Last month, ROMULUS Folio visited Sydney Contemporary 2026, held at Carriageworks from 3–6 September.

Last month, we visited White Rabbit Gallery to see Black Myth. The exhibition takes its name and inspiration from the hugely popular 2024 video game Black Myth: Wukong, which retells the story of the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Starting from this famous journey, the exhibition expands the idea of a ‘journey’ into something much broader. Many of the works draw on traditional Chinese culture, mythology, literature and landscape imagery, and reorganise these familiar elements through contemporary art. Among the works in the exhibition, four especially stood out to me.

ROMULUS Folio Gallery is pleased to share The Marble Sea Series, a new commission comprising seven paintings by Angelina Mirabito, created in collaboration with Australian interior designer and bespoke furniture maker Mark Alexander for a penthouse apartment overlooking the ocean on the Gold Coast.

Recently, we visited Five Walls Gallery to see Peter Brook’s exhibition, Hot Minute.

When we first entered the gallery, the strong visual impact of the works immediately caught our attention. Blue blocks of colour and white lines fill the canvas, with fine lines crossing and connecting across the surface. From a distance, the works feel controlled and calm, with an almost regular sense of order.

In a gallery, we are used to seeing art in a certain way. White walls and open spaces allow us to focus almost entirely on the artwork itself.

However, when an artwork enters a home, our relationship with it begins to change. Furniture, light, materials, colour, and the traces of everyday life all become part of how we experience the work.

When I first looked at Peter Brook’s Byzantium sky and Razzmic Cinnabar, I found that they were very alike in composition. Both paintings are divided horizontally into two broad fields of colour, crossed by a row of narrow vertical lines. Their structures are orderly and controlled, almost as though the same visual formula had been repeated. Despite this shared composition, the two works create remarkably different experiences through the use of colour.

This August, the ROMULUS Folio Gallery team joins Threads of Love as guest curator and project manager, bringing together female artists from diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic practices for a contemporary exploration of creativity, identity, memory, cultural inheritance, love and human connection.

As part of Double Seventh Cultural Week, Creative Asia Art Centre will host Water, Lacquer & Love: A Contemporary Lacquer Fan Workshop on Sunday 16 August 2026, bringing together contemporary art, traditional craftsmanship, cultural exchange and community connection.  

On Friday 7 August 2026, PRISM opened at ROMULUS Folio Gallery, marking the launch of a new group exhibition and the reanchoring of ROMULUS at the World Trade Centre Melbourne.

A prism separates what seems to be a single beam of light into different colours. In Xinzhi Li’s Vessel, searching, the body goes through a similar process. It no longer appears as a complete and stable form. Instead, it is broken into fragments that resemble organs, limbs and traces of a face, mixed with flowing and overlapping colours. Bright yellow, red, blue and purple move through these body fragments, making the image seem to be forming and dissolving at the same time.

When I first encountered Keith Ross’s work, I was drawn to the strangeness and childlike quality of his figures. Their bodies are distorted, their expressions exaggerated, and their colours vivid but deliberately detached from reality.

A prism does not create colour. It reveals the different colours that already exist within light. In the PRISM exhibition, Fiona Johnston’s work follows a similar idea. Her paintings invite viewers to look again at colour, coastal environments, and natural change. Her two works, Thermal Shift and Swan’s Path, create different visual effects. However, both use flowing forms, layered surfaces, and blended colours to show a natural world that is always changing.

There is something remarkable about a prism. At first glance, light appears singular and complete, yet as it passes through a prism it separates into a spectrum, revealing colours that have always been present but previously unseen. The prism does not create complexity. It reveals it. This simple phenomenon became the conceptual foundation for PRISM, an exhibition celebrating the reanchoring of ROMULUS at the World Trade Centre Melbourne.

A Group Exhibition Celebrating Contemporary Australian Art and the Reanchoring of ROMULUS Folio Gallery

A New Creative Anchor at the World Trade Centre Melbourne.

Every creative journey reaches a moment of renewal. For ROMULUS Folio Studio Gallery, that moment arrived through reanchoring at the World Trade Centre Melbourne. Our new Studio Gallery has found its place within a growing creative community where contemporary art, collaboration and cultural exchange are shaping an exciting future.

On 26 June, ROMULUS’ time at 55 Gladstone Street will come to an end.

The idea for DECONSTRUCTED began with something my mentor Alex shared with me two and a half years ago: that one way of understanding people and places is to return them to their origin point and ask how they became what they are. I never imagined that idea would eventually become an exhibition. I simply carried it with me, allowing it to quietly shape the way I looked at art, people and place, and the ways in which things come into being.

The Work Holding More Than It Was Ever Asked to Hold

When I first began developing the Architecture of Emotion exhibition on 1 January, I could never have imagined the emotional range the work would eventually be asked to hold both within the paintings themselves and within the reality surrounding the exhibition and what it would come to represent over time.

Romulus Folio Gallery is proud to announce that the gallery has been shortlisted in the Small Scale category of the 2026 City of Port Phillip Design and Development Awards, presented as part of Melbourne Design Week.

Architecture of Emotion features a painting series by Angelina Mirabito, inspired by The First Aett of the Elder Futhark. Within the gallery space, we encounter emotions that are bold, intense, and fluid, but also those that are restrained, gentle, and calm.

Romulus Folio Gallery is proud to present Architecture of Emotion, a major solo exhibition and immersive spatial installation by Angelina Mirabito, PhD, presented from 6–28 May 2026 at 55 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne.