Flinders Lane Gallery

Flinders Lane Gallery Flinders Lane Gallery is a dynamic Melbourne art gallery, exhibiting exceptional and collectable art

Flinders Lane Gallery is a dynamic Melbourne art gallery, exhibiting exceptional and collectable artworks since 1989. Located in the heart of Melbourne’s vibrant Flinders Lane cultural precinct, FLG shows new solo exhibitions by represented artists every three weeks.

Kim Anderson has spent two years on the seven drawings at the centre of our stand, and Sydney Contemporary is the first ...
26/08/2026

Kim Anderson has spent two years on the seven drawings at the centre of our stand, and Sydney Contemporary is the first time they will be seen together.

Shown here are details of the full artworks. Three artworks from the 'Fugue' series and four from the 'Into Thin Air' series, all made for this presentation, hung in alternating rhythm on a black wall: figure, forest, figure, forest.

The 'Fugue' drawings take their name from the dissociative state, a mind fleeing a reality too large to hold. A woman stands still while her hair whips across her face. The features are gone. The body is caught between walking away and staying where it is.

'Into Thin Air' is the counter-movement. The figure leaves the frame and the forest takes it, light burning through the canopy until form dissolves at the edges.

Both sit underneath Anderson's doctoral research at the National Art School: The Grief Paradox: Solace and Mourning in a Landscape in Crisis.

Ink, charcoal, graphite and cold wax on paper. Every mark by hand.

Across the stand, on the white wall, 'Extinction Denied' by Stuart McLachlan and Simon Cardwell answers her. The two practices work as a call and response: the body undone by the world it loves, and the world being slowly, carefully rebuilt.

📍 Stand E01 | Sydney Contemporary | Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh
📅 Collector Preview Wed 2 Sept | Fair open Thu 3 – Sun 6 Sept 2026

Contact us for a catalogue preview [email protected]
https://flg.com.au/pages/exhibitions/sydney-contemporary-2026

Our Melbourne exhibition of new watercolours by Margaret Ackland continues this week. The painting "Inheritance" lays tw...
26/08/2026

Our Melbourne exhibition of new watercolours by Margaret Ackland continues this week. The painting "Inheritance" lays two ornate silver serving spoons, family heirlooms of the artist, across a Spode bowl, seen from directly above on a faded botanical cloth. Look into the bowl and the pastoral scene has shifted: aircraft cross the sky, smoke rises behind the ruins, two figures, one with a rifle in hand, stand watching. The spoons catch a warm gold, the reflection of the artist in her own peaceful and sunny studio, the only heat in an otherwise cold blue picture. "Beneath the optical flourish of Ackland's works lies a more conceptually charged undercurrent." excerpt from the catalogue essay by Elli Walsh

Margaret Ackland: Reflections
Exhibition showing 18 August - 12 September 2026

Flinders Lane Gallery, Level 1, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
flg.com.au/pages/exhibitions/reflections

FLG present for Sydney Contemporary 2026 ‘Extinction Denied’, a collaboration between internationally recognized artists...
25/08/2026

FLG present for Sydney Contemporary 2026 ‘Extinction Denied’, a collaboration between internationally recognized artists, paper sculptor Stuart McLachlan and photographer Simon Cardwell.

McLachlan hand-cuts white paper animals and architectures, moon gates, bamboo scaffolds, velvet-rope barriers, and stages them inside co-created dioramas. Cardwell photographs those sets at cinematic scale.

Up close, the fragile paper and the visible set-building make it obvious these are things built by hand on a table. At a distance, Cardwell's photography turns it into a luminous, believable world, closer to a documentary scene from a future we could choose.

Cardwell + McLachlan together present three species brought back through sustained human care: the American bison, the Siberian crane and the Arabian oryx.

Images contain stills from the making of the artworks and details of final photographs. https://vimeo.com/1219430903

📍 Stand E01 | Sydney Contemporary | Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh

📅 Collector Preview Wed 2 Sept | Fair open Thu 3 – Sun 6 Sept 2026

Tickets: link in bio

Contact us for a Catalogue preview [email protected]

"Poppies, Spent" stands two cut-crystal vases side by side, poppies in orange, yellow, white and pale pink spilling over...
24/08/2026

"Poppies, Spent" stands two cut-crystal vases side by side, poppies in orange, yellow, white and pale pink spilling over the edges. The black and crimson coral and koi print echoes the organic flow of the petals it frames.

At 140cm wide, this is one of the largest works in the show. "The still life becomes a kind of pictorial pressure system as decorative textiles melt into the florals they ostensibly frame, causing a vivacious collapse of background and foreground." excerpt from the catalogue essay by Elli Walsh⁠
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Margaret Ackland: Reflections⁠
Exhibition showing 18 August - 12 September 2026⁠
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Flinders Lane Gallery, Level 1, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne⁠
flg.com.au/pages/exhibitions/reflections

FLG is heading to Sydney Contemporary 2026! Stand E01, Carriageworks, 3 – 6 September.⁠We are bringing two Australian p...
23/08/2026

FLG is heading to Sydney Contemporary 2026! Stand E01, Carriageworks, 3 – 6 September.⁠

