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“I am playing with the translation from photography into painting” Aleksander Morris delves into the intersection betwee...
01/09/2026

“I am playing with the translation from photography into painting”

Aleksander Morris delves into the intersection between water and memory in his First Site exhibition entitled, ‘Memory Tides’. The exhibition features a series of paintings which have been translated from photographs in his family’s archive. When creating this series, Morris began to notice the recurrence of water in these family photographs. Like water, memory is allusive and slippery; unable to be fully grasped. Many of the photos in Morris’ family archive were taken before the artist was born, so he asserts that “they’re not really [his]” — he gleans understanding of the people and events that occupy the photographs but can never know them wholly.

In Morris’ projection-based painting process, he chooses to omit certain details, complicating the notion of a photograph’s universal truth.

‘Memory Tides’ by Aleksander Morris is open now at First Site Gallery.

Please join us for the celebration event for this exhibition at First Site Gallery, 5—7pm, tomorrow night, Wednesday 2 September. ⁠
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Image 1: Photo of Aleksander Morris by Claire Armstrong.

Image 2: Installation view of works by Aleksander Morris in 'Memory Tides', First Site Gallery, Melbourne, 2026. Photo by Christian Capurro.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for 'The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place'. The ex...
31/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for 'The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place'.

The exhibition has now finished and RMIT Gallery will be closed for building maintenance until mid-November.

You can however still visit some fantastic RMIT Galleries exhibitions at our other two gallery spaces!

Our current exhibition at First Site Gallery showcases the incredible work of four RMIT students: Jade Power, Stav Lampropoulou, Dominic White and
Aleksander Morris.

At Design Hub Gallery, 'VENTUROUS: Design Practice Research Futures in Architecture & Urban Design' explores the work of 23 innovative, contemporary architects and designers associated with the RMIT University's School of Architecture and Urban Design's groundbreaking PhD program.

And stay tuned to RMIT Galleries Instagram and Facebook where we will continue to share information about forthcoming events, and flashback to some of our favourite exhibitions, public programs and events from the last few years.


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Image 1: Installation view of Dominic White, 'Resonator Flower Sward' 2026, in 'Teebeluck Kormtenner Timmarere' (White Devil Spirit Basket)', First Site Gallery, Melbourne, 2026. Photo by Christian Capurro.

Image 2: Opening celebration for 'VENTUROUS Design Practice Research Futures in Architecture & Urban Design', Design Hub Gallery, Melbourne, 2026. Photo by Keelan O'Hehir.

Tomorrow is your last opportunity to visit ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’ at R...
28/08/2026

Tomorrow is your last opportunity to visit ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’ at RMIT Gallery, and to view our ten-metre long, ‘Wall Drawing ’ (2026) by celebrated, American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt.

Co-curated by Irene Barberis and Helen Rayment, this exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience this spectacular LeWitt Wall Drawing, alongside the exceptional work of a select group of contemporary Australian and international artists.

Open from 12–4pm, the exhibition will conclude this Saturday 29 August.

Please note, RMIT Gallery will be closed for building maintenance until
mid-November. Stay tuned to our Instagram and pages for details regarding upcoming exhibitions and public programs and don't forget— currently on show until Friday 18 September at First Site Gallery are four exciting new student exhibitions; and ‘VENTUROUS: Design Practice Research Futures in Architecture & Urban Design’ continues at Design Hub Gallery until Saturday 19 September.

This exhibition is presented by ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt’ project in partnership with Metasenta and RMIT Gallery.


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Image credits: Installation view of ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2026. Photo by Christian Capurro.

Image 2: Opening celebration for ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’, RMIT Gallery, 2026. Featuring Sol LeWitt, ‘Wall Drawing ’, 2026, acrylic paint and crayon. Courtesy of the Estate of Sol LeWitt, Chester, Connecticut, USA. Photo by Keelan O'Hehir.

Image 3,4 and 5: Opening celebration for ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’, RMIT Gallery, 2026. Photo by Keelan O'Hehir.

First Site Gallery re-opens TODAY with four exciting new exhibitions! ‘Teebeluck Kormtenner Timmarere (White Devil Spir...
25/08/2026

First Site Gallery re-opens TODAY with four exciting new exhibitions!

‘Teebeluck Kormtenner Timmarere (White Devil Spirit Basket)’
Dominic White (with cultural foundation works by Elder Aunty Netty Shaw)

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‘Wayfaring’
Jade Power

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‘Memory Tides’
Aleksander Morris

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‘The Wandering Womb and Other Myths’
Stav Lampropoulou


We warmly invite you to join us for our opening celebration on Wednesday 2 September at First Site Gallery from 5–7pm.

