Previous Exhibitions
GROWTH – Lana Hayward
19th–29th July 2025 | Opening Night Friday 18th July 6–8pm
Lana Hayward’s practice explores themes of nature through hybrid creatures imagined and embroidered onto vintage cargo jackets and natural fabrics such as cotton and linen. Her work began with drawing and evolved into embroidery, digital art, and printmaking—mediums she explored further during her studies at the National Art School.
Inspired by Australia’s unpredictable weather, Lana created her “Tree Series” using screen printing, beading and embroidery to represent the seasons—blue for Winter, purple for Autumn, orange for Summer, and green for Spring. Birds, particularly her late pet Lawrence the Indian Ringneck, feature prominently and connect her still life and abstract explorations.
Across her diverse materials and techniques, Lana’s work is unified by a fascination with transformation, nature, and the unexpected.
LOST & FOUND – Group Exhibition
5–15th July 2025 | Opening Night Friday 4th July 6–8pm
Curated by the Kindred Cameras team, Lost & Found was a group exhibition featuring over 30 artists who responded to ghost signs, faded facades, and urban relics that whispered stories of the past. From photographic prints and collages to zines and experimental works, the show invited reflection on what remained as our cities evolved.
The works spanned the poetic, the political, and the personal, each drawing meaning from fragments of place, memory, and history. Whether through analogue photography, found objects, or reimagined surfaces, Lost & Found celebrated what had been lost, what endured, and what was rediscovered.
Presented with special involvement from Sean Reynolds of Melbourne Ghost Signs, and with generous support from Brunswick Darkroom, Urban Alley Brewery, and Moon Dog, the exhibition showcased a diversity of visual art forms. View the online catalogue here.
Mind Australia 2025
21st June - 1st July 2025
The 3rd annual exhibition held with Mind Australia at KC Gallery. The exhibition showcases the creative works of Mind Australia clientele. Mind Australia, a not-for-profit organisation, provides vital support to individuals facing mental health and wellbeing challenges, helping them find hope, purpose, and the assistance they need to thrive.
Creativa - An exhibition by Collective 24
24th May - 10th June 2025 | Opening Night Friday 30th May 6-8pm.
Creativa brings together the work of eleven emerging artists from Collective 24 — a Melbourne-based group formed through shared study and creative connection. Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, and experimental forms, the exhibition reflects a diversity of voices and visual approaches.
Each artist presents a deeply personal exploration of material, subject and self — from intimate portraits and social commentary to abstraction, mythology, memory, and imagined worlds. While their styles differ, Creativa is unified by a sense of collaboration, creative risk, and collective energy.
Featuring work by:
Ana Rojas, Ana Ruiz, Ange Foster, Anita Smith, Emma Cole, Jaya Sharma, Kit Andrews, Nada Radovic, Steph Walker (Huxleywasanorangecat), Toni Edwards, and Yessica Moreno.
Shot in the Heart of Australia 2025 - AASPi
10-20th May 2025 | Opening Night Friday 9th May 6-8pm.
Now in its thirteenth year, Shot in the Heart of Australia is a street photography exhibition presented by the Australian Association of Street Photographers. This curated show features candid, unposed moments captured across the streets, towns and suburbs of Australia.
Through diverse perspectives and photographic styles, the exhibition celebrates the fleeting beauty of everyday life—moments that are raw, spontaneous, and never to be repeated. It’s a powerful reminder of the genre’s enduring ability to document our shared spaces with honesty, grace, and artistic intent.
Street Beats 2024
An exhibition of street photography with images captured by members of AASPi - the Australian Association of Street Photography Inc. Featuring almost 50 images by 43 photographers, the works showcase the candid, slice of life content that street photography is famous for.
Allsorts
As part of Radiant Pavillion 2024, KC Gallery hosted Allsorts:
Recognising one’s queerness is a celebration—it takes Allsorts. This exhibition unites queer artists from diverse practices across Australia and New Zealand to spark conversations about identity and lived experience, often beyond what appears in their work.
Showcasing a broad spectrum of contemporary jewellery, the exhibition featured award-winning artists creating personal, historical, and new works exploring relationships, sexuality, queerness, and takatāpui.
Exhibiting Artists:
Becky Bliss
Bin Dixon-Ward
Laura Deakin
Matt Lambert
Michelle Hales
Neke Moa
Nellie Peoples
Sharon Fitness
Stevei Houkāmau
Tui Diprose
Victoria McIntosh
Co-exist by Matthew Villanueva
Co-Exist—“to exist together in a shared space without conflict”—is a photographic journey through the bustling streets of Hong Kong, Japan, and the Philippines.
