Guest Club are thrilled to announce our end-of-year celebrations in collaboration with Nick Modrzewski and Nabilah Nordin. This coveted afternoon gathering will take place in the couple's Newport home, which is adorned with art and design to swoon over.

Join Modrzewski and Nordin for an intimate tour of their period property and creative studio, followed by summer refreshments in the garden with your Guest Club community.

2.00 - 4.00

11 December 2022

Newport, Melbourne

Complete address shared on RSVP

2022 saw great success for both artists. Modrzewski is currently on view at his representing gallery COMA with 'Jiggery-Pokery', which follows his well-received presentation 'Shadow Estate', exhibited by Discordia Gallery. Coming up, Modrzewski will feature in the Contour 556 Sculpture Biennial, Canberra, and at Watch This Space in Alice Springs, before the year is out. Nordin took centre stage in 'Beyond' at the Melbourne Art Fair, featured in group shows at the McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, and the Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, and dazzled with a solo show, Prop Shop at her representing gallery Neon Parc.

This is a family friendly event.

Guest Club members are invited to an exclusive event at TarraWarra Museum of Art this December. Join their coveted donor circle for A Date with Dystopia.

This dystopian date begins with Callum Morton giving an exclusive artist talk at his permanent installation on the TarraWarra grounds, Valhalla, followed by an after-hours tour with Anthony Fitzpatrick, curator of our upcoming exhibition PETER BOOTH.

TarraWarra Museum of Art Director Victoria Lynn will also share a sneak peek of next year's signature event, the TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi fa'ava'asavili, curated by Dr Léuli Eshrāghi – an exhibition supported by the TarraWarra Contemporaries.

Please RSVP before the 24th of November directly to Guest Club.

Our incredible friends at Vault Magazine are throwing a birthday bash not to be missed!

Guest Club members receive a 10% discount when they enter the code VAULT10. Secure you tickets here.

In the spirit of VAULT, this celebration is an opportunity to be immersed in inspiring art and ideas. We’re delighted to be hosted by our longstanding partner ACCA, and have special access to their ambitious new exhibition Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH, which presents a significant selection of the artist’s iconoclastic works from over the past 15 years alongside a major new commission.

To kick off the celebration, current VAULT Editor Alison Kubler and preceding Editor Neha Kale will be in conversation discussing the past, present and future of contributing to the art world. ACCA Artistic Director and curator of WORD MADE FLESH, Max Delany and artist Paul Yore will speak about the exhibition, no doubt stimulating minds and conversation for the rest of the evening! All guests will also take home a digital print by Paul Yore along with a copy of Issue 39 (Aug – Oct) in a special VAULT tote bag.

Please contact Guest Club if you request further information.

Image courtesy Hayman Design

More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subject to the wildest of experimentations and ideas by makers, craftspeople, engineers and designers. In recognition of the world’s most used piece of furniture, Craft presents The Chair – a celebration of its many shapes and forms.

One of the ultimate design challenges and an ever-evolving indicator of trends, the exhibition brings together 24 chairs from 31 Australian designers, artists and makers with a particular focus on exploring materials and utility. Craft’s CBD gallery will play host to a huge suite of vastly different pieces that consider the allure of the chair and its enduring hold over craft and design practitioners. A broad scope of materials and approaches from experimental to classic design will feature from some of the most innovative and renowned makers creating now.

Featuring: Anna Varendorff, Ash Allen, Ashley Eriksmoen, Bern Chandley, Bonhula Yunupingu & Damien Wright, Brodie Neill, Brud Studia, Cordon Salon, Dean Norton, Duncan Young & Noah Hartley, Georgia Weitenberg, Isabel Avendano-Hazbun, James Lemon, Jess Humpston, Jill Stevenson, Johnny Nargoodah & Trent Jansen, Nicole Lawrence & Thomas Coward, Liam Mugavin, Marta Figueiredo, Michael Gittings, Sam Tomkins, Iain [Max] Maxwell & Ben Ennis-Butler, Trent Jansen for Broached Monsters by Broached Commissions, Two Lines Studio, Zachary Frankel.

