Whispers of the Grove: An Invitation to Pause and Listen
I am delighted to share my participation in Whispers of the Grove, presented by Romulus Folio at The Gladstone, South Melbourne, opening 12 September - 28 September 2025. This exhibition invites visitors into a quiet, contemplative space, where art becomes a language for listening, to nature, memory, and the subtle threads that connect us.
An Invitation to Listen
Whispers of the Grove is a gathering of voices, a shared act of listening. The works in this exhibition ask us to attune to what is often overlooked: the murmur of leaves, the renewal within decay, and the small, persistent gestures that connect us to land, community, and one another.
My Work in the Grove
Through palette knife and texture, I explore the emotional terrain where human experience meets elemental forces. My paintings are deeply textured, atmospheric, and gestural, visual poems that speak of stillness, rupture, and renewal. In this exhibition, my works form the grounding landscape: a grove of colour and texture where viewers are invited to pause and enter into dialogue with their own interior landscapes.
Other Artists in the Exhibition
Maria Simonelli transforms reclaimed and organic materials into vessels of memory and regeneration. Reclaimed wood find new resonance and in her hands, echoing the rhythms of the natural world and reminding us that beauty can always be recovered, illuminated, reimagined, and whispered back into being.
Scott Ross contributes a video installation that threads through the exhibition like a stream of light and movement. Projected imagery and shifting rhythms invite viewers to linger in the space between stillness and change, presence and transformation.
This exhibition also features the selection of beautiful pieces from workshop participants.
Step into the grove, let the art surround you, and discover what emerges in the quiet between heartbeats.
Heart of the Grove, mixed media, 1m h x 1.5m 2 × 4cm D, 2025
Exhibition Details
Opening Night: Friday, 12 September 5-7pm. This event is held in joy with The Gladstone’s monthly social night)
Dates: 12 September – 28 September 2025
Where: Romulus Folio, The Gladstone, 15–85 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne, VIC 3205
Gallery Hours: Wed–Fri 12–7pm | Sat & Sun 2–5pm | or by appointment