Press
Spirit Healing: HOSSEI at Verge Gallery
👤 Performance Art Museum
📅 May 2024
June Miskell recounts the “euphoric” live performance and speculative ecosystem of ESSSENSSSE, an exhibition by HOSSEI about letting go and being one with the spirit.
Mitchel Cumming and Kenzee Patterson
👤 Artforum
📅 June 2023
Toni Ross writes on the collaborative exhibition A redistribution by Mitchel Cumming and Kenzee Patterson, which combined the artists' distinct practices.
Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer and Ruth Ju-Shih Li
👤 MeMO Review
📅 June 2023
Emily Best identifies the preoccupied canons of memory, whether indulging in its fallibility, or drawing upon it as a resource - creating alternate realities that Li and Aloisio-Shearer investigate within their solo exhibitions.
Destruction or Rebirth? Taiwanese-Australian young female artist Li Rushi's new exhibition
👤 VCT News
📅 June 2023
Mitchel Cumming and Kenzee Patterson:
’A redistribution’
👤 MeMO Review
📅 February 2023
Nicholas Croggan evaluates the object and text-based works of Cumming and Patterson that centre around a pair of historical basalt millstones.
There is no fire
👤 Un Projects (Online)
📅 January 2023
Jemi Gale writes a poem in response to Sab D'Souza’s exhibition, There is no fire, exploring the trauma surrounding loss of space and digital affective cultures. Sab was a prolific artist in thought as much as they were in practice.
Screwball
👤 MeMo Review
📅 June 2022
Screwball hesitates to show all its cards at once. Veronica Tello reviews their experience walking into Verge Gallery and exploring EO Gill’s transformation of space and play.
Hossei’s ‘Esssenssse’ exhibit spills onto Coffs Harbour street
👤 NBN News
📅 January 2026
A community stopped in their tracks as artworks came to life - fantastic colours and sea creatures spilling out of Yarilla and onto the street.
Story by Britt Ramsey.
Students’ ways of seeing
👤 Honi Soit
📅 November 2024
Victoria Gillespie explores the gentleness and curiosity of student artists featured in the 2024 USU Creative Awards. “Through art, they implore us to live more softly, to eke out the sentimental, whimsical, or record the minutiae.”
Wei Leng Tay’s ‘Abridge’
👤 ArtAsiaPacific
📅 June 2021
Chloe Morrissey reviews Wei Leng Tay’s Abridge at Verge Gallery, which featured distorted imageries of protests in Hong Kong. According to Morrissey, the exhibition “spatially and temporally displaces the viewer from their own past and present.”
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You’re Welcome? reveals the double binds of belonging
👤 Art Guide Australia
📅 March 2025
Jasmeet Kaur Sahi talks to curator Billy Bain, alongside artists Jacquie Meng and Mostafa Azimitabar, about the contradictions of belonging in contemporary Australia.
When did Universities become so soulless?
👤 The Australian
📅 March 2025
Christopher Allen traces the history of USyd and the USU through Union Made: Art from the University of Sydney Union Collection, recently closed at Chau Chak Wing Museum.
Sixty-nine
👤 Memo Review
📅 August 2025
James Jiang explores mourning, sensuality and correspondences in Sidney McMahon’s immersive Sixty-nine at Verge Gallery.
HOSSEI’s Sense of Self
👤 ArtGuide Australia
📅 November 2025
Camilla Wagstaff speaks with HOSSEI about collaboration, ritual and care, as ESSSENSSSE embarks on its next touring chapter at Yarrila Arts and Museum, Coff’s Harbour.