https://quality1b.com quality Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:36:18 +0000 https://quality1b.com en http://quality1b.com/Jaydon Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:36:18 +0000 quality 459174 &lt;AUG25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; OFF SEASON Jaydon Martin Off-Season offers an exploration of a British seaside town during the winter season, where the vitality of summer has dissipated, leaving behind an atmosphere imbued with melancholy and spectral quietude. Through its observational lens, the projection renders the town as both a physical and metaphorical space in transition, where the rhythms of daily life for its remaining inhabitants echo the pervasive stillness of their surroundings. Deftly examining the cultural and socio-economic erosion of modern day Britain, capturing the physical and symbolic decay of a once-thriving locus of national identity. It interrogates the tension between nostalgia and modernity, positioning the town as a microcosm of broader societal shifts. The imagery reveals a nation grappling with the aftershocks of its imperial past, now overshadowed by contemporary uncertainties and the hollowed-out promises of neoliberalism. The depiction of labour is particularly evocative, illustrating the Sisyphean toil of elderly day labourers engaged in repetitive, physically taxing work for minimal recompense. The relentless churn of the cement mixer becomes an aural metaphor for the inescapable cycles of monotony and futility that define their existence. The collapse of traditional rituals and cultural practices are supplanted by commodified markers of identity. Replacing these waning traditions with pop-cultural icons. At the centre of the piece is Darren ’Graceland‘ Jones, a former steel worker turned day labourer, who periodically escapes his drudgery by transforming into Elvis. This fleeting metamorphosis elevates him to a quasi-divine status, exposing both the deep yearning for transcendence and the fragility of identity in a post-industrial context. His performance underscores the precariousness of the facades individuals construct to navigate a reality characterised. Jaydon Martin is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker whose practice draws upon the exploration of maligned cultures, mundane existence and spiritual modernity. Working class expression is at the forefront of his work. Creating a sincere portrait of a community often discarded or politically commandeered. Blending documentary with fiction to mine the universal longing for human connection.Martin’s films have screened internationally at festivals, including at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Warsaw International Film Festival, São Paulo International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival &amp; Melbourne International Film Festival and has received a Special Jury Prize at IFFR and the Black Magic Innovation Award at MIFF. His work has been written about in publications including The Guardian, Variety, Screen Daily, Criterion, Sight and Sound’s Weekly Film Bulletin &amp; The Monthly. <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/798e1f25923fdab91999b536e3ae118a6a6e58ba2d7651a25ab96dec3f8c3b99/IMG_7991.JPEG" data-mid="1432374" border="0" /><img width="1080" height="1920" width_o="1080" height_o="1920" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/54a250ce0a5c6054fc59a6964ebc0c557b1f63bfc599365adfc88f1cee30db9f/vlcsnap-2026-02-18-10h46m57s197.png" data-mid="1432378" border="0" data-scale="48"/>&nbsp;<img width="1080" height="1920" width_o="1080" height_o="1920" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6795de666867ea832a5facbde16fd9c1a34e144a4c34fc3ac06973a98033948c/vlcsnap-2026-02-18-10h46m33s675.png" data-mid="1432380" border="0" data-scale="48"/><img width="1080" height="1920" width_o="1080" height_o="1920" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/492ff545f7139d3131fe9eadd8134ed12673e1880e970d4b5ef2aef6fa2be512/vlcsnap-2026-02-18-10h46m05s875.png" data-mid="1432379" border="0" /> &lt;AUG25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; OFF SEASON Jaydon Martin Off-Season offers an exploration of a British seaside town during the winter season,... http://quality1b.com/Virginia Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:22:26 +0000 quality 459173 &lt;OCT25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;SOMETIMES LADY MACBETH POPS BY TO COMPARE LEGS Virginia Leonard Virginia Leonard’s ceramics sit boldly on the ground. Sometimes Lady Macbeth Pops By To Compare Legs, the heavier/darker of the two works, is bejeweled by wisps and clumps of resin with a painterly slip of pure gold running down one side. Sometimes Hillary Mantel Pops By To Compare