We are bringing two Australian practices in close conversation: the ink and graphite drawings of Kim Anderson, and the paper sculptures and large-scale photography of Stuart McLachlan and Simon Cardwell.⁠
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These two practices are rooted with similar environmental concerns, but working from opposite poles. Anderson moves inward, into the body and the psyche, rendering planetary crisis as something felt in muscle and nerve. McLachlan and Cardwell move outward, into the landscape, asking whether the endings we have authored might yet be rewritten. Together they work as a call and response: the body undone by the world it loves, and the world being slowly, carefully rebuilt.⁠
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Above the stand, a hand-cut paper heron with a two and a half metre wingspan will hang in flight, a flock of smaller herons in formation beneath its wings.⁠
McLachlan takes this work to Carriageworks weeks before he shows at Homo Faber 2026: An Island of Light in Venice, under the artistic direction of Es Devlin.⁠
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This is the 10th edition of Sydney Contemporary: 110+ galleries, 500+ artists, four days at Carriageworks. We are looking forward to seeing you there. See the link in profile for tickets⁠
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📍 Stand E01 | Sydney Contemporary | Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh⁠
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📅 Collector Preview Wed 2 Sept | Fair open Thu 3 – Sun 6 Sept 2026⁠
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https://flg.com.au/pages/exhibitions/sydney-contemporary-2026

"Commemorative Plate" 2026, fills the entire sheet with the incongruous but beautiful combination of a rich Turkish carp...
21/08/2026

"Commemorative Plate" 2026, fills the entire sheet with the incongruous but beautiful combination of a rich Turkish carpet and an intricately detailed English Spode ceramic plate. Look into the transfer-printed scene and the pastoral idyll has been rewritten. Instead the artist Margaret Ackland has painted black smoke rising over the ruined arcades, small figures fleeing, and planes flying around the border. "Her Spode plates and vessels subtly depict a world mired in unrest and instability, where figures clipped from newspapers enact scenes of suffering and devastation." excerpt from the catalogue essay by Elli Walsh

Margaret Ackland: Reflections
Exhibition showing 18 August - 12 September 2026

Meet the artist and celebrate with us at the exhibition opening party today - on
Saturday 22 August 1 - 3pm
Light refreshments provided. We look forward to seeing you there.
RSVP appreciated to [email protected]

Flinders Lane Gallery, Level 1, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
flg.com.au/pages/exhibitions/reflections

Margaret Ackland's "Poppies with Background Noise" displays a gorgeous array of poppies in red, coral, cream and yellow ...
20/08/2026

Margaret Ackland's "Poppies with Background Noise" displays a gorgeous array of poppies in red, coral, cream and yellow bursting out of a blue-and-white Spode jug. Behind them the toile wallpaper contains both pastoral figures and references to contemporary life cleverly and subtly included. The rich saturation of the flowers lifts the whole piece with an exuberant flourish. "The result is a visual vibration that keeps the eye in motion, producing paintings that behave less like static still lifes than active perceptual events." excerpt from the catalogue essay by Elli Walsh

Margaret Ackland: Reflections
Exhibition showing 18 August - 12 September 2026

"Poppies with Background Noise" – 2026
Watercolour on paper, framed
109cm x 97cm SOLD

Meet the artist and celebrate with us at the exhibition opening party on
Saturday 22 August 1 - 3pm
Light refreshments provided. We look forward to seeing you there.
RSVP appreciated to [email protected]

Flinders Lane Gallery, Level 1, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
flg.com.au/pages/exhibitions/reflections

"Dahlias, Dancing" by Margaret Ackland, sets luscious pink dahlias in a smoke-grey glass vase against a black and white ...
20/08/2026

"Dahlias, Dancing" by Margaret Ackland, sets luscious pink dahlias in a smoke-grey glass vase against a black and white diamond lattice. The pattern behind them dances across the paper, its repeats vibrating at the edge of vision while the flowers stay soft and still. Where the vase meets the cloth, the lattice bends and pools inside the glass. "The domestic interior becomes a site of controlled instability, as reflective surfaces, patterned grounds and carefully arranged objects conjure dynamic tensions." excerpt from the catalogue essay by Elli Walsh⁠
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Margaret Ackland: Reflections⁠
Exhibition showing 18 August - 12 September 2026⁠
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"Dahlias, Dancing" – 2026⁠
Watercolour on paper, framed⁠
140cm x 91cm⁠
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Meet the artist and celebrate with us at the exhibition opening party on⁠
Saturday 22 August 1 - 3pm⁠
Light refreshments provided. We look forward to seeing you there.⁠
RSVP appreciated to [email protected]⁠
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Flinders Lane Gallery, Level 1, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne⁠
flg.com.au/pages/exhibitions/reflections LINK IN BIO

Margaret Ackland's "Peonies and Red Shibori" leans magenta peonies out of a ribbed glass vase against a shibori cloth in...
19/08/2026

Margaret Ackland's "Peonies and Red Shibori" leans magenta peonies out of a ribbed glass vase against a shibori cloth in vermilion and white. The dyed chevrons drive the eye upward while the blooms fall outward, and the two rhythms gently opposing each other. Red against red is a hard ask in watercolour, and Ackland resolves it by weighting the flowers with deep aubergine shadow. "Working with high-key palettes and jolting chromatic contrasts, Ackland marries mustards with mauves, saturated reds and pale washes." excerpt from the catalogue essay by Elli Walsh

Margaret Ackland: Reflections
Exhibition showing 18 August - 12 September 2026

⁠"Peonies and Red Shibori" – 2025
Watercolour on paper, framed
140cm x 90cm

Meet the artist and celebrate with us at the exhibition opening party on
Saturday 22 August 1 - 3pm
Light refreshments provided. We look forward to seeing you there.
RSVP appreciated to [email protected]

Flinders Lane Gallery, Level 1, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
flg.com.au/pages/exhibitions/reflections

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