Exhibition Opening Night June 9th

'Twas a chilly Tuesday night at Seventh this week. Luckily the large crowd generated some much needed heat. Thank you to all for sharing your warmth once again.


Jody Cleaver's animation and photographs of sculptural puppets fill the Project Space and double up with another animation on the Night Screen, definitely worth a closer look. Brave that cool breeze and stand outside Seventh from 6pm to 12am otherwise take a few rides down Gertrude St on tram 86.


Some of the crowd peering into the intriguing pieces in Gallery One...so much to see!


Gallery One contains 'Host' by Charlotte Ghaie and Jacob Weiss exploring the 'Thing' that comes from the inner space, not outer space. Weiss explores where the inner ends and the outer begins. Ghaie's watercolours and crafts peer into the cultural other and 'the misappropriation of the imagery of the other'.

A little space to breathe in Gallery One.


Kat Clarke's 'Intrusion' invades Gallery Two with intriguing sound and wired sculptures, walk down the back and check it out!

Exhibition Opening Night Tuesday May 19

Another wonderful opening night at Seventh, thanks to everyone who came down.
Make sure to come and check out these exhibitions before June 6!


In Gallery One, Vanessa Van Houten explores a moment of loss with portraits and written thoughts in 'Remembering What's Lost'.





Mural #001 by Sapna Chandu comfortably fills Gallery Two. The crowd enjoyed the seating and don't you be afraid to come down, do the same and discover Chandu's installation.


The Project Space contains Sary Zananiri's 'On the Road to Jerusalem'.

Peter Thomas' 'Nine Day Wonder' splashes colour onto the Night Screen from 6pm to 12am Tuesday to Saturday.
See you at Seventh!

A couple more

Gallery one is taken over with Alisdair McLuckie's continuous apocalyptic landscape, "The Highest Mountain Peaks, Right Before Dawn"

and in Gallery Two is Kate Moss & John Burgess' "Antipodal Sorcery", an atmospheric starscape seen through a looming buckminster-fuller style structure.

This exhibition closes on May 16th.

Exhibition Opening Night April 28

Thanks to all for coming down to Seventh for opening night and what a great one it was! Despite the chilly weather, the gallery was jam-packed, the crowd and art was all that was needed to generate some warmth. Come down for a closer look...


The intricate drawings of Alisdair McLuckie's 'The Highest Mountain Peaks, Right Before Dawn' surround the walls of Gallery One.


'The Body as Coloured Object' by Makiko Yamamoto in the Project Space. The crowd taking a closer look at the smaller pieces on the wall and in the intimate space.

A spectacular structure, the geodesic dome, fills Gallery Two by Kate Moss and John Burgess, 'Antipodal Sorcery' (Sorry about the blurry image, there are times when a tripod comes in handy).
'The invention of the geodesic dome was based on the geometry of nature and the principle's of nature's design so one does not feel closed in by the structure. It is reconstructed in skeletal form at Seventh Gallery and is a testament to the fluidity and mortality of social and theoretical constructs'.


Kirstyn Lyttle's 'The Body as a Coloured Object' projected on the Night Screen questioned the crowd by asking, 'What are you?'. This video attempts to visually explore some of the physical descriptors of the coloured body. It is screened after 6pm Tuesday to Saturday, come down and check it out!

A few final images

'Carpark' by Amy-Jo Jory in the Project Space

Candice Cranmer's 'Drill' on the Night Screen.


Greg Penn's 'In Silent Mode' in Gallery Two.


Safari Team's 'Safari Team Dig to China: Part II' in Gallery One.

Exhibition Opening April 7th

From the outside looking into Gallery One, the lights glared through the window of Seventh spilling out onto the street. The large crowd gathered inside and out to enjoy the exhibition opening night, mingling, drinking and craving the artwork.

It was a tight squeeze into Gallery One which is now showing the Safari Team's 'Safari Team Dig to China Part II', exploring the childhood myth of digging to China. The colourful, circular collages of work provide an insight into this wild adventure of danger and uncertainty.



The Project Space, containing the work of Amy-Jo Jory, drew inquisitive eyes sparked by static noise, making for a creepy, warm and mesmerising experience.

Gallery Two contains the work of Greg Penn, 'In Silent Mode'. This intriguing installation requires a closer look.
While Candice Cramner's 'Drill' played on the Night Screen, the crowd was also entertained by the tunes of Freddy Fudd Pucker, rounding up another great night at Seventh.
Come down to the gallery for an intimate look and hope to see you all at our next opening on April 28.

MARCH 17 - APRIL 4

GALLERY ONE - KEN SHIMIZU

THEY TOOK AWAY THE TREES
They took away the trees
They came through after the storm
With their giant machines
And where the poplar turned into a hill
We slept together
It was warm on the hill
No one saw us

I can't make you live outside of this mess

I took away the trees
After the storm
With a tiny machine




PROJECT SPACE - LOU HUBBARD

SINK is a team of soccer figurines drowning in time and circumstance. This work continues Lou's investigation into the nature of training, submission and subordination and the disciplinary spaces in which subjectivity and knowledge are formed.

It is Lou's practice to perform operations on everyday materials, manipulating them into new relationships according to set, formal rules that she invents. Her process is DIY, low-fi and positively domestic. Sometimes these strategies are witnessed and captured through a camera lens, resulting in videos that play on photography’s power to index untenable actions. Sometimes the actions become sculptural assemblages that are fitted and measured and precariously balanced.




GALLERY TWO - SOPHIE LAVENCE

Primarily working with video, and incorporating elements of photography, digital collage and installation within her practice, artist Sophie Lavence's work explores thresholds in perception, through cinematic space and visual symbolism. Her current exhibition at Seventh is paired with sounds by Grant Nimmo and Ryan Caesar of dynamic new collective Pilgrim Dance.


NIGHT SCREEN - KIERAN STEWART

SMALLER FORCES presents proxies for standard hand tools that are intrinsically brittle and fractured; imperfectly made and hardly a durable implement for labour. Like a badly made product produced en-masse, they also possess a limited usefulness and inbuilt expiry due to the medium of their construction. These flawed tools over emphasise the inherent fragility of the human body.