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After a long summer break, invisible art space is back with more great events and exhibitions planned for 2026. We hope you’re enjoying a relaxing long weekend and not stressing too much about the current state of the world.

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January - March 2026

In January and March, we had a couple of [In]Visible Synth Sessions improv music afternoons with ATMM, Spoid, Zita and her theremin plus special guests: Coco Varma, Stuart Ridley and Glenn O’Loughlin at our Southern Highlands Garden Party and Justin Tauber (Golden Fang, The Sins, Jo Meares Band) at the Balmain gallery space. So far these sets have been low-key/IYKYK, but keep an eye out for their public gigs soon…

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April 2026

Coming up this Saturday 11th April two films by Andrew Garton (Secession Films) are being screened: "Know Me" and "Forged From Fire".

Please join us from 1-3pm at invisible art space to view these special films -> 141/2-18 Buchanan St, Balmain

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Saturday 11th April two films by Andrew Garton (Secession Films) are being screened: "Know Me" and "Forged From Fire"

Please join us from 1-3pm at invisible art space to view these special films -> 141/2-18 Buchanan St, Balmain

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"Know Me" is a poetic realism style film showing the interconnections between the forests of Sarawak and some of the Indigenous peoples living there, as well as the impacts of biomass loss over time. The film weaves 1955-1963 8mm footage filmed by British WW2 veteran and linguist, Ian Urquhart with Andrew Garton's DV8, HDV and HD footage filmed between 1999-2014, along with time-lapse animations by artist, Mirranda Burton. It's a unique glimpse at a special place and culture at risk of further loss.

https://secessionfilms.com/project/knowme
https://www.andrewgarton.com

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"Forged From Fire - The Making of The Blacksmiths' Tree" tells the story of the Australian and international community of blacksmiths, artists, welders and volunteers working together following the tragic and traumatic 2009 Black Saturday bush fires to create The Blacksmiths' Tree, a three tonne, 9.8 meter tall gum tree made from copper and stainless steel. The film shows that beauty can come from resilient and connected communities during the recovery period following an horrific event such as this.

https://www.forgedfromfirefilm.com

Thanks to all the artists, visitors and supporters for a wonderful 2025 at invisibleart.space (ias)!

Since opening in June 2025:

- we've held 8 exhibitions (6 at Balmain, 1 at The ARI Show art fair, 1 at the Southern Highlands Arts Trail)

- the ias exhibitions were a mix of curated group shows, solo shows, an end of residency show, art fair & arts trail shows

- ias featured artists from various locations: UK/USA, New Zealand, Sydney (Inner West & Western Suburbs), NSW regional areas: Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands and the Central Coast

- shown a variety of works, methods, materialities & themes to showcase works on screen & works on paper, the conversations between the various themes plus the numerous ways digital / immaterial art can be brought into the material / physical world: digital / immaterial works on screen, paintings, living sculpture, installation, digital projection, screen printing, digital prints, photographic techniques, hand-programmed code based works, plotter prints, video based works

- hosted 2 [In]Visible Synth Sessions -> synth music jams

Thanks to all our artists shown this year!!

Celadoor, Angharad Evans, Mark Facchin, Beata Geyer, [In]Visible Synth Sessions, Neil Jenkins, Laurence Kimmel, Keorattana Luangrathrajasombat, Victoria Lobregat, Kath O'Donnell, Stu Sontier, Anke Stäcker, Shelley Watters
(alpha order)

We wish you all a happy new year and creative 2026!

In 2026, we have many projects and exhibitions being planned, and also work towards the space becoming sustainable going forwards. We hope you will come along for the ride

--kath from invisibleart.space

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DECEMBER

06-20 December 2025 ::: works on screen and prints from Mark Facchin.

Mark Facchin is an artist, designer and animator working with digital methods and materials to augment and investigate drawing and painting processes. He was a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize (2015,17,19 & 22), was shown in the 2018 Head On Screens (Paddington) and recently exhibited Articulate Project Space (Leichhardt).

Both works on screen and works on paper will be displayed at The Augmented Canvas exhibition at invisibleart.space, showing anthropomorphic forms, noise patterns, virtual tracings and simulations of physics' properties, such as wind and flow fields via virtual brush strokes.

You're invited to the opening event on Saturday 06 December 2025, 1-3pm.

The exhibition runs 06-20 December (sat+sun ::: 12-3pm) at invisibleart.space, 141/2-18 Buchanan St, Balmain.

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Mark Facchin is an artist, designer and animator working with digital methods and materials to augment and investigate drawing and painting processes. He was a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize (2015,17,19 & 22), was shown in the 2018 Head On Screens (Paddington) and recently exhibited Articulate Project Space (Leichhardt).

