Lot19

The Selkie's Timekeeper
2025-07-12 14:00 - 2025-07-27 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Opening CelebrationSaturday 12 July, 4 – 6pm With the artists, live music, warm fire, bar and glowing artworks.

Selkies – mythic seal people who shift between land and sea are timeless folkloric symbols of longing, transformation and fluid identity.

The Selkie’s Timekeeper is the collaborative work between Costumier /Textile Artist Madeleine Somers and Illumination Artist Laura Jade.

Through projection, refraction, and material play, the exhibition charts rhythms of return and metamorphosis and time, marked by lunar pull and its tides. Stingray bones become navigational tools; lights and shadows play, projections ripple across surfaces like moonlight.

Sculptures of reclaimed, hand painted textiles shimmer. Hybrid sea life both creature and coral, recall the architecture of shells – vessels of memory and protection. Suspended and illuminated these forms act as reliquaries.

The Selkie’s Timekeeper invites you to float inside a cyclical space – part dream, part tide pool, part disco.

Give Water to Birds
2025-08-03 14:00 - 17:00
ZÖJ is not just a duo but a conversation—between worlds, between past and present, between the known and the unnameable. Since 2016, Gelareh Pour and Brian O’Dwyer have been making music under this name, though their collaboration stretches back further, to when they first began tracing the edges of each other’s sound in 2012.

Their debut album, Fil O Fenjoon (2023), was unrushed, inevitable. It resonated, not just in accolades (the Australian Wettest 100’s number one album, the Excellence in Experimental Practice award at the 2024 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards) but in the way it settled into listeners like something remembered rather than discovered.ZÖJ’s second album, Give Water to Birds (June 2025 via Bleeemo Music Australia and Parenthesis Records Europe), marks a compelling new chapter in the duo’s evolving musical journey. Building on the foundations of their critically acclaimed debut, this release sees ZÖJ, Gelareh Pour and Brian O’Dwyer, pushing their sound into new and unexpected territories.Featuring Brett Langsford on guitar, Give Water to Birds expands ZÖJ’s sonic landscape, blending intricate melodies, atmospheric textures and rhythmic explorations that defy categorisation. The album captures the duo’s deepening commitment to experimentation and storytelling. While their debut explored the intersection of tradition and innovation, Give Water to Birds delves further into themes of transformation, resilience and the human connection to nature.

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Self and Place - Pencil and Brush
2025-08-09 11:00 - 2025-08-24 16:00
Self and Place; Pencil and Brush is a solo exhibition of colourful self portrait and landscape works by visual artist, poet and musician, Allis Hamilton. Between 2019–2022 Allis turned some of her landscape drawings, created sitting with the ants on the earth looking and recording her impressions, into oil paintings. She will exhibit landscape paintings from the Flinders Ranges, as well as works depicting places closer to Castlemaine. Also during this time Allis drew many and varied self-portraits in pencil on paper. These drawings will enliven the walls of the show alongside her landscape works.The exhibition will be opened by renowned Castlemaine artist Sir Les Thornton, following which Allis will perform some music, then some ambient sounds performed by Sha.On Sunday 17th August at 11am Ross Gillet will launch Allis’s new book, Stone — a collection of poems and drawings around her experience surviving a paralysing brain hemorrhage.

Spring Into The Blue Cloud
2025-08-30 17:00 - 23:59
Anna Morley & Tom McGowan (live)Square Wave Bounce (live)OK Darling (live)Luqman (live)Joel Pearson (DJ)Tom Barker (DJ)DJ Clam (DJ)

Saturday, August 30, Lot19 presents a line up featuring some of Central Victoria’s finest – a blend of live music and DJs, complemented by delicious food and drink, devised to get your head noddin’ and feet movin’!

Come along to the Lot19 gallery for an evening of synthpop/house/electronica for your dancing enjoyment.

Tickets

Online: $20

Door: $25

Join us as we Spring into the Blue Cloud and celebrate the arrival of sunshine and warm weather to the Mount Alexander Shire.

Spring into the Blue Cloud takes place on Djarra Country, the unceded lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Entry is free for mob from all over.

Hope - is the thing with feathers
2025-09-13 11:00 - 2025-09-28 16:00
Opening Celebration – Friday, September 12, 6pm

Exhibition runs: September 13 – 28, Sat/Sun 11 – 4

‘Birds have been used as symbols of freedom, hope, spirit, transition, and new opportunities since time immemorial, in every culture, in every era. The primary reason for this is their ability to fly, to be free.’

