Do you ever find yourself mindlessly scrolling social media, wondering where the time has gone?Few of us are immune to the addictive allure of the never-ending scroll.Slow Read, a new exhibition at Town Hall Gallery in the Hawthorn Arts Centre, Victoria, is an invitation to put down our phones and immerse ourselves in art.The show features works from multimedia and collage artists from across Australia, including Gracia and Louise, a duo from Naarm/Melbourne who have been collaborating on a range of collages, prints, zines and drawings, often depicting nature, since 1999, and Venezuelan-born artist Nadia Hernández, whose work Palomita/Soledad incorporates fragments of her grandfather's poetry.The assembled works from the nine artists turn books into multi-dimensional and tactile art that demand, and reward, our full attention in a digital age."The artworks can offer a rich and meaningful encounter when viewers are open to them, but this requires time," exhibition curator Rachel Keir-Smith says.Jacky Cheng, a Malaysian-born artist of Chinese heritage who lives and works in Yawuru Country in Broome, Western Australia, contributed a work titled Thrums to the exhibition.Her work plays on the double meanings of 'thrum' Historically, thrum can also mean leftover thread from a loom.Cheng's work brings to mind a visualised wave of sound