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  • BEAUTY IN TIMING

    Helen Christophidis
    4 – 26 July, 2026

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  • The Beginning of a Long Journey (Diptych)

    $4,000.00
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Artists + Makers

Kate Carrillo

Liz Walker

Neil Williams

Jennifer Buntine

Julie Hocking

Ginger Kate

Helen Kennedy

Robyn Saunders

Louise Grant

Warren Cooke

Kristine Oss

Kirsty McCormick

Holly Rigg

Rani Vecera

Other Future

Sally Joubert

Lori Hakim

Robert Delves

Judy Alsop

Sarah Munnings

Rae O’Connell

About

Cook Street Collective is an artist run gallery. One hour from Melbourne, in Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula.

Come meet the Artists + Makers at Cook Street Collective.

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CSC Artists & Makers gallery, MPCAP prize,
+ BLACKROOM shows

A beautiful exhibition opening in The Blackroom Ga A beautiful exhibition opening in The Blackroom Gallery…

Sophie Zelder is a Melbourne based contemporary artist exploring the technique of Mokulito (wood lithography)
Sophie creates variable, limited-edition works, with the plywood plate itself frequently serving as a finished piece.
Drawn from reference photos and photo collages taken over the summer of 2024, this series began as a technical experiment: pushing the variable medium of wood lithography (Mokulito) into the delicate realm of figurative portraiture.
The medium’s habit of leaving unexpected swatches and blotches became a perfect mirror for the themes that emerged, reflecting the dualities of the coast and a deeper climate of uncertainty.
Capturing candid moments across generations at Portsea and Phillip Island, these prints trace the timeless, sensory rituals of the coast - the exhilaration of the surf, salty skin, and quiet contemplation by the water. From young lives looking out toward the horizon to older figures resting on the sand, the subjects in these works inhabit the shoreline at various turning points in life.

Please join us for opening drinks at CSC Gallery with Sophie and friends this Sat 1st Aug 3-5pm

Gaze
Chinagraph, printing ink, gouache on marine ply
62x80cm

Email or DM for Preview Catalogue 
info@cookstreetcollective.com.au

@csc_gallery 
#makulito #woodcutprint #theblackroomgallery #australianartists #contemporaryprintmaking
Coming soon to the Blackroom Gallery... Cook Stre Coming soon to the Blackroom Gallery...

Cook Street Collective is thrilled to present Mornington Peninsula Contemporary Art Prize
2025 People's Choice Award winner Sophie
Zelder's solo exhibition.

SOPHIE ZELDER
'Unshore'
1-23rd August 2026

Opening Drinks: Saturday 1st August, 3-5pm.
DM your email to us for the preview catalogue, available shortly!

Sophie Zelder is an acclaimed contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne, widely recognized for her prints, sculptures, and paintings using mediums like woodcut, mokulito, and chinagraph pencil. Her work is highly regarded, recently winning the 2025 Mornington Peninsula Contemporary Art Prize People's Choice Award.

Image:
Swoop
Medium: Mokulito print on paper
Edition: AP 1/2
Year: 2026
Size: 59H x 80W (Image) 79H x 99.5W (Frame)

@csc_gallery 
#ourcreativepeninsula #woodcut #mokulito
Coming soon to the Blackroom Gallery... Cook Stre Coming soon to the Blackroom Gallery...

Cook Street Collective is thrilled to present Mornington Peninsula Contemporary Art Prize
2025 People's Choice Award winner Sophie
Zelder's solo exhibition.

SOPHIE ZELDER
'Unshore'
1-23rd August 2026

Opening Drinks: Saturday 1st August, 3-5pm.
DM your email to us for the preview catalogue, available shortly!

Sophie Zelder is an acclaimed contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne, widely recognized for her prints, sculptures, and paintings using mediums like woodcut, mokulito, and chinagraph pencil. Her work is highly regarded, recently winning the 2025 Mornington Peninsula Contemporary Art Prize People's Choice Award.

