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Thanks to all the artists, visitors and supporters for a wonderful 2025 at invisibleart.space (ias)!

Since opening in June 2025:

- we've held 8 exhibitions (6 at Balmain, 1 at The ARI Show art fair, 1 at the Southern Highlands Arts Trail)

- the ias exhibitions were a mix of curated group shows, solo shows, an end of residency show, art fair & arts trail shows

- ias featured artists from various locations: UK/USA, New Zealand, Sydney (Inner West & Western Suburbs), NSW regional areas: Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands and the Central Coast

- shown a variety of works, methods, materialities & themes to showcase works on screen & works on paper, the conversations between the various themes plus the numerous ways digital / immaterial art can be brought into the material / physical world: digital / immaterial works on screen, paintings, living sculpture, installation, digital projection, screen printing, digital prints, photographic techniques, hand-programmed code based works, plotter prints, video based works

- hosted 2 [In]Visible Synth Sessions -> synth music jams

Thanks to all our artists shown this year!!

Celadoor, Angharad Evans, Mark Facchin, Beata Geyer, [In]Visible Synth Sessions, Neil Jenkins, Laurence Kimmel, Keorattana Luangrathrajasombat, Victoria Lobregat, Kath O'Donnell, Stu Sontier, Anke Stäcker, Shelley Watters
(alpha order)

We wish you all a happy new year and creative 2026!

In 2026, we have many projects and exhibitions being planned, and also work towards the space becoming sustainable going forwards. We hope you will come along for the ride

--kath from invisibleart.space

Cordyline fragments showing in the "a:\Hybrid Matter - GLB 2.0.exe" exhibition curated by Ceren Su @celikcerensu & Abramovskiy @abramovskiyv // @accomparts

exhibition opened 16 Dec 2025, auction ended 31 Dec 2025

collection available at https://objkt.com/collections/exhibitions/projects/hybrid-matter-glb-2-0... (individual NFTs available here for purchase/collection & viewing + AR option)

online 3d world gallery: https://oncyber.io/hybridmatterglb20 where you can move around / between the works

auction: https://accomparts.com/auction/hybrid-matter-2-0

article: https://accomparts.com/article/hybrid-matter-glb-2-0#top

artworks from: Javier Montero, AliaK (me/kath odonnell), IvnHgo, Ceren Su, Lidice Silveira, Time, davidvnun, MartinJoSs, Digital Coleman (Chris Coleman), ANTN, nipetrov, Psychofuturist, Mina Hloy, Lewie, Marcel's underground

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Cordyline fragments --> This is a lidar / 3D scan of some plants from my childhood home, including Cordyline Fruticosa Firestorm & ferns. The digital nature of the scan creates fragments / traces of memories, warped over time

Thanks to the curators for including my work in this exhibition! Love seeing & being part of this exhibition of 3D works / digital objects / sculptures

(read more for more images)

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DECEMBER

06-20 December 2025 ::: works on screen and prints from Mark Facchin.

Mark Facchin is an artist, designer and animator working with digital methods and materials to augment and investigate drawing and painting processes. He was a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize (2015,17,19 & 22), was shown in the 2018 Head On Screens (Paddington) and recently exhibited Articulate Project Space (Leichhardt).

Both works on screen and works on paper will be displayed at The Augmented Canvas exhibition at invisibleart.space, showing anthropomorphic forms, noise patterns, virtual tracings and simulations of physics' properties, such as wind and flow fields via virtual brush strokes.

You're invited to the opening event on Saturday 06 December 2025, 1-3pm.

The exhibition runs 06-20 December (sat+sun ::: 12-3pm) at invisibleart.space, 141/2-18 Buchanan St, Balmain.

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Mark Facchin is an artist, designer and animator working with digital methods and materials to augment and investigate drawing and painting processes. He was a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize (2015,17,19 & 22), was shown in the 2018 Head On Screens (Paddington) and recently exhibited Articulate Project Space (Leichhardt).

Both works on screen and works on paper will be displayed at The Augmented Canvas exhibition at invisible art space, showing anthropomorphic forms, noise patterns, virtual tracings and simulations of physics' properties, such as wind and flow fields via virtual brush strokes.

You're invited to the opening event on Saturday 06 December 2025, 1-3pm.

The exhibition runs 06-20 December (sat+sun ::: 12-3pm) at invisibleart.space, 141/2-18 Buchanan St, Balmain.

photographer credit: Mark Facchin

Hi everyone, another busy month ahead as we approach the end of the year and warmer weather. Thanks so much for all your support this year, really appreciated!

