Brie Trenerry

My installation, A Kind Of Resistance at Not Fair. Open from 11-5pm until this Monday. 83 High St, Prahan. Melbourne Thank you to all the lovely people who have responded to my work, and especially to my dear friends Sigi, Ylva, Paulo and Alia for my Melbourne residency, and to the amazing Brie Trenerry and Ashley Crawford for curating me in to the show. Also to Liss Fenwick and Darren Tanny Tan for your curating and to the whole Not Fair team. This level of deep connection with thinking artists and inquisitive audiences, curators and critics, is exactly the reason I continue to devote my life to making art. X @argento6 @darrentannytan @liss_wick @notfair_artfair @ashleycrawford1318 #melbourneart

I'm looking forward to talking with David Astle on Evenings, ABC radio, this evening from 9.15pm. We shall be talking about Art, including Apathy Bores Me, a protest workshop which starts with a placard writing workshop and turns into a riot. My dear friend Brie Trenery, who along with Ashley Crawford curated me into this years NOT FAIR, shall accompany me for what promises to be a delightful conversation. You can tune in tonight on ABC Radio Victoria. @notfair_artfair

@the_lennox_richmond -open to the public 11am-5pm Wednesday-Saturday-Works from the private collection of my extraordinary, generous, beautiful friend; champion of the arts & prolific writer, Dr Ashley Crawford @ashleycrawford1318 . Bobo Ash, I miss you so much. 💔

Join us on Sunday 22nd February for Curator Walk-Through from 3:30 - 4:15pm. Meet at the NotFair venue, 83 High Street, Prahran, in the amphitheatre, located on the ground floor

3 DAYS TO GO! Join us for the Grand Opening this Saturday 6-9pm at 83 High Street, Prahran Come for the art, stay for the atmosphere, and help kick off what promises to be the most vital NotFair yet! FREE ENTRY Enter via Charles Street Wheelchair access available on ground floor only #NotFair #NotFairArtfair #NotFair2026

Currently exhibiting in our video space is Kieran Boland’s The End of Side B, curated by Brie Trenerry. The End of Side B (2025) unfolds as a monologue for insomniacs at the close of a fictitious community radio graveyard-shift just before dawn. Framed as an atmospheric listening exercise with a trace of absurdist humour, it drifts through a disorienting soundscape where memory, technology, fatigue, and the subconscious intersect at the edges of perception. The monologue slyly proposes to the solitary listener that the soundscape surrounding them is not entirely live but augmented by an unseen background tape playing somewhere in the distance. This “tape recorder at the end of the world” runs for twenty-four hours across two unprecedented twelve-hour-long sides: Side A devoted to daylight sounds, Side B to nocturnal ones. First presented publicly as a sound piece voiced by the artist in 2023 for an overnight radio art project broadcast in Montréal, Canada, the new iteration at MARS—featuring Melbourne-based actor Rebecca Lee Bower as the graveyard-shift radio host—gives visual form to the graveyard shift’s dislocated sense of time. Kieran Boland is a Melbourne based artist working across video, animation, drawing, writing, and performance that engages a diverse range of actors and participants. A recurring thread in his work is the human voice, considered both as an “immaterial” entity and as a form of bodily residue that can assume an independent, often unexpected afterlife through archival recordings and, more recently, the influence of AI. His practice draws on the visual and aural detritus of everyday life, recognising waste as the flip side of a rapid cycle of innovation into obsolescence—and the underlying reality of contemporary culture.

Currently showing in our video space is Brodie Ellis’ “Ghost Waterfall” showing until November 8th. “In Ghost Waterfall, I reflect on the state of the Rhine waterway in Switzerland prior to the construction of the hydro power stations by exploring, through visual documentation, the intricate connections between current tributaries and their flows and the significance of water movement over stones, drip rates, and meandering patterns. These movements are believed to invigorate water’s molecular structure to best support water health and purity. There are institutions dedicated to the study of these effects which I visited during my residency”. - Brodie Ellis The soundtrack to the video combines audio recordings featuring a traditional weaving song performed by Laufenburg resident Sonja Wunderlin and the mechanical sounds of handlooms, which also feature in the footage, followed by the electrified looms and finally the hydro power station recordings all made on various tours of each institution (including the local textile museum). Brodie Ellis is an Australian multidisciplinary artist living and working on Djaara Country. She has held numerous exhibitions in commercial galleries and institutions, biennales and artist run spaces. Her art is held in public and private art collections including Bendigo Art Gallery, and MONA, Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart. Curated by Brie Trenerry.

MARS opening tonight! 5.30-7.30pm John Warwicker & Naomi Troski A’Un (What the streets give up) is the first collaborative installation between artist/designer John Warwicker and sculptor Naomi Troski. Recycling and transforming chanced upon material from the street both artists reconstruct their finds into new works that ‘speak’ to each other. Following both artists commitment to ‘A Continuous Project altered daily’ (Robert Morris) and the idea of regular reconfiguration (the periodic rebuilding of the Ise shrine in Japan) both works on display (the video loop and the sculpture) are regularly reassembled and made anew.

Last week to see Chris Nichols' Stream of consciousness - Daloy, must close Saturday, June 7. Stream of consciousness – Daloy is an immersive audio-visual work that visualises the unseen forces constantly moving through and between us. Drawing on the Tagalog word daloy (meaning "flow"), the installation captures a sense of continuous transmission of energy, breath, data, memory illustrating how life and information are in perpetual motion. Flexible LED screens snake through the space like digital vines, their forms inspired by organic systems but rendered in a hyper-contemporary medium. These displays come alive in response to the viewer’s presence. Like an ecosystem reacting to its surroundings, the work invites participants to become part of the flow, entwining with the signals that course invisibly through the air, the earth, and the self. This work was developed with the programmer team Auravis Creative. Artist/s: Chris Nichols @magick.sarap Sound by Berkay Mete @berkaymete Curator: Brie Trenerry @argento6 Photography: Ines Stilp @minestilp

Chris Nichols, Stream of Consciousness – Daloy “Flexible LED screens snake through the space like digital vines. Their forms are inspired by organic systems but rendered in a hyper-contemporary medium” Chris Nichol’s Stream of consciousness - Daloy, behaves like an ecosystem reacting to its surroundings, the work comes to life when someone enters its space. Coded textures replicating organic forms and 3D scans of native Australian and South East Asian plant life stream along these vines, illustrating the constant flow of information that courses invisibly around us at all times: through the air, through language, symbolism, the earth, and the self. This installation features a soundtrack developed by musician Berkay Mete, with different instruments triggered as the show elevates the viewer through varying levels of intensity. Daloy reflects an introspective meditation on invisible systems and sensory entanglement. This work was developed with the programmer team Auravis Creative. Stream of consciousness - Daloy at MARS Gallery Artist/s: Chris Nichols @magick.sarap Sound by Berkay Mete @berkaymete Curator: Brie Trenerry @argento6 Photography: Ines Stilp @minestilp