Off the Kerb Gallery, West Space, Bundoorah Homestead, White Night, Channels, The Substation, The Dirty Dozens, Melbourne Now, GSPF, Seventh Gallery, Kings ARI, Kingston Arts Centre, PICA, This Is Not Art festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival Hub, City of Melbourne Library, Melbourne Town Hall, Craft Victoria, Mars Gallery.
Places/People I've exhibited with:
Get in touch with me at arierainglorie@gmail.com
I respectfully acknowledge the people of the Kulin Nation as traditional custodians, on whose unceded lands we live and work. I respectfully acknowledge their elders past and present.

Cartoon Physics for
Neurospicey Queers
and People Who Don't
Get it.
My art practice lives in the space between gag and gut-punch. I use cartoon logic—anvils, crying creatures, fake dynamite—to talk about weird thoughts and feelings that don’t behave. It’s self-help, part slapstick. I make soft sculptures, objects, drawings, installations, and performance pieces that explore the human condition and how to be authentic (if you find out, let me know?).
Cartoon physics lets me bend reality to say what can’t be said straight. It’s a way to talk about emotional impact without needing to be literal. When something explodes, falls, or stretches—so do we. Its also just really good for mental health. Have you ever tried stabbing wool with a very tiny sharp needle for hours? Its fabulous.
That faithful year- amiright? Previously exhibiting video art and installation, my practice shifted during the COVID lockdowns to focus on cartooning as a leaping off point to explore psychology. I produced a deck of 32 illustrated cards exploring instrusive thoughts, sold online and in local shops.

Anxious Creatures
2021
The Anxiety Shop

2020
A 3-month pop-up store that sold artist-made products designed to help people talk about mental health in the Melbourne CBD. It was a public artwork disguised as a shop. Because retail is a language people understand. It gave me a way to invite strangers into vulnerable conversations—without needing to explain everything first. It also stocked objects by other local creatives. The biggest comment I got from people was "The Anxiety Shop? I should be the manager of there!" hence unwittingly admitting they suffer from anxiety and sparking conversations about mental health. Tick.


View more of
my cartoon
projects
here:
Pathetic, needle point felt with steel nail, exhibited at Bundoora Homestead, 2024
Note: also includes pictures of doggo.