EDGE CITY | ELVIS RICHARDSON
I’ve been thinking about Elvis Richardson’s work since the late 90s, so EDGE CITY feels like a conversation that’s been unfolding over decades.
Elvis has always worked with what’s already out there and in circulation — crime scene images, found YouTube videos, real estate photos, art world data — to ask who gets to belong, and on what terms. Here that focus lands on the interiors and thresholds of suburbia, deconstructing the systems that shape how we live.
EDGE CITY unfolds across two chapters, with a companion exhibition drawn from the WAG collection bringing in artists thinking through place, industry, memory and change, particularly here in Wollongong.
Elvis Richardson
Riste Andrievski
Judy Bourke
Kevin Butler
Edith Draper
Bianca Hester
Rob Howe
Garry Jones
Madeleine Kelly
Derek Kreckler
Catherine O’Donnell
Evan Salmon
Nick Santoro
Laurens Tan
Christopher Zanko
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Until 18 October
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Except image 1 by Christo Crocker and the video at the end is ‘Tomorrow’ by @elvis.richardson
#settlement #armchairs #roomy #takeaseat #elvisrichardson
I first started collecting realestate images in 2008 my search criteria two bedrooms under $250k - I was immediately obsessed by the images themselves as both formal compositions and documentary evidence. EdgeCity @wollongongartgallery
Edge City
Elvis Richardson
Edge City presents a survey of Elvis Richardson’s recent and key works alongside works from local and regional artists, exploring the built language of settlement and suburbia—its thresholds, materials and protective gestures—and the tensions beneath everyday domestic surfaces. Together, these works consider suburbia as a shifting edge between city and coast, domesticity and industry, revealing how identity, ambition and belonging are shaped through place, particularly within Wollongong and other growing regional centres.
Collection Artists: Riste Andrievski, Judy Bourke, Kevin Butler, Edith Draper, Bianca Hester, Rob Howe, Garry Jones, Madeleine Kelly, Derek Kreckler, Catherine O’Donnell, Evan Salmon, Nick Santoro, Laurens Tan, and Christopher Zanko.
Edge City continues until 18 October 2026.
Edge City opens at Wollongong Art Gallery 28th March, tracing how suburbia shapes identity, belonging and aspiration through an exhibition of recent works including Settlement#8 metal gate now in the WAG Collection. curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham.
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