The Australia landscape is more then just pristine beaches and manicured bushland parks inhabited by happy families, as many artists would have us believe. In reality it includes gritty laneways and spiritless suburbs where frustration gathers like litter against a fence. Eventually the barrier breaks and emotions erupt, and that's what this exhibition is about.

Belyea has never shied away from depicting themes that may not be considered acceptable subjects for polite art. But then his work is political art, that blurred reality of life that includes death, lost souls, vicious bullies and victims. We've seen similar subjects in the artist's oeuvre and in this exhibition he again comes up with the right method to make his statement. His canvases are covered with glancing blows and hard hitting marks in blood red and bile yellow mixed with the precision of an accomplished artist. The sense of brutality in these images is palpable, which is why they should be seen.

The series Bully Boy present broad bodies, part profiles but mostly an attitude of bunched-up energy about to burst forth. Yet sections of the large canvases reveal how the paint has been washed back providing gentle passages of the oil medium. It's as if there's room for understanding, a reminder that somewhere beneath the rage there is something human. Again in Untitled 1 & 11 where each figure is on his knees, a pose that suggests he has been beaten down, the same washed passages evoke a sense of pity. This softening of the surface allows us to look longer and better digest the harsh, brutal reality they represent.

Belyea's studies of hands, again worked in the same manner and colours, remind us that this artist can get away with peeling back his figures to the mere essence of blurred movement and still retain a sense of force. He achieves this by owning solid drawing skills that hold his images and ideas secure.

Social Realism in art is alive and well in this pretty city by the sea and this exhibition is a fine showing of Belyea's style. You may not like the subjects but you have to appreciate the paintings, the power and the honesty.