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29/05/2026

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26/05/2026

As our current exhibition The Pull of Things comes to a close, we warmly invite you to join us for an afternoon of drinks and conversation on Saturday 30 May, from 3–5 pm at William Mora Galleries.

To mark the final day of the exhibition, exhibiting artists Jo Lane, Darren McDonald, Deanne Gilson, and Steve Cox will share reflections on their practices and discuss the works featured in the exhibition.

We would be delighted to see you there!

21/05/2026

We have loved our Saturday afternoons with Katrina Rank ❤️

Please join us on Sat 23 May at 2pm for Creature 3-3 I assemblage.
Choreographed by Katrina Rank

Compulsion, accumulation, obsession.
When can excess ever be enough?

Join us for the last rendez-vous of a rare 3-part movement performance of Creature performed by award winning Katrina Rank.
Katrina is the pioneer of Costumography, an environmentally responsive performance methodology using reclaimed materials, including paper and disposable materials as sites of inscription and transformation. In costumography the performer maintains constant dialogue with the materials that form its exterior surface, its 'costume'. This haptic engagement is triggered by structure, weight, look, feel, smell and textures of the materials at play. It is highly inventive, prompting the viewer to consider alternative practice models.

Creature (2025) made using this process, received a Melbourne Fringe Award for Sound and Technical Excellence and a 2026 Green Room nomination for Costume. Reworked as a 3-part installation at William Mora Galleries.

Duration 20-30 minutes

Image by Robert Wagner.

19/05/2026

Therese Strauss,Summer Garden, 2021,198 x 137 cm, oil on linen.
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“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d.”
William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18, My Garden”.

In The Pull of Things until 30 May 2026.
The gallery is open from Wednesday to Friday 10 am to 4 pm or Saturday 12-4 pm. Please email us for any enquiries.

15/05/2026

William Mora Galleries is delighted to honour the work of the late Bardi Elder Roy Wiggan (1930–2015), from north of Broome on the Dampier Peninsula. A highly influential Indigenous artist, Roy Wiggan’s practice was deeply grounded in the cultural traditions of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. His work is intrinsically connected to Ilma: ceremonial objects and story systems that map the sea, Country, ancestral knowledge, and lived experience through form, pattern, and material.

Buru – An Exhibition of the Late, Great Roy Wiggan’s Ilma brings together a selection of works from 2002–2005. Buru is the Bardi term for a patrilineal estate or Country — a spiritually significant and culturally held territory carrying religious, ecological, and ancestral importance. Through bold sculptural compositions, Roy Wiggan translated these narratives into forms that evoke the movement of water, wind, and tide, reflecting both the power and fragility of the environment.

Presented in collaboration with Short Street Gallery, this exhibition positions Roy Wiggan’s practice as both cultural knowledge and contemporary artistic expression, held within a lineage of Bardi storytelling and making. Roy entrusted his vast and intimate cultural knowledge to Emily Rohr and Short Street Gallery, leaving behind Ilma that are not only cultural objects, but enduring testaments to his extraordinary talent.

Short Street Gallery and William Mora Galleries first exhibited Roy Wiggan’s work in 2002, marking the beginning of the two galleries’ longstanding collaboration.

Please join us for the opening on Thursday 4 June, 6–8 pm, to be opened by Emily Rohr, Founder and Director of Short Street Gallery.

For further information or to request a catalogue, please email us.

We look forward to seeing you ❤️

Anna

14/05/2026

Today, I focus on Parfum Can-Can (2026) by Lisa Barmby in the Exhibition The Pull of Things.

For me, this painting is a celebration in itself — a playful reference to the cabarets of Parisian nightlife, where anything feels possible. The joy lies not only in the subject matter, but also in the vibrant striped backdrop and vivid colour palette, which heighten the sense of theatricality and delight.

