Between Surfaces | Group Show 2026

Between Surfaces

4 May - 10 May 2026

Andrew Hillhouse

Andrew Hillhouse is a contemporary artist based in the hinterland of Eumundi, Queensland. His work is deeply influenced by the natural environment and farmland surrounding his studio.

Andrew’s passion for painting and drawing has been a lifelong obsession.

Andrew Hillhouse works primarily in acrylic paint on canvas from his studio in the Sunshine Coast hinterland west of Eumundi.

His formal training is as an Architect/Urban Designer. His architectural training involved a significant amount of drawing and art history which complimented his own personal investigations in pastels, acrylics and water colours.

Andrew’s current body of work is characterized as abstract impressions of the natural environment, designed to evoke emotional responses.

His series “There is Another Sky” features highly textured paintings that capture moments or fragments of memory in a pixilated, pointillist style. These works are unified by their depiction of light using textured acrylic paint with varying degrees of translucency and reflectivity.

There is Another Sky, 2025, Acrylic on $13,400

on canvas, 150 x 150 cm each (dyptch),

$13,400

There is a Certain Slant of Light Part 1, Acrylic on canvas, 150 x150 cm, $6,700

canvas, 120 x 120 cm each (dyptch),

$8,500

Shannon O’Hara

Shannon O’Hara is a Meanjin-based artist making connections between embodiment and abstraction through textile materiality. Often using synthetic satin fabric as the support, the sensuous and corporeal surface is investigated as a catalyst for generating a personified and bodily engagement.

Additionally, concerned with the art historical canon, O’Hara aims to investigate how the use and exploration of a decorative methodology may challenge lingering visual hierarchies of Formalist and Greenbergian abstraction.

Grabbing Space, Acrylic on satin, 106.5 x157.5 cm, $3,000

Arryn Snowball

Arryn Snowball is an Australian artist who has been living and working in Berlin for the last 7 years. Snowball’s painting is multidisciplinary and process based, often involving material and formal complexity.

Currently he is collaborating with Sofia Karagiorgou (Dancer in Berlin), Nathan Shepherdson (Poet in Brisbane) and Monica Vasile (Anthropologist, University of Maastricht). He has participated in the broader arts community through collaborative projects, lecturing, forums, critical writing, workshops, and artist run initiatives. Snowball also has a Doctorate of Visual Arts from the Griffith University, Brisbane, where he taught painting from 2005-2012. Over the last 17 years his work has been shown in 29 solo exhibitions and numerous group shows in galleries, museums and institutes in Europe, Australia and Japan.

Kenji Uranishi

Kenji Uranishi is a Japanese-born, Australian-based artist whose work draws upon the longstanding traditions of ceramics in Japanese art and culture. Kenji studied at the Nara College of Fine Arts and upon graduation, worked mostly with stoneware clay, exhibiting throughout Japan— from small gallery spaces to large municipal museums.

Since moving to Australia in 2004, Kenji’s interest in tradition has increasingly worked in dialogue with the contemporary. The move also signalled a critical shift in his practice as he began working predominantly with porcelain, hand building translucent white, often architecturally inspired objects.

Untitled #14 2025

Slab-built, hand-built porcelain, blue clear glase

13 x 18.5 x 10.5 cm

$3,000

Untitled #11 2025

Slab-built, hand-built porcelain,Green clear glaze

16.5 x 11 x 11 cm

$2,800

Saffron Newey

Saffron Newey is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, and digital media. Her work interrogates the impact of the Internet on the original art object and its historical legacies.

Newey’s practice navigates five centuries of Western art history, drawing from the traditions of sublime landscape painting. Her works revisit impassioned vistas of mountains, seas, and skies, referencing Dutch Baroque, French Rococo, American and Norwegian Romanticism, and even the clichés of stock photography. These landscapes are digitally manipulated—through shifts in colour, format, resolution, and detail – and reimagined through painting.

AndtotheDay 2025

Oil and Pearlescent Pigment on Belgian Cotton Framed in Victorian Ash

38 x 38 cm

$2,800

AndtotheDay02 2025

Oil and Pearlescent Pigment on Belgian Cotton Framed in Victorian Ash

25 x 25 cm

$1,900

Formally trained in archtecture, Minqi Gu’s interest lies in a diverse range of form and material. From the found/ recycles, to clay, to bio-plastics. The artist believes in experimenting with the common and the precious. By mixing materials, new conversations are achieved.

Conceptually the artist embraces a curious explorations of cultural differences, home life, consumerism and fashion. Bold and deliberate in colour, simple and suggestive in form and saturated in materiality. The onjects bring a tryst to the individual idea and a light-hearted engagement with form and composition.

Her work defies definition, appering inconsistent in style and twchnique. The results are open-ended jewellery and objects.

Minqi Gu