Bus Projects

Opening event this Wednesday, September 30 6-8pm

This month at Bus Projects, Emmy Robinson-Shaw presents an ambitious group project in Gallery 1.

'Cost-Benefit' is a group exhibition featuring artists working with painting and expanded painting. This exhibition takes a conceptual approach to curation. Using an unconventional funding model, it explores the productive and reproductive value of artwork within a local arts economy defined by volunteerism, government funding deficits, and unregulated payment standards for artists.

Curator Emmy Robinson-Shaw invites five artists to quantify the value of their labour through five newly commissioned works. On closing night, all new works will go live on a silent auction, presenting a fundraising model which redirects sales towards paying volunteers and exhibition staff. By linking artistic production, care work, and collective support, the project exposes the economics of cultural labour while proposing tangible ways to redistribute value.

September 30 – October 24.

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ARTISTS
Mythra Schwartz
Visaya Hoffie
Loretta Riach
Isabella Darcy
Grace Culley
Zoe Hannay (graphic designer)

Bus Projects is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding and advisory body.

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Opening event this Wednesday, September 30 6-8pm

This month at Bus Projects, Sherry Quiambao’s solo exhibition ‘Slow Ceremony’.

‘Slow Ceremony’ combines dynamic video, photography, sound and object work. The creation stems from the artist’s experiences in Makassar, South Sulawesi. Through choreographed movements, constructed images, and brightly colored plastic objects, Quiambao explores how daily behaviors and materials transform between practicality, repetition, adaptation and ritual.

Daily actions such as washing, carrying, holding and tending are slowed down, choreographed and reorganized, becoming about persistence and adaptation of the body. Throughout the exhibition, familiar materials are placed in different contexts and reconstituted, allowing ordinary objects and behaviors to constantly shift between daily use and ritual.

September 30 – October 24.

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The development of this work was supported by the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts’(PICA) International Studio Exchange Program.

Bus Projects is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding and advisory body.

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Final week to see Emily Greenwood's solo exhibition ‘Trolley Herder Project’, on in Gallery 1 until the 19th of September.

Opening hrs: 12-5 Thursday-Friday, 10-2 Saturday or by appointment.

More info on our website.

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Installation view. Emily Greenwood, ‘Trolley Herder Project’, exhibition at Bus Projects, 2026. Documentation by Minh An Pham.

Bus Projects is assisted by the Australian Government
through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding
and advisory body.
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Final week to see ‘Bear with me’ by Andrea Meacham.

On show until the 19th of September.

Opening hrs: 12-5 Thursday-Friday, 10-2 Saturday or by appointment.

More info on our website.

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Installation view. Andrea Meacham, ‘Bear with me’, exhibition at Bus Projects, 2026. Documentation by Minh An Pham.

Bus Projects is assisted by the Australian Government
through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding
and advisory body.

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Visit Andrea Meacham’s exhibition 'Bear with me', on show until the 26rd of Aug.

“I need to get up there. I shut my eyes and call to him with my mind. My protector, my wise one. I see his black snout first peering over the edge of the opening, then a massive paw, almost bigger than me. He makes his way down to me with graceful agility. He's brought me something. A hooded cloak, a miniature of his own image. My snout, his snout, together. I climb on his back and grab his soft fur in my hands, and we go through the opening, into the sun.”

BUS Projects weekly opening hours are 12-5pm Thursday-Friday, 10-2 Saturday or by appointment.

More info on our website.

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Installation view. Andrea Meacham, 'Bear with me', exhibition at Bus Projects, 2026. Photography by Minh An Pham.

Bus Projects is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding and advisory body.

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2027 Open Call. Applications due: Mon 04 Oct 2026, 11:59pm (AEST).

Bus Projects invites artists, curators, and collectives to submit proposals for our 2027 Artistic Program. We are seeking creative practices which communicate current positionality and intersectional thinking for exhibitions, public programs, performances, and interdisciplinary formats. Experimental and pivotal ideas across all creative disciplines are encouraged to apply.