Legs, the lighter work, commands its space, its smallness not overwhelmed by its bigger companion, as blue and clear moulded transparencies seemingly slide over its form. In both, the resin is frozen in time, as if in a still photograph, as it is just about to drip. The black velvet beneath them, sourced material used for filmic backdrops, disappears, and an abyss is opened. The movement of the resin remains paused, about to spill and spoil the surface below or disappear into nothingness. In this space, Virginia’s sculptures shift from 2D planes to 3D floating forms, their elevation constantly shifting and never repeated, echoing the suspension between the light and dark planes of perspective they are poised within. Virginia’s works contend with their innate fragility of material and form, that becomes heightened as we circumvent their precarious placement just above the ground. As our bodies negotiate the vulnerable edges and corners of the plinth within the architectural space itself, our eyes contend with sculptures’ denial and embrace of gravity. Virginia Leonard works in Auckland Aotearoa, a ceramic sculpture. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Whitecliffe College of Art and Design. Her work is held in private and public collections internationally and she is represented throughout the world. She won the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2025, Premiere Prize and Officine Saffi Milan Italy in 2021. She is also included in Thames and Hudson London publication of 100 Sculptures of Tomorrow. She has spent time in both Denmark on residency at Guldagergaard- International Research Centre and France at Glass House/Stone House. Next year she will spend 3 months in Rome at c.r.e.t.a on residency. Presented in collaboration with PAULNACHE <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/98f9ff89fc6d87b430b89460f7f5a56b9d04b13ef4fc8e9c2fcc75e4c3aad2b7/IMGP3376.jpg" data-mid="1432369" border="0" /><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/adb4e25de7ac1292512b0b76c4e3df9b4c9040a3ea6a063763d811ee6556d8ae/IMGP3383.jpg" data-mid="1432370" border="0" /><img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/16bdc09a7c35665fb8f4e22ee95aaf003d620ce181967d869d7c8e0dd43d74ce/IMGP3399.jpg" data-mid="1432372" border="0" /><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/36fbf7bdef46769f4494f5a8b6dd52f2332ff209ef15eba66b47ba506799f435/IMGP3393.jpg" data-mid="1432371" border="0" data-scale="48"/>&nbsp;<img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/82c240e20c87fdea619f588e7f037b6e8b34227172bf203f079ac55d8b6e13f6/IMGP3387.jpg" data-mid="1432373" border="0" data-scale="48"/> &lt;OCT25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;SOMETIMES LADY MACBETH POPS BY TO COMPARE LEGS Virginia Leonard Virginia Leonard’s ceramics sit... http://quality1b.com/Sylva Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:10:10 +0000 quality 459172 &lt;SEP25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;COMING ONTO ME Sylva Storm Away From Me I guess this is some heavy work, a great mass of art I made while doing the heavy lifting. The work is finished now, but the heavy lifting is what living feels like, though sometimes it can feel like flying instead. This work is about some hard shit, but it’s really mainly about love. It is about the desire to tend to and locate something across myself, to tend to something in us. This body of work tracks its way out of painting, into performance and then video. This body of work anchored me across four studios: it crossed the Nullarbor and came home, it tracked through a heartbreak, five house moves, the messy complexity of care, and a new love. It bore witness to a whole pile of hard and beautiful, and pulled me up by my socks over and over. This work lodges bridges between the personal and theoretical to understand the collective possibilities in making and performing. These works excavated my body and a collective body’s relationship to gender, performance, care, the closet, sex and death. It is a series of love letters. Special thanks to Celeste de Clario, Fergus Davidson, Benj Ramsay and Cornelius Wong. Sylva Storm is an interdisciplinary artist working and living on Wurundjeri, Woi-wurrung land.Their practice is interested in the body as a collective site. A personal archive visited by desire, collective and queer historiographies, humour and labour. Using their body as a consistent link, they work through mediums of performance, video and painting. They have completed a residency at Chateau Orquevaux in France as well as the SUPERMASSIVE mentorship with APHIDs. Recently they completed a residency with artist Amrita Hepi at her studio in Bangkok as well as exhibiting Jacuzzi at The Nicholas Building, Wet