New exhibitions at Gaffa Gallery: February 4 - 15 2021

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Opening Celebrations Day with the artists: Saturday, 6th February, 10am-5pm

Gallery 1 | EDITIONS in DIALOGUE by Elizabeth Wallace

'Constructed from limited edition embroidered badges, this body of work examines the potential of the multiple and the visual dialogue between surface pattern and a 3D expression of that pattern. Despite the standardisation, and apparent identical visual aesthetics of the original design, each badge is unique as an outcome of the inevitable thread quirks within the machine-made output.'  

Gallery 2 | Becoming Bishoujo by Amy Meng

'Becoming Bishoujo is a synthesis of my on-going exploration into kawaii (cute) culture, investigated through the lens of craft and psychoanalysis. The title of the exhibition denotes my particular interest in the 'bishoujo'(beautiful young girl) as a sign, and how she magnifies the infantilisation and pornification of society. The bishoujo is what countless young women in East Asia ascribe to be, it's conception demonstrates that gender is very much asocial construct.'

Gallery 3 | _2 minutes to midnight _by Marryanne Christodoulou

'Climate change is reshaping and reforming us. As the melting arctic is shifting our oceans currents and reclaiming land, the merging of man-made waste into the natural eco-systems of our planet has transformed sea and land-scapes and created new, unfamiliar forms.

Fabricated objects such as plastics do not remain separate from the natural systems they invade - they instead merge with them, are ingested by sea creatures, breakdown in the oceans, and create new, malformed and at times otherworldly bodies.'

Gallery 4 | You Will Never Own Me by Jacqueline Meng & Emma Rani Hodges

'You Will Never Own Me' will be a collaborative show combining individual works and co-authored pieces by emerging Canberra artists Emma Rani Hodges and Jacqueline Meng, both of whom are Australians of Asian descent. Their fictitious shrine to their experiences as women of hybrid cultural identities creates a space that allows reflection on feelings of love, loss, fragmentation and nostalgia for places and cultures not completely known.'

COVID Safe Guidelines

As a result of COVID-19 & social distancing, we will not hold our typical opening night on Thursday's fortnightly. However, we will be extending our hours on Saturday from 10am - 5pm.

We ask attendees to please check in upon arrival, where masks & use hand sanitiser.

In accordance with the recommended social distancing rules, we have a maximum of 25 people allowed in the gallery at one given time. Our staff will be monitoring numbers and you may be asked to wait should we reach the limit.

We appreciate your cooperation & help!

The event will be updated accordingly on our website.