WINTER Exhibition
July 9 – August 5, 2025
Romulus Folio Gallery | South Melbourne
This body of work emerged during the quieter months, when the light changes, and the days ask different questions. I found myself drawn, again and again, to blue, brown, white, and gold. Not as a deliberate palette, but as something deeper, a language forming beneath the surface. These colours became a way to hold what I couldn’t name: a kind of stillness threaded with complexity, a softness layered beneath resilience.
WINTER is not about coldness.
It’s about the inner season, the places we retreat to, the memory-laden landscapes we carry, the quiet reckonings we meet when things fall away.
These paintings are portals, layered, textured, slow to reveal themselves. They don’t ask for conclusions, only your presence.
Some of these works began as something else entirely, older canvases from a time marked by emotional rupture.
I didn’t paint over them to erase what they were.
I painted over them because they were ready to become something more.
Before anything could be transformed, it had to be released.
This work is that bridge between what was, and what could never stay.
Now, ethereal blues hover above darker tones. Browns whites and and golds carry through the liberations these lighter blues open to. These aren’t paintings born from pain, they were born through it.
The deep blue, so dark it nearly reads as black, has become an alchemical force in the work. A reminder that the energy of what broke us can be shaped. We choose whether to create or destroy with it. We choose how to show up.
We can direct the energy.
We can shape it toward the life we hope to experience.
There isn’t a day lately that I don’t think about the pieces that shaped this moment but are no longer here. Not with longing, or an urge to fix, just a quiet knowing that I have felt deeply, and that it matters to surrender but not indefinitely collapse under the weight of it.
My grandfather once said, “Our present is the future of the past.” And I see that everywhere now, especially in these pieces. The old marks remain. The past isn’t erased, it breathes with everything as part of what it has been transformed into now.
This isn’t about forgetting. It’s about becoming. Becoming through grief, through colour, through something slower and truer than healing. Something like wholeness.
At the centre of the show is a large impact wall titled Teardrops-Rules Remix Womack & Womack, Rules, painted while listening to a remix track of the same name. The piece pulses with feeling. It carries rhythm, memory, and a quiet kind of freedom found only on the other side of surrender.
Alongside the paintings, the exhibition features a short Winter video presentation by Scott Ross, offering a visual rhythm that mirrors the emotional tone of the show. It’s been a deeply collaborative, intentional process and having the space to develop this body of work at Romulus Folio Gallery has given me the room to unfold in ways I truly needed.
A special feature of this exhibition is the inclusion of selected works created during our public workshops during winter, held here at Romulus Folio Gallery. These pieces reflect the shared emotional language that has evolved within this space, shaped through colour, meditations on Winter, conversation, and creative exploration. They form a bridge between the personal and the collective, echoing the themes of this show.
Thank you to everyone who’s been part of this journey so far. I hope these works speak to something in you.
Romulus Folio Gallery
15–85 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne
Wed–Fri 12–7pm | Sat–Sun 2–5pm | or by appointment
Free Entry
Opening Night: Friday, July 18, 5–7pm
Held in conjunction with The Gladstone residents’ monthly social night. Light refreshments provided. All welcome.
Live music by Ignacio A Rodriguez