Monuments

A monument does not necessarily equate to a monumental building.

Monuments are everywhere. Sometimes they are subtle, a rock or a bubbler, only distinguished by their bronze plaque. Sometimes they are gaudy and outlandish, a new Returned Service League (RSL) filled equal parts with memorabilia and pokies machines. Mostly inconspicuous, these types of monuments are so prolific that they appear invisible, or at least unnoticed.

In collaboration with mori and Monash Art, Design, and Architecture (MADA), this exhibition focuses on these particular building-monuments – on clubs, leagues, halls, and pools – to discern the multiple ways meaning and feeling is embedded in these places.

Located at the old Maribyrnong Park Bowls and Croquet Club, and open for a limited time before things change.

Supported by Konpira Maru

Session Times:

Friday 15 May 5pm to 8pm
Saturday 16 May 9am to 12pm

Participants

mori is a collaborative project about architecture – its place in the world, its tangents and its culture. Their work is often a loose collection of undefined practices and types of work, but together they host workshops, exhibitions and other people, make art, research, write and publish things, sometimes design things, and teach together. They have collaborated with local and international practices across art, architecture and design including Tiles Lewisham, Baracco+Wright Architects, Colby Vexler, Floorplan Studio, Mara Schwerdtefer, BAST, Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Jing Liu of SO-IL, Dieter Leysen of 51N4E, garigarra and Aileen Sage. Most recently, they were finalists for the CCA Emerging Curators Residency in Montreal. Their work makes space for other ways of doing and thinking about architecture.

Nyoah Rosmarin is an architect. He works across building, writing and teaching, often with others. He has worked on civic buildings in the offices of Lovell Chen, Candalepas Associates and parvenu architectural. His writing has been regularly published, and he has given talks at architecture schools and garages. Most notably, he co-authored Regional Bureaucracy (Perimeter Editions) and co-founded Paradise Journal. He is currently teaching architecture at Monash University.

This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2026, an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.