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“Reflecting and Refracting”
Artists are invited to explore the ways we echo, mirror, turn inwards, or distort, bend and reshape what we see. Whether through formal composition or metaphor, the theme may evoke juxtapositions such as truth and distortion, clarity and transformation, stillness and motion, surface and depth. Ultimately, though, artists are encouraged to interpret the theme in any way they like and in any medium.
Register by: 12 January 2026
Exhibition Dates: 2-28 February 2026
Why does making art make you feel alive?
This exhibition proposes art as a way of living – urgent, embodied, essential.
Eastside Gallery invites submissions from artists who create because they have to – art as a daily insistence, a vital compulsion, a way staying present and staying human.
Whether it’s painting, sculpture, photography, moving image, or something else entirely – we want to see what drives you.
We’re not looking for polite or polished detachment. We want the work that keeps you up at night. The pieces that come from the depths and heights of anger, joy, terror, awe and obsession. The works you make to make your-self.
Register by: 25 February 2026
Exhibition dates: 30 March – 24 April 2026