Boundless; From patio to parlour,
urban to rural,
and everything in between: Scattered Grounds

📅 20-30 August 2026  
📍Palangi Gallery
Level 1/59 Flinders St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
🥂 Thu. 20 August  6-8PM

Living in the digital age of rapid advancement, urbaness around the world now possess a universal demeanor engulfed with screens, glass, and steel. Where infinite geometrical duplicates are puzzled in congestion, it constantly pendulates us between estrangement and belonging, as if a fish is out of water. Seeking a sense of belonging, a fade of topographical identity inspires individuals to find existential values in enduring personal and earthly memories. Such liminal spaces that possess minute moments, stimulations that may occur of a sudden but last everlastingly—allow one to engross oneself in a flash of sheltered embrace.

We present Scattered Grounds—holding the initiative of growth, exchange, and discourse. This exhibition brings together emerging artists affiliated with Sydney College of Arts (SCA, USYD), University of New South Wales (UNSW), and Parsons School of Design New York (TNS, NYC). Gathered across a transnational scope, these responses explore the complex interlock of land and memory, channeling themes of home, natural sublime, nostalgia, and more. Whether the bustling metropolis, the underground, the outdoors, or the indoors, tightly packed or loose, artworks enact as retrospective scaffolds, a self-portrait paving a sense of self. From distinct minds and regions, audiences are invited to step inside each of their 'memoryscapes,' to be strayed in the moment, and to inhale the stillness among the hurtles that alters the hollow gaze of ‘where we are’ into a passionate one—that might lead us to seek character in them.

Tracing familiarity among the estranged, this exhibition provokes a gradual pull to ask one:

Where is home?
Where do I belong?
Where am I?
Where should I be?

…and to constantly pendulate between estrangement and belonging. Answers are never fully given; they simply break the uniformed silence to polyphonic reminiscences.



Artists
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson
Annabelle Demarino
Emilia B. Levin
Emily Beattie
Felixe Rives
Gemma Anderson
Kim Anh Ngo Bui
Lana Ryles
Lige Qiao
Olive Burgess
Xanthe Kibble

Curators

Bomi Park
Judy (Yigu) Pan

*Refer to the catalogue to explore more about the project & to  view the full list of works*

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For all enquiries, please contact: 
Bomi Park E. audrey030321@gmail.com | M. +61 494 412 414 
Judy Pan E. panxiaoyi9@gmail.com | M. +61 451 457 016

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Acknowledgement of Country

We would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet today, and pay my respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

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Annabel Demarino  

Annabel Demarino is a Shanghai born, New York based illustrator exploring the intersection of chaotic, creepy, and cute. Her artwork centers around character design and collectibles such as sticker making, keychains, and toy design, alongside digital illustration and graphics. With striking colors and chaotic layered compositions, she explores themes of cuteness, sex, and spirituality with a sickeningly sweet charm.
 

I fell in love with graffiti because it allows me to be seen, to become a physical part of any space. What started as placing small stickers across my college campus for friends to spot turned into batch printing stickers to paste around the city. Sticker graffiti allows my art to merge with the cityscape, demanding itself to be seen by people who may never know me, but in this way witness me nonetheless. New York’s streets become an infinite art playground, placing my work in front of thousands of strangers every day.

This series captures this unapologetic playful energy into a portable form. It consists of 5 prints documenting my sticker graffiti across Brooklyn, layered with physical sticker collage of my original characters “Squonuts” (a collection of cute and aloof square donuts) on top. Sprawled in chaos across each composition these stickers dominate the blank space, amplifying visual noise into a colorful cuteness overload.