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Scrunched up pieces of paper form what looks like tree roots that are scattered across the foreground of the image while in the background there’s a blue and green wash of watercolour with stones, water plants and a platypus painted on a indistinguishable surface.

Kathryn Ruddick and Maya Grkow, ‘River of Time’

Kathryn Ruddick and Maya Grkow’s new exhibition, River of Time explores notions of the environment and human immersion within it.

A quilted fabric that has blue, black and yellow checks – the yellow part almost makes the pattern of a sun. Over the top of the check is text stitched onto the fabric in white which reads ‘now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep. Guide me safely through the night, wake me in the morning light. Amen’.

Anselma Forlano and Jorja Timms, ‘An insatiable desire: Sublimating sadness into textiles’

Using quilting, weaving, and tufting, Anselma Forlano and Jorja Timms channel icky sticky emotions into a trove of curated bambino blankets, exploring a desire to run away and be queer mothers.

Lots of differently coloured paintings on small pieces of paper. There is also a larger painting on fabric that’s been scrunched up and attached to the wall, and one draping from the wall which is mostly bright pink in colour but has bursts of yellow, green and purple. The colours are almost neon but always very bright.

Sickly & Nauseous, ‘A very serious, sweet, sick dream world’

A very serious, sweet, sick dream world is a spatial exploration of how a neurodiverse existence feels from the perspective of fem-presenting individuals.

Michelle Chen, 'Mental Jam'

Michelle Chen's Mental Jam is a collection of video games co-created with young people about their lived experiences of depression and anxiety.

Repair Café at First Site

Worn a hole in your favourite garment? Want to learn to fix that up? Drop in to the Repair Café for clothes at First Site this R U OK Day!

Black and white image in which the subjects look displaced – there is a person wearing a jumper and kilt standing on top of a hill with arms on their hips, looking away from the camera.

Alice Duncan, Lesley Turnbull, and Ciaran Begley, 'Dark Room Encounters'

Featuring the work of Alice Duncan, Lesley Turnbull, and Ciaran Begley ‘Dark Room Encounters’ uses photography, moving image and sculpture to explore the intersections between ecology, identity politics and place.

A beaker of water sitting on a white stump. The ground has grass on it, and there’s a fence in the background, with a body of water behind the fence.

COLLIDER 'Construction & Destruction'

'Construction and Destruction’ is a new project by Naarm-based collective COLLIDER, which explores the impact of human inhabitation on the natural world.

Black and white image of a hand poking out of the middle of a tree. The hand is splayed, and the scale of the tree is large, with rough bark.

Karen Song 'Female Monologues'

‘Female Monologues’ is a new exhibition by Melbourne-based artist Karen Song, which examines the ways in which the female body can be informed and echoed by its natural surroundings.

Folding Social

Folding Social is a Masters of Communication Design exhibition that highlights Finland’s history of progressive ideology, through a showcase of innovations taken directly from the book 100 Finnish Social Innovations.

Artist sits among lots of colourful objects and fabrics in a big jumble, including a yellow birdcase, green leaves, a yellow dog toy, pink, blue, purple and green fabrics and fairy lights.

Moon Girle, ‘A Tra$hy Rhapsody’

You are invited to participate in 'A Tra$hy Rhapsody' – a fun and engaging space reflecting on mass-production, self-reflection, sharing, and gift-giving.

A torso that has a translucent beige fabric covering the body up to the shoulders with a white rope-like tie around the waist. The person’s head and neck is covered by a blue crocheted hood, that covers the top of the shoulders – no part of the person’s head is visible.

Aviva Gandler, ‘In the Memory of the Maker’

Aviva Gandler’s 'In the Memory of the Maker' is a recorded fashion performance, conceptualised in response to issues around over-consumption.

Fabrics overlaid on top of each other, as well as a piece of painted cardboard. There are different patterns and colours on the fabrics – some are light and springy, while others are washes of colour.

Aaron Ashwood and Yolanda Scholz Vinall, ‘Patchwork’

'Patchwork' began as a response to Melbourne’s lockdowns, prompting the artists to become more playful. The result is a collision of two opposing abstract painting practices creating an immersive space.

A person wearing a green, pink and white jumpsuit and a flower bag – the face on the centre of the flower is winking. There are lots of brightly-coloured lights and toys surrounding the person.

Open Day 2022 at First Site

First Site Gallery will be open for RMIT Open Day on Sunday 14 August!

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