--- title: Anecdotes 3 --- [Skip to content](https://stetlari.com.au/anecdotes3#main-content) [![STETLARI_LOGO_WHITE](https://stetlari.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/STETLARI_LOGO_WHITE.png?width=200&height=200&name=STETLARI_LOGO_WHITE.png "STETLARI_LOGO_WHITE")](https://stetlari.com.au/?hsLang=en-au) - [WHAT'S ON](https://stetlari.com.au/anecdotes3) - [ABOUT US](https://stetlari.com.au/about-us) - [PAST EXHIBITIONS](https://stetlari.com.au/past-exhibitions) Show submenu for PAST EXHIBITIONS - [ANECDOTES 3](https://stetlari.com.au/anecdotes3) - [ANTIDOTE](https://stetlari.com.au/antidote) - [TELEPHASIC FRAMWORK](https://stetlari.com.au/telephasic-framework) - [GREETING ACCESSORY](https://stetlari.com.au/greeting-accessory) - [TRYING TO MAKE OBJECTS](https://stetlari.com.au/tryingtomakeobjects) - [AMSLER GRID](https://stetlari.com.au/amsler-grid) - [SMUDGE](https://stetlari.com.au/smudge) - [POST POST](https://stetlari.com.au/post-post) - [FOR ARTISTS](https://stetlari.com.au/for-artists) - [CONTACT US](https://stetlari.com.au/contact-us) - [WHAT'S ON](https://stetlari.com.au/anecdotes3) - [ABOUT US](https://stetlari.com.au/about-us) - [PAST EXHIBITIONS](https://stetlari.com.au/past-exhibitions) Show submenu for PAST EXHIBITIONS - [ANECDOTES 3](https://stetlari.com.au/anecdotes3) - [ANTIDOTE](https://stetlari.com.au/antidote) - [TELEPHASIC FRAMWORK](https://stetlari.com.au/telephasic-framework) - [GREETING ACCESSORY](https://stetlari.com.au/greeting-accessory) - [TRYING TO MAKE OBJECTS](https://stetlari.com.au/tryingtomakeobjects) - [AMSLER GRID](https://stetlari.com.au/amsler-grid) - [SMUDGE](https://stetlari.com.au/smudge) - [POST POST](https://stetlari.com.au/post-post) - [FOR ARTISTS](https://stetlari.com.au/for-artists) - [CONTACT US](https://stetlari.com.au/contact-us) ![Screenshot 2026-07-02 at 4.25.24 PM](https://stetlari.com.au/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-07-02%20at%204.25.24%20PM.png) #### Artist Charlie Dawson #### Year 2026 #### Title 'ANECDOTES 3' **In ‘Anecdotes 3’, Charlie Donaldson presents work unburdened by modern imaging software and innovations, finding interest through a lack of compositional logic;** **“Across drawing, painting, sculpture, and printed media, they have developed a visual language haunted by the residual signs of the recent past. Charlie draws on retro visual forms such as Magic 8 Balls, musty board games, LSD blotter designs, Magic Eye books, illegal rave flyers, photocopied anarchist zines, and early hacker and cyber aesthetics. These forms share a low-resolution, semi-obsolete visual language tied to underground circulation, altered states, prediction, and hidden knowledge. Many of these forms, however, began disappearing at the tail end of millennial childhood, a time when images still felt illicit, mystical, and partially inaccessible, before visual culture was flattened and smoothed out by platforms and AI systems.** **In Charlie’s recent prints, these recently-retro design languages are reprocessed into dense arrangements of images scraped from deep within the web. Resembling part mood board, part storyboard, and part conspiracy wall, the prints generate tension between the extreme specificity of the image selections, including art historical oddities, technical instruction imagery, banal snapshots, and unplaceable cartoons, and their unlikely arrangement. Together, they imply the presence of some buried logic within contemporary image banks. Yet Charlie offers no stable interpretive handrail for the viewer. Their compositions resemble the control panel of a UFO: dense, symbolic, and seemingly technical, but ultimately resistant to full comprehension.”** ![Screenshot 2026-07-02 at 4.17.28 PM](https://stetlari.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-07-02%20at%204.17.28%20PM.png?width=1598&height=996&name=Screenshot%202026-07-02%20at%204.17.28%20PM.png "Screenshot 2026-07-02 at 4.17.28 PM") ![Screenshot 2026-07-02 at 4.19.13 PM](https://stetlari.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-07-02%20at%204.19.13%20PM.png?width=1162&height=1132&name=Screenshot%202026-07-02%20at%204.19.13%20PM.png "Screenshot 2026-07-02 at 4.19.13 PM") ## MEET THE ARTIST   Instagram: Artist: [@\_charliedonaldson](https://www.instagram.com/_charliedonaldson/) Exhibition Text: [@spencer\_harvie](https://www.instagram.com/spencer_harvie/)   *IMAGES BY STETLARI ARTWORKS BY CHARLIE DONALDSON* [![](https://stetlari.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/STETLARI_LOGO_WHITE.png?width=500&height=500&name=STETLARI_LOGO_WHITE.png)](https://stetlari.com.au/?hsLang=en-au) ###### **FIND US ** 9 Ferry Road, West End (4101), Montague Markets. #### **GA** ###### **GALLERY HOURS** Please refer to individual event web pages for exhibition visitation hours. Window Gallery is open 24/7. [Follow us on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/stetlari/) [Contact Us](mailto:Stetlari@icloud.com) **ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY** STETLA ARI acknowledges that we create and work on the lands of the Jagera and Turable people. STETLA ARI pays its respects to the Traditional Custodians of the lands. We honour the storytelling and art-making at the heart of our First Nations' cultures and the enrichment it provides to the lives of all. STETLA ARI recognises that this was, is and always will be Aboriginal Land.  © 2026 All rights reserved.