Featuring crowded cityscapes and slow shutter speeds, the exhibition captures the rhythm and beauty of urban life, from neon-lit alleyways to bustling intersections. Co-Exist reflects on the harmony and tension of shared existence in vibrant, ever-moving cities.
Mind Australia 2024
The 2nd annual exhibition held with Mind Australia at KC Gallery. The exhibition showcases the creative works of Mind Australia clientele. Mind Australia, a not-for-profit organisation, provides vital support to individuals facing mental health and wellbeing challenges, helping them find hope, purpose, and the assistance they need to thrive.
Kindred Cameras Member’s Exhibition 2024
Our first Kindred Camera’s Exhibition was a celebration to remember, marking Kindred Cameras’ first birthday in style! This special event showcased the incredible talent and creativity of our vibrant community—our members.
Exhibiting Artists:
Brad Kendell
Carmen Zammit
Jason Christopher Jones
Eric Peng
Keith Costelo
Maddy Ewert
Mish Winters
Nick Schoeffler
Paul Dodd
Ruth Woodrow
Sundeep Samuel
Jo Wheeler
Jo Wheeler is an artist influenced by the landscape in which she lives, the Victorian Surf Coast. Her paintings reflect the world from above, drawing inspiration from the light and shadows of the sea, sand, surf and sky as she provides a bird’s eye perspective of the landscape through it’s shape, texture and form. Working with oil on canvas, the works burst with the colour of the outback, referencing the rich red and ochre earth tones witnessed during Jo’s travels through the Northern Territory.
Life in Saunter
Curated by Keer Zhang & Zijing Lei (Lilac)
Sauntering nurtures a sense of closeness among individuals and allows thoughts to wander around without restraint. It is an act devoid of a specific purpose. Yet within these leisurely steps of sauntering, one finds relief for both the physical and psychological self, offering a moment to observe something meaningful.
Unlike a sluggish standstill or frenzied run, sauntering unfolds naturally at the most comfortable pace and speed. When we engage in this act of sauntering, our surroundings neither overwhelm nor remain entirely serene, exhoing the nuanced nature of our relationships with others. If we can maintain a harmonious pace, let us saunter together for a while.
Exhibiting Artists:
Keer Zhang
Fen
Zijing Lei (Lilac)
Bingcao Li (Herzog)
Ying Tang (Rocco)
Cen Li (Lulu)
Mind Australia 2023
An exhibition featuring the work Mind Australia clientele. Mind Australia is a Not-For-Profit which supports people experiencing mental health and wellbeing concerns to find help, hope and purpose in their lives.
Surface/Light/Duration
Curated by Isabella Capezio and Chris Bowes
An exhibition of students from the Alternative Photographic Processes course at RMIT. This course sees students expand their understanding of photography, exploring unique materials and processes to extend the photograph beyond a traditional, two-dimensional reproduction.
Exhibiting Artists:
Amber Macklin
Benjamin Brophy
Aubree Maranan
Camille Mirasol
Jay Tyrrell
Kelly Lim
Nadya Basterfield-Cereceda
Renee Coster
Sarah Lockey
Eleven Zhou
Drey Willows
Tess Beinssen
Mayah Eden
FACES
Curated by Damien Laing
Thinking of the a means of unifying this group exhibition, my mind returned again and again to the word pair Faces Places, I was unsettled to see that pairing in a strange marriage of a film between Agnes Varda and the artist JR, and holding onto the idea the the face as a map of the emotions, the seal of an identity, already has a sense of place or setting - I thought we could push on with just faces. In the exhibition you will see a range of expressions that will hopefully speak to you with emotion and force.
Exhibiting Artists:
Ella Mittas
Rosa Spring Voss
Eroductions
Adrian Zanardo
Damien Laing
Kelvin Skewes
RMIT Photography Honours Graduate Exhibition
Curated by the Emerging Artist Collective
An exhibition of students who graduated from the 2022 Photography Honours course at RMIT. Curated by the EAC, which was founded by Roberta Govoni, Kat Stevens and George Jefford in 2021. EAC curates and presents regular exhibitions to support emerging artists to establish their art practice.
Exhibiting Artists:
Kyle Archie Knight
Olivia McGregor
Margot Stewart
Hugo Webster
Kat Stevens
Rhy Dyball
Sophie Smith
Spenser Paul
Georgina Jefford
