Sutton Gallery, 254 Brunswick Street Fitzroy, Melbourne (2026)

23/04/2026

Sutton Gallery will be closed for ANZAC Day tomorrow (25/4).
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We will re-open on Wednesday 29 April, resuming solo exhibitions from Aleks Danko and Rachael Robb, respectively.
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Image:
Aleks Danko
‘Songs of Australia Vol 4 The Art of Living AT HOME’, 1998
Illuminated duo trans, powder coated metal, light
Dimensions variable
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Photography Andrew Curtis .art.doc
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21/04/2026

Raafat Ishak at Linden New Art
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Newly commissioned work by Raafat Ishak is featured in the current exhibition ‘Time Moves Through These Walls: 40 Years of Linden New Art’, celebrating the experimental spirit of the pioneering Melbourne contemporary art venue.
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Presented across three works, Ishak’s installation pays tribute to Moritz Michaelis, who commissioned and built Linden as his family residence, while engaging the architecture of the site itself, particularly this small room and the hidden spaces embedded within the building. Originally a thoroughfare between the dining room at the front of the house and a smoking room, this space once separated activities within the home, functioning as both passage and threshold; a portal marking a before and after.
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Marking the four decades of Linden as a cultural institution, the exhibition excavates the layered histories of this distinctive St Kilda site, engaging with its history from pre-European occupation, to private residence, hotel, and ultimately one of Melbourne’s most iconic contemporary art spaces.
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‘Time Moves Through These Walls: 40 Years of Linden New Art’
Until 24 May 2026
Linden New Art
St Kilda
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Images: Installation views
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Raafat Ishak
‘Ascent and Descent’, 2026
Acrylic and polyurethane on chipboard

Raafat Ishak
‘Moritz Michaelis 1820-1902’, 2026
Oil on canvas
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Raafat Ishak and Matthew Davis,
‘Paddy Mann Australia Day Flyover’, 2026
Soundscape, 2:00 Minutes
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Courtesy the artist and Linden New Art

21/04/2026

Raafat Ishak at Linden New Art 🖼️
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Newly commissioned work by Raafat Ishak is featured in the current exhibition ‘Time Moves Through These Walls: 40 Years of Linden New Art’, celebrating the experimental spirit of the pioneering Melbourne contemporary art venue.
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Presented across three works, Ishak’s installation pays tribute to Moritz Michaelis, who commissioned and built Linden as his family residence, while engaging the architecture of the site itself, particularly this small room and the hidden spaces embedded within the building. Originally a thoroughfare between the dining room at the front of the house and a smoking room, this space once separated activities within the home, functioning as both passage and threshold; a portal marking a before and after.
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Marking the four decades of Linden as a cultural institution, the exhibition excavates the layered histories of this distinctive St Kilda site, engaging with its history from pre-European occupation, to private residence, hotel, and ultimately one of Melbourne’s most iconic contemporary art spaces.
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‘Time Moves Through These Walls: 40 Years of Linden New Art’
Until 24 May 2026
Linden New Art
St Kilda
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Images: Installation views
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Raafat Ishak
‘Ascent and Descent’, 2026
Acrylic and polyurethane on chipboard
‘Moritz Michaelis 1820-1902’, 2026
Oil on canvas
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Raafat Ishak and Matthew Davis,
‘Paddy Mann Australia Day Flyover’, 2026
Soundscape, 2:00 Minutes
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Courtesy the artist and Linden New Art

18/04/2026

Opening today!
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Aleks Danko
An Ecology of Ideas
18 April – 16 May
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Join us at Sutton Gallery from 3–5pm today for the opening celebration of Aleks Danko’s exhibition ‘An Ecology of Ideas’.
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Image:
Aleks Danko
‘ADAM & EVE - and yes, GOD, did have a sense of humour - FROM THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN CULTURE SERIES’, 1992
Acrylic on board
20 x 15cm
Ed. 6/8
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Photography courtesy Andrew Curtis.
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18/04/2026

Opening today!
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Rachael Robb
In Time
18 April – 16 May
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Join us at Sutton Gallery from 3–5pm today for the opening celebration of Rachael Robb’s exhibition ‘In Time’.
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Image:
Rachael Robb
‘Printouts: Lizzie Siddal as Ophelia by Millais / as Beatrice by Rossetti’, 2026
Oil on birch panel
53 x 53cm (framed)
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Photography courtesy Matthew Stanton (Image I) and Andrew Curtis (Image II).

