Verge Gallery: Sixty-nine exhibition

Get to know Verge’s latest exhibition:
By Sidney McMahon
📆 Premiering in Verge Gallery: 26 June – 15 August

Sixty-nine by artist Sidney McMahon is an immersive sculptural exploration of the symbolic and emotional terrain of the number 69 as a cycle of life, death, queerness, and intimacy. Anchored in the architecture of the home, the work navigates domestic spaces as sites of eroticism, grief, and repetition. 

Through video work and layered sculptural forms, the exhibition evokes the five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – as nonlinear, looping states. Tender, raw, and unsettling, it considers how care and rupture coexist, how desire and mourning blur, and how queer intimacy reclaims space within familiar cycles of loss, pleasure, and transformation. 

Events Lineup:

Exhibition Launch
📅 Thurs 26 June: 6–8pm
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Echoes: Sixty-nine
📅 Thurs 31 July, 7 & 14 August: 12:30-1pm
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In Conversation with Sidney McMahon
📅 Wed 13 August: 1-2pm
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Slow Looking Workshop: Sixty nine
📅 Wed 15 August: 1-2pm
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📸 Image credit: Sidney McMahon, Sixty nine,2025. Image courtesy of the artist.