Following several solo projects, MOORE CONTEMPORARY presents new works to the gallery in a series of selected exhibitions during the winter. This program introduces new works and artists, many of which have not previously being shown in the gallery. In June, works from JOHN YOUNG, MARION BORGELT, ABDUL-RAHMAN ABDULLAH and MARITA FRASER grace the space.

From the series entitled Bridge, Young's enduring explorations of historical layering and transculturality are additionally charged with the contemporary overlay of figures cloaked in emergency blankets. These paintings project dreamlike imagery yet are quietly resonant of trauma and safety, protection, security, or vulnerability framed in an otherwise anchorless state. For the apparent languidness these paintings speak to issues of enduring displacement.

Works selected convey the facility of Marion Borgelt's commanding practice across multiple media, in this instance showing her painting, objects in glass and a pleated wall work. In her practice Borgelt is drawn to the fundamental shapes of the circle, the crescent, the sphere, the spiral, the oval and the grid. Diverse as her practice is, there is a common thread in her work - the interplay of polarities - the organic and the man-made, light and shade, the conceptual and the sensual, the cosmic and the primordial, the micro-cosmic and macrocosmic. The shifting balance of dualities filters through her work. Phenomena and flux are materialised in her art.

New into the gallery is Abdul-Rahman Abdullah's Red, 2019 recently returned from its inaugural showing in the exhibition Dead Things at the Castlemaine Arts Festival. Characteristic of Abdullah's practice, this wall work evokes various readings with the red disc equally suggestive of a pool of blood or a red moon. The title of this work comes from a much quoted line in Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam (published 1850) - "nature, red in tooth and claw."