Chrisanne Blennerhasset, Bridget Farmer, Ken Killeen, Jonathon Lane, Eleni Rivers, Jane Rusden, and Diane Thompson are a motley flock of Castlemaine artists drawn to the avian world for inspiration, connecting to something vital in our environment, something precious and beautiful and wondrous and vulnerable. They are making statements about things they love, and through their art, hope to assist those who see the artworks to look a little closer and care a little deeper.

The title of the exhibition is taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers –That perches in the soul –And sings the tune without the words –And never stops – at all –

And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –And sore must be the storm –That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm –

I’ve heard it in the chillest land –And on the strangest Sea –Yet – never – in Extremity,It asked a crumb – of me.

Lot19 Spring Sculpture Prize 2025
2025-10-11 11:00 - 2025-10-26 16:00
Since its inception in 2006, the Spring Sculpture Prize has been a key event in the Central Victorian artistic calendar. With a fabulous festive afternoon opening, over $6,000 worth of prizes, independent judges and a three-week exhibition, the prize is beloved by artists and visitors alike. The Spring Sculpture Prize Opening will be held from 2pm on Saturday 11 October, featuring live music, food and the lot19 bar. The exhibition is open 11-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays until October 26.

Spring Sculpture Prize Judges 2025

Leslie Thornton(Sir) Leslie Thornton, a frequent Lot19 exhibitor (winner sculpture prize 2022) born Brisbane 1950, self knighted 1990 (services to the banking sector). Leslie’s art practice includes painting, clocks, humourous ficticious documents, ceramics, political cartoons, collage and double adaptor creations.

Madeleine McClellandMadeleine is an accomplished arts manager, and has overseen public art collections and commissioning for Melton City Council and Nillumbik Shire Council. She is currently Coordinator Public Art and Creative Industries at Mount Alexander Shire Council. She has decades of experience in working with communities to deliver arts programs, and in fundraising and communications for small to medium non-profit organisations. Madeleine has qualifications in Art History and Curatorship, Community Development and is undertaking a Masters in Creative Arts Therapies.

Kim PercyKim Percy is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator with extensive experience as an artist, designer, educator and curator. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, has a PhD in visual art, and curated exhibitions at her gallery Radius. Her practice explores social issues, bringing deep insight and critical engagement to her role as art judge.

Artist: Dan Murphy - Drive-by
2025-11-08 11:00 - 2025-11-23 17:00
Sat/Sun 11 – 5

Inspired by the landscape in which he lives, Central Australia. Artist Dan Murphy will present a series of abstract, 2 dimensional works from old car panels that are cut and sewn together with wire.

Alchemy: Through the Lens of Nature’s Resilience
2025-11-28 10:00 - 2025-12-07 16:00
Kristy Lynch is a Bendigo artist who began painting in 2019 as part of her healing journey from addiction and mental health. Her latest collection, Alchemy: Through the Lens of Nature’s Resilience, draws on nature and memories of fire, water, and sky. Legally blind, Kristy transforms emotion into vivid imagery, showing that true vision comes from feeling as much as seeing.November 28 – December 7Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10 – 4pm

Salon of Smalls
2025-12-12 11:00 - 2025-12-21 17:00
Come one, come all!

We’re very excited to announce a brand-new annual group show in the Lot19 Gallery: Salon of Smalls.

Picture this—every wall of the gallery brimming with a delightful collection of small works, each one priced under $300. Perfect for festive gift giving or a small treat for oneself.

Opening PartyFriday Dec 12, 5pm – 8pm

Closing FiestaSunday Dec 21, 2pm – 5pm

Club Unity
2025-12-13 08:00 - 2025-12-14 00:00
𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟏𝟑𝐓𝐇5pm – 12amClub Unity returns to Lot 19 (Castlemaine/ Djaara Country) with a 2x stage festival for our last event of 2025 ✨

𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐘𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐂 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐄: LUQMAN B2B KENJIMS. ONUR KURT FT. TARABEAT (LIVE)DJ EMIOTORONGO (BRI)VEE

𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐈𝐊𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐄:LIM_ONETRIBEZËODJ MATABDJ CLAMRUCHI

+++ 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐒 (LIVE + INSTALLATION), 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐒, 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐃

GET YOUR TICKETS NOWfor this all star event in an open air location & STAY POSTED AS THERE WILL ALSO BE AN OFFICIAL AFTER PARTY UNTIL SUNRISE 15MIN FROM LOT 19!

