PROTOTYPES Exhibition

Prototypes, Group EXHIBITION

Kasia Dudkiewicz - Lucia Medina - Arabella Strachan

February 6th - March 1st 2026

Prototypes brings together three artists whose practices are grounded in experimentation, material inquiry, and the ongoing development of form. The exhibition presents works that are complete in their own right, while also operating within a longer arc of practice, where ideas evolve through making over time.

Rather than positioning the prototype as a preliminary stage, the exhibition understands it as a moment of clarity within an unfolding trajectory. Each work holds resolution while also carrying forward material decisions, structural thinking, and formal language that may continue to develop across an artist’s practice.

Across the gallery, texture, surface, and spatial relationships guide how the exhibition is encountered. Kasia Dudkiewicz’s work engages tactile processes and material memory, where repetition and surface invite close attention. Lucia Medina’s practice emphasises gesture and form, with textured surfaces that register time, pressure, and movement. Arabella Strachan’s lamps introduce light as a material presence, extending the exhibition’s language into three dimensions and shaping how works are held within the space.

The impact wall and the gallery’s structural poles are conceived in response to the space and the exhibition’s material language, establishing coherence across the gallery while embodying the exhibition’s core premise. They reflect how the works presented exist fully in the present while carrying the momentum of what is still unfolding across each practice.

Together, the works operate in dialogue with the architecture of the gallery, revealing how material inquiry and process form a shared ground across distinct practices. Prototypes invites viewers to consider artistic practice as something that stabilises momentarily before continuing to shift, transform, and expand.

Curated by Angelina Mirabito, PhD

Installation by Scott Ross

Exhibition Catalogue

Exhibition Gallery

Gallery wall displaying textured fabric artworks and a digital screen with the text 'Prototypes, a group exhibition' and 'ROMULUS' below it, with plants at the bottom.
Art exhibit with woven textile and fiber art displayed on white walls, including a large macrame wall hanging, smaller woven pieces, and contemporary art objects. There is a wooden bench in front and a sign reading 'ROMULUS' leaning on the wall.
An art gallery with textured woven wall art on a white pillar, paintings or textiles on a white wall, a wooden bench, and a brick wall. The display includes a sign reading 'ROMULUS'.
Contemporary art gallery with textured textile wall hangings and sculptures on white walls, wooden benches, and a brick wall in the background.
Contemporary art gallery with abstract paintings, including a large textured piece with a circular motif and pastel colors, potted plants, and colorful geometric wall designs.
A framed artwork with a gray, textured, abstract design on a white wall in a modern interior space.
Two illuminated textile art pieces displayed on a white gallery wall. The piece on the left is a cube with orange, shaggy yarn pom-poms over a dark background, while the piece on the right is a large, intricate, cream-colored macramé wall hanging wit
An art piece on a white wall composed of squares and rectangles of moss and other textured materials, with backlighting. The photo shows inside a gallery with wooden benches, a white display table, and an industrial-style interior with exposed pipes
An art gallery interior with white walls displaying various artworks, wooden benches, a potted plant, and a brick wall near a glass door.
An art exhibition display with sculptures and framed artworks on white walls, featuring a digital screen with the text 'PROTOTYPES a group exhibition' and the names 'ROMULUS'. The setting has potted plants and wooden benches.

OPENING NIGHT