in New York at Revolu Gallery (USA), Two Way Dream at ATVB and Cruising at Blindside ARI. <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e06a0caae582d61464f6717e5557b7707d1726d7ae12955790719dc644273ee9/IMGP3271.jpg" data-mid="1432360" border="0" /><img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a1179a6c2286c68a7230b69f75945af1d00507f51afd5b8ab78bab312a1b1d70/IMGP3211.jpg" data-mid="1432368" border="0" /> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/42d46b9ccdeb96091d6db9f6bd502def55f70d9d98aaa25cc148f92fb0c42893/IMGP3252.jpg" data-mid="1432364" border="0" data-scale="48"/>&nbsp;<img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e42f3dba912a6f919ddb67b07094f1601e3bb3479abc09a8838bdd5c66d78240/IMGP3258.jpg" data-mid="1432365" border="0" data-scale="48"/><img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/68f944090fb03d966cd32aecafc2a6bd2e2d54f882e96946004a43fb7930e9ec/IMGP3208.jpg" data-mid="1432363" border="0" /> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/32b196779be90266b7bf6afeabcae8a0eeeca946964359569a4c313a614d2e60/IMGP3216.jpg" data-mid="1432362" border="0" /><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/07c02652b6b8eb2a796fd828b1f0fe710b61371e5a6f2ee718b5074e3a92a248/IMGP3269.jpg" data-mid="1432366" border="0" /> &lt;SEP25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;COMING ONTO ME Sylva Storm Away From Me I guess this is some heavy work, a great mass of art I made... http://quality1b.com/24-Frames Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:40:11 +0000 quality 457719 &lt;AUG25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;24 Frames&nbsp; Felix Adsett + Peter Adsett 24 Frames is a collaboration between Peter and Felix Adsett, father and son with backgrounds in painting and film respectively. This installation arose from ongoing discussions about how film and painting could converse through the shared site of Quality. Integral to this was that their making, the paintings and the film, would be undertaken in this space. The result is a series of 24 brushmarks made by Peter and filmed by Felix. Peter’s brushmarks reflect 24 versions of a repeated action, with each result changed by slight differences in pressure and position. This is filmed by Felix using a camera capturing 1500 frames per second that reveal these variations, including details almost imperceptible in the final product, such as the initial quantity of paint at the tip of the brush. In its entirety, 24 Frames embodies different relationships to time that are somewhat at odds with the mediums of the work. Felix’s film could be mistaken as a still image, its movement only just noticeable, that rewards our patience only in our waiting. Peter’s paintings are dynamic and quick, and gesture to an action and decision honed by forty years of practice. In these practices, Felix and Peter’s unhurried collaborative process reflects a slowing down of time and celebration of the basic principles of their disciplines. Sophie Adsett Catalogue Download Catalogue here Felix Adsett24 Frames2025Single-channel video11hrs 06mins 31secs Peter Adsett24 Frames2025Acrylic on paper670mm x 505mm each Please note with purchase, each brush stroke has a film/video that accompanies it <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/dba0a3571e890e22d3f6b505cd0af06df0ef33cbc26aeba074360602d37bdbb2/IMGP2898.jpg" data-mid="1432346" border="0" /><img width="2456" height="3680" width_o="2456" height_o="3680" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ddb1ea48828daded0cf166fdee7accf9c1ea90eb4deb0c6e1d9a1a295d282bbb/IMGP2887-3_small.jpg" data-mid="1432354" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="2456" height="3680" width_o="2456" height_o="3680" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/330a48d56d3e42f7649e39313c7fefcb987145449c24c602d8af72a280582cd5/IMGP2917-2_small.jpg" data-mid="1432356" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/eba0a9be84dd5d7b61dfe077409e1aba6526c6057afcd45192961c0d3094cc08/IMGP2916.jpg" data-mid="1432350" border="0" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9c5b313f0c380ea8566a8550948f182cd085deef55275258ec07bce910c4211d/IMGP2925.jpg" data-mid="1432353" border="0" /><img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f288e7bb331b925821fe763310ba9f39315a541c30ba37453a5536408eb61835/IMGP2920.jpg" data-mid="1432349" border="0" /><img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f2676337b24f284590d2763c0067a63ce30854ae157e537c3de7e73b034e5174/IMGP2927.jpg" data-mid="1432351" border="0" /><img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/443289d15f42dbd5d276f8c67f9cbd806cc0b54e880e8953e6df5bc4ae7aae16/IMGP2929.jpg" data-mid="1432348" border="0" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/73b3e7b574b23b63e542263c0981c384baf3f1fe400c741b6cca9f89ce42fe59/IMGP2928.jpg" data-mid="1432352" border="0" /> &lt;AUG25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;24 