Current exhibition: 'In Quiet Exchange, Hello' by Zoe Jones
In Quiet Exchange, Hello captures moments of artist-to-artist exchange, with each billboard featuring the hands of an artist from Melbourne’s west within their own studio or a place of significance to their practice.
Artists are pictured mid-conversation – interacting with a material and exchanging the stories embedded within it. These materials, and their stories, have been passed on to textile/fibre artist Zoe Jones and will contribute to future woven artworks.
The exhibition offers a glimpse into collaboration, the considered practices of artists, and the connections formed between them – where conversation, exchange, and the process of making are themselves the artform. It becomes a public archive of the origins, narratives, and emotional connections tied to the materials we inherit. Echoing the collective spirit of Woods Street Arts Space, it highlights the value of diverse experiences, creative dialogue, shared process, and community connection.
30 May to 29 July 2026
Laneway Gallery
44 Woods Street, Laverton
Laneway Gallery is an outdoor exhibition space on the exterior walls of Woods Street Arts Space, and is viewable 24 hours a day.
About the artist
Zoe Jones is a process-driven, material-led, intuitive textile and documentation artist based in Naarm | Melbourne, working with weaving and rug-hooking processes to create sculptural textile works, wall-based pieces, and installations. Her practice brings together recycled, natural and foraged materials – often marked by wear, repair, or use – to produce tactile works that carry both visual presence and embedded histories.
Through slow, meditative making, Jones creates pieces that offer warmth, texture and depth within both domestic and architectural spaces, grounded in an inquiry into memory, material inheritance and the sensory relationship between body and fibre.
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