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Five Walls, 1/119 Hopkins Street, Footscray (2026)

09/06/2026

Sean Hogan
TAPESTRY S4 08
Giclee prints on Hahnemuhle 305gsm
ultra smooth photo rag
84.1 x 59.4 cm
edition of 8 with AP

Open today from 12-5pm.

Tapestry by Sean Hogan draws on Footscray’s rich and diverse community as the foundation for a new series of abstract artworks. Hogan transforms statistical birthplace data into a vivid and poetic visualisation of shared belonging.

The work reinterprets data from the 2021 Census, mapping Footscray’s proudly diverse identity through an innovative fusion of geometry and cultural heritage.

Hogan translates local demographic data into a visual language by extracting the exact colours from the national flags representing each resident’s country of birth. These colours are meticulously woven into a linear composition, scaled and proportioned to reflect the many voices of the people who call Footscray home.

The resulting artwork becomes a striking geometric archive — a snapshot in which individual cultural frequencies converge into a singular visual landscape. Tapestry ultimately serves as both a mirror of the community and an invitation to consider the interconnected patterns that emerge when diverse cultures live alongside one another.

Installed across multiple formats, the exhibition extends beyond the gallery walls and into the public realm. A large-scale printed banner will be draped across the full length of the gallery space, accompanied by a series of eight Giclée prints that further articulate the work’s rhythmic geometric language. Expansive lightbox works installed on the gallery exterior will illuminate one of Footscray’s busiest intersections — the corner of Hopkins and Leeds Street — bringing the project directly into the everyday fabric of the suburb and reinforcing its connection to the surrounding community.

04/06/2026

Please join us this Friday from 5-9pm for the opening of this special event -

Tapestry by Sean Hogan draws on Footscray’s rich and diverse community as the foundation for a new series of abstract artworks. Hogan transforms statistical birthplace data into a vivid and poetic visualisation of shared belonging.

The work reinterprets data from the 2021 Census, mapping Footscray’s proudly diverse identity through an innovative fusion of geometry and cultural heritage.

Hogan translates local demographic data into a visual language by extracting the exact colours from the national flags representing each resident’s country of birth. These colours are meticulously woven into a linear composition, scaled and proportioned to reflect the many voices of the people who call Footscray home.

The resulting artwork becomes a striking geometric archive — a snapshot in which individual cultural frequencies converge into a singular visual landscape. Tapestry ultimately serves as both a mirror of the community and an invitation to consider the interconnected patterns that emerge when diverse cultures live alongside one another.

Installed across multiple formats, the exhibition extends beyond the gallery walls and into the public realm. A large-scale printed banner will be draped across the full length of the gallery space, accompanied by a series of eight Giclée prints that further articulate the work’s rhythmic geometric language. Expansive lightbox works installed on the gallery exterior will illuminate one of Footscray’s busiest intersections — the corner of Hopkins and Leeds Street — bringing the project directly into the everyday fabric of the suburb and reinforcing its connection to the surrounding community.

Tapestry will launch in conjunction with Cine Redux on 5 June (5–9pm) at Trocadero Arcade and Five Walls Gallery, 119 Hopkins Street, Footscray.

CineRedux: Footscray Reimagined
A journey through Footscray’s cinematic past and its creative present. Hosted by Five Walls Gallery and Arcade Projects, CineRedux: Footscray Reimagined blends history, film, and contemporary art to revisit the suburb’s once-vibrant cinema culture through archival materials, local stories, and new artistic responses.

Held across two weekends — June 5, 2026, and July 26, 2026 — and centred around the historic Trocadero Arcade, CineRedux will present an immersive evening of art, projections, and live performances spanning the arcade, Five Walls Gallery and the building’s exterior. Highlights include a series of lightboxes titled Tapestry by local artist Sean Hogan, with performances by Footscray musicians Artificial Limb (Marc Eiden) and Ivofonic (Ivano Abram).
The celebrations begin on June 5, with the project extending into Melbourne Open House Weekend on July 26, featuring guided tours and guest talks that bring Footscray’s forgotten theatres back to life, as artists reimagine how moving images continue to shape the suburb’s cultural identity today.

This project is proudly supported by Maribyrnong City Council through the Love Your West grant.

see also Arcade Projects

30/05/2026

Final Day of Abstraction 2026, thank you to everyone who attended the exhibition we feel it’s been the strongest iteration of our Abstraction series to date.

A huge congratulations to all the artists for providing such a high calibre of works. And thank you to the support from our collectors who aquired pieces during the exhibition. The show wraps up at 5pm unsold works will continue to remain available in our stockroom for a limited amount of time.

