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Five Walls Projects Five Walls' project spaces available by application for solo and group exhibitions.

19/08/2026

Trevor Richards is recognised for a formally structured minimalist approach to making paintings and sculpture, and his practice reflects an interest in the way structures, surfaces and patterns are integral to our lived experiences. He has completed artist residencies and exhibited throughout Australia, Switzerland, France, Poland, and Germany since the late 1970’s.

More recently he has extended his practice beyond the studio, creating site-specific interventions in architectural spaces, applying hard edged colour to floors, walls, windows, and roads.
The works in this exhibition are part of an ongoing series of paintings using circular motifs, commenced in 1999, of which a sample of recent works will be shown in the Five Walls Gallery. Open to interpretation, and spatially ambiguous, this grouping allows colour to playfully react both within each individual panel and throughout the ensemble. Aerosol spray paint is applied to aluminium panels, using masking film and circular objects from the artist’s house and studio as templates to produce variations of centres and peripheries, with a specified colour palette providing an overall continuity.

His engagement with the nature of perception and the materiality of painting, documenting processes that yield both object and image invite the viewer to participate in an orchestration of colour, surface and space. He is a founding member of the international artist collective, the Australian Centre for Concrete Art.

Continuing in Project Space 4 is Symmetry and Integration by Melbourne-based artist Thalia Robertson: As a painter, the ...
14/08/2026

Continuing in Project Space 4 is Symmetry and Integration by Melbourne-based artist Thalia Robertson:

As a painter, the modernist approach to the medium is at times irresistible because of its tangibility. This is my third exhibition following a trajectory of materiality and geometric abstraction, and to my surprise when I thought I had pushed a particular lyrical form to its limit there was more in the bank. I keep expecting to run out of ideas, but the opposite occurred. This time in the guise of a mirror effect that began with a few works included in the exhibition ‘The Third Element’ 2025 at Five Walls gallery extended into and expanded in this current body of work.

I utilise the Rorschach style form as a way of looking for signs from the impersonal other through the uncanny, trying to resolve polarisation and integrate dissonant elements, here represented by colour, into an experience of wholeness, as symmetrical pattern. The veneer of a logography raises questions about the human propensity for order, the demand for forms which make sense.

Producing this work with basic tools and materials: hammer and nails, wood and glue, brushes, paint, medium and relying on painterly conventions to convey the illusion of depth and space is apparent, but do these subjective decisions make a difference to the final product? To be clear, I could have employed AI, used a colour APP, and bought pre-made grounds. The time spent pondering pictorial elements could have been shortened by employing current technologies.

Human agency is the issue. Is the work somehow more humanly ‘authentic’, to use a modernist term, because it is hand-made and the process slow, or a representation of a redundant old school craft ethos? Does this only bring relief to an otherwise disjunct and fractured assemblage of colours, lines, and signs? Does it even matter?

Thalia Robertson, 2026

Thalia Robertson

For a catalogue of available works contact Missy on [email protected]

Continuing in Project Space 3 is Sample by Fremantle-based artist Trevor Richards:Trevor Richards is recognised for a fo...
07/08/2026

Continuing in Project Space 3 is Sample by Fremantle-based artist Trevor Richards:

Trevor Richards is recognised for a formally structured minimalist approach to making paintings and sculpture, and his practice reflects an interest in the way structures, surfaces and patterns are integral to our lived experiences. He has completed artist residencies and exhibited throughout Australia, Switzerland, France, Poland, and Germany since the late 1970’s.

More recently he has extended his practice beyond the studio, creating site-specific interventions in architectural spaces, applying hard edged colour to floors, walls, windows, and roads.

The works in this exhibition are part of an ongoing series of paintings using circular motifs, commenced in 1999, of which a sample of recent works will be shown in the Five Walls Gallery. Open to interpretation, and spatially ambiguous, this grouping allows colour to playfully react both within each individual panel and throughout the ensemble. Aerosol spray paint is applied to aluminium panels, using masking film and circular objects from the artist’s house and studio as templates to produce variations of centres and peripheries, with a specified colour palette providing an overall continuity.

His engagement with the nature of perception and the materiality of painting, documenting processes that yield both object and image invite the viewer to participate in an orchestration of colour, surface and space.

He is a founding member of the international artist collective, the Australian Centre for Concrete Art.

For a catalogue of available works contact Missy on [email protected]

Trevor Roy Richards

images:

Trevor Richards
Sample 1-40 (detail)
2025-26
aerosol spray paint on aluminium, each panel
27cm x 25cm

Opening this Friday in Project Space 3 is Sample by Fremantle-based artist Trevor Richards:Trevor Richards is recognised...
27/07/2026

Opening this Friday in Project Space 3 is Sample by Fremantle-based artist Trevor Richards:

Trevor Richards is recognised for a formally structured minimalist approach to making paintings and sculpture, and his practice reflects an interest in the way structures, surfaces and patterns are integral to our lived experiences. He has completed artist residencies and exhibited throughout Australia, Switzerland, France, Poland, and Germany since the late 1970’s.

More recently he has extended his practice beyond the studio, creating site-specific interventions in architectural spaces, applying hard edged colour to floors, walls, windows, and roads.

The works in this exhibition are part of an ongoing series of paintings using circular motifs, commenced in 1999, of which a sample of recent works will be shown in the Five Walls Gallery. Open to interpretation, and spatially ambiguous, this grouping allows colour to playfully react both within each individual panel and throughout the ensemble. Aerosol spray paint is applied to aluminium panels, using masking film and circular objects from the artist’s house and studio as templates to produce variations of centres and peripheries, with a specified colour palette providing an overall continuity.

His engagement with the nature of perception and the materiality of painting, documenting processes that yield both object and image invite the viewer to participate in an orchestration of colour, surface and space.

He is a founding member of the international artist collective, the Australian Centre for Concrete Art.

The opening runs from 6-9pm and All Welcome !

For a catalogue of available works contact Missy on [email protected]

Trevor Roy Richards

Artwork image caption: Trevor Richards Sample 1-40 (detail), 2025-26, aerosol spray paint on aluminium, each panel 27cm x 25cm

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