The Winter Night Screen is an annual program showcasing contemporary moving image works that are projected onto a window of the Brunswick Town Hall. Facing Sydney Road, the screen lights up nightly from 5pm to 11pm throughout July and August.
This year, see works by Ma Ei, Gabrielle Leah New, and Danish Quapoor.
Strawberry Piece by Ma Ei
In Strawberry Piece, a complex relationship unfolds between two people. A man applies makeup on a woman; the woman force-feeds strawberries to the man. Despite their obvious disdain for each other, they persist, with their interactions growing increasingly hostile and violent. Their behaviour suggests shifting emotions: between love and frustration, desire and distance, acceptance and reluctance, sweetness and bitterness. It also suggests that, despite the challenges, letting go is often the hardest thing to do.
Ma Ei is a multidisciplinary artist from Dawei, Myanmar, who works across painting, installation, photography and performance art. Drawing from lived experience, her work explores feminism and the pursuit of peace. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Physics) from the East Yangon University and a Diploma in Sculpture from the National University of Art and Culture, Yangon, Myanmar.
PLASTICUS – What to do with All the Plastic? by Gabrielle Leah New
PLASTICUS – What to do with All the Plastic? responds to the global plastic crisis. By 2050, it is predicted that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Studies show that humans ingest the equivalent of a credit card’s worth of plastic each week, and only 9% of what we put in our recycling bins is properly recycled.
During the pandemic lockdowns, soft plastic recycling in the artist’s local area was stopped. In response, they were inspired to create the monster PLASTICUS, using a loom borrowed from a neighbour. Filmed at Blairgowrie Bay Beach on Bunurong land, the work captures PLASTICUS moving and dancing like waste caught in wind and water. Their movements echo the disturbing reality that plastic now inhabits our natural environment.
Gabrielle Leah New is a multi-arts practitioner who works with textiles, installation, photography, text, video and live/participatory performance. Her work explores themes of identity, relationship to self, other and place, transformation and the space between internal and external worlds. She holds a Diploma in Theatre Arts from Victoria University, a Graduate Certificate in Art and Community Engagement from the Victorian College of the Arts, and a Master of Fine Art from RMIT.
DELPHIC a deux by Danish Quapoor
DELPHIC a deux is an animation by Danish Quapoor that draws on personal experiences — including coming out to his family as bisexual and the passing of his father. Evolving from the artist’s earlier biomorphic paintings, it brings these painted forms to life through fluid yet tense movements that evoke the emotional weight of his story. The animation is looped to suggest cycles of entrapment, release and catharsis — like an ouroboros, the ancient symbol of a serpent eating its own tail. These repeating patterns reflect themes Quapoor has explored in his paintings, now reimagined through movement and abstraction.
Danish Quapoor is an interdisciplinary visual artist, curator and arts worker based in Gurambilbarra/Townsville, Queensland. Working predominantly across ceramics, textiles and painting, his practice explores identity, relationships, religion and sexuality. Quapoor was awarded the 2024 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize and has been shortlisted for the Gosford Art Prize and North Queensland Ceramics Award. He was the inaugural 2023 UniSQ School of Creative Arts Alumni Fellow and holds a Master of Arts & Cultural Management (University of Melbourne) and degrees in Visual Arts from the University of Southern Queensland.
Image caption: Tom Noble. Strawberry Piece by Ma Ei outside the Brunswick Town Hall. 2025.
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