Past exhibitions

Find out more about our past exhibitions below.

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2026 exhibitions

Please note: Current exhibitions will be listed too, even if they haven't yet finished!

50 Years of Deadly: NAIDOC Week Posters from 1976 to 2026

An exhibition celebrating 50 years of NAIDOC Week.

Serving Country

This exhibition at Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery recognises the valuable contribution of Australian First Nation's servicemen and servicewomen.

From Darkness to Light - A Journey Through Country and Spirit

This exhibition at Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery showcases works by Wemba Wemba artist Jason Deane, exploring connection to Country and spirit.

Wyreena Community: Artwork by adult students and tutors

In 2026, The Arts Lounge is celebrating the creativity of our community, with two exhibitions featuring work by Wyreena students and tutors.

May We?

Pussy Willow Power present a collective act of resistance against the subjugation of women, reclaiming the radical origins of Mother’s Day and May Day.

the resonance of place – Japan suite

Artist Julia White creates work about her travels through Japan, tracing the interplay between people, nature and public spaces.

Golden Offerings, Aeroplane Jelly and a Dragon's Tale

Golden Offerings, Aeroplane Jelly and a Dragon's Tale is an expansive collaborative exhibition by Karima Baadilla, Pia Johnson and Janelle Low that explores Asian-Australian identity through shared narrative and material transformation.

Skybox by Rel Pham

An immersive video installation by artist Rel Pham examining what it means to observe and exist in a deluge of data.

Flos + Legere

In this exhibition, Artist Kerri Wilson McConchie explored cycles of decay and renewal in Naarm's unique plant ecosystems.

Un/Becoming

In this exhibition, Artist Claire Bridge traversed themes of disruption and subversion, playing with the improper, indigestible and unruly.

Power of Print

Power of Print presents original prints from the Maroondah City Council Art Collection. The exhibition showcases the powerful creative potential that resides in the meeting of ink and printing matrix with paper.

Ritual Artefacts

Inga Hanover explored ancient, yet enduring folklore rituals and ceremonies of indigenous Latvian traditions.

DISillusion/DISsolution

Artist megan evans presented artwork reflecting on their response to the outcome of the 2023 referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Islander Voice

2025 exhibitions 

Power of Print

Power of Print presents original prints from the Maroondah City Council Art Collection. The exhibition showcases the powerful creative potential that resides in the meeting of ink and printing matrix with paper.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Jay Young and Jan Liesfield

From 19 November through to 20 December 2025, Wyreena’s Arts Lounge will feature the art of Jay Young and Jan Liesfield.

Ritual Artefacts

Inga Hanover explored ancient, yet enduring folklore rituals and ceremonies of indigenous Latvian traditions.

DISillusion/DISsolution

Artist megan evans presented artwork reflecting on their response to the outcome of the 2023 referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Islander Voice

Peak Plastique

Running from 29 September to 16 November, the immersive video and sound installation will explore our complex relationship with plastic.

30th Annual Mayoral Art Exhibition

The Mayoral Art Exhibition is an annual fundraiser in support of the Bone Marrow Donor Institute. This year the exhibition will showcase artwork from a range of disciplines and medium on the theme of Time.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - YourDNA Creative Arts Collective

From 17 September through to 15 November 2025, Wyreena’s Arts Lounge features 2D and 3D work from members of YourDNA’s visual arts program. This exhibition explores the beauty and complexity of the world around us.

Future Foundations: Poster as Protest

Future Foundations showcased posters by Australian print collectives and individuals, celebrating the poster as peaceful protest.

Psychology of Sound

Psychology of Sound presents immersive, thought provoking and playful works that manifest sound and light into three dimensional forms and bodily encounters.

An Alternative Prehistory (Reality Optional)

An Alternative Prehistory (Reality Optional) presented a selection of acrylic paintings alongside a series of animated short films that create an alternative history, or false palaeontology and a sensory experience with an undercurrent of satire and an alternate reality.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Wi Sook Kim and Tanya Loh

From 16 July through to 13 September 2025, Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Wi Sook Kim and Tanya Loh.

Something there, I hear

Zakiria Tahirian's exhibition draws inspiration from a stanza by 13th-century poet and Islamic scholar, Rumi.

Gugubarra

Stacey Payten’s exhibition was a tribute to her beloved grandmother, Dixie, whose spirit lives on through the symbol of the gugubarra.

Marrup Biik – Spirit Land video and sound installation

Join us for the video and sound installation created by local Wurundjeri/Yorta Yorta artist Simone Thomson and local immersive experiences company PixALL.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Nicole Tomlinson + Robyn Gunther

From 14 May through to 12 July 2025, Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Nicole Tomlinson and Robyn Gunther.

