2025 Laneway Gallery exhibitions

November 2024 – January 2025 

Hidden Creatures by local artist Megan Hunter explored environmental justice via vibrant abstract works.

Through her creative practice, Megan aims to unpack human’s perception of the environment and the deterioration of habitat and creatures’ population in the world. Megan’s works are filled with animals impacted by climate changes and pollution. These animals are hidden amongst her use of vibrant, textured acrylic layers in the abstract works. 

This exhibition was a continuation of Megan’s exploration of the environment in the group exhibition Bright held at Footscray Community Arts in 2023. 

About the Artist: 

Megan Hunter draws inspiration from the environment around her and references art forms such as mosaic art and stained-glass windows. Her process of creating breaks images into parts that come together later, forming her abstract works. 

March – May 2025 

This series of works explored the interconnectedness between humans and all other living creatures, from the current endangered species of animals to the imaginary ones that might evolve when we are no longer here.

According to the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, as of 2023, up to 150 species become extinct every single day. That is as much as 10% of our whole biodiversity in a decade. The rapid loss of species we are seeing today is estimated by experts to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate. What does this mean for the future of humanity and for the planet? As evidence shows, the planet regenerates and life thrives over and over again. New species are born and the ecosystem finds its balance through the immaculate laws of time. But what about humans?

About the artist

Julian Clavijo is an internationally renowned artist, born in Colombia, living and working in Melbourne since 2008. A painter and sculptor since a very early age, Julian is interested in urban space transformation and his work, from large public installations to intimate portraits, reflects a keen eye for colour, pattern and realism. Clavijo’s studio and mural practice is dedicated to capturing the quintessence of humanity by drawing inspiration from the empathetic qualities of childhood, such as boundless joy, unwavering curiosity and unspoiled innocence. Simultaneously, it delves into the pressing issues of conserving our planet, safeguarding the wonders of nature and preserving the existence of endangered species for both the present generation and the ones yet to come.

May – July 2025

For Angharad Neal-Williams, Moments In Between began as a form of visually timekeeping and diarising the everyday to acknowledge familiar imagery, items and scenes from her daily life working in the public realm. Through this meditative documentation process, Neal-Williams commenced noticing ‘in between’ moments and their value. 

By displaying these works in the public realm, Angharad aimed to encourage viewers to reflect on how we individually and collectively experience shared spaces whilst enabling less seen moments to be reclaimed and celebrated in public spaces.

About the artist

Angharad Neal-Williams is an Illustrator and drawer based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her distinct style combines line drawing with vibrant colours to create thoughtful, playful and optimistic outcomes. Angharad’s drawing practice acts as a form of timekeeping through diarising the everyday in the form of familiar imagery, items and scenes from daily life, giving time and space to fleeting moments. Angharad works as a muralist, centring her practice around feminising public spaces and enhancing the safety of shared spaces through large scale mural installations that champion vibrant colours and warm, optimistic imagery. 

August – September 2025 

'Moving Forward' by local artist Sammy Martin explored the significant changes of one's mental health over time. Sammy created these artworks over a period of several years, and she used different colours, shapes and patterns to reflect different stages of her personal journey.

About the artist

Sammy’s creative process involves reflecting on her mood and how she is feeling while she paints and draws. Combined with the importance of intentional movement and flow to create expressions that reflect on the paper or canvas, her work often expresses thoughts and feelings that words aren’t always adequately to capture.  

October to November 2025

Transcriptions is a multi-site exhibition amplifying personal truth and collective storytelling through the eyes of 24 emerging artists from Melbourne’s west.

Led by the Wunder Gym arts mentorship program in partnership with Hobsons Bay and Wyndham City, the artists are mentored by James Nguyen, and their project explores memory, migration, and identity transforming family archives, redacted documents, and whispered histories into powerful new artworks.

Presented as part of Melbourne Fringe, Transcriptions takes over public spaces across Hobsons Bay and Wyndham City, from galleries and billboards to laundromats and projection windows. This deeply moving and highly original exhibition invites audiences to see what lies between the lines and discover the stories that shape who we are.

December 2025 to January 2026

In the Places We Meet was a photographic performance series exploring how the body negotiates public space. Posing, resting and folding into the built environment, the work invites us to consider belonging, accessibility and the quiet negotiations we each make to exist in civic life. These gestures of leaning, holding and yielding reveal the body as both vulnerable and resilient — always finding a way to meet the world. 

About the artist

Jonathan Sinatra is a dance artist and facilitator whose practice spans performance, improvisation and community-engaged art. His work explores embodied presence in everyday environments, blending movement, photography and site-based performance to reveal new ways of seeing and relating to the spaces we share.