Frames&nbsp; Felix Adsett + Peter Adsett 24 Frames is a collaboration between Peter and Felix Adsett,... http://quality1b.com/Xav-Lemon-Scented Mon, 16 Jun 2025 05:59:46 +0000 quality 457127 &lt;MAY25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;LEMON SCENTED Xavier Wear Gardener Quality presents Lemon Scented by artist Xavier Wear Gardener. Lemon Scented, more often than not I find myself counting the steps from one slab of concrete to the other . Searching for the finite details between the cracks. Looking up when prompted, a smell, a scent, whatever grabs. But no more than a glance. This exhibition attempts to capture that feeling Returning for his second solo show at Quality, Xavier Wear Gardener strengthens his ties to the space through a series of paintings using the same material of the Quality projection surface. The works blend seamlessly with the space and create an exhibition that is intrinsically of ‘Quality’. Xavier Wear Gardener is a self taught artist practicing in Melbourne. Working with paint but experienced with sculpture, video art and sound. Learning art through fields of work. Metal, wood, wax etc.This influence is clearly seen through the aesthetic components of their various projects. All of the aforementioned materials (wood, metal and wax) appear repeatedly in all exhibited works. (Bricks also). <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/92c5514bf2da6c0d23506a4d307aaa578d16fb8b6020d8da7e5249805e3d4cf4/IMGP2080.jpg" data-mid="1410648" border="0" data-scale="100"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e5528c65ba3987655012dd2c493f26c13623eeb8eed9ad1a0274f06f934f4b77/IMGP2129.jpg" data-mid="1410660" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/110d7989947fc859d2cfe9ab6e54646f369518568e1199dbc599d7f653b1ef2d/IMGP2132.jpg" data-mid="1410659" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1465fb8a1f14a0bf2c871c065da4575a5cf740966cdc8cbb9d09ee176e31a52a/IMGP2122.jpg" data-mid="1410657" border="0" data-scale="100"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8d866361a4d7138123f3b94a637ba2bd69034150ca3b0c730a7090ff566962aa/IMGP2130.jpg" data-mid="1410655" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6615218d15ce6b8087f02b7eb99a26a29462d912d1febb6d1069dc24747f81f1/IMGP2145.jpg" data-mid="1410658" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ac22509c661b318d3d8465fb99a079465dee72080d4879eb698ef4fa55cbdf38/IMGP2088.jpg" data-mid="1410663" border="0" /> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2216518ef13a12eedde0a8419cf71f8f6d5a2f896705a384f5b4c908c297af0f/IMGP2074.jpg" data-mid="1410650" border="0" data-scale="48"/>&nbsp;<img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/47a08b28e483e16e46cc74121778679ed2ab8aed0935c6f0d2ba86aeffd78dc6/IMGP2070.jpg" data-mid="1410651" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0749d938214e7a0eba7731eb5d152500329162fb0882c21095ea4e0bdbc7b3b4/IMGP2073.jpg" data-mid="1410649" border="0" data-scale="100"/> &lt;MAY25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;LEMON SCENTED Xavier Wear Gardener Quality presents Lemon Scented by artist Xavier Wear Gardener. ... http://quality1b.com/Bella Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:17:51 +0000 quality 456687 &lt;APR25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;RITUALISING LEISURE Monash University Quality presents Rituals of Leisure by Monash Architecture students from the Bachelor Design Studio of the same name led by Bella Singal.&nbsp;Ritualising Leisure explores rituals within material cultures of stone, timber, and metal. This exhibition questions leisure as a necessary and intentional practice—one that is deeply political, personal, and communal. Through various sensory installations, Ritualising Leisure invites visitors to reflect on how rituals of care and play engage with the past and present of Abbotsford. Situated between the pre and post industrialised cultures of materiality, the exhibition draws from diverse cultural traditions around rituals surrounding the lifecycles of materials. Ritualising Leisure asks: What does it mean to step on stolen land? Who gets to access leisure, and who is excluded? How can rituals connect us to a specific place and knowledge? In tracing these questions, the exhibition becomes not just a site of display but a living space for materials. Rituals of Leisure is an exhibition by Monash Architecture students from the Bachelors Vertical Design Studio: Ritualising Leisure, led by Bella Singal. 