the.renshaws

28/05/2026

Susan Jacobs solo exhibition ‘OK Half Half OK’ opens tomorrow evening!

Friday 29 May, 6-8pm
4 Prospect Street, Fortitude Valley Q

Exhibition Continues: 30 May - 1 August, 2026

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‘OK Half Half OK’ is an exhibition of relief sculpture, embossed works on paper and photography. It studies organic matter, urban infrastructure, items of domestic utility, and fragments of consumer waste; united through the effects of pressure.

Through mimicry and replication, close attention is drawn to things mundane discarded or weathered, untethering them from their functional limits to enliven their affective and symbolic potential.

An ensemble of objects reflects the feedback loop consciousness in constant transformation, between interior states of mind and the external physical world. The stubbornness of the mundane gives way to momentary poetic equations, where private worlds hold common problems.

Image: OK Half Half OK, 2025 - 2026
Jesmonite, acrylic, graphite, wax, aluminium & 169 cast ignots (thirteen bakers dozen)
73 x 290 x 5 cm

21/05/2026

Susan Jacobs’ 1/2 OK / OK 1/2
Opens Next Friday May 29, 6-8pm.

We hope to see you there.

Image: Æther / Either / Nether / Neither, 2026
Jesmonite and acrylic paint, 395 (h) x 295 (w) mm

15/05/2026

FINAL DAY TOMORROW A huge thank you to all our friends, colleagues and supporters who have celebrated Edwina McLennan’s - Haptic Fiction exhibition with us.

We are so fortunate to work alongside all our incredible artists.

Haptic Fiction, Edwina’s third solo exhibition with .renshaws is phenomenal- If you haven’t seen the work in person as yet - I would urge you to come and see us tomorrow, these works need to be experienced in person to understand the delicate tension and the intricate surfaces of the works.

Edwina McLennan- Haptic Fiction
Last day Saturday 16 May 12 - 4pm
The Renshaws
4 Prospect St
Fortitude Valley

If you’d like to be on the waiting list for new works by Edwina - just let us know by DM

13/05/2026

Monique Lacey
28 March 1960 — 12 May 2026

We are heartbroken to share the news of Monique Lacey’s passing.

Monique was extraordinary. Anyone who knew her would say the same. She was wonderfully kind and thoughtful, and yet with a directness that was so refreshing to be in the company of. Monique utterly gave herself to her art and her newfound career as an artist. It was clear too that she was equally committed to her family and anyone lucky enough to know her.

Monique was so immensely grateful to Foenander Gallery in New Zealand and West End Art Space in Melbourne for their unwavering support of her practice. And we thank them both too. Danielle and I were so fortunate enough to have known Monique and she will leave a lasting impact on our lives.

Our deepest love and sympathy are with John and their children.

Gosh we’ll miss you Mon.

06/05/2026

The Renshaws is thrilled to announce the representation of Sydney-based artist Karen Black.

Black works across painting, ceramics and sculpture to explore the body as a site of both trauma and resilience. Her practice operates in the tension between abstraction and figuration; and myth and autobiography. For Black, painting is not mere representation but embodied thinking: a cyclical, recursive process of emotional archaeology in which paint is laid down, scraped back and softened until what remains is less an image than an accumulation of energies. Rooted in a politics of care and attention to the historically invisible, her work offers a space of radical empathy, where softness becomes a form of resistance.

The Renshaws are also enormously grateful to Sutton Gallery, whose 12 years of dedicated support have been foundational to Karen’s practice. That relationship continues, and we look forward to working alongside them in support of Karen’s career.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​



Image: Karen Black ‘Fire and ice’ 2020
Oil on canvas, 1985h x 1368w mm
Photograph: Mark Pokorny

02/05/2026

Congratulations to Tarik Ahlip on winning the 69th Blake Prize with ‘On Her Return (Facial Burns and a Garland of Flowers)’, 2025. Plaster, pigment and sand, 1200 x 2400 mm.

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30/04/2026

17/04/2026

Edwina McLennan’s solo exhibition ‘Haptic Fiction’ opens next week!

Haptic Fiction presents a new body of mixed-media works that explore the sensory, psychological, and spatial conditions of contemporary life. Situated between the tactile and the constructed, the works unfold as surreal, non-linear environments in which interior and exterior worlds collapse into one another. Fragmented cut-outs simultaneously accumulate and erode meaning, building and unravelling narratives in the same gesture.

Opening Friday 24 April, 6–8pm
The Renshaws’
4 Prospect Street, Fortitude Valley Q

Exhibition Continues: 25 April – 16 May 2026

Image: Hecate, 2026
Acrylic and sublimation dye print on velvet with sequins, thread and interfacing
138.5 x 120cm

09/04/2026

Rebecca Diele’s practice resonates with the precarious systems that shape our present politicaly-unsettled, environmentally-fragile and socially-shifting moment - a time in history where stability is provisional and transformation emerges, more often than not, out of disruption. Diele’s work can be situated within a broader lineage of minimalist and systems-based abstraction, where artists have long used repetition, structure and rule-driven processes to explore how form evolves over time. In this tradition, Diele begins with ordered frameworks such as grids, sequences and repeated gestures. But rather than pursuing purity or permanence she allows these systems to soften, warp and shift under pressure, becoming sites of subtle deviation where small interruptions transform the system from within. These gestures create works that hold a moment just before collapse; a moment where fragility and strength remain inseparable and where structure and instability may co-exist.

Diele brings a heightened sensitivity to form, structure and material behaviour, constructing environments in which materials are both disciplined and free. Through this negotiation between rule and deviation, her work considers how systems evolve under pressure and how disruption can become a generative force for transformation.

Contact us for more information.

Rebecca Diele Danielle Renshaw