24 July - 15 August 2025

Opening Celebration Thursday 24 July, 5-7pm

Caoife Power’s exhibition “Murky Waters Crystal Horizon” is about her relationship with the ocean. Growing up queer in a sub-tropical climate the paintings offer, glimmerings, blisters, pools of transparent colour that work together to question the relationship between her mark-making and its limitations. Recycling debris from dirty rags against horizons of hot pink Caoife creates gestures like fragments of multilayered conversations that move in and out of harmony. Referring to her paintings as pools — a continuing analogy of the fragmented ocean —this series shifts away from collective determinacy and instead remains in a space that is awkward and slippery and murky and incomplete and finding.  

Caoife Power (b. 1993, Eire Ireland/ 1997, Eora Sydney, Australia) lives and works in Narrm, Melbourne. Caoife is a process driven artist based who works with painting and poetry. Caoife is interested in the language of painting from a queer(ing) position and how it can speak to: affect theory, queer/crip embodiment, colour and wildness. Her embodied position drives her way of understanding ‘unruly’ subjectivity, unpacking how the impact of contemporary society can sit within the body and shift the way it moves through the world. Using abstraction, Caoife is not interested in resolution, but finding a language of desire and freedom that sits within a place of inexactness.