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Congratulations to @b1tchsnake on a sold out opening night and beautiful show.

‘Where do the ducks go when the pond freezes over?’ continues @bardsapothecary until the 18th of August.

‘Some of the squirrels in the Kelvingrove Gardens have lost their tails, but remember their paws still freeze in the winter time’ 2025
watercolour, coloured pencil, oil pastel and spray paint on paper
29.7 x 42 cm by @pretendr_

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Working across sculpture, drawing, painting and installation, Lucinda Elias’ work is concerned with moments when the mundane becomes magical, exploring the porous line between real and imagined to interrogate how adulthood functions in a contemporary context.

Lucinda’s work teaching creative writing to children and her background in literary studies guides a research practice grounded in words, particularly engaging with the intersection between academia, fiction, and folklore - the spaces where truth, myth and opinion become muddled and mystic. Storytelling is at the fore of Lucinda’s process, taking a view of narrative as cyclical and conversational. Her works invite joy and curiosity, and ask the viewer to interrogate their perceptions of what we find eerie, charming, childlike or otherwise.

‘Where do the ducks go when the pond freezes over?’ opens Wednesday 5 August, 6pm
@bardsapothecary

📷 @bridiewadley in Lucinda’s studio

‘Hold your bunny and cry when she cries, or she’ll drown as her fur soaks’ 2026
watercolour, coloured pencil, oil pastel, paint pen,
spray paint on paper
21 x 27.9 cm
sold by @pretendr_

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‘Where do the ducks go when the pond freezes over?’

Exhibition by @b1tchsnake
Opening @bardsapothecary
Wednesday 5 August 6pm
w/ musical guest Giacomusic @secretlifeofus456

‘The sheep and crows may be watchful, but they don’t mourn your departure’ 2026
watercolour, coloured pencil, oil pastel, graphite on paper
21 x 27.9 cm
sold

DM for RSVP and price list by @pretendr_

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The god given gift of a level gaze, the blurred sides of the tunnel named Yari, slip back like sands on the shore, then water off a cliff. There is the big grey swarm of my bedsheets there is blonde sunlight, there is dust, there is giant crashing waves in the neighboring oceans of my eyes, there are hammers there is velvet. I can watch my slouching angels dance in time to something I can’t hear I can cry laughing.

Everything behind me can be trusted to stay there and come see me when they’re in town, turning themselves to prayers somewhere deep in my machine, conspiring with the fates to help their enthusiastic children. The eyes, and the hand holding them, jump like dragonflies at the fancies of colour, content and the clouds formed by everything that has been. Bouncing. Pushed forth by the heavens, so big in my peripheries. The throughline, like the red waxen rope moves words and images with wings like swans in the water.

- Yari Buckingham

‘peripheral heavens, neighbouring oceans’ continues this week til Saturday 30 August @bardsapothecary by @pretendr_

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‘peripheral heavens
neighbouring oceans’

Exhibition by @yari.fruit_eater
opening @bardsapothecary
Thursday 21st August 7pm

DM for RSVP and pricelist by @pretendr_

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And Yet, 2025, spray paint, angle grinded steel, wire, 12cm x 36.5cm, as part of Between Flesh and Metal: A Lovely Scarring, 2025

SOLD by @pretendr_

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Olivia Summerhayes is an emerging artist and arts worker based in Naarm/Melbourne, with a background in Graphic Design and Public Programs.

Exploring the tensions between flesh and feeling, Olivia’s practice looks to the intersection of self, femininity and class.

Initially grounded in focused life drawing studies, Olivia’s practice is underpinned by a raw sensuality and humanism that invites viewers to contemplate the body as both a vehicle of tender expression and a site of complex political exchange.

Evolving to encompass abstraction, her practice also looks to the demarcations of the body as a means of exploring limitation, boundary, and what lies beyond.

Inherently multi-disciplinary in approach, Olivia draws from her background in both figuration and design. This foundation informs a sense of structure, balance, and material sensibility in her work across drawing, printmaking textiles, installation, sculpture, photography, and video.

We are beyond excited and invigorated
to be collaborating with Liv and to present her new body of work on steel.

Opening 7pm, Wednesday 14th of May @bardsapothecary
@livsummerhayes by @pretendr_

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‘Between Flesh and Metal: A Lovely Scarring’ is a new body of work by @livsummerhayes opening @bardsapothecary on Wednesday the 14th of May.

The exhibition will feature a series of twenty works on found steel with surface markings that oscillate between figuration and abstraction.

The series, developed over 6 months, forms a dialogue with the transience of memory, flesh and demarcations of time, calling into question that which is felt and experienced outside of linear time and knowing.

In the absence of narrative, each work exists on a sensory plane where gestural mark making is born out of feeling and embodied knowledge.

DM us to RSVP and for pricelist.

Poster design by @livsummerhayes by @pretendr_

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📷 @thisparadoxia
@bardsapothecary by @pretendr_

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Vol. 3 in colour
📷 @thisparadoxia
@bardsapothecary by @pretendr_

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Made In Naarm Vol. 3

Thank you to all our gorgeous guests. Thank you for celebrating local designers with us ❤️ Because of you we have donated $955 to Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA)

We are so grateful to our generous raffle contributions @shopsucker @other_goods @bridget.h.gurrie

AND a special thanks to @margotann_j @on_a_balcony @sweetlittlecornwallace for raising the roof and we love you all the dancers.

@bardsapothecary thank you for having us and supporting us always.

Video @nowukkas thanks Naish, our head content creator 🫡

Bridget’s beautiful exhibition ‘what will be left of me, once this ends?’ is in its last days @bardsapothecary please get in to purchase one of her pieces before 23/11 by @pretendr_

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Zoe (@thisparadoxia ) shot the inaugural Made In Naarm and we couldn’t be happier to be collaborating with her again this year. We loved having a chat with her about her photography.

Get your tickets, Zo will be indulging red carpet moments and fit checks all night this Sunday 📸 by @pretendr_

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