Platforming new artists and thinking
New works showcasing bold ideas, diverse mediums and unique perspectives that strengthen communities is the focus of the three solo exhibitions on display between 18 April to 13 June at the Incinerator Gallery.
The artists were drawn from the Incinerator Gallery’s call for proposals last year and form an annual exhibition called “Platform Projects.” Each artist is either emerging or mid-career and connected to the Moonee Valley community.
Works and artists include:
we/us/theirs/all by Norton Fredericks – the Murri artist confronts our current epoch of catastrophe by exploring material culture and pre-industrial crafts, examining the past while looking toward the future and asks how we interact with our own dreams and hopes.
Alas-alasan by Leo Bagus Purnomo – the Naarm-based artist uses traditional batik motifs of animals and plants with the forest symbolising the place between the earth and gunung (or ‘mountain’) aka heaven. Leo’s works asks questions about what resists and what seeps through.
Tending the Invasion by Angus Scott – this photographic installation looks at blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) as a ecological, colonial and personal entanglement. Rather than framing the plant as a problem to be solved, the artist seeks to approach it as a living presence shaped by histories.
This exhibition cements the Incinerator Gallery’s reputation as a place of innovation and thinking.
Key dates:
• Opening night – 17 April
• Public Program – 30 April and 28 May. Join us on the last Thursday of every month for late-night sessions
ENDS
Image credit: Angus Scott, Acts of Crushing, 2025, pigment print