Exhibiting at Bus Projects is free. We provide artist fees in line with NAVA standards, as well as install and curatorial support.

Info session: Sat 19 Sept, 10-1pm. Drop by the gallery with any draft applications or last-minute questions.

Apply via our bio.

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Installation view. Martina Beka, ‘again’, exhibition at Bus Projects, 2026. Photography by Minh An Pham.




Bus Projects is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding and advisory body.

Thank you everyone for joining us for our film screening, Cặn Cảnh, last Saturday. It was such a pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with four of the filmmakers, Lêna Bùi, Đặng Thảo Nguyên, cát nguyên, and Nguyễn Trung Nghĩa, and hear more about the stories behind their films and their working processes.

There’s something really special about coming together in person, sitting quietly alongside one another as we watch the films, bursting into laughter at unexpected moments, and then seeing all the food disappear by the end of the afternoon.

A big thank you to Cinema Con Nhà Nghèo for this wonderful collaboration and for curating such a thoughtful and meaningful selection of films. We’re so grateful to have shared this afternoon with you all.

And a very special thank you to Kyle Canavan, who worked so hard to transform the space and make it feel completely different for the screening even though it was only a one-day event.

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Photography by Kyle Canavan and Minh An Pham An

Program coordinated by Minh An Pham

Drinks: Rocky Ridge Brunswick, & Heaps Normal • Non-alcoholic craft b**r

Bus Projects is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding and advisory body
Cinema Con Nhà Nghèo (CNN) // Cinema of Peasants a sông | 🇻🇳🥢 An Creative Australia

Opening celebration Wednesday 26 August 6-8pm!

This month in Gallery 1 is Emily Greenwood's solo exhibition, ‘Trolley Herder Project’.

Emily Greenwood's 'Trolley Herder Project' maps the unseen labour and extended movements of retail workers tasked with collecting and re-arranging discarded shopping trolleys. Memory and institutional encounter underpin three video works, each documenting a distinct act of trolley herding as they play simultaneously across the space. The formative Ashfield Mall performance (2022), the extended journey between Broadway Shopping Centre and Verge Gallery (2024), and a newly conceived return to the streets of Brunswick will be brought to the walls of gallery one over the next three months, quietly celebrating the gentle choreography of retail work. A found trolley and a single speaker anchor the installation, extending the videos into sculptural presence and sonic atmosphere.
Images: TROLLEY HERDER (2022), Trolley Herding (2024), TROLLEY HERDERED (2026). Emily Greenwood

26 Aug - 19 Sept.

More info on our website.

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Bus Projects is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding and advisory body.
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Opening celebration Wednesday 26 August 6-8pm.

This month in The Project Space is 'Bear with me', an exhibition by Andrea Meacham.

Andrea Meacham is a multidisciplinary artist working in Naarm, so-called Melbourne, Australia. They act as a medium of their own life, transmuting emotionally charged past experiences into material and aural installations, revealing tender inner worlds laced with magical dreaming, comedy and horror-ennui. Andrea draws from cinema, pop culture, music, mythology and the occult to examine contemporary anxieties relating to fragility, shame, and grief.

'I'm standing inside a canyon. It's dark. And loud because a river runs straight through this place. From where I stand on the slippery rock precipice, my eyes are following the rushing water’s path, watching as it disappears into the belly of the cave system. I'm wearing only my swimsuit. I'm cold. I’m scared. I'm 9 years old. I look up and see an opening in the roof of this cavern. I can see the blue sky. I want to go there.'

26 Aug - 19 sept.

More info on our website.

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Bus Projects is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding and advisory body.

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Final few days to visit our 2026 fundraiser ‘25 artists for 25 years’ 💥

Silent auction & raffle prize tickets are available until August 8th evening, all links in bio x

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