Launch: Wednesday 9 July 6–8PM

Recounting Connections navigates a collective reimagining of communal relationships as well as how we might rethink our connection with the natural environment through shared storytelling. This exhibition features five emerging artists, brought together through this year’s Peer-to-Peer mentorship program. Centred on a discursive approach, works in this exhibition re-envision our understanding of death, animal behaviours, and the tension between the fragility and resilience of the ecosystems that surround us. Through a diverse range of media, the exhibition invites consideration of one’s position within these interconnected systems of memory, time, and ecological transformation, prompting reflection on collective responsibility and possible futures.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Nahbananas is a multi-disciplinary artist who explore the interconnections of everything that surrounds us. Her process is intuitive, guided by the materials she works with. Her practice examines the rhythms of daily habits, movements, and contemplation through craftsmanship, experimental techniques, and everyday materials, emphasising environmental impact and connection to our surroundings.

Liên Ta is a queer Vietnamese-Cantonese Australian writer and artist based in Naarm. His works revolve around themes of family, queerness, and community, taking the form of poetry, essay, mixed media art, and theatre.

Jessie Turner investigates speculative futures through photography and sculpture, focusing on the intertwining of future and past, to create a layered time that positions the natural world as an all-consuming, ever-present entity with sentience far outweighing our own. Investigating specific moments in history and their relevance to contemporary and future times, Jessie’s works evoke a fantasized melding of time and place to create hallucinogenic worlds.

Emma Lyn Winkler is an artist who's practice is, at it's core, about the question of how to deal with death as the ultimate, inevitable unknown. Emma explores anxiety, failure and the absurd through a personal yet playful methodology that finds intersections of collage, painting and animation. Through intricate paintings, layering a network of imagery, medieval-inspired ceramics and slapstick animations, Emma encourages viewers to laugh in the face of death - or at least have a conversation about it.

Abhijit Pal is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist working with photography to explore social memory, cultural narratives, and collaborative storytelling. Trained in Graphic Design (Kolkata) and Photography (Dortmund), his work has been exhibited internationally, including at Jimei x Arles (China), Deutsches Haus (New York), and Serendipity Arts Festival (India). A recipient of the Nat Geo Moment Award and London International Creative Competition, Abhijit’s practice blends documentary realism with conceptual inquiry rooted in visual ethnography.

Image Credit: Abhijit Pal, ছোড়দি – My Elder Sister – 1 (Detail), 2025, embroidery on archival photo print, 420 × 594 mm