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Sarah Scout Presents provides a changing program of exhibitions by represented & guest artists. Est 2009.

Based at 47 Easey Street; a creative art & design hub in Collingwood.

25/02/2026

[OFFSITE] JAKE PREVAL in CODED BLOOMS | flowers have never been innocent

7 March to 24 May 2026 🌺

In CODED BLOOMS presents newly commissioned work alongside works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Pat Brassington
Del Kathryn Barton and Meng-Yu Yan.

Curated by MAPh Senior Curator Angela Connor.

Flowers have long stood in for what could not be spoken aloud: s*x, death, longing, defiance. Soft in appearance yet potent in meaning, they are among art history’s great deceivers. Across centuries and cultures, the bloom has functioned as a visual code, a form artists have returned to, reclaimed and rewritten to speak about desire, power and taboo.

CODED BLOOMS begins with the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose flower photographs form the exhibition’s conceptual anchor. Drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, these works establish a charged framework for a contemporary rereading of the floral. In Mapplethorpe’s hands, the bloom becomes sculptural, erotic and exacting, stripped of sentiment and sharpened into form.

From this point, four artists push the floral beyond polite still life traditions into unruly and intimate terrain. Preval’s work lingers on the flower’s vulnerability after its peak.

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JAKE PREVAL is a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist whose practice spans photography, video, performance and sculptural intervention. He treats photography not as a fixed image or neutral record, but as a material form that can be shaped and transformed. Working with bodily presence, staged imagery and physical intervention, he explores intimacy, desire and the fluid nature of identity within q***r experience.

Through reoccurring collaborations with friends and lovers, Preval constructs visual worlds that foreground connection and vulnerability. His practice situates contemporary q***r embodiment within broader histories of photography, performance and experimental image-making.

📷 JAKE PREVAL
Still life with urine (I), 2025
ink-jet print
117.0 x 90.0 cm

maph

25/02/2026

THREE PAINTERS - Milly James, Katherine Hattam, Maureen Poulson Napangardi continues to Sat 28 March | Wed to Sat, 12-5pm.

🔗in bio to exhibition catalogue.

📷MILLY JAMES
Frontwards 2026
Oil on linen
22.5 x 28 cm
Photography: Nicholas Mahady

22/02/2026

[OFFSITE] KATE DAW in A velvet ant, a flower and a bird , The University of Melbourne.

19 February to 6 June 2026
Tuesday to Saturday, 11am - 5pm

A velvet ant, a flower and a bird evokes a garden of knowledge anchored by three familiar figures from nature — a velvet ant, a flower and a bird. These figures represent a parliament of beings, each carrying symbolic and metaphorical weight that encourage us to reimagine what intelligence means.

Each museum floor is presided over by one of these natural entities, creating a kind of garden where there is no pre-established order, but rather an ecosystem in which the analogue and the digital interrelate to give rise to a fantastic mental realm.

Drawing from the University of Melbourne’s Classics, Biology, and Art collections, alongside new commissions and performances; historic and contemporary art co-mingle to envision intelligence as living, continually evolving, interconnected and interdependent.

Guest curated by Professor Dr Chus Martínez, Head of the Institute of Art
Gender Nature at the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design, Basel, Switzerland.

📷 KATE DAW
Acapulco 2, from the In
Between Days series, 2011-13
Oil paint on found blackboard
40 cm x 30 cm
The University of Melbourne Art Collection

18/02/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Valentine’s Day for the opening celebrations of our new exhibition. Three Painters - Katherine Hattam, Milly James and Maureen Poulson Napangardi is current to 28 March, the gallery is open Wed to Sat, 12-5pm. 💗

🔗in Bio to Viewing Room.

Maureen Poulson Napangardi courtesy Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne & Papunya Tjupi Arts.