Between the Details: Video Art from the ACMI Collection

Visit ArtSpace for an immersive experience of video art from the ACMI collection.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Jody Pratt, Lisa Coutts and Ana Hanson

From 19 March through to 10 May 2025, Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Jody Pratt, Lisa Coutts and Ana Hanson.

Soft Fascination by Adele Wilkes

This exhibition showcased audio-visual field recordings of a uniquely fascinating garden ecology.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - McFarlane, Higgs & Keogh

From 22 January through to 15 March 2025, Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Kristin McFarlane, Lisa Higgs and Jenny Keogh.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Karen Neal and Joan Segrave

From 20 November through to 18 January 2025 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Karen Neal and Joan Segrave.

Encounters: Morganna Magee

This exhibition showcased recent bodies of work by celebrated Australian artist Morganna Magee

Mutualism: a place called Bungalook

This exhibition explored a symbolic link between Maroondah's industrial past and a critically endangered species of the present.

Revealing the Line

This exhibition showcased rarely seen or exhibited artworks produced by Studio 4 Artists in their regular fortnightly life drawing sessions.

2024 exhibitions

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Karen Neal and Joan Segrave

From 20 November through to 18 January 2025 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Karen Neal and Joan Segrave.

Encounters: Morganna Magee

This exhibition showcased recent bodies of work by celebrated Australian artist Morganna Magee

Mutualism: a place called Bungalook

This exhibition explored a symbolic link between Maroondah's industrial past and a critically endangered species of the present.

Revealing the Line

This exhibition showcased rarely seen or exhibited artworks produced by Studio 4 Artists in their regular fortnightly life drawing sessions.

euphoria

This exhibition showcased a digital installation springing from animations of John Aslanidis’ paintings.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Martha Iserman and Faria Firoz

From 18 September through to 16 November 2024 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Martha Iserman and Faria Firoz

Hold Sway

This multidisciplinary exhibition showcased artists Rhys Cousins and Emma X Zhang, featuring sculpture, video projections and multimedia installations.

Waste Not, Want Not Crew

This exhibition showcased Pamela Irving’s Waste Not, Want Not Crew, who irreverently illustrate and question our relationship with consumables.

Labours of Love

This exhibition showcased Kate Golding’s intergenerational co-making art practice.

Boundless Threads: The Gifford Arts Project

This exhibition by the Gifford Arts Project showcased the diverse individual perspectives of project members expressed through drawings and paintings on paper and canvas

Aurora Arborealus: Esther Schouten

This exhibition by Esther Schouten explored the experience of early dawn through painting and an immersive installation.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Carmen Lai and Meredith Simpson

From 17 July through to 14 September 2024 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Carmen Lai and Meredith Simpson.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Natalie Wijeyeratne and Denise Bond

From 15 May through to 13 July 2024 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Natalie Wijeyeratne and Denise Bond.

Twisted Fate: Tara Denny

This exhibition explored the garden as a site of passion and delight. A backyard space yearning for love and a place of poetic self-reflection.

Arise

This exhibition showcased First Nations artists Emma Salmon, Njarala Paton, Garen Smith, Graham Patterson, Stacey Payten and Taylah Eid.

Arts Activators exhibition 2024

Arts Activators invited young people to produce new works to transform and activate spaces at Maroondah Federation Estate.

Grounding and Connecting: Indigenous Trees and The Dreaming

This exhibition celebrated the launch of a new project mapping First Nations artworks in Naarm / Melbourne’s Eastern regions.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Jan Liesfield and Rob Raaymakers

From March through to May 2024 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Jan Liesfield and Rob Raaymakers.

Daniel O'Toole: Voices from the Void

Come experiment with sound and movement in ArtSpace at Realm!

Voices from the Void by artist Daniel O'Toole is an interactive installation triggered by the movement you make.

The space becomes an instrument, and the audience the players.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Liezel Van Der Linde and Thorwald Philipp

From January through to March 2024 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Liezel Van Der Linde and Thorwald Philipp.

EPAR OPAR

EPAR OPAR explores Bengali identity through the diaspora experience of eight artists.

Worth 2 Billion I’m Told

This exhibition by 2 Halves as a Whole celebrated excess, rudimentary materials and #SWAG

Doubt (Again)

An exhibition by Lou Hubbard, Sanja Pahoki, Kiron Robinson and Lani Seligman.

Dear Neighbour

A photography exhibition by Wendy Catling.

Drawing with Algorithms

An exhibition by Simon Grennan, Ilona Jetmar and Katie Lee

2023 exhibitions

Doubt (Again)

An exhibition by Lou Hubbard, Sanja Pahoki, Kiron Robinson and Lani Seligman.

Dear Neighbour

A photography exhibition by Wendy Catling.

Drawing with Algorithms

An exhibition by Simon Grennan, Ilona Jetmar and Katie Lee

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Margaret Krajnc and Hsin Lin

From October through to December 2023 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Margaret Krajnc and Hsin Lin.

