MARIAN TUBBS
shields and the metaverse café
5 July – 2 August 2025

STATION | MELBOURNE

STATION is delighted to present shields and the metaverse café - Marian Tubbs' seventh solo exhibition with the gallery.

Within this latest body of work Tubbs places her digital paintings in a dynamic dialogue with AI-generated scenes by way of lenticular photographic printing.  These visual collisions spill into one another across surfaces that dissolve and reconfigure in response to the viewer’s movement through space. Nothing in the exhibition is fixed, offering limitless encounters with form and light.

While often humorous and surreal, the works also carry poignant political resonances, resisting dominant narratives of technological progress and ecological decay. Tubbs blends rich visuals of both natural and synthetic forms, drawing from encounters both global and local. On the exhibition, writer Denise Thwaites reflects;

'The absurd and ecstatic joy that underlies this show reflects a practice of flowing through and against the ossified architectures of advanced capitalism.'

In this body of work, the shield becomes less an emblem of defence than a proposition for how to move through hostile environments.

Please join us for the opening celebrations with the artist on Saturday 5 July, 4-6pm at STATION Naarm/Melbourne.

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Installation Views

Artworks



Marian Tubbs 'blueberry brutalist waterslide', 2025
multiple views



Marian Tubbs 'blueberry brutalist waterslide', 2025
lenticular photograph, 91.5 × 61.0 cm



Marian Tubbs 'blueberry brutalist waterslide', 2025
alternate view



Marian Tubbs, 'utterly natural. beautiful grace. skin pale silver; i am as tall as a tree', 2025
lenticular photograph, 91.5 × 61.0 cm



Marian Tubbs, 'utterly natural. beautiful grace. skin pale silver; i am as tall as a tree', 2025
multiple views



Marian Tubbs, 'utterly natural. beautiful grace. skin pale silver; i am as tall as a tree', 2025
alternate view



Marian Tubbs 'assignment in eternity; compulsively readable', 2025
lenticular photograph, 91.5 × 61.0 cm



Marian Tubbs 'assignment in eternity; compulsively readable', 2025
alternate view



Marian Tubbs 'assignment in eternity; compulsively readable', 2025
multiple views



Marian Tubbs 'the sincerest thing i could do was to use words', 2025
multiple views


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Marian Tubbs 'the sincerest thing i could do was to use words', 2025
lenticular photograph, 91.5 × 61.0 cm



Marian Tubbs 'the sincerest thing i could do was to use words', 2025
alternate view



Marian Tubbs 'shields and the metaverse café', 2025
lenticular photograph, 203.0 × 123.0 cm



Marian Tubbs 'shields and the metaverse café', 2025
multiple views



Marian Tubbs 'shields and the metaverse café', 2025
alternate view

Exhibition Text

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