Proceeds will go to fundraising for a soundsystem!

Portal
2026-02-07 10:00 - 2026-02-22 16:00
By Fionna Madigan, Lisa McPherson, Jenny Divers

You are warmly invited to enter a portal of remembrance and presence. 7th-22nd February, Thursday-Sunday

Painter Fionna Madigan, and ceramicists Lisa McPherson and Jenny Divers, invite you through a portal into a soulful and celebratory realm in which to explore space, psyche, touch and medicine.

Fionna is an award-winning exhibiting artist whose work straddles a fertile zone between realism and abstraction. Her immersive works are lush and optically playful, inspired by the forms and flora of the Victorian Goldfields.

Lisa McPherson is a ceramist and a practitioner of East Asian Medicine. Her work involves moving between bodies; human bodies and bodies of clay. These sensitive, hand-built forms explore notions of touch, healing and memory.

Jenny Divers’ ceramic practice is inspired by natural and constructed landscapes through which she has lived, worked and travelled. These contemplative forms investigate place and invite tactile engagement.

Opening Sunday 8 February, 4pm to 6pm

Opening Hours Sat 7 February, 10-4pmSunday Feb 8 – 10am – 6pm (Opening Reception 4pm – 6pm)Thursday Feb 12 – 10am – 4pmFriday Feb 13 – 10am – 4pmSaturday Feb 14 – 10am – 4pmSunday Feb 15 – 10am – 4pmThursday Feb 19 – 10am – 4pmFriday Feb 20 – 10am – 4pmSaturday Feb 21 – 10am – 4pmSunday Feb 22 – 10am – 4pm

Castlemaine Idyll
2026-03-14 13:00 - 22:30
Saturday 14 March 2026

Castlemaine’s Premier talent contest, lot19 fundraiser and a ridiculous amount of joy and community fund. Contestants, hot band, celebrity judges, volunteers, dancing, singing, broadcasting and more…​

This year’s theme: movie soundtracks!

This is one of those Castlemaine things that works because we do it together

Familiar movie songs. Local voices. A live band. A crowd that already knows how this works. Castlemaine IDYLL is back at Lot19

IDYLL is all about familiar songs, brave humans having a go, and a crowd that cheers loudly.

Idyll runs 1pm to 10.30pm

It's a Kind of Wonder
2026-03-20 11:00 - 2026-03-28 16:00
In partnership with Castlemaine Fringe

Wearable art exhibition

Curated by Jody Galvin, Azzy Jay, Kya Moore, Ellen Doyle, Madeleine Somers, Martin John Lee, Andi Herman, Melissa Clark, Michelle Newton and Kaz McMullan

The Castlemaine Fringe Festival brings its signature creativity to the State Festival with It’s a Kind of Wonder – a wearable art exhibition that transforms fashion into fantasy.

The exhibition showcases handmade works that are bold, playful and unapologetically individual. Each piece redefines what it means to wear art – from sculptural headpieces to textile experiments that blure the line between costume and concept. The result is an explosion of colour, craft and character, true to Castlemaine’s reputation as a creative melting pot. It’s a Kind of Wonder is an invitation to revel in the weird and wonderful – to see the human body not just as a canvas, but as a living artwork.

Opening Hours Friday 20 March – 11am to 4pmSaturday 21 March – 11am to 4pmSunday 22 March – 11am to 4pmFriday 27 March – 11am to 4pmSaturday 28 March – 11am to 4pm

Meanwhile, in Castlemaine
2026-04-18 11:00 - 2026-05-02 16:00
By Julie Lovett

Opening:Saturday 18 April, 2pm-5pm

The work presented at Lot 19 emerges from the unstable space of the artist residency — a site that promises reflection and transformation but often delivers something far less resolved. Working across painting and film, I treat the act of making as both subject and material, allowing the work to turn back on itself.

I place myself within the work as a semi-fictional, autobiographical character — performing the role of the artist somewhere between sincerity and parody. The work leans into self- portraiture, self-consciousness and the pressure to produce meaning in unfamiliar surroundings.

The Australian landscape operates as a constant backdrop — echoing my earlier engagement with the Irish landscape — but here it becomes a stage set as much as a site, exposing the constructed nature of the work.

Using banal narratives, humour and self-interrogation, the exhibition resists resolution, lingering instead in something unresolved, self-aware and slightly uncomfortable.