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16/02/2026

[OFFSITE] FIONA ABICARE & CAROLYN ESKDALE in Time Moves Through These Walls: 40 Years of Linden New Art

Opening Celebration: Saturday 28 February 2026, 1-4pm

Exhibition dates: 26 February to 24 May 2026

Artists: Fiona Abicare, Ernie Althoff, Carolyn Eskdale, Ry Haskings, Raafat Ishak, Mitch Mahoney, Callum Morton, Rosemary Nolan, Robbie Rowlands.

Marking four decades of cultural significance, this landmark exhibition celebrates Linden’s extraordinary journey from domestic residence to contemporary art institution. The exhibition excavates the multi-layered history of this distinctive St Kilda site, tracing its history from pre-contact Indigenous Country through its incarnations as a private residence, hotel, and ultimately one of Melbourne’s most iconic contemporary art spaces.

Central to the exhibition is an exploration of Linden’s pioneering first decade, when the institution emerged as a crucible for experimental practice. During this formative period, the gallery’s domestic architecture became a canvas for bold interventions, while the artist-run space Room 4 established a precedent for installation-focused programming that challenged conventional gallery boundaries.

The exhibition positions Linden’s historical legacy within its contemporary mission, highlighting the institution’s current commitment to supporting mid-career artists whose practices span experimental, conceptual, and medium-diverse approaches. Through this temporal dialogue, the exhibition not only honours the site’s transformative past but also signals the institution’s ongoing evolution as a space for artistic innovation.

By examining the intersection of place, practice, and institutional identity, this celebratory exhibition reveals how Linden’s heritage continues to shape and inspire the experimental art practices it champions today, establishing a foundation for the next chapter of its cultural contribution to Melbourne’s arts landscape.

16/02/2026

[OFFSITE] LOU HUBBARD in Living Thing, curated by Tom Polo in the Mobilia Design Lounge for

19 – 22 February 2026
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
South Wharf | Exhibition Door 3

Conceived by , the installation draws inspiration from romantic architecture and Italian piazzas—public squares traditionally organised around a central landmark, often a sculpture or artwork—offering visitors an intuitive way to navigate and understand their surroundings.

📷 LOU HUBBARD
Horse Cuffs 2025
Cast iron horse bookends on timber base,
toy handcuffs, cardboard box, plastic
container
50 x 44 x 26 cm
Photography: Nicholas Mahady

13/02/2026

THREE PAINTERS — Katherine Hattam
Milly James, Maureen Poulson Napangardi

🥂Opening Celebration: Sat 14 Feb, 2-4pm

🔗in bio to Viewing Room

🗓️13 Feb to 28 Mar 2026

Three Painters brings together distinct yet resonant practices that explore how identity is shaped through narrative, familial memory, place and the enduring presence of country. Across painting, mark-making becomes a language through which personal and collective histories are held, revised and transmitted.

Katherine Hattam’s work draws on inherited stories, art historical references, and intimate acts of looking. Her paintings weave memory with citation, allowing fragments of the past to surface and recede. Specific memories include of Hattam’s childhood home and Melbourne’s pandemic lockdowns however images are not fixed records but mutable traces, shaped by time, translation and the emotional charge of remembrance.

London-based Milly James approaches painting as a diaristic and bodily practice.
Through repetition, gesture, and layered surfaces, her works register lived experience and the quiet persistence of domestic/studio narratives. Marks accumulate like thoughts or routines, mapping a sense of self that is continually formed through doing, repeating and
returning.

For Luritja artist Maureen Poulson Napangardi, painting is inseparable from country, story and kinship. Maureen’s works are grounded in ancestral knowledge and lived connection to land. Through painting
she translates her main dreaming story of Kalipinypa — a water dreaming site west
of Kintore — into rhythmic patterns and fields of marks.

Together, these artists reveal painting as a site where story is carried not only in imagery, but in touch, rhythm and repetition. The works invite us to consider how memory and identity are inscribed through paint, and how personal histories intersect with broader cultural and geographic lineages, across generations, places and shared acts of attentiveness.

