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.

A solo exhibition by Angelina Mirabito.

Architecture of Emotion marks the final exhibition of Romulus Folio Gallery at 55 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne, presented from 6 to 28 May 2026. This exhibition concludes the gallery’s formal exhibition program at 55 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne.

Inside Wonder opened on the evening of Friday, April 17, 2026, and concluded May 3rd, at a precise moment in the life of the gallery. The exhibition emerged at the edge of one year of continuous programming at Romulus Folio Gallery.

Inside Wonder at Romulus Folio creates an immersive exhibition experience featuring works by Xinzhi (Doris) Li, Usha Newland, and Mark Alexander. The exhibition invites viewers into a colourful sensory world, leading us to reconnect with wonder about emotions and thoughts that live deep within the self.

Curated by Angelina Mirabito, Inside Wonder is constructed as a spatial system in which painting is extended beyond the canvas and into an integrated field of perception. The exhibition operates through the alignment of artwork, architecture and intervention, establishing a continuous relationship between image, structure and viewer.

Inside Wonder marks one year of Romulus Folio Gallery at The Gladstone in South Melbourne. Over this time, the space has evolved into an active site for exhibition, testing how art, design and spatial experience can exist within the conditions of everyday life.

Inside Wonder marks one year of Romulus Folio Gallery at The Gladstone.

The exhibition has taken on a meaning far beyond what I first understood when I titled it. In many ways, it reflects the trajectory of the gallery itself. What began as a three month response to the need for an exhibition space during Melbourne Design Week in 2025 has unfolded into something sustained, layered and evolving.