1. Systouiqial by Chloe Burridge and Elisa VenturiniA system that leads and ends with liquid.2. Serene New Dawn by Serena Zhang and Taining GuoEnduring spirits of struggle, transformed into belonging.3. Restruction by Georgia McKerral and Kayla SalterRe-destroying previously repaired.4. Comporture by Kira BirkettRepetition of the banal, mundane, everyday.5. Perstelling by Olivia Goro and Linton LawnBlocks breathe stories into form.6. Recontimberise: Reclaimed Memory by Arwen Espanola and Nemuel SolivenReverse form, repositions memories of construction.7. Salt, Pepper, Mustard, Vinegar by Jennifer Kuncheria and Julia SweeneyJump on stone, see what happens.8. Sensoring by Vanessa Ngo and Nadia NazariGranular textural journey of hands and feet.9. Momentrick by Irfan Baset and Nafeesa MaksudMotion of a moving body through brick. <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1cf9f798ea4d8f3e48d5861053a128507659e2fbf65ba27ca0f9a6e7e748ddcc/IMGP1667.jpg" data-mid="1405751" border="0" /> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/faa89df74d9f56b4b07eec9cfaf40209b28dd2c015b6a7122908fb036f19f09a/IMGP1646.jpg" data-mid="1405775" border="0" data-scale="48"/>&nbsp;<img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8cacbceae546db68f5d69b1fa20c9f04b178016882cb3a9526346bac4bc5fcec/IMGP1655.jpg" data-mid="1405776" border="0" data-scale="48"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6b5f08e3f7d5a4dce72b47b251ebd53282d47116bcbb346f9480f4f7210ca1d7/IMGP1648.jpg" data-mid="1405766" border="0" data-scale="48"/>&nbsp;<img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/99f1b883a171872f92716e1af872d795c65e0277882753bff4f717efa61b8bf1/IMGP1669.jpg" data-mid="1405763" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ad51b9c4d78d0ef15daa5b0f16e11994ea81dd805743875c2ce5274a4121777a/IMGP1666.jpg" data-mid="1405774" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9f3cac35aa66e62a3d2240373672ca911c9da898feab615adde103bcbd5a408f/IMGP1671.jpg" data-mid="1405772" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/47985f08457cf831a673cc2335ce72c622f072d1ee9a934586a48a340ef323f7/IMGP1649.jpg" data-mid="1405767" border="0" data-scale="48"/>&nbsp;<img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8d122d26f0ab9213a434721b44014a7ba7abaae549d03d7b51db7dd0b956f4e5/IMGP1653.jpg" data-mid="1405762" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2f05c3df3de1bc6e725d84b2ee4f942ddef6379c4c14c8c3b6262094e01a4962/IMGP1659.jpg" data-mid="1405753" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c18c27df6c1b52e4cbfa6f8e4c663c51bd6f89f8bc7f65b5c87c17084da45037/IMGP1661.jpg" data-mid="1405758" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e1aeccb4f4ba537065a2ba08c4d155618a255b7b4d20df45a0e9930e1c2be967/IMGP1660.jpg" data-mid="1405750" border="0" data-scale="100"/> &lt;APR25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;RITUALISING LEISURE Monash University Quality presents Rituals of Leisure by Monash Architecture... http://quality1b.com/Lucas Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:08:38 +0000 quality 456478 &lt;MAR25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;ROMBONGAN JAMORAN Lucas HaynesQuality presents Rombongan Jamoran by filmmaker Lucas Haynes.Opening night6-9pm, Thursday 20th MarchGallery hoursSaturday 22 March to Sunday 23 MarchOpen 12-4pmAddressUpstairs, 1b Marine Parade, AbbotsfordIn the densely populated urban areas of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, public space has been continuously adapted to fit human needs—whether as gathering spots for people drinking tea and coffee or as places where clothes patiently hover together at the front of our homes. These communal bodies, waiting for the sun, engage in their own silent dialogue with the street and the community around them before returning inside, crisp and warm.This exhibition celebrates whatever exists just outside the front of your house.The event will feature two screenings, accompanied by a live music performance from Robbie Devine and Anonymous Gamer Boy, and an installation designed in collaboration with Quality.Lucas Haynes, an independent filmmaker and curator based in Yogyakarta and Melbourne, specializes in experimental documentaries and video installations. Engaged with Melbourne collectives like AFW and Smiles Cinema, he integrates soundscapes, sculpture, and expanded cinema into his work. “I mostly just make films to relax,” they say. <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1482b55222986991b5d9aabdea146d256b4577aa2915a0532db953b47afb4128/IMGP1386.jpg" data-mid="1403402" border="0" /> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8b73f4e56648c4fdc178452af66e8a0ac5b0cccb123a44fa84312bdec108dd09/IMGP1415.jpg" data-mid="1403406" border="0" /> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5fa56ff8ddcce9b50a29024147effe64af9c0a5ab2c4dbb73f174060ccc00b5e/IMGP1379.jpg" data-mid="1403400" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/22a05d8e357f3e376fbce7e3edd29f0ea154e51c7aa8987ef4e62de507889c15/IMGP1383-2.jpg" data-mid="1403409" border="0" data-scale="48"/> <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b6d2077edb2cea118adfccf9ab5983852b63cbae95dff8e42d439b6cab9d5cc1/IMGP1412.jpg" data-mid="1403404" border="0" /> &lt;MAR25 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;ROMBONGAN JAMORAN Lucas HaynesQuality presents Rombongan Jamoran by filmmaker Lucas Haynes.Opening... http://quality1b.com/Collective-Territories Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:24:38 +0000 quality 455937 &lt;FEB24 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; GROUNDING Collective Territories + Jo Scicluna Quality presents Grounding Practice, Process and Place by Collective Territories and Dr. Jo Scicluna.Opening night6-8pm, Friday 31st JanuaryGallery hoursFriday 31 January to Sunday 9 FebruaryOpen daily, 12-5pmDrawing on the collaborator’s shared Maltese ancestry and associated cultural experiences, this exhibition choreographs a series of propositions that materialise GROUNDING, a collaborative and interdisciplinary framework developed by Collective Territories and Artist Dr Jo Scicluna. The exhibition explores modes of displacement through embodied site testing along the Merri Creek and within the Quality exhibition space.GROUNDING grapples with the notion of multiple material origins and complex connection to homelands. The collaborators looked to discarded basalt building remnants that occupy the site as a reflection of diverse trajectories of migrants coming to this land. Highlighting the changing value of materials when seen through a colonial lens: extracted, shaped, constructed and then discarded, this project explores how reorienting the act of displacement can become a tool for exposing and critiquing problematic histories and approaches to the landscape. Collective Territories team: Ella Gauci-Seddon &amp; Joseph Gauci-Seddon &amp; artist Dr Jo Scicluna <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c44cf987378667857dd74161149561b98bf43f0b3ccc96dba20ba7c81bd936ce/IMGP0965.jpeg" data-mid="1400796" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/676db14c8ed3a708c9907f4b6f3ba05cf30ce28aa5b99300a1b7ea04951f3001/IMGP0944.jpeg" data-mid="1400797" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6dab8189d41cdf3b7e70e63a157dd20771e0157adaf95f608a17e5f527e50a46/IMGP0923.jpeg" data-mid="1400805" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/312a4b4cc846d4bc1de2053bfbf641fb57e27effa655822d3991e7580a6e7214/Copy-of-IMGP1015.jpeg" data-mid="1400800" border="0" data-scale="45"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fc29e094818e083d3204322ec60ec8796b77558ed06cbd936fc8dbf57781a664/Copy-of-IMGP0920.jpeg" data-mid="1400811" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c713dfcb7bdcac904af1f8c8e5fd03a6270e41983c8420f4eef5968971e6ac76/Copy-of-IMGP0949.jpeg" data-mid="1400799" border="0" data-scale="45"/> <img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9cfc26b560854a904ff7a78ebdb6513554ce7414b3824d591a7f5461471b801c/Copy-of-IMGP1029.jpeg" data-mid="1400802" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/29d96f787470318b8dd92106a7ed2d8110931ceb3ae5fc14cd487d471f0133de/Copy-of-IMGP0921.jpeg" data-mid="1400807" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1431860756e8be2b0f09aa6ff5d1ea9244329e28cdd63599dfd63aa0bafbc15f/Copy-of-IMGP0983.jpeg" data-mid="1400804" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a4a5d40294ed01c7b8b525bae5990688ef0a7518dce9bdce77cd888b8b2d708e/Copy-of-IMGP1051.jpeg" data-mid="1400808" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0b72f832371c7a5724018641901b37ab1e25d0fcb4375ff00dece32cc499d908/Copy-of-IMGP0926.jpeg" data-mid="1400801" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d6ec078b37cc4449a82b0332dcf0b398c158b607123ab2bb5fbc597fd8e50b86/Copy-of-IMGP0909.jpeg" data-mid="1400803" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/66bc766545852d6bca193be99d05dc3c5ded7dc7e5697ffdf3aad2c73a2e0a4c/IMGP0957.jpeg" data-mid="1400809" border="0" data-scale="45"/><img width="1367" height="2048" width_o="1367" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7e41c992f8c514d0ff552256d0b92b8bfd841ecfe8189950c7a4fea8a8d49c2d/Copy-of-IMGP0930.jpeg" data-mid="1400798" border="0" data-scale="45"/> &lt;FEB24 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; GROUNDING Collective Territories + Jo Scicluna Quality presents Grounding Practice, Process and Place by... http://quality1b.com/Kohl Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:41:56 +0000 quality 455058 &lt;DEC24 