Program

Come as you are
Dec
12
to 31 Jan

Come as you are

Come As You Are
Little Umbrella Collective
Luke Abdallah, Chloë Abdelnour, Crystal Leigh Adams, Riia Badger, Lucrezia Maria Brotto, Arunan Dharmalingam, Sudheera Sudheera Dissanayake, Matt Elliott, Zachariah Fenn, Oliver Fontany, Shira Fox, Jeremy Swales, Rowan Yeomans

Come As You Are introduces the individual practices that form the foundation of Little Umbrella Collective (LUC). The works reflect a range of approaches, from textural and process-based painting to embroidery, sculpture and conceptual assemblage. Some artists draw from personal memory and sensory experience, while others respond to social or environmental contexts. Together, the exhibition presents a cross-section of perspectives and materials that reflect LUC’s ongoing commitment to collaboration, experimentation and access in contemporary art.

LUC believes in collaboration without prejudice. Their collective provides a space where artists, regardless of ability, can learn from and with each other. They actively engage the wider community to showcase what’s possible when inclusivity is not just a value but a practice. Above all, LUC aims to inspire people with disability, along with families, friends and allies, by creating spaces of joy, creativity and shared experience.

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This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW

 
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Artist Development Workshop: The Business of Curatorial Practice with Georgia Boe
Dec
13
11:00 am11:00

Artist Development Workshop: The Business of Curatorial Practice with Georgia Boe

Join us for the last workshop of the semester in our Artist Professional Development Series.

In this informal session, Georgia Boe, curator of Residue, will walk participants through how the exhibition came to be, including working with politically engaged artists and sitting comfortably in this space of discourse.

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Artist Development Workshop Program: Navigating Arts Organisations with Kiera Brew Kurec
Nov
8
2:00 pm14:00

Artist Development Workshop Program: Navigating Arts Organisations with Kiera Brew Kurec

Artist Professional Development Program

Join us for the next artist professional development workshop in Navigating Arts Organisations with Kiera Brew Kurec. Kiera will guide you in working with organisations across the sector from ARI's to council led galleries to institutions.

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Fog of war
Oct
17
to 29 Nov

Fog of war

Fog of war is a military metaphor that has been adopted as a mechanic in strategy-map-based video games. It appears as a darkened foggy area around a player’s avatar or base, differentiating the unexplored from the explored territory on a map shared with hidden enemies.

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Fugitives
Oct
17
to 29 Nov

Fugitives

Penal colony, police state, imperial pawn. From its genesis, Australia has operated as a carceral and militarised state. How are artists responding to a structure that is physical, legal, and material—its legacies and its projections onto other places on the planet? Hijacking, intervention, documentation, glitching—fugitive artistic methods.

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Headway
Oct
17
to 29 Nov

Headway

Headway is a large-scale installation formed from the remnants of a year-long performance by Felix Jackson. Throughout 2024, Felix wore one new white sock each day on alternating feet. By the end of the year, 366 socks had been collected, each marked with the traces of daily use.

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We Tea Public Engaged Performance
Aug
23
11:00 am11:00

We Tea Public Engaged Performance

Jingwei Bu will present a one-on-one, silent tea ceremony ritual. This objectless performance invites individual audience members to enter the tea room and sit opposite the artist on a stack of A4 paper, still and present. Together, they share the quiet ritual and the passing of time, creating a space for reflection, intimacy, and presence.

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I am not my father
Aug
22
to 4 Oct

I am not my father

Mitchell Davis, David Horton and Martin John Oldfield

I Am Not My Father is a multigenerational collaboration exploring the complexities of fatherhood. Each artist brings personal experience—ranging from nurturing relationships to those shaped by absence, neglect, or trauma—into a shared conversation through textiles, sculpture, video, and an original score.

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The weight of her
Aug
22
to 4 Oct

The weight of her

Belinda Yee

This exhibition responds to the idea of 'Digital Genocide,' a term coined by Muneera Bano, Principal Research Scientist in Ethics and AI at the CSIRO. It names a hidden violence: the systematic disappearance, distortion, and underrepresentation of cohorts of women in the data that feeds machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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We Tea
Aug
22
to 4 Oct

We Tea

Jingwei Bu

We Tea is an immersive installation developed through Bu’s ongoing studio-based tea ceremony practice since 2022. Rooted in intimate gatherings with friends, family, and visitors, each session becomes a durational act of presence where the slow rituals of making and sharing tea quietly document shared time and space. 

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Intricate Rituals
May
23
to 5 Jul

Intricate Rituals

Fergus Berney-Gibson

Intricate Rituals traces the uneasy space between boyhood and manhood—where affection becomes obscured by expectation, and kinaesthetic desire is tangled in myth. Through a darkened installation of four sculptural assemblages, the exhibition reframes domestic masculinity as a series of obscure and sacred rituals.

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Ko e 'Otua mo Tonga ko hoku Tofi'a
May
23
to 5 Jul

Ko e 'Otua mo Tonga ko hoku Tofi'a

Emily Greenwood

The series of prideful Tongan flags recontextualizes the Eurocentric standard to fit the Pasifika diaspora’s post-colonial framework. Continuing to unravel ancestral histories through a post-colonial lens as a forgotten Tongan excluded from the culture of the ancestors the work juxtaposes contemporary punk sub- cultural influences from the postmodernist period with ancient ancestral history.

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