The last of the summer blue

Lennox St Gallery

322-324 Lennox Street Richmond VIC 3121

4 - 29 March 2025

A group show featuring Claudia Terstappen, Matthew Johnson, Melinda Harper, Carissa Karamarko, Kate Rohde & Marie Hagerty

Artists have long been fascinated by the transition between seasons, laden with its rich metaphorical meanings. For us in Melbourne, the intense heat we were so kindly blessed with this summer begins to change. The sun fades as a crisp air envelops us, and the leaves turn to brown.

As we enter March, we welcome the beginning of Autumn. Taking a poetic approach, this exhibition reflects the fading echoes of summer as they merge with autumn’s soft chill. Nights grow longer, and days shorter. It explores the works of artists who delve into symbolic and artistic transfigurations of nature that evoke lingering in the in-between, tracing the shifting light, the folklore of seasonal change, and the quiet poetics of departure and renewal. It is a study of thresholds; of a memory clinging to the thick air as it turns crisp, capturing the fleeting, the bittersweet, and the beauty of cyclical transformation. Text by Freddie Wright