NEXT EXHIBITIONS

Opening: Saturday 16 August, 4 to 6 pm
16 August / 21 September 2025

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gallery one

PAUL WHITE
Shades and fades

Over time, memories of and from

moments I’ve been and things I’ve seen

digital instants, made analogue and slow

the works and the play, make sense of a place within

fantastical colours fade to soft, sometimes too hard

machines that move us, like us can stop

things that grow overcome and flourish

also perish and devour 

the earth erodes, we add to it

we take from it, we make from it

the brutal the beautiful

all is magical is all

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Paul White is intrigued by obsolescence, the passage of time, and the notions of transformation associated with it. He is interested in how memory, place, and time shape us, and in examining particular yet often random moments from his personal history and movements to map out a navigation and exploration of the world. Working from photographs White has captured, these images represent fleeting moments, but become thoroughly investigated through his process of working with pencil on paper. This is not only an attempt to gather every degree of information from the image or moment, but also a way of slowing down the world through the process of creation.

Paul White's art practice explores the everyday through pencil work on paper. He has an MFA (Art) from California Institute of the Arts and is a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholar. He has been awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant, Metro Art Award, John Villiers Outback Art Prize, Omnia Art Award Works on Paper and is a two-time winner of the Muswellbrook Art Prize works on paper. He has been a multiple-time finalist in awards such as the Dobell Drawing Prize, National Works On Paper, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Paul Guest Prize, Rick Amor Drawing Prize and Fishers Ghost prize. He has works in the collections of Artbank, Rockhampton Museum of Art, Newcastle Art Gallery, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, the Kedumba Collection and private collections.

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gallery two

HONOR FREEMAN
Familiar & Strange

Clay is a material that embodies both control and chaos.

Ideas of containment occupy the making and embrace clay's capricious nature in this suite of work. Familiar & Strange plays with ruptures, leaks, and growths, highlighting the tensions between material dualities: soft/hard, beautiful/ugly, fragile/durable, liquid/solid.

Ordinary and seemingly insignificant items intimately connected with the body—chewing gum, soap, towels, hot water bottles—are cast in porcelain and transformed, becoming strange souvenirs and nostalgic relics from the domestic landscape. These ubiquitous objects, caught

between discarded beauty and unsettling decay, reflect their leaking and rupturing states.

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ceramic space

JADE POWER
Quiet Exchanges

Jade Power’s practice is grounded in a deep engagement with material, and the quiet yet rigorous labour of making. Working primarily with porcelain, she approaches creative practice as a space where control yields to collaboration.

Through slow, repetitive gestures, she builds an embodied relationship with materials. The work often begins with precise, intentional forms, which are then subjected to processes that invite transformation, risk and unpredictability. Gravity, heat, and the agency of the kiln act as co-creators - warping, collapsing and reshaping the work beyond the artist’s hand. Surrender to the unknown is central to her process. Rather than pursuing perfection or predetermined outcomes, Power welcomes uncertainty as a site of possibility - where form, meaning, and knowledge emerge through chance, disruption, and collaboration. The completed works become a dialogue between meticulous labor, repetition and control; balanced with the spontaneity and volatility of ceramic processes.

Power explores how precarity and paradox can be held within a material practice. Her work negotiates the space between structure and collapse, control and surrender and resists the drive toward fixed outcomes or resolved forms. Rather than seeking resolution, her practice dwells in these tensions, treating contradiction not as a problem to solve, but a space to inhabit. 

An ongoing negotiation with self, material, and the world, her creative practice is a space to unlearn control and stay with uncertainty. Power’s work invites slowness, reflection, and presence. This way of working becomes a metaphor for how we might move through the world. Her practice is about staying with the trouble - offering a quiet reflection on the complexity of the human experience.

Jade Power completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics at RMIT in 2024 and is currently undertaking her Honours degree. Her graduate work recognised with several awards, including the Fiona & Sidney Myer Ceramic Art Award, the Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia Award, and the Stockroom Kyneton Exhibition Award—offering her the exciting opportunity to exhibit with Stockroom. Power’s graduate work is also currently featured in Hatched: National Graduate Exhibition at PICA.

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