A bent nail. A torn sleeping bag. Who decides their worth? Artists resurrect the discarded, weaving trash into luminous art. Each piece challenges our throwaway culture, revealing waste as fertile ground for renewal.
Repair | Replace brings together artists who confront the urgent need to rethink our relationship with the planet, considering the materials we choose, the stories we tell and the structures we sustain. Prompted by the quiet clarity of the pandemic lockdowns, the exhibition begins with a provocation: If we don’t repair our relationship with the planet, we ourselves may be replaced.Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and object-based practices, the works examine cycles of damage and renewal. Artists in the exhibition approach materials not only for their physical properties, but for their capacity to carry histories, critique dominant structures, and open up new imaginaries of care, continuity, and transformation.Some artists engage with salvaged or post-consumer materials, either incorporating them directly or drawing conceptual inspiration from them. Whilst others foreground material culture in narratives that reflect on consumption, memory, and value.The exhibition draws a connection between material and planetary care. It proposes that our relationship to objects, spaces, and stories are intrinsic to how we relate to one another and in extension to the world we share.Exhibition Period: 20 August - 13 September 2025. Opening event: Wednesday 27 August 2025, 6pm. Free Event, All Welcome.Artists: Ra Bull, Deirdre Boeyen-Carmichael, Gary Deirmendjian, Jane Gillings + Lucy Barker, Gary Gregg, Pim Van Nunen, Alice Xu.Contact the gallery for all sales enquires or to request a catalogue.Accessibility:Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios is a wheelchair accessible venue via lift and ramps. Our gallery has non-slip flooring throughout and tactile paving at entrances and stairs. We have 2 unisex toilets and 1 accessible toilet with a changing table and hand rail We are just a 5 minute walk from Lane Cove Bus Interchange. There is parking available at the local Woolworths, The Canopy, and Pottery Green carparks.