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16/04/2026

In advance of Aleks Danko’s forthcoming exhibition at Sutton Gallery, experience 𝘈(𝘎𝘈𝘗)𝘌— 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 / 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘈 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 2016 – 2026 at McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, a survey spanning the past decade of the artist’s practice.
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For over fifty years, Aleks Danko has shown an unwavering interest in the ways people interact with art. Now in his mid-seventies, Danko’s observations of the absurdities of the art world and contemporary life are as fresh and provocative as those of his early career, his focus and wit razor sharp.
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A(GAP)E is an exhibition of work made by Danko over the past ten years. Curated by the artist himself, it is a distillation of his critique of the conventions governing the making of art, and how and where it is encountered, perceived and read.
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In Danko’s conceptualisation of A(GAP)E the gallery visitor plays an essential role. For each work is incomplete until the visitor brings to it their memories, experiences, desires and moods. A(GAP)E does not offer a passive art experience, rather an intuitive, complicit and consciousness-raising one.
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Aleks Danko began making art in the late 1960s. As well as being a period of acute political and social upheaval internationally, the era precipitated Australia’s cultural transition from modernist painting and sculpture, with its unyielding principles of autonomy, authorship and originality to post-modernism’s assault on the art object and its radical questioning of the role and status of art. New movements and forms—conceptualism, performance art, ‘happenings’, Minimalism, and Fluxus— privileged processes and ideas over objects.
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Audiences are invited to enjoy this collection of beguiling, poetic, darkly funny works by one of Australia’s leading spatial practitioners.
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A(GAP)E— mesmerized by some / thing.
A reflection 2016 – 2026
Until Sunday 14 June 2026
McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery
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15/04/2026

Sutton Gallery is delighted to announce ‘An ecology of ideas’, a new exhibition of editions by Aleks Danko, opening this Saturday 18 April from 3–5pm.
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Aleks Danko
‘An ecology of ideas’
18 Apr 2026 - 16 May 2026
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A pioneering figure in the history of Conceptual Art in Australia, Aleks Danko is acutely aware of the circulatory ways in which ideas engender objects, and objects manifest ideas. Editioned artworks have remained an important part of Aleks Danko’s artistic production for over fifty years. Danko intimately understands his position within a commodified art market, representing the currency of ideas in tautological forms both establishing and re-iterating the message. Often taking the form of a linguistic pun or self-deprecating joke, Danko’s editions draw attention to their commodified status: repeating typefaces, phrases, and motifs in a variety of colour, media and size—reflective of the neo-liberal yearn for individuality marketed via a narrow selection of variant options.
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An ecology of ideas features editions from each decade of Danko’s celebrated practice. Whether doubled or transplanted from an originary exhibition context, these works bespeak often their own function and communicate their value in fluent terms. Exchanging ideas in a disciplined eco-system of materiality and space, Danko remains the arbiter of what is original, authentic, true—consciously negating the core principles governing the art market. The dialogic nature of Danko’s practice is well represented in this cohesive display, foregrounding an artist whose steadfast work continues to reverberate both with itself, its predecessors and its contemporary peers in a broad and unwieldy landscape of Conceptual Art.
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Image: ‘A Good Idea’, 1971-2025
Wood, light socket, bulb, enamel paint, electrical flex
31 x 38.3 x 13.9 cm
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14/04/2026

Sutton Gallery is thrilled to present ‘In Time’, a new exhibition by Rachael Robb, opening this Saturday 18 April 3-5pm.
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Rachael Robb
‘In Time’
18 April – 16 May 2026
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For access to a preview catalogue please email [email protected]
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Image: ‘New Printouts: Titian’s Salome (or possibly Judith), and empty glass’
2026
Oil on birch panel
60 x 80 cm

