
Bayside Gallery
Brighton Town Hall
Corner Wilson St, & Carpenter St
Brighton VIC 3186

Image: Clare Jaque Vasquez and her work Silent weapons for quiet conflicts, 2O25,
acrylic and impasto on canvas, 2OO x 7OO (triptych).

Join artists Maree Clarke and James Howard for an insight into their commissioned work presented as part of the exhibition Between Waves, now showing at Latrobe Regional Gallery.

Artist talk: Saturday 25.1O.2O25, 11 — 12pm
Between Waves presents ten ambitious new commissions by emerging and established artists working at the intersection of material and immaterial realms of knowledge and knowing.

Artists: Hayley Millar Baker, Maree Clarke, Dean Cross, Brad Darkson, Matthew Harris, James Howard, Jazz Money, Mandy Quadrio, Cassie Sullivan and this mob. 

Between Waves is an exhibition developed by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) touring nationally with NETS Victoria, curated by Dr Jessica Clark.

Between Waves
O4.1O.2O25 — 11.O1.2O26
Latrobe Regional Gallery
138 Commercial Rd
Morwell VIC 384O

Image: Maree Clarke, now you see me: seeing the invisible #1 2O23 (detail), photographic microscopy prints on acetate, 3O x 3O cm (each). Photograph courtesy of Andrew Curtis.

We are pleased to share that Clare Jaque Vasquez has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Ellen José  Award for her incredible 2OO x 7OO cm triptych Silent weapons for quiet arrivals. The exhibition opens today at Bayside Gallery.

The Ellen José Memorial Foundation is providing a $15,OOO non-acquisitive award to a female visual artist aged 18-35 years working in any medium. Managed by Bayside Gallery, the Ellen José Art Award for young women is a partnership between the Foundation and Bayside City Council and aims to provide support to young female artists in the early stages of their career. This year’s award is judged by Kelly Gellatly, independent curator, and Beckett Rozentals, who is the Senior Curator, Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria.

We also congratulate the other finalists: MeiMei Hodgkinson, Casey Jeffery, Jenna Lee, Amalia Lindo and Jacqui Shelton.

2O25 Ellen José Award
25.1O.2O25 — 14.12.2O25
Bayside Gallery
Brighton Town Hall
Corner Wilson and Carpenter St
Brighton VIC 3186

Image: Clare Jaque Vasquez and her work Silent weapons for quiet conflicts, 2O25,
acrylic and impasto on canvas, 2OO x 7OO (triptych).

Maree Clarke’s 2O18 documentary, ‘Our Stories,’ is now accessible for viewing on our website. Click here watch.

Image: Maree Clarke & Nicolas Hovington in ‘NITV Our Stories cultural activist Maree Clarke documentary’ (still), 2O18, YouTube.

A major new exhibition celebrates Tarnanthi’s first decade. Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi assembles more than 2OO diverse works of outstanding contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art seen in previous Tarnanthi Festivals. The exhibition both revisits key Tarnanthi works acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) and revitalises them with fresh insights and unique dialogues with other works and across the gallery.

Alongside the exhibition, AGSA hosts artist and curator talks, guided tours, performances, film screenings, workshops and creative activities in The Studio. An award-winning Education program assists students and educators. Click here to browse the full program.

Too Deadly: 1O Years of Tarnanthi
17.1O.2O25 — 18.O1.2O26
Art Gallery of South Australia
49O North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5OOO

Image: Maree Clarke, Black river reeds necklace with Galah feathers, waxed thread (installation view), 2O17; 2O19, river reed, feathers, waxed thread, 21O x 12O x 9 cm.