Julie Lovett is an artist from County Kerry, Ireland, working across painting, performance and durational video. Her practice draws on the landscape, labour and lived experience of her rural upbringing. Working from this context has required her to generate her own opportunities, shaping a strong sense of independence and authorship.

Her work explores the tension between artistic professionalism, vulnerability and belonging. She holds a BA from LSAD and an MFA from the University of Ulster, and has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Exhibition dates:Friday-Sunday, 18 April to 2 May

Echoes in Time and Space
2026-05-10 11:00 - 2026-05-24 16:00
By Michael Graeve and Christoph Dahlhausen

Opening:Saturday 9 May, 3pm-5pm

Artists talk:Saturday 16 May, 3pm

For this Lot19 exhibition, Dahlhausen and Graeve bring into play both new and older works, allowing them to react to one another, and to the environs of the gallery. In this way, the title “Echoes in Time and Space” acquires both literal and metaphorical dimensions.

A plethora of compositional propositions and material textures contribute towards a spatial noisiness, even without the explicit inclusion of sound. Canvases, aluminium panels, lights and foils speak with and over each other as component parts. Each work develops dialogues – fields of resonance – with the others, and with the gallery itself, which is constantly transformed by changes in daylight. These conditions form to be specific and contingent: they are, here and now, uniquely, what they are. In turn, artworks that previously functioned in isolation, are put to work in ever-changing ensembles.

Dahlhausen and Graeve’s works also respond to the surroundings, breathing in the light. Dahlhausen’s foil and aluminium works reflect and refract, while Graeve’s canvases speed up and slow down. Boundaries dissolve. Dahlhausen’s light rods mark a musical staccato within the space, echoing the rhythmic placement of Graeve’s canvases. A total work emerges.

Openness is the central theme. Everything contributes: past and present, inside and outside, colour and light, surface and space, gloss and matte, reduction and complication. Everything is in flux: here and now, today and tomorrow, noise and silence. The signal reaches out, the echo speaks back, changed by what it has touched along the way.

BIOSTwo artists, one from Germany, the other from Australia, have now collaborated for exactly 20 years, working together with a sense of joy and discovery. Their shared projects are driven by the dissolution of certain material and spatial boundaries, as well as the bridging of distances.

The German artist, Dr Christoph Dahlhausen, initially studied cello, and in his practice focuses on light, colour and space. His installations frequently address space and place – as does the work here for Lot19. The Australian artist, Michael Graeve, often combines aspects of painting and sound. Both artists are united by their interest in reductive visual languages, and clarities of form. These characteristics, if considered as tactics, create space for a specific kind of free and open experiencing – even for the works themselves, which resonate differently in the context of each new encounter.

Exhibition dates:Fridays-Sundays, 10 to 24 May11am to 4pm

Joy
2026-06-27 11:00 - 2026-07-05 17:00
By Roz Avent, Bill Sampson, Leslie Thornton, Tracey Naughton, Jody Galvin, Paloma White. Light installations by Reuben CummingsCurated by Suzanne Donisthorpe

JOY is coming to Lot 19.

JOY is a midwinter exhibition vibrating with the power of colour, light and art. Curated by Suzanne Donisthorpe, the show features local artists Roz Avent, Bill Sampson, Leslie Thornton, Tracey Naughton, Paloma White and Jody Galvin with a light installation by Melbourne artist Reuben Cumming.

It’s bleak out there in our sick sad world, so come and be uplifted.

Opening drinks 4pm June 27 featuring a performance by the soul stirring Kavisha Mazella and the Bhaktiheart Choir

Opening:Saturday 27 June, 4pm

Artists talk:Sunday 5 July, 2pm

Exhibition dates:Saturdays-Sundays, 27 June to 5 July11am to 5pm

Blorch!
2026-07-11 11:00 - 2026-07-26 16:00
By Lawrence Finn, David M Lewis, Simon Dubbeld, Riley Finn

