Archie Hayes 
Melbourne’s own Jeremy Geddes has stepped back into the spotlight with Periphery—his first solo exhibition in ten years. Yeah, a whole decade. And while it’s been a long wait, the payoff is big. The show feels like stepping into a dream where gravity’s been turned off and the world’s quietly unraveling.
Geddes spent over five years working on this series, and you can feel that time baked into every piece. The work is intense, haunting, and weirdly beautiful. You’ve got astronauts suspended mid-fall, cars and debris hovering like they forgot how to land, and buildings crumbling as space shuttles pass overhead. It’s like watching the end of the world in slow motion—but you can’t look away.
The mix of oil paintings, graphite sketches, and layered boards shows off Geddes’ insane level of detail. Nothing here feels rushed—and it isn’t. He even jokes about his famously slow pace, but there’s a purpose to it. “I was really just trying to pull together something that made sense in a single space,” he says. “My interests bounced around over the years, but they stayed close enough that everything kind of fell into place.”
And that’s exactly what this exhibit feels like. Controlled chaos. Deep stillness. A kind of visual poetry that hits you harder the longer you stare.