Maureen Poulson Napangardi courtesy of Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne & Papunya Tjupi Arts.

📷 THREE PAINTERS
installation view, February 2026
Photo: Nicholas Mahady

02/02/2026

[UPCOMING] - THREE PAINTERS: Katherine Hattam, Milly James, Maureen Poulson Napangardi

Opening Celebration: Saturday 14 February, 2.00-4.00pm 🥂💗
All welcome.

Exhibition dates: 13 February to 28 March 2026

👉🏼Request exhibition catalogue [email protected]

Maureen Poulson Napangardi courtesy of

Image: Katherine Hattam
The Gates, 2026
Mixed media on linen, 153 x 153 cm
Photo: Clare Rae

01/02/2026

[UPCOMING] - THREE PAINTERS: Katherine Hattam, Milly James, Maureen Paulson Napangardi

Opening Celebration: Saturday 14 February, 2.00-4.00pm
All welcome.

Exhibition dates: 13 February to 28 March 2026

Maureen Paulson Napangardi courtesy of

23/01/2026

[OFFSITE] - LAUREN DUNN - Portrait of a Cyborg Billboards

20 February–2 May 2026

Addressing the flux of digital images, algorithms and the political context of image circulation recent body of work ‘Portrait of a Cyborg’ manipulates appropriated images to consider the rapidly shifting dynamics between human and machine via recognised figures such as Kim Kardashian, Bryan Johnson and Elon Musk. Lauren’s work critically engages with contemporary politics and power relations, highlighting technological mediation and modification of the body to explore how technology and popular cultures drive our desires and impact our identities.

Dunn utilises installation based methods including images, sculpture, sound and video to negotiate our relationship to photography through a subversion of its codes and conventions. Their work navigates the political and ethical dilemmas of commodity culture, specifically how an excess of images experienced in our virtual and physical worlds might shape our consumer desires and aspirations. Research into trends such as Uber Eats, Balenciaga and luxury food consumption, for example, have formed the basis of works that critique moments of significant cultural shift, and the role that images play within these contexts.

👉🏼 Request a catalogue of available works at: [email protected]

📷: LAUREN DUNN
Pure Honey, 2024
from the Portrait of a Cyborg series
Photographic print
115 x 80 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 AP

19/01/2026

[OFFSITE] CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO - in Molten Tongues
31 January 2026 - 28 March 2026
Curator: Jake Treacy

Artists: Ali Tahayori, Ara Dolatian, Dr Bon Mott _/\_, Cheng Ran, Dr Christian Thompson AO, Claybia (Cassandra Chilton and Molly O’Shaughnessy), Diego Ramírez, Diogo Evangelista, Emily Parsons-Lord, Felix Saturn, Glynn Urquhart, Hannah Hallam-Eames, Iluka Sax-Williams, Ioanna Sakellaraki, Joshua Serafin, Jenna Lee, Makiko Ryujin, Michael Jalaru Torres, Moorina Bonini, Morehshin Allahyari, Naomi Blacklock, Nicholas Burridge, Priyageetha Dia, Sha Sarwari, Shireen Taweel, Yhonnie Scarce, and Yumemi Hiraki.

Molten Tongues speaks in the primal, alchemical language of fire—a force that warms, consumes, ignites, transforms. Fire is at once origin and omen, a source of life and an agent of destruction.

This exhibition brings together works by contemporary Australian and international artists who engage fire as material, metaphor, and memory—tracing its roles across ritual and industry, ceremony and combustion, love and loss, technology and ecology.

Across cultures and temporalities, fire has shaped worlds. From First Nations land management to funerary burning of ‘hell banknotes’ to the industrial architectures of waste and energy, Molten Tongues explores the many tongues through which fire speaks—molten, flickering, fierce.

📷: CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO
Limerence, installation view
Sarah Scout Presents, February 2024

The Meaning of Fire, 2021
C-type print on Fuji Pearl Metallic Paper
250 x 250 cm
Photography: Lauren Dunn

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