The exhibitions continue until Friday 18 September.
First Site Gallery is open Tuesday–Friday, 11am – 5pm.

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Image 1: Dominic White, ‘Resonator Flower Sward’ (detail), 2026, copper, artificial sinew, bush sticks collected with permission from Elders on the Bungurong/Boon wurrung lands around the Mornington Peninsula. Photo by Dominic White. Image courtesy of the artist.

Image 2: Jade Power, ‘Sun Casts’ (detail), 2025, porcelain and sand. Image courtesy of the artist.

Image 3: Aleksander Morris, ‘My Nanna Hated the Water’, 2025, oil on board. Image courtesy of the artist.

Image 4: Stav Lampropoulou, ‘The Wandering Womb and Other Myths’, 2025 (still), single-channel digital video. Image courtesy of the artist.

"[Sol] LeWitt’s decisiveness, and his trust in predetermined structures and systems, had a profound influence on me.” Jo...
24/08/2026

"[Sol] LeWitt’s decisiveness, and his trust in predetermined structures and systems, had a profound influence on me.”

John Hogan is an artist and the Installations Director of Wall Drawings at the Sol LeWitt Studio. He became interested in the ephemeral nature of LeWitt’s work when he was a grad student in Chicago in the mid-1970s. He was fascinated by LeWitt’s Wall Drawings because, unlike any other art he had encountered, they were not made with the goal of creating an artefact. Instead, LeWitt gave primacy to the intellectual idea behind a work, which remained even after the work got painted over or destroyed.

Hogan and LeWitt met in the 1980s and formed a friendship; in 1982, Hogan commenced working as LeWitt’s lead draftsperson. Since LeWitt passed away, in 2007, he has overseen the installation of hundreds of Wall Drawings.

Hogan states: “I owe much of my life as an artist to my friendship and collaboration with LeWitt, and to the shared exchange of ideas, methods and making."

Rather than reproduce the world as he sees it, Hogan creates abstractions that simply register "perception, atmosphere and experience”. ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’ exhibition features 'Untitled’ (2025), a series of small-scale gouache paintings by Hogan, that are made up of coloured shapes on paper.

There is only a week left before the exhibition closes on 29 August. Don’t miss the opportunity to see Hogan’s paintings, as well as LeWitt’s ‘Wall Drawing ’ (2026) and other dynamic works by national and international artists.

This exhibition is presented by 'The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt’ project in partnership with Metasenta and RMIT Gallery.


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Image credit: Installation view of ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2026. Photo by Christian Capurro

Announcing⁠⁠ 'Teebeluck Kormtenner Timmarere' (White Devil Spirit Basket) by Dominic White (with cultural foundation wor...
21/08/2026

Announcing⁠⁠ 'Teebeluck Kormtenner Timmarere' (White Devil Spirit Basket) by Dominic White (with cultural foundation works by Elder Aunty Netty Shaw) at First Site Gallery. ⁠

Continuing cultural practices through contemporary artmaking, Palawa, Trawoolway artist Dominic White creates ‘grief vessels’ in the form of funerary bags, amulets and kelp forms. These works frame grief as something to be physically carried – worn on the body and journeyed with. White agitates the notion of the passive object, instead demonstrating that they serve a material and practical cultural purpose. The artist tethers vessels to resonator sticks and invites viewers to take them for a walk and allow the friction to create sound. Using an end to trace the city’s surface in this way provides a means for connecting to Country.

The artist acknowledges Elders Aunty Netty Shaw and Aunty Patsy Cameron, whose knowledge has guided this exhibition and provided its cultural foundation. White also acknowledges the broader Melaythenner Teeackanna Warrana Aboriginal Corporation (MTWAC) community; the Palawa peoples; and First Nations artists past and present.

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Image credit: Dominic White, ‘Teebeluck Kormtenner Timmarere’ 2026. Photo by Dominic White. Image courtesy of the artist.

One of the 13 Australian artists selected to show their work alongside Sol LeWitt’s ‘Wall Drawing ’, 2026 in ‘The Conce...
20/08/2026

One of the 13 Australian artists selected to show their work alongside Sol LeWitt’s ‘Wall Drawing ’, 2026 in ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’, currently showing at RMIT Gallery, is Jordan Mitchell-Fletcher.

Describing the influence the American artist has had on her work, Mitchell-Fletcher says, “Sol LeWitt’s belief that idea and process constitute the artwork offers a useful point of contact. Like LeWitt, I am drawn to repetition as a generator of form rather than a pathway to a singular outcome. Yet where I depart is in my interest in what resists the system, the gap between intention and result”.