Photography Matthew Stanton courtesy the artist.
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11/04/2026

Today is the final day of ✨

Mia Khin Boe
Walking about
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In her third solo presentation at Sutton Gallery, Boe draws on a variety of emotive visual content ranging from historic colonial documents to 1970s Australian cinema.
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Of note, the work ‘Australia’s Proclamation to the Aborigines’, 2026, sees Boe revisit an early nineteenth century pictogram employed by George Arthur (1784–1854, Governor of present-day lutruwita/Tasmania, then Van Diemen’s Land) to visually articulate the ostensible equal consequence of violent crimes for both settler and first peoples.
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Schematised in a rudimentary four-strip cartoon, the lithographic document emerged at a juncture where the first peoples’ population of lutruwita was being systematically decimated by settler colonialist violence. Boe’s reconstruction of this communication tool reflects a damning, desolate contemporary context, with both encounters of violence resulting in the indiscriminate ex*****on of the indigenous subject.
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Framed by the celestial night sky, Boe hints at the cyclical nature of state violence continually impacting first nations communities throughout Australia.
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Mia Khin Boe
Australia’s Proclamation to the Aborigines 2026, 2026
Oil on board
69.5 x 42.5cm
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Last day 11 April 2026
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08/04/2026

Final week at Sutton Projects!
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Saskia Pandji Sakti
‘pristine awareness’, 2026
Installation view
Sutton Projects, Melbourne

Until Saturday April 11 ✨
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Saskia Pandji Sakti’s photography has explored the connection between emotional states and natural phenomena since 2005. Pandji Sakti completed a BFA and Honours in Fine Arts (Media Arts & Visual Communication) at RMIT University, Melbourne.
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Pandji Sakti has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Index, curated by Daniel Price, CCP, Melbourne (2020); In Bloom, curated by Madé Spencer-Castle & Jeremy Eaton, Spring 1883, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, (2018); NotFair, curated by Sam Leach, Ashley Crawford and Tony Lloyd, Melbourne, (2017); Saskia Pandji Sakti & Reiko Miyazawa, organised by André Piguet, The Honeymoon Suite, Melbourne, (2017); Timelapse, curated by Simon Gregg, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, (2016); The Dark Arts, curated by Linsey Gosper, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne, (2013); I Hear Voices, Seventh Gallery Project Space, Fitzroy (2012); Medium Paranormals, Bus Projects, Melbourne, (2011); and Little Did They Know, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne (2008).

02/04/2026

Sutton Gallery and Sutton Projects will be closed between 3–7 April for the Easter break.
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We look forward to welcoming you back to the galleries on Wednesday 8 April for the final week of exhibitions by Mia Khin Boe and Saskia Pandji Sakti.
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Wishing everyone a safe and restful break.
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Image:
Mia Khin Boe
‘Under it all’, 2026
Oil on linen
41 x 61cm
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31/03/2026

Mia Khin Boe
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‘In fright’, 2026
Acrylic on linen
152.5 x 76cm
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In her third solo presentation at Sutton Gallery, artist Mia Khin Boe draws on a variety of emotive visual content ranging from historic colonial documents to 1970s Australian cinema.

Vignettes of personal memories, spiritual imaginations, and filmic source material reverberate across Sutton Gallery. Varying in detail and scale, Boe’s figuration sublimates a deeper, psychological resonance bubbling under an opaque surface. Using portals, horizons, and voids, Boe funnels ideas between the limits of depicted scenes. Similarly, shadows, echoes, and truncated limbs bridge disparate, apparitional worlds, each unfolding and revealing themselves at once.

Throughout ‘Walking about’, Boe supplants the physical constraints of the figure, presenting bodies consumed by a sense of reflection and interiority. In turn, her paintings provide generative sites where narrative builds and emotion swells.
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Exhibition concludes April 11.
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