Eastern Suburbs Art Group

Studio 551 is a small but elongated gallery, easy to walk through even when full. The space benefits from two large street-facing display windows, one on each side of the entrance, which bring in strong natural light and make the gallery visible from the street. Despite working in very different mediums, the artists ( Fiona Roderick, Maggie Stein, Marina Civiero, Paola Talbert, Helen Ashley) formed a surprisingly harmonious group exhibition. A key curatorial factor was that each artist had a dedicated table, creating personal “micro-spaces” within the room. The exhibition attracted a lively crowd. Conversations flowed easily; many attendees mentioned they enjoy these events for the pleasant social experience and the opportunity to connect with beautiful work while sharing a drink or fruit.

Sausage Gallery is almost certainly one of the smallest gallery spaces in Australia—essentially a single glass-fronted display window functioning as an installation space. Its extremely reduced scale forces the visitor to engage with the work in an unusually direct and intimate way. Yellow Journalism by Jenny Brown is a politically charged installation addressing misinformation, propaganda, and the historical roots of media distortion—particularly in relation to wartime narratives. The title references the term yellow journalism, originally used to describe sensationalist reporting associated with newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. According to Brown’s accompanying text, excerpts from a film biography of Hearst and imagery linked to political cartoonists are interwoven with contemporary references.  Elizabeth went o the show in her car and took the photos. From a distance the iconography of the show nis intriguing due to the presence of the Bayweuz Tapestry, a sort of embro...

Elizabeth went along to this show in October at a time  when the gallery was already completely full . From the outside you could sense a lively , positive energy . The space , though small , felt warm and inviting , with good lighting and an atmosphere that encouraged people to stay. The exhibition featured Carol Muller and Fiona Ferguson , two artists with distinct visual languages that complemented each other beautifully. Muller is passionate about architecture , presented images capturing fragments of different cities - she mentioned Lisbon , Hong Kong and a few others I couldn't fully catch because of the noise . Ferguson on the other hand , works with image layering and digital    manipulation . She uses photographs of details many taken by Carol herself , as she told me to build complex compositions full of depth and texture. The warm , festive mood and intimacy of the venue embodied the idea of " living art , approachable and unpretentious . ..