Quasar explores distorted text and semiotics through salvaged signage and industrial materials. Sydney-based Woodley (b. 1977) manipulates discarded materials and typography, using mechanical processes to create high gloss, fractured surfaces. His work transforms rigid substrates into dynamic compositions, blurring the line between decay and renewal.

The exhibition interrogates societal structures, repurposing functional objects to challenge perceptions of control and communication. By deconstructing signage, a symbol of authority, Woodley reveals hidden narratives within everyday systems. His intuitive process highlights the tension between individual autonomy and centralised order.

Woodley’s practice merges materiality with metaphor, where repurposed debris becomes a language of resistance. Quasar mirrors its celestial namesake: a radiant disruption, illuminating the poetry of discarded systems.

Starburst brings together the works of Ellen Virgona, Nina Waring, Madeleine Joy Dawes, and Victoria Todorov in an exploration of the expression of the human figure through various artistic lenses. This multidisciplinary exhibition spans photography, painting, weaving, and sculpture, offering a dynamic interplay of textures, forms, and perspectives.

Each artist interprets the body and fleeting moments through their gaze, capturing the essence of people, emotions, and time itself. Starburst illuminates the many ways we observe and embody the human experience.

Ellen Virgona
Ellen Virgona is a Sydney based artist working with the medium of Photography. Since graduating with First Class Honours from Sydney College of the Arts in 2013, she has continued to evolve her practice by exhibiting her photography and working commercially with features in Vogue Australia, Russh Magazine and i-D.
Ellen’s work displays a discerning eye for finding the delicate beauty in the world around her. Her subjects, glowing under her preference for soft light, are configured in an environment of playful jest. Ellen's ability to tenderly capture moments of intimacy transports the viewer to a nostalgic present.

Madeleine Joy Dawes
Madeleine Joy Dawes' practice explores the act of creating as a record of time and space through various mediums such as drawing and weaving. Her works begin with taking photographs, which she edits and arranges in digital graphs, creating maps that are then transcribed onto paper or woven with glass beads. Dawes’s focus on temporality and repetition allows her to mediate rather than mirror the autobiographical experiences her images stem from.

Nina Waring
Nina Waring is a ceramic artist based in Wollongong, Australia, known for her distinctive porcelain tattooed dogs and figures. After graduating from the National Art School in 2017, she moved from Sydney to Wollongong in 2024 to focus entirely on her craft. Her work merges delicate porcelain with tattoo inspired designs, earning her a cult following among contemporary art collectors and celebrities, including Drake.
Operating from her own studio, Nina’s sculptures blend traditional ceramics with street art influences, resonating across both fine art and DIY circles. Her unique style has gained viral attention on social media and recognition in gallery spaces, positioning her as an emerging force in modern ceramics.

Victoria Todorov 
Victoria Todorov (1992) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Melbourne. Her work includes installation, video, sculpture and painting. Victoria draws influence from communities online and her position between these and the art world. Often working with non-traditional, garish palettes, Todorov builds textural surfaces that combine gowned text, collage an figural elements that reflect the constant influx of images and things as infotainment. At once personal and impersonal, her unique visual language is chaotic and oftentimes abrasive and works to interrogate notions of performativity, accessibility, expectation and failure by using and abusing ‘contemporary art lexicon’ form an outsider’s perceptive.