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SUB- SUPER- Kohl Tyler Quality presents ‘sub- super-’ by artist Kohl Tyler, in collaboration with MARS Gallery, Naarm Melbourne.Gallery hoursFriday 29 November to Friday 6 December12-4pm, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday and FridayOpen by appointmentIn a dimly lit space, six vessels subtly glow in place, seemingly unstable, either hanging precariously beside us, or perfectly balanced on plinths of stacked cinder blocks. The forms challenge their perceived fragile state (and associated ‘feminine’ connotations) through their unwavering instability in space. They cannot be rooted in one place, one environment, one time. Rather, they appear as if falling, about to tumble over, whilst solidly staying upright. They challenge our need for our bodies and visions to steady them as we teeter nearby, and in doing so, they assert a specific unsteady presence upon us. Tyler’s control of her materials - porcelain and stoneware - are explored at two different scales. The stoneware is the base for the two larger pieces within the space; a tripartite vessel with each segment pulling away from the core, and a hanging form, a hint of greyish blue apparent, its rippled edges spilling out from its centre and folding back onto itself. Their glaze, dolomite with small diopside crystals, covers its surface with different effects. In some parts, the glaze pools, creating a solid white spill with a shimmer from an additional glaze elixir of whiting, kaolin and potash feldspar. Whilst in other areas, the stoneware below breaches through and creates a striped and textured surface of vertical lines. Tyler reveals that this effect is the result of an intentional lack of control when firing. Rather than use ‘medium-fire’ whereby the heat ensures a reliable finished form, Tyler relinquishes her vessels to ‘high-fire’ that pulls the vessels in different ways and challenges the glaze’s adherence to its surface. Here, the earthen vessels, reminiscent of dream-like ecological findings, become affected by the elements, much like other natural organic beings, and, are in turn, shifted and shaped. Tyler’s entrance into porcelain has also challenged her understanding of humidity, heat and fire. Rather than her familiar tacky stoneware, the porcelain is butter soft and pliable. Unlike the aged appearance of the large stoneware forms, these four smaller vessels are brighter, newer somehow, or even futuristic. They shift towards the horizontal, rather than the vertical, as they spread outwards. Stratums and growth sitting the tallest on its very small, perfectly balanced base, reaches outward as if in search for sun, light and warmth. sub- super- are defining prefixes to the vessel’s conditions within space. They are from below or underneath, their earthen origins made from the subsoil below our feet. Equally, they are reminiscent from the beyond, or the above, their ephemeral qualities as if from both the past and future, an unstable timeline of historical misplacement. On a smaller scale, Tyler’s process of building up the forms, layer by layer, sub to super, reveal subtle datum lines around their torsos. A scar here or there shows this more obviously, whilst a particular angle of light might reveal a slightly rippled surface. Installed in Quality, with its multiple vertical and horizontal reference lines, these datums reflect a similar approach to scale as that of a wall, floor and ceiling. Much like the building of a dwelling, different levels are built upon each other to define space, manipulate light and create atmosphere. In sub- super- Tyler explores two different material substances that embrace and reflect the material and elemental conditions around them. In the six white seemingly fragile forms, the connection between the artist and her earthen material is revealed to create something that is squarely within our environment, of our environment, and about our environment. The result is a series of sculptures that speak to a unique relationship between the maker’s hand, the conditions of the environment around her and her vessels, and the ferocity of light and heat on material ecologies. Text by Sophie Adsett Kohl Tyler is an Aotearoa New Zealand-born artist based in Naarm Melbourne since 2018. Driven by an interest in ecology and navigating one’s enmeshment within it during the contemporary age, Kohl Tyler looks to the natural world, sciences, archives, and phenomena as starting points in her sculptural practice. Ideas of interconnectedness, life’s ephemerality, and notions of ecological grief are then explored and realized predominantly in ceramic sculptures, occasionally in watercolour and through social practice. <img