Both works on screen and works on paper will be displayed at The Augmented Canvas exhibition at invisible art space, showing anthropomorphic forms, noise patterns, virtual tracings and simulations of physics' properties, such as wind and flow fields via virtual brush strokes.

You're invited to the opening event on Saturday 06 December 2025, 1-3pm.

The exhibition runs 06-20 December (sat+sun ::: 12-3pm) at invisibleart.space, 141/2-18 Buchanan St, Balmain.

photographer credit: Mark Facchin

September-November is a great time to get out and about to see art in Sydney and enjoy this springtime weather

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SEPTEMBER

02-18 sept (tues-thurs 11am-3pm) ::: The ARI Show @ Muse Gallery, Tafe Ultimo. A collection of ARIs are exhibiting at this art fair, including: 4th wall, Articulate Project Space, Tiny Gallery, Draw Space / The Drawing Collective, Lennox Street Art Studios, Our Neon Foe, Daisy Knight and Invisible Art Space (us!)***

12 sept (fri 6-8pm) ::: After Hours event for The ARI Show @ Muse Gallery, Ultimo. Come along to the evening gathering, being held during Sydney Contemporary week. tickets are free - available here

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Agitate/d

Angharad Evans, Beata Geyer, Billy Gruner, Chris Packer, Gary Deirmendjian, Ian Milliss, Isobel Johnston, Juliet Fowler Smith & Noelene Lucas – WRVAP, Kath O'Donnell, M Bozzec, Paraskevy Begetis, Pia Larsen, Sarah Keighery, Susan Andrews, Tom Loveday
Curated by Lizzy Marshall

Articulate Project Space | Downstairs | Opens on May 3 until May 25 | Fri, Sat & Sun

Agitate/d responds to the frustrations and the inability to communicate the manifestations of change occurring.

Responding to the shifting world order and accruing frustrations in our daily lives, Agitate/d presents artworks that communicate across suppression and censorship, or articulate the incomprehensible. Drawing on the Suprematists’ and Constructivists’ drive for a universal system of language that was inclusive, the exhibition showcases works that utilise laconic and subversive visual strategies of communicating.

Through the graphic, geometric, colour, typographic, and semaphore, the artists show us that they are agitated, communicating what is causing their agitation or creating newly responsive agitprop. Agitation is action.

https://www.articulateprojectspace.org/project/25-05-D

VISION FOUR 5 – Ritual of Love EP

https://Xelon.lnk.to/EACpp

Officially this is the first single from the upcoming debut album ‘Texture’. This single switched gears for the band musically by releasing on CD which opened up an above the line distribution channel and split the sound into singles for radio and vinyl/remixes for clubs and rave. The vocals were delivered by Sheree Exton, who sang previously on Cyberphobia and much later on ‘B the 1’ on the second album ‘Humid’. While we’re on the topic of the vocalists who worked with Vision Four 5, here’s the shout out to all those talented and diverse singers:

Emma Baker Spink: The first vocalist, met in clubs and full of good vibes. Emma sang on ‘Love Power’ which formed part of the independent release ‘Deep Fantasy’

Sheree Exton: Introduced through a former lecturer and vocal coach, singing on ‘Cyberphobia’, Ritual of Love’, both of which she appeared in the video’s for and later ‘B the 1’

Yolanda Podolski: Conservatorium opera graduate and lead singer of cool indie/electro band (also featuring stable mate Paul Mac from Itch-e & Scratch-e) The Lab, singing on ‘United’ from the second album ‘Humid’

Lollie: The distinct sound and sights of club/cabaret personality Lollie, who co-wrote and sanf on ‘Funkify Yourself’ and ‘Purple Lamp’ as well as writing the lyrics for ‘B the 1’. What a team. She is a prolific talent who would take instrumentals to another dimension and turn them into killer songs with a unique and quirky appeal.

Thematically ‘Ritual of Love’ is a reflection of the clubbing lifestyle and rituals of mateship taking place in a modern social context. The original video played on this theme from the fervid to the frigid, extending the idea to body as landscape.

It was made on one of the first Avid digital non-linear edit suites in Australia and won a digital design award the year it was released.

Vision Four 5 always approached electronic music from a band, not a DJ perspective and included video and interactivity at the same experiential level for their shows. Touring and gigging was an essential part of writing and developing the material, both musical and visual, which was then released as singles albums and videos.

It’s an exciting time to be able to release the entire catalogue in it’s original form on all digital formats, with a few extra’s thrown in, to re-connect the music of the 90’s with people and find new audiences, which helps people understand how we got here.

By Noel Burgess
22/07/2016
https://www.facebook.com/visionfour5

original post @ https://www.facebook.com/visionfour5/posts/1413085998705375