Last but no least

Exhibition at This Is No Fantasy, Melbourne

Ali Tahayori, Johnathon World Peace Bush, Neil Haddon, Olivia Chin

5 - 20 Dec 2025

Last But Not Least brings together a selection of THIS IS NO FANTASY’s gallery artists whose practices approach transformation, perception, and cultural memory from distinctly charged vantage points. Presented at the close of the year, the exhibition reframes the idea of “last” not as an ending, but as a distillation – a moment where ideas sharpen, surfaces deepen, and meaning gathers intensity.

Neil Haddon’s vibrant, shape-shifting paintings disrupt familiar visual languages, pulling abstraction and representation into tense, luminous dialogue.

Ali Tahayori continues his exploration of queer identity, sensory experience, and diasporic memory, using light, image, and spatial intervention to create spaces of reflection and intimacy.

From Tiwi Islands cosmology to contemporary political commentary, Johnathon World Peace Bush’s bold, emblematic works assert painting as a site of sovereignty, humour, and relentless presence.

Olivia Chin‘s paintings explore landscapes with gesture, movement, and quiet symbolism that chart emotional terrains that hover between the seen and the felt.

Across these diverse practices, Last But Not Least asks what accumulates at the edge of conclusion – what remains, what resists closure, and what continues to unfold. Together, the artists offer a resonant final chord for the year: layered, searching, and insistently alive.