width="6795" height="4535" width_o="6795" height_o="4535" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f9e1cb104d72156673f9bd667e9a116e03c6bb51df3dc4a2fc57abede59c6c56/IMGP9913.jpg" data-mid="1388236" border="0" data-scale="92"/> <img width="4213" height="6313" width_o="4213" height_o="6313" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1bf7c025851b81d7cfa0c49665110af9f0ee97f36d5d99377a109a1c48cdf04a/IMGP9914.jpg" data-mid="1388237" border="0" data-scale="92"/><img width="6643" height="4433" width_o="6643" height_o="4433" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5df5367db74905f96ab25a0c1b91c7eb4b233c0778083ed68a46d6de374bb058/IMGP9900.jpg" data-mid="1388239" border="0" data-scale="92"/> &lt;DEC24 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SUB- SUPER- Kohl Tyler Quality presents ‘sub- super-’ by artist Kohl Tyler, in collaboration with... http://quality1b.com/Xavier Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:46:47 +0000 quality 454613 &lt;NOV23 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; RETURN TO NATURE Xavier Wear Gardener “These four paintings are about homebuilding. What I mean by “home” is perhaps better defined as a sanctuary, a bubble. A need shared among all creatures. Homes and burrows, nests and cars. Whilst it is an undeniably precious process, all require the repurposing of both materials and space. The innate flaw of construction is that it necessitates destruction. The imagery of pests and invasive species perfectly parallels our relationship to both the material nature of home building as well as our state of mind we inhabit whilst constructing the home. The wood, the stone, and the mud we use to build our homes are much like the pests we pluck from the earth. Repurposing and reclaiming them both to shape our own world for comfort. Invasive species, like our homes, often disrupt ecosystems and environments. Our desire for expansion and convenience, alongside our nest building tendencies, mirror the behavior of these creatures. We too cruise upon land, like a fleet of pests. The title for the collective works ‘return to nature’ was ripped from a development display suite in Bellfield (pictured above). A mostly empty lot on Liberty Parade, with a steel box and these words on the front door. I found it funny and undeniably fallacious, the feeling this scene invoked stuck with me. Rather than a direct harsh critique, it’s a ridiculous feeling I wish to provoke with these works. Ant on a raft, toad on the road, the paintings are a fictitious depiction of this idea. They embrace the beauty and the brilliance of home building, as well as the ugly and comical nature of it. The pests are parading upon or within their mobile homes. It’s an ugly reminder of our place within construction and destruction. But the homes they ride have character and meaning. Built of precious objects and meaningful items, imbued with poetry. . . These paintings contain all facets of home, the good and the ugly. Both my work and this empty lot are a surreal reflection upon the idea of home.” Xavier Wear Gardener is a visual artist, working and practicing in Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. This exhibition “Return to nature” is Xavier’s most recent exploration into the idea of home, more specifically the process of homebuilding..Imbued with poetry, fingerprints and history, the paintings are a surreal reflection upon construction, deconstruction, homes, nests and cars. Consisting of four large scale works, Xavier Wear Gardener and Quality invite you to join us for an immersive visual experience and shared reflection upon our own meaningful homes. <img width="4504" height="5136" width_o="4504" height_o="5136" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b4387cf243edad4614219448cef61a9dd3a67ef7c779f0d111dfb5754c92a9f0/IMGP8573_small.jpg" data-mid="1381857" border="0" data-scale="100"/><img width="4360" height="4930" width_o="4360" height_o="4930" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/604987fe9bb877b3b7101a5c03f0d20fbcba2acc9f39d38dc768f11b61cb3d0e/IMGP8571_small.jpg" data-mid="1381860" border="0" data-scale="100"/><img width="4571" height="5185" width_o="4571" height_o="5185" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/614ac7f4a98f749915f18e7d20e8bff3b1c37f7c0380348949f209313b04a8e6/IMGP8572_small.jpg" data-mid="1381859" border="0" data-scale="100"/><img width="4426" height="4977" width_o="4426" height_o="4977" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/120ce1d7e7c4660102d7309fa229a31b7f8754017039164231fd98cf595241c1/IMGP8570_small.jpg" data-mid="1381858" border="0" data-scale="100"/> &lt;NOV23 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; RETURN TO NATURE Xavier Wear Gardener “These four paintings are about homebuilding. What I mean by...