Brodie Neill, Cowrie Chair, 2013. Plywood faced with ebonised ash. Image courtesy the artist.

Our friends at STATION, present what a shadow feels like, a group exhibition curated by Ellinor Pelz featuring Daniel Boyd, Dean Cross, Brent Harris, Nell and Heather B. Swann. Join them this Friday evening for a live performance by Heather B. Swann.

A shadow follows you; it is you and it is not. A shadow coerces light to the periphery as it consumes the volume of darkness cast by your physical presence. It hovers insistently, veiling meandering thoughts, memories, secrets and histories.

what a shadow feels like brings together the work of five contemporary artists that explore the poetic and the political. The included works intervene with the body’s path to shift perceptions, test psychological states and explore phenomenological observations. In this exhibition, a shadow is used as a metaphor for destabilisation and awareness; clarity and ambiguity; that which is lost and found.

image: Heather B. Swann, I will not remember your name, performer Mari Fukutome, Tokyo, 2018.

Join Dale Frank and Neon Parc in a celebration of his new show It’s such a perfect Day…. Guest Club members are invited to this exclusive evening as Alana Kushnir’s guests. Enjoy the preview access to Frank's most recent collection, intimate conversations, and a network of like-minded art lovers.

Wednesday 3rd August

Neon Parc

15 Tinning Street Brunswick

6 pm arrival for 7 pm seating

Strictly Limited numbers, RSVP prior to the 20th July

The oldest known ceramic artifact, Venus of Dolní Věstonice is dated 28,000 years before the current era. In 2022, the skill set, architectural knowledge, and artistic creativity used to manipulate clay remains a celebrated art form.

This May, Guest Club invites you to meet the award-winning contemporary maker, Alexandra Standen at a private preview of her solo exhibition Considerate Touch. The autumn afternoon is an opportunity to explore Alexandra’s functional and decorative vessels on view at This Is No Fantasy, in the company of the artist and gallery directors. Hear from Alexandra, Dianne Tanzer, and Nicola Stein about this new series of works that explores cultures, environments, and human relationships.

Alexandra Standen is an Australian artist based in Sydney, with graduate and postgraduate degrees from The National Art School and UNSW Art and Design. Alexandra was the winner of the Sidney Myer Award for Ceramics in 2012, and a finalist for the Wynne and Churchie National Emerging Art Prize. She has completed residencies in France, Turkey, Israel, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

This event is hosted by This Is No Fantasy, Fitzroy.

Autumn refreshments are proudly sponsored by Diggin’ In The Cellars.

Please join Guest Club for a VIP preview of Oliver Beer’s new exhibition, Resonance Paintings – Two Notes with our International Associate, Anaïs Lellouche. Located in South Korea, Oliver welcomes our members to a walk-through via Zoom.

Virtual Walk Through (Zoom)

Friday 29 April

8 pm Melbourne (AEST)

Link provided via registration here

Oliver Beer (b. 1985, Kent) is acclaimed for his multidisciplinary work that engages with intimate yet universal concerns, such as sound and memories. Through installations, performance and painting, Beer explores the unifying potential of music that resonates across history, generations and cultures.

On the heels of this success at the Venice Biennale, Oliver is now in Seoul to open his new show at Ropac and is giving us a special preview.

Curious about NFTs and why you should care about them? Not sure what the metaverse has to do with collecting art? Get over your FOMO with Guest Club X Ring Around and join us for a gallery visit and chat about all things Web 3 with Serwah Attafuah, artist and Georgia Mills, co-founder of NFT platform DROPLT.

Serwah Attafuah is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based on Dharug land/West Sydney, Australia. She creates surreal cyber dreamscapes and heavenly wastelands, populated by afro-futuristic abstractions of self with strong ancestral and contemporary themes.

Limited tickets available, reserve your spot!

Image: Serwah Attafuah, 2021, Consensual hallucination