Michelle Driver and Anita Kimber

Main Gallery

A quiet sense of dark desolation permeates the walls of the remaining buildings of the Parkside Lunatic Asylum. While progress has seen many of these structures remodelled and repurposed, the sobering history of this space serves as a reminder that they way in which we perceive mental health has not always been as accepting. The pieces within this exhibition offer a chance of quiet reflection on our own preconceived ideas of mental health. It also provides an opportunity to start the conversation as to how we can support those experiencing mental health crises move beyond the darkness. Note that 10% of all sales will be donated to Beyond Blue.

In Relief: sculptural translations of screens and scores

Evy Moschakis

Foyer gallery

In this body of work, I trace a timeline of game-playing, from Pac-Man, Galaga, and Tetris on arcade machines in the 1980s to New York Times puzzles, such as Crosswords, Wordle, Pips and Connections, currently played as a daily ritual on my phone. The resulting state of the game provides the constraints for my making, a ready-made composition or set of rules I didn’t write but agreed to obey. Each work reimagines the game’s screen as a wall- or table-based relief, breaking out of the square the way the game itself resolves into pattern. Wood and felt for the daily puzzles, plastic Lego and wooden cases for the arcade games, using the same materials game pieces and tokens have long been made of. Play is the methodology here as much as the subject: each piece carries the affordances of a game or a toy beyond its materials alone, knobs that read as turnable, blocks that read as stackable, cavities that read as fillable. What is offered is not play itself but the invitation to playfulness.

Exhibition opening

5:30 - 7:30pm

Thursday September 17th 2026

This exhibition will run from

September 17th to October 17th 2026