Contact the gallery on [email protected] or on +61 3 90436704 for more information.

29/05/2026

We are delighted to announce Australia wide representation of Melbourne-based artist Max Lawrence White:

Max Lawrence White (b. Melbourne) is a painter whose practice is centred on the perceptual and conceptual possibilities of colour. Working within and against the traditions of geometric abstraction and hard-edge painting, White explores the interplay between structure and contingency, often employing systems of chance to generate colour relationships and compositional outcomes.

White’s earlier works were influenced in part by his Japanese heritage, drawing on spatial and compositional logics derived from tatami mat arrangements, where structure is governed by culturally embedded systems of order and auspicious placement. This emphasis on rule-based organisation continues to inform his practice, even as it is tested and expanded.
This is evident in recent bodies of work such as Measures Concluded (2021), where modular compositions are constructed through processes of layering, cutting and reconfiguration, and where mis-tint paints introduce subtle disruptions within otherwise ordered chromatic systems.

In A Challenge of Biases (2025), modular geometric structures are likewise used as a fixed framework; however, colour is determined through algorithmic processes in which palettes are generated via randomised computational procedures. Here, chance is introduced at the level of selection rather than material, positioning painting as a negotiation between control and indeterminacy.

Across these bodies of work, White positions painting as a site where order and indeterminacy coexist.

White holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from RMIT University (2011) and an Honours degree from the Victorian College of the Arts (2012). He has exhibited extensively across Australia, including multiple solo exhibitions with Artereal Gallery, Sydney, and Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne, where he is represented. His work has been featured in publications including Aesthetica, VAULT, and The World of Interiors, and is held in collections including the Justin Art House Museum (Melbourne) and COMO Art (Netherlands).

26/05/2026

Now Representing Britt Salt

We are delighted to announce Australia wide representation of Melbourne based artist Britt Salt:

Britt Salt works across tapestry, drawing, sculpture, installation and public art. Her works are complex in their construction and minimal in aesthetic, exploring site-specific and imagined architectures. Using elements of line, intuitive geometry and hand-crafted methodical processes, Salt traces the thresholds of perception - exploring colour you can’t see, sound you can’t hear, and space you can’t touch.

Salt has exhibited at PICA, Perth; Linden New Arts; Wangaratta Art Gallery; CRAFT, Melbourne; and Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery. She has received prestigious awards such as the Art & Australia Emerging Artist Award, Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship, and Highly Commended - Kate Derum Award. Salt has undertaken residencies at the Australian Tapestry Workshop; Youkobo, Japan; Arteles, Finland; Heima, Iceland; and Red Gate Gallery, Beijing. She has also created major public artworks for Melbourne International Airport, Tsinghua University Beijing, and Fender Katsalidis Architects.

Salt holds a Masters of Contemporary Art (First Class) from Victorian College of the Arts (2023) and Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours- First Class) from Curtin University of Technology. Collections include Wangaratta Art Gallery; University of Melbourne; Justin Art House Museum; and Artbank. She was recently awarded the Fiona Myer White Story Residency and Best in Furniture at the Design Fringe 2024.

26/05/2026

Now Representing Merric Brettle.

We are delighted to announce Australia wide representation of Melbourne based artist Merric Brettle:

The surfaces of my works are in a sense ‘immaculate’, not because they are perfect, but because I am disconnected from them by the air between atomised particles of paint. I hope viewers explore my presence within the works — sometimes in the surface, sometimes on it in vinyl, and at other times beside, behind, throughout, or above it as works combine to express a larger idea. In this way, I do not simply make images, but play with them as material.”

Merric’s practice is an ongoing exploration of living within an image-mediated world. His work broadly falls into two categories: ‘pattern finding’ works, which remake sampled imagery to better understand both his relationship to it and the world it represents; and ‘reflections’, which use these works or related ideas to consider existence within a surfacialised, fragmented, and mechanised world.

Central to his practice is the use of sprayed automotive lacquer to examine his relationship to sampled imagery, alongside an exploration of images as objects. This process allows him to manipulate images while retaining their sense of being ‘found’.

Over the past thirty years, Merric has exhibited extensively across Australian and Asian institutional, commercial, and independent spaces, including Terajima Kashiwa, Omotesando Garo Tokyo, Neu Contemporary Bangkok, Cartel Bangkok, Genkan Gallery Tokyo, The Japanese Consulate Melbourne, Brenda May Sydney, Peloton Sydney, Blindside Melbourne, Deutscher & Hackett Melbourne, Block Projects, and NKN Melbourne.