Image:
Swoop
Medium: Mokulito print on paper
Edition: AP 1/2
Year: 2026
Size: 59H x 80W (Image) 79H x 99.5W (Frame)

@csc_gallery 
#ourcreativepeninsula #woodcut #mokulito
We are open from 10-4 today here at Cook Street Co We are open from 10-4 today here at Cook Street Collective and no matter which way you look there is so much creativity happening from our artists and makers. The sun is shining outside and we’d love to see you, take a leisurely stroll in Flinders. 

@csc_gallery @mornpenartsandculture #artistsandmakers #flinders #australianartists #mornpen
Helen Christophidis BEAUTY IN TIMING Exhibiting Helen Christophidis 
BEAUTY IN TIMING 
Exhibiting now in Blackroom Gallery 
2-26 July 
Ceramics and Oil paintings
 

Having lived in Flinders for nearly 30 years, Helen Christophidis has long drawn inspiration from the surrounding landscape. This series of paintings and ceramics reflects memories, sensations and deep connections to Flinders Ocean Beach. Between the cliffs and the ocean, she finds a place of freedom — a space to wander, contemplate and observe. Here, the shifting light, colours, textures and sounds create a beauty that is constantly changing. It is within these fleeting, ephemeral moments that beauty is most intensely felt.

@mornpenartsandculture @csc_gallery #oilpainting #ceramics #flinders #seascapepainting #mornpen
Continuing in The Blackroom Gallery- HELEN CHRIST Continuing in The Blackroom Gallery-

HELEN CHRISTOPHIDIS 
Beauty in Timing
4-26th July

Beautiful, textural seascapes in thick luscious oil paint. Helen takes her inspiration from the local Flinders ocean beach.

Having lived in Flinders for nearly 30 years, Helen Christophidis has long drawn inspiration from the surrounding landscape. This series of paintings and ceramics reflects memories, sensations and deep connections to Flinders Ocean Beach. Between the cliffs and the ocean, she finds a place of freedom — a space to wander, contemplate and observe. Here, the shifting light, colours, textures and sounds create a beauty that is constantly changing. It is within these fleeting, ephemeral moments that beauty is most intensely felt.
In Greek thought, “beauty” (horaios) is associated with being in one’s perfect place, season or time. “Time” (hora) is the continuous flow of change that both gives rise to beauty and ultimately causes it to fade. Beauty and time are therefore intrinsically linked; beauty exists in timing. Beginning with memory as a point of departure, Christophidis works intuitively. The composition gradually reveals itself as she applies oil paint directly from the tube onto the canvas using palette knife and brush. Layers of paint are built and often scraped back, creating texture and exposing underlying colours. Whether working on large-scale canvases or with clay in her ceramic practice, she explores these transient moments, inviting the viewer to interpret and complete the image for themselves.

@csc_gallery 
#beautyintiming #contemporaryseascapepainting #flindersoceanbeach #australianart #australianartists
OPENING TODAY 2-4 pm We’d love you to join us E OPENING TODAY 
2-4 pm 
We’d love you to join us 
Exhibition runs from 
2-26 July 

BEAUTY IN TIMING 
Having lived in Flinders for nearly 30 years, Helen Christophidis has long drawn inspiration from the surrounding landscape. This series of paintings and ceramics reflects memories, sensations and deep connections to Flinders Ocean Beach. Between the cliffs and the ocean, she finds a place of freedom - a space to wander, contemplate and observe. Here, the shifting light, colours, textures and sounds create a beauty that is constantly changing. It is within these fleeting, ephemeral moments that beauty is most intensely felt.
In Greek thought, “beauty” (horaios) is associated with being in one’s perfect place, season or time.
“Time” (hora) is the continuous flow of change that both gives rise to beauty and ultimately causes it to fade. Beauty and time are therefore intrinsically linked; beauty exists in timing.
Beginning with memory as a point of departure, Christophidis works intuitively. The composition gradually reveals itself as she applies oil paint directly from the tube onto the canvas using palette knife and brush. Layers of paint are built and often scraped back, creating texture and exposing underlying colours. Whether working on large-scale canvases or with clay in her ceramic practice, she explores these transient moments, inviting the viewer to interpret and complete the image for themselves.

