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

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

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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.

25/05/2026

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.

24/05/2026

Up next: Held, Altered

Grace Mitchell, Indya Pearce and Keely Varmalis
26 May - 6 June

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

Indya Pearce is a visual artist based in Naarm, working across painting, photography, textiles and drawing. Her practice centres around recontextualising ancient mythologies, drawing parallels between archetypal narratives and contemporary issues. Through layered depictions of the body and portraiture, she explores themes of identity and relationships, navigating social, political, and internal struggles.

Grace Mitchell is an artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne, working in an expanded painting practice. She primarily uses oil paint and also explores the structural qualities of wax. Her current works centre on an archive of photographs her mother took across Europe in the 1990s that depict mould, fog, ruins, and the processes of damage that occur across long periods of time and present themselves on objects in the world. Through material experimentation, Grace employs these processes of damage in her works by engineering the appearance of mould or sun damage onto an artwork. Her work engages with themes of decay, artificial or genuine, as well as the stories that objects hold via their material appearance.

Keely Varmalis is an interdisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts, where she specialised in Printmaking and Sculptural practices. Her work has been showcased in prominent galleries, such as Useful Objects, West Space and Craft Victoria. In addition to her visual arts practice, she has contributed to a range of performance projects in collaboration with other artists, presenting work at Station Gallery and Project8 Gallery. In 2022, Keely was honored with the Fan the Flames Acquisitive Scholarship, and her work is now permanently displayed at the Wilin Centre, University of Melbourne. Enamoured by the sensitivity of glass as a material, Keely began training at r.a.g.e. Hot Glass Studio in 2023.

22/05/2026

Current: Making Light: New Lighting Works by B-TD

Melbourne Design week

19-23 May 2026

Making Light is B-TD’s presentation of new lighting works, designed and built in their Broadmeadows studio. The pieces are shown publicly for the first time, alongside the materials and parts that shape them, from early material experiments through to freshly machined components.

A scaffold structure forms an enclosed room within the gallery space, creating a more intimate way to experience the lighting. A series of small participatory workshops run during the exhibition, using off-cuts from their production process to make simple homeware objects, facilitated by the B-TD workshop team.

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