Tue 24 Nov · 2pm
The Dax Centre · Parkville
an artist talks his new exhibition
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NEW DATE! (Changed from Thursday 19 November to Tuesday 24 November)
Join us on Tuesday 24 November from 2-3pm to hear from Australian-Colombian artist, Joshua Searle, who will discuss his new exhibition, Tasting the Divine, currently on display in our Studio Dax gallery, and his practice generally in conversation with our Gallery Manager, Nathan.
About the artist:
Joshua Searle's art practice explores memory, inheritance, and cultural reclamation through painting and sculpture. Working across both public and commercial contexts, he examines the diasporic condition—how identity and belonging are shaped by histories of migration, displacement, and colonisation. Drawing on his Colombian heritage, his works often revisit Pre-Columbian artefacts and museum collections, transforming them into contemporary meditations on power, loss, and the endurance of culture.
About the exhibition:
Tasting the Divine presents a series of works by Australian-Colombian artist, Joshua Searle, of toucans eating ripe papaya. Rendered in lush, saturated colour, these foreground the restorative and contemplative dimension of Searle’s practice.
The series emerged from Searle’s 2024 Mason Family Trust Fellowship in Colombia, where he retraced his maternal lineage for the first time and undertook a trek to the Lost City in Santa Marta. Within the dense landscape of the Sierra Nevada, the artist encountered a profound sense of reconnection — to land, ancestry and self. In these paintings, the toucan becomes a…
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Tue 24 Nov 2026, 2pm.
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The Dax Centre, Parkville, VIC.
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