Laneway Lightbox Open-Air Gallery - Current Exhibition

By Mia McEachern

Curtain Call For Mr Lynch Series

Mia is a visual artist and photographer dedicated to exploring the "uncanny" the strange and mysterious qualities hidden just beneath the surface of daily life.

Mia’s work explores the strange and uncanny qualities hidden within everyday life. Inspired by the surreal worlds created by David Lynch, I aim to reveal moments where the ordinary becomes unsettling or mysterious.

The photographs were taken in situ within the local Albury community, capturing familiar environments and transforming them through subtle shifts in lighting and composition. Only minimal post-production adjustments were used, primarily to refine lighting, allowing the scenes themselves to retain a sense of authenticity.

The work reflects my fascination with theatre and performance, where reality and illusion blur. Influenced by Surrealism and contemporary photographers such as Tracey Moffatt, Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman, I seek to create images that feel both recognisable and slightly disorienting.

By presenting everyday situations with an unexpected atmosphere, the work invites viewers to question what may lie beneath the surface of ordinary experience.

Breaking Light

By Marie Salinger

Marie Salinger is an emerging artist living in Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia with a background of 40 years as an art educator. Now committed to developing her personal art practice, she works full-time in her art studio at Mayday Hills in Beechworth. Marie is a multidisciplinary visual artist who creates intuitive, heavily textured works that combine painting, photography, monoprints sometimes made from found natural objects. Rather than capturing literal landscapes, her practice explores themes of transience and memory, distilling the emotional essence of nature as a reflection of their inner world.

This series Breaking Light unfolds as a shifting cartography of North East Victoria, where river systems, floodplains and ranges are not fixed forms but events, continually shaped by flow, pressure and time. Drawing from the landscape around the Murray River and the meeting point at Albury, the works trace moments of confluence, dispersal and return. Rather than mapping place directly, these paintings register its underlying forces: the slow drift of sediment, the vertical fall of weather, the saturation of summer heat and the quiet residue left after flood. Light becomes both subject and agent, breaking, diffusing and reforming across the surface, much like water moving through a basin. At the core of the series is a tension between control and contingency. Structured marks lines, thresholds, interruptions, suggest systems imposed upon the land, while fluid colour resists containment, spreading, pooling and dissolving boundaries. What emerges is a landscape that cannot be fixed: a geography felt rather than measured, where chance and intention continuously reshape one another.

Bronwyn Berg

From childhood, the artist utilised creativity as a vital escape and an outlet for imagination. This early passion evolved into a formal education in Fine Art at Meadowbank TAFE and Graphic Design at the School of Visual Art, where they developed a versatile practice spanning abstract, impressionism, and portraiture.

Bronwyn has presented five coloured pencil illustrations recreated as digital images.  Each of these works are a collage of colour, shape, and texture to create a cohesive narrative.

In order from left the right see the stories behind each piece:

1. Meditate upon the earth - The closed eye may show complexities as we face our challenges and hardships yet life continues in its own beautiful way if we find the courage to embrace it. This is an energetic piece in varying textures and deep rich earthiness.
2. Lakescapes - In the Riverina we continue to face the challenges of weed, pesticides and contamination in times where drought also overcomes the human spirit. Ecosystems can often be overlooked in the eye of the beholder and taken for granted due to pollution and neglect. Understanding its function is also akin to appreciating the beauty in the vast landscapes that provide life in our communities. I chose a palette of neutral earthy colours to set the tone, looking at nature in our waterways.
3. Culture shows more simplistic textures and colour that represents the idea of storytelling going back to the basics, where we come from, who we are. I want to convey a message to my audience that life is about accepting individuality, being able to connect within a community and in a world full of judgement.
4. The Fish in some cultures represents life, but it can also remind us of where we live. In seasons of turmoil that bring bushfires, floods and drought, survival in preserving our meeting places is what is important to us.
5. Observation - the open eye of serenity. Finding clarity can bring new meanings and help us connect with one another. Living in country regions tend to experience the absence of mind health. This piece is a soft approach and empathic to the viewer who could perhaps find some solace in its presence.

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