HOME INSPECTION
Solo exhibition at Collective Haunt
68 The Parade, Norwood SA 5067
March 28 - April 27, 2024
Home Inspection consists of 25 paintings of the sharehouse Max Ballard has lived and worked in for the past 2 years. The paintings are arranged in order around the gallery so that visitors to feel like they’ve stepped into the artist’s home. The works on canvas and paper are placed over semi-abstract forms painted directly onto the walls, these shapes play with and accentuate visual elements within the paintings themselves, connecting the paintings with each other and unifying them with the room around them.
I’ll hide the spare key somewhere
Solo exhibition at Off The Kerb
66B Johnston St, Collingwood VIC 3066
November 20 - December 4, 2025
Commonality
Group exhibition at Gallery M
287 Diagonal Rd, Oaklands Park SA 5046
March 22 - April 26, 2025
Max Ballard, Brenton Drechsler, Hamish Fleming, Emma Neill, Billy Oakley, Lucinda Penn.
“The longer we listen to one another – with real attention – the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.” feminist activist, Barbara Deming
This exhibition was born from a shared sense of isolation while practicing as emerging artists. Through coming together and comparing our different experiences over the last two years, we have recognised some common threads and a thirst for collaboration.
Our innate compulsions to paint and how this frames the way we look at the world around us is a realisation which we have to taken back into our studio practices. This has deepened our sense of interconnectedness, setting the foundation for our collaborative paintings in pairs.
Lived-in
Solo exhibition at Off The Kerb
66B Johnston St, Collingwood VIC 3066
June 13 - 28, 2024
