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Project8 is a contemporary art space in Melbourne dedicated to speculative poetic and material innovation.

03/06/2026

Spencer Harrison: Semi/Permeable continues this week at Project8

Across the exhibition, abstraction acts as a kind of filter or threshold, where forms, colours and perceptions pass through one another. Geometric forms stretch across the walls, fold onto the floor and reappear on freestanding structures.

The exhibition is on view until 20 June.

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Image: Project8 Presents: Spencer Harrison, Semi/Permeable. Exhibition view. Photo by Lucy Foster

30/05/2026

Some moments from Spencer Harrison’s artist talk in the gallery on Saturday 9 May, with his maquettes gathered along the window ledge: small studies for the larger works seen throughout the exhibition.

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Photos by Gabrielle Hall-Lomax.

28/05/2026

Inside Spencer Harrison’s studio.

In Harrison’s work, geometric abstraction becomes a way of thinking through the modern world: its design, architecture, technology and the built environment. Colour sits at the centre of this practice, explored through its phenomenology, emotive qualities and sociopolitical meaning.

See Spencer Harrison’s works in Semi/Permeable, on view at Project8 until 20 June.

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Images: Spencer Harrison in his studio. Photos by Spencer Harrison.

26/05/2026

A walkthrough of Spencer Harrison: Semi/Permeable, curated by Kim Donaldson with Jiayang Zhang.

The spatial arrangement is informed by Japanese garden design, using framing, concealment and partial views to guide movement through the exhibition.

Spencer Harrison: Semi/Permeable continues this week at Project8, Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–5pm.  —
 Video by Zhen Yu

19/05/2026

Drawing on Helen Frankenthaler’s soak-stain technique, these paintings use diluted washes of paint applied directly to canvas. Soft, atmospheric fields are interrupted by precise geometric forms, creating a delicate tension between the natural and the constructed, order and disorder. Across the works, opposing qualities do not resolve so much as press against one another, becoming porous thresholds through which colour, form and perception move.

Spencer Harrison: Semi/Permeable continues this week at Project8, Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–5pm.

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Images:
Project8 Presents: Spencer Harrison, Semi/Permeable
Exhibition view, from left to right: Deepmind, 2026; To Gaze, is to Think, 2026; Looking for Answers, 2026. All works acrylic paint on canvas, 77 × 112.5 cm.
Photos by Lucy Foster

12/05/2026

Live stream of Spencer Harrison’s artist talk for Semi/Permeable, held Saturday 9 May ✨ For those who were unable to attend in person.

Semi/Permeable continues this week, Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–5pm.

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Image: Semi/Permeable install view. Photo by Lucy Foster

09/05/2026

ARTIST TALK today at 3pm ✨
Join Spencer Harrison in the gallery this afternoon for an artist talk on Semi/Permeable.

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Images: Semi/Permeable opening event. Photos by Lucy Foster

05/05/2026

SPENCER HARRISON: Semi/Permeable
opens this Friday, 6 -8pm

Semi/Permeable investigates the dynamic space where opposites meet and negotiate; soft with hard, natural with artificial, order with disorder. These liminal spaces emerge not as static borders, but as zones of possibility. Painting, drawing, sculpture and large-scale digital video draw on abstractions from daily life, the built environment and the natural world.

Curated by Kim Donaldson with Jiayang Zhang

Exhibition continues 9 May – 20 June
Artist talk Saturday 9 May, 3–4pm

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Image: Spencer Harrison, Free Fall 2026. Acrylic paint, vinyl on wall and floor, 669 x 228 x 157 cm. Photo: Spencer Harrison.

21/04/2026

PROJECT8 PRESENTS: Spencer Harrison
‘Semi/Permeable’

Opening Friday 8 May, 6pm
9 May – 20 June

Semi/Permeable investigates the dynamic space where opposites meet and negotiate: soft with hard, natural with artificial, order with disorder. These liminal spaces emerge not as fixed borders, but as zones of possibility.

Borrowing its title from cellular biology, the exhibition considers abstraction as a filter or threshold through which ideas, forms and perceptions flow.

The works juxtapose crisp lines over wash-stained papers and canvas; rigid structures intersect with organic flows, and precise forms contrast with imperfect natural surfaces. At this porous edge, clarity and ambiguity coexist, allowing new forms and insights to emerge.

An artist talk will be held on Saturday 9 May, 3–4pm.

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Image: Spencer Harrison, Structure 57, 2025. Coloured pencil and watercolour on watercolour paper, 29.7cm x 40cm.

14/04/2026

From Saturday’s reading group for states of imbalance, held by Jen Valender within her exhibition (It is Necessary to) Learn to Swim.

Thanks to everyone who joined us!

Project8 is currently closed between exhibitions.
We reopen on Friday 8 May with a new exhibition by Spencer Harrison.

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