Our Garden of Tropical Delights - Jamie Cole and Gabrielle Cooney

Venue: Tanks Arts Centre

9:00am Friday 28th November 2025

Fri 7 Nov 2025 - Sun 7 Dec 2025

Launch: 6pm, Fri 7 Nov
All welcome!

Once a storehouse of oil and industry, the Tanks Arts Centre now blooms with new life. In Our Garden of Tropical Delights, artists Jamie Cole and Gabrielle Cooney (aka Flintstone Designs) explore the fertile meeting point between the natural world and the industrial past.

Gabrielle’s ceramics embrace the philosophy of wabi-sabi — finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and transformation. Her tree trunks, seed pods, and pipe-like forms echo both the resilience of nature and the remnants of human structures.

In vivid contrast, Jamie’s paintings pulse with fluorescent colour, gold leaf, and graffiti-like layers. Drawing on foliage, camouflage, architecture, and pop motifs, his works channel the dynamism and spectacle of the urban environment.

Together, their practices form a landscape of tension and harmony: fragility beside force, ruin beside renewal, silence beside riotous colour. This exhibition is a garden of contradictions — a space where art, nature, and history entwine to reveal the beauty of transformation.

Words by Bruce Ferguson

Venue: Tank 4
Price:Free
When:Fri 7 Nov 2025 - Sun 7 Dec 2025
Venue Opens:Mon-Fri 9.00am - 4.30pm, Sat-Sun 10.00am - 2.00pm

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