@csc_gallery @mornpenartsandculture #flinders #morningtonpeninsulaartist #seascapepainting #galleryopening
Opening this Saturday in The Blackroom Gallery- HE Opening this Saturday in The Blackroom Gallery-
HELEN CHRISTOPHIDIS 
Beauty in Timing
4-26th July 2026

Please join us for opening drinks Sat 4th July 2-4pm 
The gallery is warm and inviting. Call in and enjoy Helen’s beautiful interpretation of Flinders Ocean Beach as well as the wonderful selection of local Cook Street Collective artists works.

@csc_gallery 
@mornpenartsandculture 
#ourcreativepeninsula #beautyintiming #theblackroomgallery #cscgallery #australianseascapes
Please join us this Saturday 4th July 2-4pm in Th Please join us this Saturday 4th July 2-4pm in 
The Blackroom gallery at @csc_gallery for opening drinks with Helen and friends. 

HELEN CHRISTOPHIDIS 
Beauty in Timing
4-26th July

DM or email for presale catalogue

In Greek thought, “beauty” (horaios) is associated
with being in one’s perfect place, season or time.
“Time” (hora) is the continuous flow of change
that both gives rise to beauty and ultimately
causes it to fade. Beauty and time are therefore
intrinsically linked; beauty exists in timing.
Beginning with memory as a point of departure,
Christophidis works intuitively. The composition
gradually reveals itself as she applies oil paint
directly from the tube onto the canvas using
palette knife and brush. Layers of paint are built
and often scraped back, creating texture and
exposing underlying colours. Whether working on
large-scale canvases or with clay in her ceramic
practice, she explores these transient moments,
inviting the viewer to interpret and complete the image for themselves.

@csc_gallery 
@mornpenmag 
#cscgallery #theblackroomgallery #beautyintiming 
#australianart #australianartists
Expression comes in many forms and genres, here at Expression comes in many forms and genres, here at Cook Street Collective you will love seeing and experiencing the art practices of our Peninsula artist and maker members of the gallery. 
There are paintings, ceramics sculpture, printmaking and textiles. 

@csc_gallery @mornpenartsandculture #cookstreetcollective #flinders #australianartists #morningtonpeninsula #artistsandmakers @kate.carrillo.art
Gorgeous winter sun in Flinders. Gallery open ever Gorgeous winter sun in Flinders.
Gallery open everyday except Wednesday over school holiday period. Lots of beautiful works by our local artisans and also last weekend to view 
ELEGY
Emma Cliene in The Blackroom Gallery

@csc_gallery 
@emmacleine 
@mornpenartsandculture
Coming soon to The Blackroom Gallery at @csc_galle Coming soon to The Blackroom Gallery at @csc_gallery 

HELEN CHRISTOPHIDIS
Beauty in Timing
4-26 July, 2026

Opening Drinks Sat 4th July 2-4pm
DM or email for Preview Catalogue

Having lived in Flinders for nearly 30 years, Helen
Christophidis has long drawn inspiration from the
surrounding landscape. This series of paintings and
ceramics reflects memories, sensations and deep
connections to Flinders Ocean Beach. Between
the cliffs and the ocean, she finds a place of
freedom — a space to wander, contemplate and
observe. Here, the shifting light, colours, textures
and sounds create a beauty that is constantly
changing. It is within these fleeting, ephemeral
moments that beauty is most intensely felt.

In Greek thought, “beauty” (horaios) is associated
with being in one’s perfect place, season or time.
“Time” (hora) is the continuous flow of change
that both gives rise to beauty and ultimately
causes it to fade. Beauty and time are therefore
intrinsically linked; beauty exists in timing.

@csc_gallery 
@mornpenartsandculture
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Cook Street Collective acknowledges the Bunurong / Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we live, work and create. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging here, in this place, and around Australia.

Cook Street Collective Gallery

41 Cook Street
Flinders
Victoria 3929
Mornington Peninsula
Australia

03 5989 1022

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