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OCTOBER - FINAL DAYS

24-26 October 2025 ::: final days for Keorattana Luangrathrajasombat’s R0CK B0D1ES - WORLD BUILDING show, Ivor Barnard’s Dispossessions show and Maria Constantinescu’s SYNTHESIS show at Articulate Project Space

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25 October 2025 ::: closing day for Neil Jenkins’ formation exhibition at invisibleart.space

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NOVEMBER

01-02 + 08-09 November 2025 (sat+sun 10am-5pm)::: invisible art space will be part of the Southern Highlands Arts Trail — studio #18", with artists Kath O’Donnell*** & Laurence Kimmel. The Balmain gallery space will be on a break during this time, whilst activities take place in the Highlands. There’s 42 artists opening their studios for visitors to see how they work. A great time to visit the highlands for a day trip or weekend away!

https://thepopupproject.com.au/artstrail-2025 has the map & more info, or let me know if you need a paper copy of the map and I can send to you

Neil Jenkins' ::: formation ::: exhibition 4-25 October, sat+sun 12-3pm.

Neil is an interdisciplinary artist working with digital and physical mediums and processes. He's been creating net art and new media art since the 1990s, as well as working with eminent groups such as Furtherfield (UK), dLux Media Arts (Sydney) amongst others.

On display in this exhibition are some of his earlier interactive web artworks, video art, screen prints, and recent code-based plotter prints. Neil's installed his pen plotter in the gallery and will be plotting works during the exhibition!

You're invited to the opening event on sunday 12 October, 1-3pm
All welcome!

https://www.instagram.com/neiljenkins_
https://computational.com.au

invisibleart.space
141/2-18 Buchanan St, Balmain (SYD/AUS)

September-November is a great time to get out and about to see art in Sydney and enjoy this springtime weather

::: upcoming exhibitions :::

SEPTEMBER

02-18 sept (tues-thurs 11am-3pm) ::: The ARI Show @ Muse Gallery, Tafe Ultimo. A collection of ARIs are exhibiting at this art fair, including: 4th wall, Articulate Project Space, Tiny Gallery, Draw Space / The Drawing Collective, Lennox Street Art Studios, Our Neon Foe, Daisy Knight and Invisible Art Space (us!)***

12 sept (fri 6-8pm) ::: After Hours event for The ARI Show @ Muse Gallery, Ultimo. Come along to the evening gathering, being held during Sydney Contemporary week. tickets are free - available here

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Agitate/d

Angharad Evans, Beata Geyer, Billy Gruner, Chris Packer, Gary Deirmendjian, Ian Milliss, Isobel Johnston, Juliet Fowler Smith & Noelene Lucas – WRVAP, Kath O'Donnell, M Bozzec, Paraskevy Begetis, Pia Larsen, Sarah Keighery, Susan Andrews, Tom Loveday
Curated by Lizzy Marshall

Articulate Project Space | Downstairs | Opens on May 3 until May 25 | Fri, Sat & Sun

Agitate/d responds to the frustrations and the inability to communicate the manifestations of change occurring.

Responding to the shifting world order and accruing frustrations in our daily lives, Agitate/d presents artworks that communicate across suppression and censorship, or articulate the incomprehensible. Drawing on the Suprematists’ and Constructivists’ drive for a universal system of language that was inclusive, the exhibition showcases works that utilise laconic and subversive visual strategies of communicating.

Through the graphic, geometric, colour, typographic, and semaphore, the artists show us that they are agitated, communicating what is causing their agitation or creating newly responsive agitprop. Agitation is action.

https://www.articulateprojectspace.org/project/25-05-D

multispecies storytelling, ecology, sound & listening, kinship structures, landscape, AI classes ::: 20230412–20230419

reading and watching

::: These Lizards Stress-Eat When Loud Military Aircraft Fly Overhead ::: via This week in sound ::: Stress eating checkered whiptail lizards in Colorado — an impact of modern life I hadn't considered before. What other ways are species adapting to cope with noise pollution

::: Nature, Crisis, Consequence exhibition looks at the social and cultural impact of the environmental crisis on different communities across America.

AI, GPT, digital and generative art, First Australians' knowledge book series, 3D art experiences ::: 20230409 - 20230412

reading and watching

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::: Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly discuss Songlines and the importance of memory, place and oral history in First Australians' culture (video), and a response to Bruce Chatwin's book/interpretation of Songlines, as capturing, quite quickly, the essence of them. Their books discuss these further, particularly Songlines: The Power and Promise (2020).

see also:
Bendigo Writers Festival. 2021. "The Songlines Code: Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly." YouTube. Video, 14:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUcbbPS1z6E.
Neale, Margo (Editor). 2017. Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters. Canberra, ACT: National Museum of Australia.
Neale, Margo and Lynne Kelly. 2020. Songlines: The Power and Promise. Melbourne, Victoria: Thames and Hudson.

AI / ML readings, trees and sounds of the city ::: 20230408 - 20230409

reading and watching

::: Eryk Salvaggio's "Critical Topics: AI Images" undergraduate class. It introduces data ethics, a history of art, media studies alongside AI-image making approaches. Eryk notes it's a work in progress, with videos of lectures & loose reading list ::: via Eryk Salvaggio

::: AI Images, Eryk Salvaggio's Class 1 - Love in the Time of Cholera https://www.cyberneticforests.com/ai-images ::: AI/ML images as data visualisations or infographics

::: How to Read an AI Image - The Datafication of a Kiss

::: AI Images, Eryk Salvaggio's Class 19: Artist Talk video with Merzmensch via Merzmensch

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