This elegant barrel-vaulted gallery is a venue ideally suited to this cabinet of curiosities, one which offers just a hint of the furtiveness and fascination that comes from peeping into private collections. Until May 17, phone 9351 4004. Subtle sensibilities Maria Kontis is an artist who draws in subtle ways. It seems the immediate effects she achieves from a simple black pastel are most suited to her sensibility. Entering The dream I had, and later lost , drinking in the panorama of dusky works on paper, one feels somehow privy to a raw yet romantic experience.
Subjects are newspapers and books pulled from a void.
But these subjects are really just images, revealing Kontis to be most effective when detailing tonal atmospherics. And it is the way she skilfully manipulates pastel's palette of greys to create ambience that weights and sustains this almost melancholic, impressive exhibition. Room 35, until May 26. Phone 9360 2659.