October 30, 2025

EXHIBITIONS OPENING SAT 1 NOV

Please join us for the opening of two exhibitions at Civic Art Bureau, 3pm this Saturday 1 November.

Clare Thackway and Emily O’Brien: COIL and ROAR

COIL and ROAR, an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Paris-based Australian artist Clare Thackway and Emily O’Brien of Melbourne’s Studio Geld that speaks to the cultural legacies of gendered stories of shame, hysteria and transgression. Exhibition text by Lauren Carroll Harris.

Until 23.11.25

Text and catalogue: civicartbureau.com/exhibitions/coil-and-roar

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Michael Graeve: LINES ACROSS SIGNALS OF CROSSINGS

SHOWING IN THE CIVIC ART BUREAU WINDOW, CANBERRA CITY, 1.11.25 – 23.11.25.

These paintings chart an accumulation of activations. Arcs of energy, traced from point to point. Spikes of movement, energised sensation.

Michael Graeve is a visual and sound artist. He works across painting, installation, performance, composition, curation, text and teaching. He lives on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Castlemaine, near Melbourne (Naarm), Australia.

civicartbureau.com/artwork/michael-graeve-lines-along-signals-of-crossings

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HAM DARROCH NOW SHOWING IN THE WINDOW

Ham Darroch is an Australian artist working in sculpture, painting and performance. He makes large scale wall paintings and series of paintings that resonate with human scale and the perception of space. His sculptures are created from altered and discarded existing objects, conceptually redirected using optical effects of geometric colour to reveal new meanings which are influenced by the vernacular and art history.

civicartbureau.com/artwork/ham-darroch-letter-re-sent

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DECEMBER AT CIVIC ART BUREAU

• ICONOLOGY: New Faces

• Agus Wijaya (window)