16 May – 7 July 2025  Addison Karl

13 June – 7 July 2025  Melinda Schwakhofer

This exhibition brings together the work of two artists whose ancestors originate in the Southeastern Woodlands.

Multi-disciplinary artist Addison Karl presents canvases and drawings that offer a counter-narrative to the blank slate mythology of North America. From the desert heat of Arizona to the saturated greens of Oklahoma the paintings hum with the quiet resonance of stewardship, of land as relation not resource.

Paired with his landscapes are ink drawings of imagined yet remembered architecture – Collective memory of Chickasaw and Choctaw towns mapped into earth over centuries.

In Summer Rain II Mvskoke textile artist Melinda Schwakhofer introduces a series of magnificent quilts inspired by her ancestral homelands, alongside smaller works on paper.

Summer Rain is a convergence, a weather system made of colour, memory and place. It reminds us that even in silence, the land is still speaking and sometimes, all it takes is rain to re-grow its knowledge systems.

Artist Talk with Melinda Schwakhofer, Friday 13 June 4-5pm

Exhibition opening Friday 13 June 5-7pm.

Native American Jewellery

Pendleton Blankets

Zuni Fetish Carvings