“This bottle made me smile, discovered in a flea market around the corner from Paradis Latin. The Can-Can is a cliché, but still highly celebrated. You can find vintage Can-Can dresses with the actual dancer’s name embroidered on them, and every cabaret show finishes with a high-kicking, leg-splitting, spirit-raising Can-Can.” — Lisa Barmby

Lisa captures that same spirit here: sensual, humorous, nostalgic, and unapologetically alive. Lisa has 4 paintings on display in The Pull of Things, on until the end of the month.

The gallery is open Wednesday to Friday 10 am to 4 pm and Saturday 12-4 pm.

13/05/2026

We warmly invite you to join us this Saturday for a unique dance performance in The Pull of Things.

Creature 2-3 I Shaggy Dragon and Erminekin
Choreographed by Katrina Rank
Saturday 16 May at 2 pm.

Compulsion, accumulation, obsession.
When can excess ever be enough?

Join us for a rare 3-part movement performance of Creature performed by award winning Katrina Rank.
Katrina Rank is the pioneer of Costumography, an environmentally responsive performance methodology using reclaimed materials, including paper and disposable materials as sites of inscription and transformation. In costumography the performer maintains constant dialogue with the materials that form its exterior surface, its 'costume'. This haptic engagement is triggered by structure, weight, look, feel, smell and textures of the materials at play. It is highly inventive, prompting the viewer to consider alternative practice models.
Creature (2025) made using this process, received a Melbourne Fringe Award for Sound and Technical Excellence and a 2026 Green Room nomination for Costume. Reworked as a 3-part installation at William Mora Galleries, the triptych will be presented as:

Sat 16 May, 2pm Shaggy Dragon and Erminekin - woven
Sat 23 May, 2pm Creature - assemblage

Duration 20-30 minutes
Please arrive on time!

Image by Robert Wagner

06/05/2026

We are delighted to present four works by Steve Cox in the current show, The Pull Of Things: 1961 Heartthrob, Silver Queen #3, DB – Souvenir and The Precious Objects of Desire (2026). Three of the works are constructed through collage, continuing his ongoing engagement with film, music and wider pop culture as key reference points in his practice.

On the works, Steve says: “Our cultural idols become the backdrop to our youth. Remembering them feels like opening a time capsule filled with excitement and possibility. Their songs, movies, and interviews wove through our daily lives, giving us something to look forward to and someone to believe in. Our idols offered a sense of belonging, turning ordinary days into shared cultural moments. As we grow older, that nostalgia reminds us of who we were and who we hoped to become.”

Steve’s works are on display until the 28th of May.

Images :

Steve Cox, The Precious Objects of Desire, 2026, 30 x 30.5 cm, collage and acrylic on board

Steve Cox, 1961 Heartthrob, 2026, 23 x 18.5 cm, ink and acrylic on paper

Steve Cox, Silver Queen #3, 2026, 26 x 19 cm, collage, acrylic and coloured pencil on card

Steve Cox, DB - Souvenir, 2026, 30 x 21 cm, collage, acrylic and coloured pencil on paper

04/05/2026

Deanne Gilson completed her PhD exhibition White Haze, Black Gaze with us in 2019, as part of her studies at Deakin University. I have since admired her work, so it is with great delight that we present Karrung Dja (Camping On Country) (2023) and The King Parrot Gaze (2026) in The Pull of Things.

On the King Parrot gaze : “As a Wadawurrung woman, I paint many birds drawn from our creation story. The king parrots are my favourite. Bundjil the Eagle — our Creator — brought them into being in the most beautiful colours after the first rainbow appeared to him. The birds assisted Bundjil in creating people, forming their bodies from bark of the manna gum and clay from the rivers. The birds came before the humans. (…)” Deanne Gilson

Images: 1-Karrung Dja, 2023, 82 x 82 cm, charcoal from Marlene Gilson’s fire, 23 Karat gold leaf and acrylic on canvas.
2- The King Parrot Gaze, 2026, 80 x 80 cm, 23 Karat gold leaf, white ochre and acrylic on canvas.

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