The Hidden Orchard

Join us for installation and theatre production The Hidden Orchard.

The Texture of Memory: T-Collective

The Texture of Memory by T-Collective brings together artworks responding to lived experiences of personal trauma.

Our Plants, Our Heritage

Artists Leila Ashtiani (Iran), Sofie Dieu (France), Humaira Fayazi (Afghanistan), Abouk Giir (Sudan) and Rahila Zeeshan (Pakistan) present Our Plants, Our Heritage, an exhibition responding to the sacred plants of their homelands.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - June Furness and Susan Pepper

From August through to October 2023 the Arts Lounge featured the art of June Furness and Susan Pepper.

Selina Ou: Neighbourhood Tales

An exhibition of photographs by Selina Ou.

Mullum Mullum Community Blak Arts

An exhibition in 2023 that showcased the work of artists from the Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place.

From our Elders

Video installation project in 2023 presenting a series of interviews with Elders, by multimedia artist Daen Sansbury-Smith (Narungga/Kaurna/Trawoolwaway), and his production company Blak Crow.

Elders Portraits at Realm windows

Portraits of Aunty Daphne Milward (Yorta Yorta) and Aunty Irene Normal (Wailwan), Elders from Mullum Mullum Gathering Place, Maroondah residents and long-time friends, by artist Amanda Wright.

Overstory: Karen Neal and Bron Elmore

Overstory brought together prints and paintings of local birds and plants inspired by local reserves.

Sound and Syncopation

In Sound and Syncopation Artist Katie Stackhouse explored ideas of symbiosis, co-authorship, decay and renewal using sound, sculptures, paintings and videos.

On the Wild Side

On the Wild Side was a group exhibition from YourDNA Creative Arts, focusing on local flora and fauna.

Midnight and the Flickering Wilds

This exciting project was conceived by Born in a Taxi and visual artist Dagmara Gieysztor.

In/Visible

​OMISSION was a co-authored collection of work, combining the fields of sound, composition and object making.

OMISSION

​OMISSION was a co-authored collection of work, combining the fields of sound, composition and object making.

Room to Reverse

Room to Reverse was a group exhibition presenting individual and collective visions on industrial sustainability and climate change.

Of Embers

Exhibition in 2022-23 exploring the cultural status of fire in Australia with artists James Tylor (Kaurna) & Rebecca Selleck, Katrin Koenning, Tom Goldner & Angus Scott, and Isabella Capezio.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - JOY 40cm x 40cm

From November 2022 through to January 2023 the Arts Lounge featured works from a variety of mediums whose work measure 40cm x 40cm.

2022 exhibitions

Room to Reverse

Room to Reverse was a group exhibition presenting individual and collective visions on industrial sustainability and climate change.

Of Embers

Exhibition in 2022-23 exploring the cultural status of fire in Australia with artists James Tylor (Kaurna) & Rebecca Selleck, Katrin Koenning, Tom Goldner & Angus Scott, and Isabella Capezio.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - JOY 40cm x 40cm

From November 2022 through to January 2023 the Arts Lounge featured works from a variety of mediums whose work measure 40cm x 40cm.

What I Wish I’d Told You

What I Wish I’d Told You centred Deaf voices, identity, language and culture.

Training the Eye: Artur Lyczba

This exhibition presented a series of works with ink and pastel on paper by artist Artur Lyczba.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Mike Healy and Jan Liesfield

From July through to September 2022 the Arts Lounge featured works by Mike Healy and Jan Liesfield.

Crow Kid

Crow Kid is a heart-warming tale for children about resilience, connection and the healing power of friendship. This project included a shadow installation created especially for ArtSpace at Realm.

The Artistic Magnitude of Mullum Mullum

Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place’s exhibition in 2022 showcasing multi-talented artists within Maroondah’s local First Peoples community.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Simone Thomson & Jessica Harris

From June to July 2022 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Simone Thomson & Jessica Harris.

My ___ Means Everything to Me

This exhibition displayed a series of works contemplating fertility and its fragility.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Louise Seymour and Lisa West McNeice

During April through to May 2022 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Louise Seymour and Lisa West McNeice.

Conscious Projections

Conscious Projections drew together the work of innovative Naarm/Melbourne based multi-media artists Alison Bennett, Roberta Joy Rich, Jonathan Homsey and Diimpa.

The Arts Lounge Exhibition - Di Ellis + Barry Kearney

During February through to April 2022 Wyreena’s Arts Lounge featured the art of Di Ellis and Barry Kearney.

Bloom Like Flowers

This exhibition displayed a series of works contemplating fertility and its fragility.

Becoming Home: Stories of Chinese-Australians

This project explored ways that Chinese-Australians have made Maroondah their home through a journey of migration and finding an ideal place to live.

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