Brunswick Street Gallery acknowledges that these exhibitions are held on what always was and always will be the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, as well as to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the wider Naarm community and beyond.

Pretty Ugly
Emmy Cooper Granville
20 AUGUST–6 September

Claudia, 2026, Acrylic on canvas, 40x30cm

Emmy Cooper Granville (Nightmarish Meatballs) examines unconventional beauty standards and mental illness through garish, colourful paintings. Her “Badly Drawn Ghouls” embrace distortion, awkwardness, and excess, rejecting perfection in favour of raw expression. These characters exist between humour and discomfort, inviting viewers to find tenderness, identity, and humanity within the strange and imperfect.

Join us on Friday 21 August to celebrate the opening of Pretty Ugly (6–8PM).

Current and upcoming exhibitions

Brunswick Street Gallery acknowledges that these exhibitions are held on what always was and always will be the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, as well as to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the wider Naarm community and beyond.

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