‘(Untitled) In Favour of the Floor’, (a series of glazed earthenware and stoneware tiles) and ‘Untitled (study for a floor) 1, 2 & 3’, (graphite works on paper), are prime examples of the artist’s practice, which includes drawing, installation and ceramic work. She describes the group of her works in the exhibition as “…drawing direct inspiration from the pavement and the interplay between order and disorder in the city’s vernacular. Cracks, uneven surfaces, stains and spillages are reinterpreted through the grid, so that layers and densities emerge as a record of the everyday.”

‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWItt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’ features many wonderful examples of contemporary art, that demonstrate the simple but radical idea proposed by LeWitt, that a work of art’s concept is more important than its form.

With the exhibition set to close on Saturday 29 August, there is only a short time left to see these and the other exceptional works by Australian and international artists!

RMIT Gallery is open Tuesday–Friday, 11am—5pm and Saturdays 12—4pm.

Image 1: Installation view of ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2026, featuring (left to right) Jordan Mitchell-Fletcher, ‘Untitled (study for a floor) 3’, 2023, ‘Untitled (study for a floor) 1’, 2023 and ‘Untitled (study for a floor) 2’, 2023. Photo by Christian Capurro.

Image 2: Installation view of Jordan Mitchell-Fletcher, ‘(Untitled) In Favour of the Floor’, 2022–2024 in ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2026. Photo by Christian Capurro.

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Announcing ⁠⁠ 'The Wandering Womb and Other Myths’ by Stav Lampropoulo at First Site Gallery. ⁠ This immersive exhibitio...
18/08/2026

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'The Wandering Womb and Other Myths’ by Stav Lampropoulo at First Site Gallery. ⁠

This immersive exhibition reimagines the myth of the “wandering womb” to examine and confront gendered histories that have systemically silenced women’s voices.

Drawing on lived experience as a woman of Greek heritage and a mother, Lampropoulou revisits an ancient medical fiction historically used to pathologise women’s bodies. She engages with this myth to examine the persistence of patriarchal control and oppression in both private and public life.

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Image credit: Stav Lampropoulou, ‘Wandering Womb’ 2025, archival print

Announcing ⁠⁠ 'Wayfaring’ by Jade Power at First Site Gallery. ⁠ Inspired by the uncertainty and instability of environm...
16/08/2026

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'Wayfaring’ by Jade Power at First Site Gallery. ⁠

Inspired by the uncertainty and instability of environmental conditions, artist Jade Power brings together clay, weather and time as collaborators in her upcoming exhibition, ‘Wayfaring’. This exhibition features a site-specific display of porcelain forms, each dried outdoors and shaped by the elements as well as the artist’s hand. The unpredictable effects of sunlight, wind, heat and time on the works call into question ideas of authorship and more-than-human collaboration.

On exhibition from Tuesday 25 August – Friday 18 September⁠
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Image credit: Jade Power, ‘Memory Quilt’ 2026 (detail), porcelain, glaze and recycled paper. Photo by Jade Power. Image courtesy of the artist.

There are just two weeks left to visit ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’ at RMIT ...
15/08/2026

There are just two weeks left to visit ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place’ at RMIT Gallery.

‘Field Drawing VIII’, 2026, by contemporary Australian artist Jacqueline Stojanović is one of two stunning works by the artist that feature in the exhibition, centred around Sol LeWitt’s ‘Wall Drawing ’ 2026.

The exhibition brings together international artists who worked closely with LeWitt during his career, alongside a selected group of Australian artists whose work has been impacted by the artist’s ideas and practice.

Stojanović says “Sol LeWitt has influenced my thinking, particularly his wall drawings... I am drawn to how his works accumulate globally, forming a geographic trace of a life lived through art”.

Consisting of wool, cotton and silk wrapped around a metal grid, the artist describes her work as a way to continue her own cultural traditions through weaving, with her broader practice expanding beyond the boundaries of weaving. “Some works are not literally woven, but reference weaving’s structures or processes through gridded foundations, repetition, material sensitivity and colour relationships”.

Stojanović also has ten, coloured-pencil drawings on graph paper included in the exhibition, entitled ‘1mm squares’ 2020–2024.

Don’t miss the opportunity to see these and other impressive works in the exhibition before it must close on Saturday 29 August.

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Image 1: Installation view of Jacqueline Stojanović, ‘1mm squares’ 2020–2024, in The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2026. Photo by Christian Capurro.

Image 2: Installation view of Jordan Mitchell-Fletcher, (Untitled) In Favour of the Floor, 2022–2024 (left), and Jacqueline Stojanović, Field Drawing VIII, 2026 (right), in The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2026. Photo by Christian Capurro.

Image 3: Detail of Jacqueline Stojanović, Field Drawing VIII, 2026, in The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2026. Photo by Christian Capurro.

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