“no rock no flower”
Andrea Illés
6 Sept → 25 Oct 2025
Gallery
West Space presents new work by Andrea Illés, consolidating her growing reputation as an important performance artist in this country’s cultural landscape.
no rock no flower is an eight-week durational performance viewable in-person during gallery hours and on an unbroken 24/7 livestream.
no rock no flower is an evolving and rhizomatic exploration of
“surveillance, abjection, (sexual) violence, desire, echo and narcissus, salmacis and hermaphroditus, my blood, my culture and my alienation from it as diaspora, my experience of the painful and magical world around me, and my love and admiration for my friends.”
view the livestream
with
Mara Galagher, Nelly Clifton, Grace Marlow, Tom Denize
and
Ahmed Coshnow, Alexander Powers, Benjamin Samadar, Brie Mayanja, Electric Vehicle, Fēi Chen, Gabriella Imrichova, katiebird, Maia Henderson, Makei Taualii, Marcus Whale, Nola Magdalene, Pris Crisis, Quinn Uncut, Stacey Collee, Tom Bridges, V Barratt, Zane Edwards
Andrea Illés: no rock no flower is a West Space Commission, supported by Creative Australia and the Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne.
no rock no flower forms the culmination of West Space's multi-part investment in Andrea’s practice following her residency in the West Space Studio in 2024. Andrea received mentorship from V Barratt, consultation with Helen Grogan, and installation by Zamara Zamara.
Andrea Illés is a performance artist working with movement, sound, and image. Her work centres on overwhelm, agony, and awe and their co-existence with (non) restrictive performativities. She is interested in the interplay between stigma and embodiment and embraces abjection and failure as possibility.
