The Fruits of Resistance

Melak Khaleel

Main Gallery

This body of work serves as a visual guide to food insecurity, environmental terrorism, and the impact of colonial and capitalist practices. Throughout the exhibition, the viewers are invited to reflect on their experiences as consumers of food, a basic human right, and how this right is practiced throughout the western world. From people starved to death in a western society, millions of dollars worth of food ending up in landfill, to school children unable to afford their lunch, you are encouraged to think twice about who has the power to create this inhumane world and who benefits from these policies. Melak’s duty as a political artist is to highlight the realities of the increasingly volatile food market, and our government’s complicity in destroying indigenous lands and biodiversity for capital gain. You are urged to think of this fact:

On these stolen lands we plant olive trees—alien and invasive roots that choke the native earth—while across the seas, ancient groves burn in Palestine, their branches severed by bombs, their roots erased with the blessing of our government and funded by our taxes. One hand sows violent displacement and the other signs off on annihilation.

Foreshadow

Kaitlyn Davison

Foyer Gallery

A body of work emerges from the uncertainty and inevitability of change.

It feels natural to hide in the foreshadows, to linger in the liminal and belay that which alters.

But there is no safety in stagnancy and I must melt and reform over and again. 

Is there a hint of what comes next folded into the everyday?

Within the dust, the old frames, walking down a familiar corridor.

I feel myself trying to push through a closed door, 

always wondering what lies behind.

Debut solo exhibition by artist, Kaitlyn Davison - FORESHADOW is a glimpse of more to come. Implementing creative writing  techniques to discover a symbolic self mythology within her creative practice, Kaitlyn invites you to wander down a corridor. What will you see?

Opening for both exhibitions is at 5:30 to 7:30pm on Thursday 27th March 2025

The exhibitions will run from May 2nd to 31st 2025