We sit together as a society, screaming our lungs out at clouds. It sounds ridiculous until you realise the clouds are listening. Screaming is healthier than denial. Healthier than pretending the massive social changes aren’t occurring, that corruption isn’t endemic, that the racist hard right isn’t ascendant, that ecology isn’t being auctioned off to trillionaires, and that our grand experiments in human dignity haven’t suffered catastrophic failures.Shouting at clouds is therapy, but it is more than shouting. It is communion and contemplation, a conversation with the reflective self. A way of settling the soul and understanding change, and the earth-shattering repetitions of stupidity and obscenity that surround us. It is narrative therapy conducted with the weather, using art as the lingua franca.Artists have always conversed with clouds, even while remaining constrained and subject to the polemics of politics, religion and capitalism. I enjoy reading about new artists and the ways they converse with clouds. I love watching people define their voices. I adore encountering something new.Everything has been done before, but not by me, not by them, not by us, and often not by you either. What has never been done before is the creation of a society where everyone is valued and dreams are nurtured. We have dreamed of that for millennia and spent an astonishing number of bodies trying to manufacture the reality of that dream.Every civilisation promises renewal. Every civilisation promises a better tomorrow. Yet somehow those promises are so often built from disposable people.I am often told not to digress, to keep my thoughts on track and in perspective. Yet the future is not a destination; it is a journey. The journey lasts as long as you live, and most of us are only moderately successful at anything beyond remaining alive. That is not necessarily a failure. I am told that where there is life there is hope.I hope this makes sense.The art world often behaves like Logan’s Run. When artists hit twenty, thirty, forty, or whatever age the market decides they are ready for disposal, they are quietly ushered toward Carousel. Renewal, we are told. Reinvention. Fresh voices. New energy. A younger generation that needs to be heard.Renewal is a polite euphemism for disposal. The trick of Carousel is that it convinces people the two are the same thing.The old generation disappears. The new generation replaces them. Society congratulates itself for remaining young while quietly forgetting who paid for the illusion.The problem is that art does not work that way. Artists produce work regardless of external circumstances. Experience, wisdom and failure matter, but not as much as the single-minded drive to create. The demiurgic impulse that guides older artists should also drive them to mentor younger artists. The point is not to stop the next generation arriving; the point is to ensure they arrive with more opportunities than we did. Otherwise we are simply feeding people into Carousel and calling it progress.The trick is not surviving Carousel. The trick is ensuring the next person arrives better equipped than you were, that they are given every opportunity to give this precious life their best.Which brings us to this exhibition.

Three older artists. One younger artist.The older artists know where the exits are because we have spent decades discovering there aren’t any. We have cut our teeth. We know what we are about. We make work whether it sells or not, whether it is fashionable or not, whether anyone is listening or not.We know we are standing in the queue for Carousel, and that our only sensible response is not to kick down, but to keep making the work and help others up.Viewed through the lens of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, we are less a group exhibition than a small and harried crew travelling through the absurdity of contemporary society, each carrying a towel and a different theory about the weather.David M Lewis is our Marvin.Not paranoid, merely observant. Deeply thoughtful. Tired in the way only intelligent people become tired. His charming prints, inspired by journeys to Mexico, transform the Day of the Dead into an invocation against AI, trillionaires and killionaires. His work seduces the inner child before quietly reminding us that being angry about the state of the world is evidence that you are still alive, and that yelling is not a prerequisite for defending others.Simon Dubbeld is our Ford Prefect.A collector of observations. A field researcher compiling notes for the next edition of the Guide. His text-based works echo Jenny Holzer, but with less polemical proclamation and revolutionary zeal than the Situationist International, and with generous helpings of Australian humour. Curious, astute and playful, he manages to remain cheerful despite paying attention.Lawrence Finn is our Zaphod Beeblebrox, oscillating between Zaphod’s ego and Zaphod’s unfortunate second head forced to share the ride. One moment galactic president, the best bang since the Big One, chasing chaos for the shits and kicks; the next wondering about where the next meal is coming from and searching desperately for his misplaced towel.His work veers between ugly truths and beautiful lies, savage critiques and prints his mother can show her friends without worrying. And then there is Riley Finn, the Arthur Dent of the show. The youngest artist in the group. Standing in his dressing gown while the demolition orders are being read. Read not by a Vogon constructor fleet, but by human greed, ecological collapse and institutional stupidity.Young artists are always expected to understand rules that are simultaneously changing and being hidden from them. When I look at Riley’s work, I see remarkable skill, intelligence and vitality. I see him learning those rules and throwing them back into the clouds to test them. I see someone learning how to navigate the absurd, the mundane and the philosophically profound.His work is masterfully skilled, incredibly fine, informed by philosophy and animated by a healthy nod to punk attitude. All artists chase rabbit holes and find the clouds inhabiting them. We converse with them and in return they facilitate strange thoughts in stranger weather.So while the metaphor for this show may be The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, it feels like we may be sitting in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The Ameglian Major Cow, the Dish of the Day, is on the menu, enthusiastically begging us to cut it up and eat it. Like artists, it is purpose-built for consumption and it is on the carousel. The meal is happy to die for us. Perhaps that is what all these metaphors have been circling around. The clouds. Carousel. The Hitchhiker’s Guide. They are all talking about the same concern: remaining you within systems that are increasingly designed to treat us as the dish of the day. This show is a humble shot at reality, a celebration of the inherent joy of life, and the pleasures of yelling at clouds.It is what happens when artists scream at clouds, stare down Carousel, fight the demolition orders as they are being read, and find themselves unable to stomach the meal being served.It is a touch of artistic indigestion. A cosmic burp. A philosophical belch.BLORCH!

