Marylou Verberne | Contemporary Photographic Artist — MARYLOU VERBERNE

Upcoming Exhibitions

Remains to Be Seen – Ballaarat

Solo Exhibition
Opens 6 November 2026
Backspace Gallery
Art Gallery of Ballarat

Remains to Be Seen – Ballaarat explores the continuing presence of gold mining within landscapes around Ballarat and the Central Victorian Goldfields. Developed through repeated visits to former mining sites, the work brings contemporary photographs into conversation with historical images drawn from local archives and the artist’s own family history.

At the centre of the exhibition is a leporello, or concertina book-style installation, in which historical and contemporary photographs unfold alongside one another. Moving between past and present, the work considers what remains visible in the landscape, what has disappeared, and how knowledge of a place’s past can change the way it is seen.

Remains to be Seen – A.M.E Bale on the Goldfields, 2026
Inkjet print on archival paper

Archival image courtesy of Castlemaine Art Museum

Remains to be Seen – Leaganook after the Fires, 2026
Inkjet print on archival paper

Future Pasts brings together 8 female contemporary artists whose practices engage with environmental change, climate consciousness, conservation and the relationship between people and place. Across the exhibition, the works consider landscapes undergoing change and the ways people understand, respond to and live within them.

Marylou Verberne presents works from Remains to Be Seen, developed following the 2026 bushfires at Leanganook (Mount Alexander), in which fire-affected landscapes are layered with imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope and altered through stitching and burning.

Future Pasts

Group Show
Opens 16 September, 2026
Montsalvat Barn Gallery
Eltham

VCA Grad Show

Graduate Exhibition
Opens 16 November, 2026
VCA Southbank Campus
Melbourne, Australia

Remains to be Seen – After the Gold, 2026
Inkjet print on archival paper

The VCA Art Grad Show brings together graduating students from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, presenting work developed across their final year of study.

Marylou Verberne presents a new installation from Remains to Be Seen, bringing together images made across the Central Victorian Goldfields. The work considers histories of disturbance held within the landscape and how changes in perspective can alter the way familiar places are seen.