Alphington Community Centre Winter Salon Show is coming up on the 13th to the 16th August.
Alphington Winter Art SalonWe would love to see you at the opening on Friday evening or over the weekend.
MCM will be exhibiting fun, quirky collages, mixed media works, framed and unframed works. Hope to see you there.
Opening night
5 June Friday 6 - 8 PMGallery Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday: 10 am – 5 pm (please note last day of exhibition ends at 3pm)
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Welcome to the Mid-Year SMALL Group Exhibition 2026, proudly hosted by Red Gallery. This event celebrates the small-scale artworks, offering artists an open-call opportunity to exhibit their artworks in our mid-year group exhibition.
As part of the Alphington Open Studio group we are having a preview exhibition of the entire studio group in one gallery. Yarra Sculpture Gallery. See invite attached.
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Our collage group Melbourne Collage Meets are also participating in a group show at
TBH BALLARAT – Exhibition is titled Ctrl V – Opening 9th March https://tbhstudio-au.square.site/whats-on
A group of us will go in by train, have some lunch, go to the exhibition opening and then take a look around beautiful Ballarat before returning by train. Sh
ould be great fun.
Our collage group has had the theme abstract Autumn for the last two weeks. Several members of our group will be exhibiting in Ballarat alongside other Ballarat based collage artists at TBH Studio. Find more information about the exhibition at https://tbhstudio-au.square.site/whats-on
In a world saturated with images, we borrow, steal, splice, and remix to make sense of the noise. Ctrl + V brings together a group of artists who revel in the cut-and-paste ethos, where scissors are scalpels, glue is intention, and nothing is ever just one thing.
Whether you work with vintage magazines, found photos, Photoshop, or glue stick chaos, we want to see how you slice up the world and reassemble it. This show is about creative disruption, unexpected juxtapositions, and the beauty of fragments.
Opening in May!
Spring is the theme for our Melbourne Collage Meets Group this week. Should anyone wish to contribute their version of collaged spring please send me a pic or find our group on insta and send it there (include your name so we can credit you). 🌸🌺🌸
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I will be showing collage and assemblage at the Gallery shop. Here are a couple of the pieces that will be on display. The woman sitting on the pineapple holding the yellow flower has a little stitching on it and the shakespearean woman is raised in 3D on a book cover called Shakespeare (it was old and damaged I don’t cut up just anything). All three unique pieces will be in the gallery shop with another 14 pieces all of different sizes and subject matter. Oops I almost forgot the hydrangeas are a painting on Arches watercolour paper.
Hope you will stop by and have a look at the shop as well as the larger exhibition.
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Here are three collage works made to a theme suggested by our group Melbourne Collage Meets. The first prompt and image was wreath or circle, the second was dog and the third was Flinders Street Station (a famous Melbourne landmark). The next two images are acrylic paintings on watercolour paper of hydrangeas with a little pencil work on them.
Our Melbourne Collage Meets group have now been meeting for a few years at a Fairfield Cafe and our newest group in Fitzroy North have been meeting for around 6 months. The latest news is that a new group will be formed very soon, possibly in Ivanhoe or somewhere surrounding this area. If you are interested please know these meetings are free, they are not workshops yet we do influence one another. The only cost would be to buy a coffee and cake or similar to support the cafe we meet at. More information can be supplied if you contact me.
Our two groups are working beautifully making collage from books and magazines. Our North Fitzroy group has grown and our Fairfield group is full. As we meet in a coffee shop I don’t think we can push the kindness of the cafe owners with too many more papers flying around. I would always be happy to help you to establish a group in your own area (if its not too far from me). I don’t have to attend but would like to discuss how we work out what happens, themes, meeting place and times, experience of participants. Please let me know in an email if you would like to discuss further. We do not pay anything except of course buying a coffee and something to eat from the cafe (that is essential). The cat below is really tiny approx 10cm x 4cm on watercolour paper. The giraffe family and the girl with pigtails are approx 9cm x 12cm on wood backing. These two are assemblages of found images, collage, pen, toys etc. They needed polka dots.
I’m still teaching casual classes in painting, collage and assemblage – let me know if you are interested.
If you have made any collage please send me a picture, especially if you have made to one of our themes. Latest themes were tomato and a previous one that was difficult and easy was self portrait. Good luck if you have a go. This post is mainly about #melbournecollagemeets. See more on instagram, if not following please do. 🙂 My insta is #annewarrenart.
Next meeting for North Fitzroy Collage group is Tomato (Tue the 19th). Fairfield group had a ball with this subject. Yes a red round squashy ball.
Next meeting on Thursday for Fairfield group has the prompt ‘birds’ (Thurs the 21st).
The bird below is an old one that I animated and moved the legs for it to walk. Simple but fun. The tomato below I gifted to Cal (the young bearded man that we met a couple of months ago). He often comes to the cafe to study and or to make his small abstract artworks. He gave me a new work so I now have two of his which I love.
Any variation of the prompt is ok and if by chance the prompt is not working for you, that is also ok for you to make something entirely different.
For all the newbies please reach out to Marija or myself if you need any help.
Marija, not sure if you have noticed but there are lots of cafe customers at the North Fitzroy meet that show interest. You might need to decide whether you take their details (email) for a place in the future or for a fundraising event in the future if they like the work. They are so friendly there.
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Keep looking and liking and posting to #melbournecollagemeets on instagram. If you are not in our group but you like making collage, feel free to make a work and tag it for @melbournecollagemeets and Jenny will post it on our site.
