Exhibitions—
2025
Arranging by chance with Briony Galligan
Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre7 Prospect Hill Drive, Bundoora
October 8, 2025 - February 14, 2026
OVERVIEW:
Arranging by chance is a collaborative exhibition that builds on the artists’ research
into family trees, queerness, toxicity and healing. It considers the family tree as a
symbolic and botanical form, positioning it in relation to ‘pharmakon’—the idea that a
poison is also a remedy.
For this exhibition the artists have engaged with three key sites: a decommissioned Nufarm Factory in Fawkner, a childhood property and ex-banana plantation in Northern NSW, and the AIDS Memorial Garden outside the old Infectious Diseases Hospital in Fairfield. These sites of toxicity, death and contamination are places the artists’ are compelled to write, care and make from. As queer parents, they share a commitment to interrogating the linear structures of genealogy and taxonomy, as well as the impacts of industry on various ecologies.
Arranging by chance incorporates new and existing works by Kotlarczyk and Galligan, spanning drawing, installation, photography, audio and written texts.
Arranging by chance is a collaborative exhibition that builds on the artists’ research
into family trees, queerness, toxicity and healing. It considers the family tree as a
symbolic and botanical form, positioning it in relation to ‘pharmakon’—the idea that a
poison is also a remedy.
For this exhibition the artists have engaged with three key sites: a decommissioned Nufarm Factory in Fawkner, a childhood property and ex-banana plantation in Northern NSW, and the AIDS Memorial Garden outside the old Infectious Diseases Hospital in Fairfield. These sites of toxicity, death and contamination are places the artists’ are compelled to write, care and make from. As queer parents, they share a commitment to interrogating the linear structures of genealogy and taxonomy, as well as the impacts of industry on various ecologies.
Arranging by chance incorporates new and existing works by Kotlarczyk and Galligan, spanning drawing, installation, photography, audio and written texts.
TEXTS:
Plants grow up { Arranging by chance
Digital essay commissioned by Josephine Mead for Co- Publishing READ ONLINE
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Abbra Kotlarczyk and Briony Galligan
Arranging by chance (opening night), 2025
Photographs by Nicole Cleary
Plants grow up { Arranging by chance
Digital essay commissioned by Josephine Mead for Co- Publishing READ ONLINE
Abbra Kotlarczyk and Briony Galligan
Arranging by chance (opening night), 2025
Photographs by Nicole Cleary
Abbra Kotlarczyk and Briony Galligan
Vying for attention (convolutes), 2025
Multiple exposure analogue photography on archival paper, plant dyes and reduction printing with oxalis (articulata, hirta and stricta), viola sororia, purple viper's bugloss, fumitory, valerian, warrigal greens, austral indigo, nettle, snapdragon, borage, nasturtium, calendula and found materials, soil-impregnated and watercolour papers, graphite powder, wax, crayon, alum, washing soda, gum arabic, honey, water, rice glue, letter punch, London plane tree, wingnuts
Photograph by Christo Crocker
Abbra Kotlarczyk and Briony Galligan
Vying for attention (convolutes), 2025
Photograph by Christo Crocker
Abbra Kotlarczyk and Briony Galligan
Vying for attention (convolutes), 2025
Photograph by Christo Crocker
Abbra Kotlarczyk and Briony Galligan
Arranging by chance (installation), 2025
Photograph by Christo Crocker
Abbra Kotlarczyk and Briony Galligan
Arranging by chance (installation), 2025
Photograph by Christo Crocker
Abbra Kotlarczyk and Briony Galligan
Arranging by chance (installation), 2025
Photograph by Christo Crocker
Abbra Kotlarczyk and Briony Galligan
Matrix for doctored exposure 01 (detail), 2025
Metal hospital screen, silk, plastic, thread, multiple exposure digital and analogue photography on lustre and archival papers, plant dyes and reduction printing with oxalis (articulata, hirta and stricta), viola sororia, purple viper's bugloss, fumitory, valerian, warrigal greens, austral indigo, nettle, snapdragon, borage, nasturtium, calendula and found materials, solar sensitive dye, lemon juice, vinegar, soil-impregnated and watercolour papers, graphite powder, wax, crayon, alum, washing soda, gum arabic, honey, water, rice glue, letter punch, fixings
Photograph by Christo Crocker
Briony Galligan
Snake licks, bathing, dietary changes, surgery, dreams, 2025
London plane tree, polyester ribbon, polyvinyl acetate, Baci wrappers, acrylic gemstones
Photograph by Nicole Cleary