Looking forward to moderating this MDW 2026 panel at the invitation of @mrveeral ! Veeral has curated a sensitive, pluralistic and insightful framework which offers us an immense world of ideas to engage with. Thank you for bringing this amazing group together.
Bookings are essential and tickets are selling fast.
SAT 23rd May 2.00-3.30pm
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Translating Place brings together architects, designers, and thinkers to explore how migration shapes the way we inhabit, remember, and design domestic space.
For many migrant families, the home becomes more than a shelter. It is a site of memory, adaptation, and negotiation between inherited cultural practices and the realities of a new place. Architecture in these contexts is often informal, layered, and deeply personal, shaped as much by lived experience as by formal design intent.
The discussion moves between these perspectives, asking what it means to call a place home, how that meaning shifts over time, and how architecture can hold and transform the stories of the people within it.
The discussion, bringing together architects, designers, and researchers, including Sonia Sarangi, Belqis Youssofzay, Mirjana Lozanovska, and Veeral Patel, is moderated by Ilana Razbash.
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Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Goverment through @creative_vic
Install documentation of TEMPLE FRAGMENTS, my recent solo exhobotion at Goldstone Gallery.
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2 Rooms
62 Paintings in total
3 Scaff Towers worth of components
54 Plein Air works of every Synagogue in Melbourne
3 Portraits
1 Imagined "Great Synagogue of Melbourne"
5 Architectural paintings
6 Months of urgent work
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Gallery: @goldstone_gallery_australia
Artistic Director / Curator: @nina_sanadze
Photography: @simonjstrong
Framing: @indigoframing
(SOLD)
"Sunset Moment"
2025
Oil & Cold Wax on Linen
25x25cm
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Two more very happy collectors. Thank you so much Oskar & Lara 🧡 May this piece bring you joy and delight!
"The Young Kohen"
Ilana Razbash (2026)
Oil on Linen
76.5 x 50.5cm
Unframed | Signed Bottom Left
Shown as part of my solo exhibition "Temple Fragments" at @goldstone_gallery_australia
"Longview"
Ilana Razbash (2026)
Oil and Cold Wax on Linen
35x35cm
Unframed | Signed Verso
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TEMPLE FRAGMENTS at @goldstone_gallery_australia closing Sunday 3rd May
Final day gallery hours: 10.30am - 4pm
Silent Auction ends: 11.45pm Monday 4th May
AND THEN THE DUCKS CAME OVER!!! 🦆🦆
Last day to see my solo show "Temple Fragments" THIS SUNDAY 3rd MAY 10.30am - 4pm at @goldstone_gallery_australia 41 Derby St Collingwood!
Don't miss out. Bring the whole family and even your pet duck!
"Mass and Volume"
Ilana Razbash (2026)
Oil and Cold Wax on Linen
30.5 x 30.5cm
Unframed | Signed Verso
#TempleFragments
Urgently commenced following the antisemitic arson attack on East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation in mid-2025, Razbash’s new body of work continues explorations in the melding of “the real” and “the imagined” whilst challenging audiences to find holiness in the mundane, pride in identity and strength in truth.
Temple Fragments presents a site-specific installation holding the 54 individual synagogue buildings of Melbourne. Semi-transparent superimposed overlays of the Beis Hamikdash (2nd Temple) melt with streetscapes and cropped views all captured en plein air. Meanwhile the skeletal armature is both a fragile reminder of the temporary nature of all diaspora communities for the last 2000 years and a prototype for what could be - a proud, united and strong in-gathering.
Rabbi Jonothan Sacks z”l wrote in his plethora of books and lectures that upon the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE, the Jewish people were scattered into diaspora taking a small spiritual piece of the temple (mikdash me'at) with them. These fragments became synagogues - buildings of very little criteria beyond requiring an ark, a torah scroll, an eternal light, a bimah (elevated reading desk) and windows. This too was the criteria applied to distinct synagogues included in this series.
The 54 9x12" oil on canvas panel works serve as foundational architectural analysis for the design of a speculative Great Synagogue of Melbourne. Paintings on linen canvas continue in the next room beyond the prototype temple, imagining a bold alternative future through an architectonic proposal designed by the artist-architect. The scheme offers a vision of what could be if the external threats to safety and internal division was overcome.
In a way, the one that started it all...
"East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation"
Ilana Razbash (2025-26)
Oil on Canvas Panel
9 x 12"
Framed | Signed Verso
@eastmelbournesynagogue
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"Temple Fragments" by Melbourne artist-architect Ilana Razbash features 54 oil paintings of every synagogue in Melbourne arranged together as a moving, site-specific installation. These small works form a temple-like structure, uniting the city’s diverse Jewish sites. There is an urgency to present this exhibition now as a response to highlight the alarming rise in attacks on synagogues and Jewish sites worldwide, particularly in March this year, states Goldstone Gallery’s artistic director, @nina_sanadze .
Each 9x12" painting, created en plein air in 2025–2026, captures Melbourne synagogues as they merge with the surrounding streetscapes. Razbash’s energetic, impressionistic style evokes both the vibrancy and fragility of Jewish life in Melbourne spanning 180 years, preserving something precious in the face of growing threats. The series was conceived following the antisemitic arson attack on East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation in mid-2025.
Superimposed on each synagogue are semi-transparent impressions of the Beit Hamikdash, the Second Temple in Jerusalem, destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. This central holy site remains a symbol of Jewish worship, loss, and enduring hope. Razbash explores the intersection of the real and the imagined, inviting viewers to find holiness in the everyday, pride in identity, and strength in truth.
