2022 exhibitions

‘Tell Me a Story’ celebrated the ancient art of storytelling.

‘Above the Canopy’ celebrated the rich and diverse beauty of the Australian natural environment.

‘Expanded Canvas’ explored the dynamic and innovative nature of contemporary painting.

'Material Reverie' explored the rich variety of materials contemporary Australian artists use in their practice.

‘Through Our Eyes’ explored the individual perspectives of artists from QArt Studio, featuring paintings that convey the limitless colours, shapes, subjects, and themes that occupy our lives.

'Painting Place' by Madeleine Thornton-Smith is a community exhibition examining pre-existing hierarchies between paintings and ceramics.

‘Streets of Your Town’ by Geoff Cunningham was a community exhibition featuring spray paint and stencil-based paintings.

'Cartoon Chronicles of Sandwich Bag Dad' celebrates Dave Blumenthal's lunch bag artworks that have entertained a growing, worldwide community of dad joke enthusiasts for nearly a decade.

‘Borrowed’ by Carla Tucker was a community exhibition featuring still life paintings that pay homage to existing artworks, including selected pieces from the Town Hall Gallery Collection.

‘Parallel Visions’ was a community exhibition exploring twentieth century Italian art and design history through contemporary artistic practices and academic research.

Featuring paintings that explore the art of expression, van Bavel experiments with vivid colours and textural surfaces, layered with compounds, material, and glazes.

‘Common Thread’ is a community exhibition featuring four artists who work with materials from the domestic setting such as needles and thread, children’s school tools, and pieces of paper.

‘Diverse Boroondara’ was a photo exhibition, showcasing the winners of the 2022 Boroondara Photograph Competition.

'The Interpreted Landscape' explores the history of Kew through the eyes of cartographers, artists and photographers, working between 1830 and 1950.

‘The Intrigue of Images’ by Donald Bate was a community exhibition featuring high energy, vibrant paintings inspired by the beauty of the Australian landscape and its myriad forms.

‘Between Worlds’ was an exhibition that explored the migrant experience in Australia.

‘Portraiture in Black and White’ was a community exhibition featuring work by three artists who omit colour from their palette to create portraits rich in tonal complexity, drama, intimacy and mystery.