Exhibition Type: Mixed Artist Exhibition

The Aviary is a vibrant, salon style exhibition at traffic tram galleries that brings together a diverse flock of contemporary artists inspired by the majesty, mystery, and personality of birds.

The Aviary celebrates the beauty and personality of birds through a rich collection of paintings. 

From renderings capturing the striking plumage of native Australian species, their quirky behaviours and watchful presence in the landscape to the iconographic abstracted.

Featuring dynamic works by Ebony Bennett, renowned for her expressive oil paintings of Australian natives such as the Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo, Magpie and Kookaburra. The exhibition also showcases a vivid array of acrylic-based works by fellow artists, Danielle McManus, Andrew Bennett, Dean Reilly, and Margie Spencer, each bringing their own unique perspective and palette to the theme. 

This curated experience is available for private viewing by appointment from the 17th of June.

traffic jam galleries End Of Year Sale is now Live online and available for viewing in the gallery. 

Now is the perfect time to nab yourself or a loved one a beautiful piece of new art this holiday season. 

traffic jam galleries are proud to present MIXED + POP ! Through the lens of our artists, an exploration of Pop Art, its evolution and resounding impact on art today, how it is digested and responded to.
Pop Art developed as a response to the Post War era’s commodity-driven values using common place objects such as soup cans and road signs as subject matter. Bright colours, recognisable imagery, irony, and satire are some of the defining characteristics. This movement was born from the commercialised culture in the 1950s, initially America and then Britain. Pop Art encouraged viewers to reconsider what they understood to be fine art and instead evaluate the power of production, situating itself at the intersection of a transient globalist market and traditional forms of art making. The lasting impact of the Pop Art movement is visible in the production and procuring of art today.

‘Resale’ or ‘Secondary Market’ refers to a work of art that has been previously sold at least once before, whereas Primary Market denotes a work being sold for the very first time. Secondary Market art is most known for but not limited to the resale of works by past Artists, potentially well-known Artists, living or dead, with notable careers. Resale can also include contemporary living Artists’ works. 

Untitled. is an annual tjg initiative that focuses on celebrating the works of guest artists foreign to our gallery space. Curated from local, interstate and international artists all at varying stages of their artistic journeys.

‘Sydney & Surrounds’ is a thematic group exhibition that will be held during the month of February and features numerous tjg artists responding to this theme. Overt or with subtle links to the thematic brief, works include sculpture, painting, collage and mixed media.

‘The Flower Market’ includes a mix of traffic jam galleries’ artists with works responding to a botanical theme.

Untitled is our annual initiative which brings together artists from across Australia foreign to our gallery space. This year the gallery will showcase twelve artists whose bodies of works span the practices of painting, photography, sculpture, textiles and more.

We are excited to present our opening exhibition for 2021 a group thematic show titled THE BIRDS. Participating artists present their own interpretations and responses to this subject. On a two and three dimensional level the works range from the playful and irreverent through to macabre and nightmarish. The subject is presented through a range of mediums such as steel, ceramics, acrylic and oil paint, digital, pen, ink and charcoal.