No Vacancy Gallery, 34-40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne (2026)

17/06/2026

Now Showing: Phantom Operator by Natalie Synnott

June 16-20 2026

Please join us for the opening celebration Thursday 18th June 6-8pm

Natalie Synnott is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, ceramic, installation, and image-based practices. Using found imagery as both material and psychic residue, her work explores attention, desire, surveillance, and the fragmentation of subjectivity within contemporary technological systems. Through processes of rupture, repetition, and transformation, she treats the image not as a fixed picture, but as a living environment capable of reshaping perception.
Drawing on myth, ritual, symbolism, and alchemical change, Synnott creates immersive works that move between the poetic and the critical, examining the tension between flesh and the increasingly optimised, digitised self. Her practice considers how invisible structures of control shape consciousness, while searching for moments of mystery, embodiment, and human presence that resist capture.
Synnott has exhibited widely across Melbourne and Sydney, including at Saint Cloche, At the Above, Nasha, Gaffa, Kudos and Ambush, and has collaborated with publications including Oyster Magazine, GQ, artist Babitha and Em the Label.

15/06/2026

Now Showing: Phantom Operator by Natalie Synnott

June 16-20 2026

Please join us for the opening celebration Thursday 18th June 6-8pm

Phantom Operator explores the immense energetic potential of the body and asks what happens when these forces are captured and redirected toward self-surveillance, efficiency and economic surplus. Using found imagery, sculpture, and gestural painting, Phantom Operator investigates how attention, desire, imagination, and subjectivity are increasingly shaped by technological and economic structures that operate unconsciously within us.

Drawing from image-based psychology, theories of desire, and contemporary critiques of optimisation culture, the works approach the image from an Archetypal Psychological lens, not just as a fixed representation but as a living environment capable of transforming both viewer and maker. Archival photographs, instructional media, forgotten internet ephemera, and fragmented bodies are ruptured and reanimated through processes of repetition, rupture, and reconstruction. Through this process the works can become ambiguous and indecipherable, demanding further examination in order to be understood and refusing automatic processing.

The rhythm and contrasting of active and passive figures explore the tension between the body's innate intelligence and potential against the systems that seek to organise, optimise, and exploit it. Positioned between ritual and system, Phantom Operator questions what forms of intelligence have been neglected and subdued in modern life and whether ambiguity, ritual and embodied experience can endure as a tethering force to our humanness in a data driven landscape.

08/06/2026

Now showing: Underglaze 2 by Drewfunk
June 9-13

Please join us for the opening celebration Wednesday, 10th June 6-9pm

Underglaze 2 is an exploration of my cultural duality drawing upon my Malaysian heritage, recontextualised through the lens of contemporary street art.

Drawing from 14th-century blue and white Chinese porcelain, these works reference the practice of cobalt pigment beneath a glaze, where imagery is embedded, preserved, and carried through time.

This series of circular paintings on wood, alongside fine art prints and hand-painted porcelain, reflects a balance between tradition and contemporary expression.

Andrew Yeoh, known professionally as Drewfunk, is a Malaysian-born multi-disciplinary artist recognised as a pioneer of the Malaysian graffiti movement. After establishing his early practice in Kuala Lumpur, he relocated to Melbourne in 2003 to undertake a Bachelor’s degree in Multimedia & Design at RMIT University, where he became involved in the city’s formative street art and stencil culture.

Working across painting, murals, street art, and illustration, Drewfunk’s practice examines the intersection of Eastern and Western visual languages, recontextualising cultural heritage through the lens of contemporary urban art. Informed by his background in graffiti and design, his works draw upon memory, migration, nostalgia, and identity, often incorporating animals and mythological motifs as recurring symbolic forms.

Balancing refined composition with the raw immediacy of street culture, Drewfunk’s work reflects an ongoing dialogue between tradition and contemporary expression. Over the course of his career, he has presented twelve solo exhibitions across Australia and Malaysia, alongside numerous group exhibitions, public and private art projects and establishing a significant presence within both the contemporary and street art landscape.

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04/06/2026

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We're down to our final exhibition availability for 2026: Two weeks in August and limited dates remaining later in the year

If you've been thinking about exhibiting, now's the time to pitch your idea.

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04/06/2026

Final days to see: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Please Join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th May 6-8pm

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.

01/06/2026

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.

29/05/2026

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.

27/05/2026

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Please Join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th May 6-8pm

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.

27/05/2026

Current: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis

26 May - 6 June 2026

Please Join us for the opening celebration Thursday 28th May 6-8pm

Held, Altered brings together Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis to explore the body as a site and vessel. Across painting and glass, the exhibition considers how memory is carried, absorbed and transformed through material, and how forms of knowledge emerge through sensation, intuition and embodied experience.

Working across distinct practices, each artist approaches the body as something shifting and permeable, shaped through time, pressure and relation. Grace’s work engages with inherited memory using photographs from her mother, filtered by fog, wax and material decay. Erosion and quietness become ways of thinking through lineage, where memory lingers as imprint and atmosphere. Indya’s paintings move between figuration and abstraction, drawing on archetypal narratives to explore femininity, ritual and the cyclical nature of life. Fragments of bodies appear charged with emotion intersecting personal experience with collective forms of storytelling. Keely’s clustered glass installations abstract the body into vessels shaped by heat, breath, and movement. Responding to pressure, environment, and proximity, she uses fluidity as both language and methodology, drawing on water’s ability to continually shift, yield, and reform - adaptive, like identity.

Together, the works open a dialogue around bodies as sites that carry memory, feeling and history. Materials are treated as repositories of experience, creating a tension between containment and release, decay and repair, inviting a consideration of how the body remembers, and how knowledge persists as something felt.

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