Angela Ndalianis

Supremacy of the Zombie Bunnies

29 Oct - 9 Nov 2025

Opening Night

Friday 31 October | 6 - 8 pm

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In a future not too far from our own, a rabbit discovered in the Dandenong Ranges carried a virus unlike any other. This Patient Zero didn’t simply zombify its hosts—it transformed them.

Humans infected by the contagion mutated into strange new hybrids: some devolved into feral, mindless rabbit-creatures, while others retained human intelligence but took on furry, rabbit-like features.

From these mutations, the new Zombie Bunny civilisation emerged. Their appetites shifted from survival to style, embracing flamboyance, excess, and glittering adornment. As they multiplied and evolved, a research institution known as BADIDAS rose, dedicated to experimenting with the genetic mutations and guiding or, some would say, manipulating their evolution.

Out of this bizarre science, new strains appeared. Male forms often withered into skeletal figures with skeletal frames crowned by one or two rabbit ears—or else grew into towering, hyper-intelligent rabbits. Female forms retained some of their human look, but were overlaid with alluring rabbit features. Their flesh remained intact but their identities were transformed.

The supremacy of the Zombie Bunnies had begun: a world reimagined through mutation, spectacle, and a velvet apocalypse of science, fur, bone, and bling. Welcome to the Supremacy of the Zombie Bunnies.

Method

The subject of hybrids and mutations also informed the approach Angela took in creating the paintings for this exhibition. At the beginning of the year, she had a bad fall and broke her back. This traumatic experience, however, ended up having a positive effect on her art practice. The physical difficulties of traditional painting can take their toll on the body and she began instead to think differently about her approach to painting. Realising that, in the past, she’d kept her knowledge of digital and traditional tools separate, she decided to break down the walls and combine all, depending on her aims and needs.

Programs like Procreate and Photoshop combined with acrylic paint, rhinestones and fabrics offering exciting possibilities.

Meanwhile, AI became a  creative tool and collaborator that opened the way to great versatility and experimentation that led to many of the characters and scenarios in this exhibition. 

Artist Biography

Angela Ndalianis is a Melbourne-based artist who transitioned to visual arts after nearly three decades as a professor of screen media and director of the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University. During her distinguished academic career, she specialised in the study of entertainment genres such as horror and science fiction—fields that continue to inspire and inform her art practice today.

Working across analogue and digital forms, Ndalianis creates richly narrative, symbolically layered worlds that fuse popular culture, mythology, and the decorative. Her paintings have been exhibited at Brunswick Street Gallery, Fly Little Bird, Red Gallery, Gallery Unbound, and Linden New Art.

In November 2024, she presented her solo exhibition Divine Darkness: A Female Odyssey at Red Gallery, further establishing her presence within Melbourne’s contemporary art scene. Her current exhibition, Supremacy of the Zombie Bunnies, continues this trajectory, blending wit, spectacle, and mutation in a dazzling exploration of post-human imagination.

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157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
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