Recent Projects -

All That Returns brought together five Naarm (Melbourne)-based artists—Joanna Buckley, Laura Dubsky, Rebecca Jones, Jacinta Maude and Elif Sezen—whose practices connect through abstraction and a shared sensitivity to the poetic nature of things. Working across sculpture, assemblage, drawing and digital media, the artists explore the intersections of material, memory and emotion.

Presented together, their works create a multidimensional dialogue shaped by subtle correspondences and recurring gestures. The exhibition contemplates cyclical rhythms and the quiet beauty of return and transformation—unfolding not in straight lines, but through loops, echoes and spirals. Some works employ the circle as a symbolic motif, tracing pathways of renewal and continuity, while others evoke cycles through repetition, process or material reconfiguration.

Viewed as a whole, All That Returns proposes that everything—objects, relationships and ideas—exists within an ever-turning flow, where creation, decay and renewal intertwine in patterns both fluid and infinite.

Working with ceramics and the familiar kitchen towel, Maude frames care as cyclical—labour sustained through repetition and daily ritual. These humble materials and gestures reflect the ongoing, often unnoticed work that underpins relationships across generations.

Utilising materials known for their durability and strength—porcelain and steel—the works carry a restrained sense of defiance. Their messy, irregular surfaces resist minimalist polish, holding a tension between strength and vulnerability. In doing so, the pieces echo the slow, tender gestures of care: rarely neat or celebrated, yet persistent, necessary and deeply human.