Opening:Saturday 11 July, 2-6pm

Exhibition dates:Saturdays-Sundays, 11 July to 26 July11am to 4pm

Resonant Fields
2026-08-08 10:00 - 2026-08-23 16:00
By Dominic Crinson

Holding Space Between Chaos and Coherence

Resonant Fields brings together paintings and ceramics that explore the continual search for coherence. Using simple geometric forms as a visual language, the work investigates the relationship between coherence and instability, asking how structures emerge, hold tension and remain open to change.

Made with clay gathered from the Central Goldfields and incorporating gold throughout the work, the exhibition is rooted in a landscape shaped by both radiance and rupture: the prosperity of the gold rush, and the environmental and cultural consequences it left behind. The work draws on this history as both a material and symbolic presence.

While many pieces begin with archetypal geometric forms, they have gradually evolved into a personal geometry shaped as much by the response of the material as by intention. The work embraces the consequences of making. Firing, reduction and, in some cases, raku become active collaborators. Cracks, ruptures and unexpected surfaces are not corrected but carried forward, allowing disruption itself to participate in the search for coherence.

Opening:Friday 7 August, 5-7pm

Exhibition dates:Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, 8 to 23 August10am to 4pm

Inter Alia - Castlemaine Press Members Exhibition
2026-09-05 11:00 - 2026-09-27 16:00
Inter Alia – Castlemaine Press Members Exhibition

The second Inter Alia Exhibition will showcase the wonders of printmaking by members of Castlemaine Press in the spacious Lot19 Gallery. You are invited to our Opening on Saturday 5th September 2-4pm. A chance to find out more about accessing our wonderful community access printmaking studio and other lot19 delights! The exhibition runs every weekend throughout September.

Opening:Saturday 5 September, 2-4pm

Exhibition dates:Saturdays and Sundays, 5-27 September11am to 4pm

Baddaginnie1 (of 2) by Nicky Chudleigh

ZÖJ 2026 Album Launch Tour - 20 Sep at Lot19
2026-09-20 14:30 - 16:00
May the Devil’s Ear Be Deaf

A powerful cross-cultural journey through deep listening, improvisation, and Persian poetry.

ZÖJ presents their captivating fusion of neo-classical Persian music and experimental rhythms.

Launching their third album, May The Devil’s Ear Be Deaf, recorded live at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, ZÖJ invite listeners into an intimate and powerful evening.

Drawing inspiration from a Persian saying often spoken when something beautiful is expressed aloud, the album title is used to ward off envy or misfortune, acknowledging that beauty and hope can also carry risk.

‘This album carries the breath of its making, no retakes, no disguises. Each sound was played only once, then left to live or die. To make something so fragile is a way of trusting life itself.’ – Gelareh Pour

Praise for ZÖJ

‘May this music offer a drop of solace, a gesture of care, and a call to stay human.’ – African Paper

‘I return to this album when I want to feel again that music can be a mirror of the soul.’ – Anxious Musick Magazine

‘One kneels before such beauty.’ – Inactuelles, musiques singulières

‘Exhilarating and heart-stoppingly beautiful.’ – The Music Show, ABC Radio National

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Seed Pod Splendour - Opening Friday 6th November 5pm-15th November
2026-11-06 11:00 - 2026-11-15 16:00
An exhibition by Jody Galvin & John Arnold

One of nature’s nurturing marvels – the seed pod – takes centre stage in SEED POD SPLENDOUR, a captivating new exhibition by local artists Jody Galvin & John Arnold. This collection of sculptural works gives voice to the resilient often over looked crowns of the planet world. Built to carry, protect and launch new life, these structural masterpieces are to be celebrated.

Through a vibrant display of colour, shape & form, we invite you to enjoy the beauty in the life cycle & the promise of new beginnings.

Opening:Friday 6 November, 5pm

Exhibition dates:7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 November11am to 4pm