He was also a Monbusho (Japanese Government) Research Scholar and holds multiple degrees, including Master of Visual Art degrees from Tokyo University of the Arts and Sydney University. Merric has curated and participated in numerous Asia-Pacific cultural exchange exhibitions, particularly Japan/Australia projects in the early 2000s and Thailand/Australia exchanges throughout the 2010s.
merric

20/05/2026

Continuing today is Abstraction 2026 and includes this stunning work by Sydney based artist Daniel Hollier:

Daniel Hollier is a Sydney/Dharug & Gundungurra - based artist working across painting, drawing and sculpture.

Hollier’s work draws on disparate influences from art history to natural sciences and philosophy. He is particularly attuned to fleeting moments and unnoticed fragments, believing they hold deeper meaning. These observations become starting points for abstraction, transforming the ordinary into something reimagined.

Using irregularly shaped canvases and a variety of painting processes, Hollier blurs the line between what is seen and what is interpreted. His work balances precision with unpredictability, capturing the interconnected nature of things. He invites
viewers to tune in to the subtle language of the world, reframing the mundane as something meaningful and mysterious.

Hollier teaches Drawing and Art Processes at the Sydney School of Architecture, Sydney University. His work is held in the Artbank collection as well as private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

Pictured:
Daniel Hollier
A red painting seen from a riverside pavilion
2025
synthetic Polymer Paint on Polyester
110 x 110 cm

15/05/2026

Abstraction 2026 continues today and includes these two works by Melbourne based artist Max Lawrence White:

Max Lawrence White (b. Melbourne) is a painter whose practice is centred on the perceptual and conceptual possibilities of colour. Working within and against the traditions of geometric abstraction and hard-edge painting, White explores the interplay between structure and contingency, often employing systems of chance to generate colour relationships and compositional outcomes.

White’s earlier works were influenced in part by his Japanese heritage, drawing on spatial and compositional logics derived from tatami mat arrangements, where structure is governed by culturally embedded systems of order and auspicious placement. This emphasis on rule-based organisation continues to inform his practice, even as it is tested and expanded.

This is evident in recent bodies of work such as Measures Concluded (2021), where modular compositions are constructed through processes of layering, cutting and reconfiguration, and where mis-tint paints introduce subtle disruptions within otherwise ordered chromatic systems.

In A Challenge of Biases (2025), modular geometric structures are likewise used as a fixed framework; however, colour is determined through algorithmic processes in which palettes are generated via randomised computational procedures. Here, chance is introduced at the level of selection rather than material, positioning painting as a negotiation between control and indeterminacy.

Across these bodies of work, White positions painting as a site where order and indeterminacy coexist.

White holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from RMIT University (2011) and an Honours degree from the Victorian College of the Arts (2012). He has exhibited extensively across Australia, including multiple solo exhibitions with Artereal Gallery, Sydney, and Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne, where he is represented. His work has been featured in publications including Aesthetica, VAULT, and The World of Interiors, and is held in collections including the Justin Art House Museum (Melbourne) and COMO Art (Netherlands).

12/05/2026

Abstraction 2026 continues this week and includes these stunning works by Melbourne based artists Sean Hogan, you may recall his sell out booth at the in February this year.

Sean Hogan is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, print, and sculpture. His practice employs system-based processes and structured sets of rules to explore formal aesthetics such as geometry, color theory, proportion, and materiality. These elements reflect an algorithmic approach that bridges the gap
between human interaction and both physical and digital environments.

His recent accomplishments include being featured in the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) Melbourne Nowsurvey of contemporary art (2022–2023) with his large-scale work Volume I (2022). He has also exhibited at LaTrobe Art Institute
(2018) and participated in art fairs such as Spring 1883 and Sydney Contemporary(2021). His work has been acquired by significant institutions, including the NGV and Artbank, for their permanent collections. Additionally, Hogan was
commissioned by video game developer Tantalus to create a public artwork currently displayed in inner Melbourne.

In addition to his visual art practice, Hogan has garnered several prestigious awards, including the 2021 Australian Book Design Award and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Award in both 2020 and 2021. He has also received the Australian Graphic Design Association Award in 2020 and 2021. His collaborative projects have included work with Wired Magazine, Apple Music, and The New York Times. He has also contributed to industry discourse through lectures at institutions such as the NGV, Victorian College of the Arts, Typographics 2021, Swinburne University, RMIT University, and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

Pictured:
CS02.01
2021
synthetic polymer aerosol
on canvas boards
126 x 90 cm

CS02.02
2021
synthetic polymer aerosol
on canvas boards
126 x 90 cm

CS02.03
2021
synthetic polymer aerosol
on canvas boards
126 x 90 cm

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