Samantha Snedden
Join Sammi Snedden for free, all-ages weaving workshops on Saturday 16 December 2023 and Saturday 27 January 2022!
un Projects
Join un Projects on Saturday January 6th from 2-4pm for un Talks: RESIST/RETURN, an afternoon of readings by un Magazine Vol.17 contributors from Eora.
Shannon Toth
Food is a simple need for the body, eating is complex. Protector explores the sticky dynamics between food and self, and how these relations manifest as embodied experiences. Food can bring people together, soothe, comfort and celebrate, but it can also set the table for an inner battle.
Shahroud Ghahani
Remnants of a Dismantled State is a politically charged exhibition exploring the artist, Shahroud Ghahani’s experiences of exile, war and otherness through a feminist lens. Ghahani creates a portal into the memories of her past, a fragmentary connection to an imaginary homeland.
Curated by Samantha Snedden
The Enlightenment, curated by Samantha Snedden, seeks to disrupt conventional imaginings of weaving and woven work, specifically within the aesthetic scheme of the settler colony. A cheeky nod to the Age of Enlightenment, the exhibition reimagines what the emergence of new ideas can look like through a critical and playful use of First Nations weaving practices.
Olga Svyatova
So this is goodbye? explores ambiguous loss through the lens of the artist who lost their father in 2021 from Covid-19 in Russia. This highly personal and documentary exhibition draws on the photographic medium as one that simultaneously embodies both memory and loss.
Ozanam Learning Centre Artist Group
Over the last few months, the ceramicists and artists at the Ozanam Learning Centre have explored the idea of Above and Below and what this means to them through a group ceramic work and individual 2D works.
A new initiative that supports artists working across video, film, and screen-based practice.
The works consider two themes; what it means to live, love, work and play on the peripheries of societal centres and the place of mankind in the ecological disasters and extreme weather events that are ever-present.
Nqa + Antoinette
A collaboration between disciplines and perspectives on the fragile balance between support and precarity in their lives, combining the ceramic-based practice of Antoinette O'Brien (Lismore) with the multidisciplinary elements crafted by local artist Nqa Blayed.
Dustin Voggenreiter
Homo “Bozo” Sapiens Problemo is a series of digitally animated GIFs, displayed on large LCD screens, partially concealed by prison-cell window frames. The project explores the idea of our limited capacity to understand the world around us - As creatures born with sense organs geared towards survival, we grasp at making sense of the complex, chaotic reality we inhabit.
Teresa Busuttil
Asleep with the Fishes weaves together Teresa's memories, personal beliefs, and family history with elements of fantasy. Using repurposed materials, including a salvaged boat, she employs assemblage and sculptural techniques, drawing connections with religious iconography and deities, while exploring her own place in the Maltese diaspora.
Curated by Firstdraft
Western Sydney is many shades of human. Constantly evolving and in motion, it is a hub in a state of flux. Firstdraft brings together 11 creatives from Western Sydney to interrogate states of desire, faith and belonging in communities out west.
A new initiative that supports artists working across video, film, and screen-based practice.
The works consider two themes; what it means to live, love, work and play on the peripheries of societal centres and the place of mankind in the ecological disasters and extreme weather events that are ever-present.
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Body says, No, by Danica I. J. Knežević, examines the complex association and dislocation of the medicalised body and the invisibility of care. The exhibition merges videos and images with mobility aids to draw attention to the medicalisation of the body.
Main Drag is a solo exhibition by Easton Dunne that explores queer experiences and identity work through an autobiographical lens within the context of rural and regional Central Queensland on Darumbal, Ghungalu and Wadja Country.
Threads explores the tangible and intangible connections, ties of friendship, shared practices and emerging collaborations–all which play a vital role in sustaining the community organisation Refugee Art Project.
Staging Portraits (2022 – ongoing) is a portrait series of the community at The Bearded Tit, a queer institution and bar in Redfern. Through photographs and written responses, it offers a glimpse into the ways queer people have redefined concepts of home and family, often out of necessity and survival.
Nick Breedon’s solo exhibition Public Art interrogates the function and possibilities of public art in queer/trans/crip futurity. Monumental sculptures in bronze, aluminium and concrete act as propositional public artworks, or works about the field and culture of public art.
Originally scheduled last July as an audience-led performance installation, it was instead brought into a digital space for 9 weeks due to extreme weather events. On a weekly basis, this open-access screenplay was uploaded chapter-by-chapter and edited anonymously by audiences from the comfort of their homes.
Act III: Love (or what if this is love?) embodies the inheritance and transference of knowledge through an ancestral plant that requires both community and family to nurture. Maissa Alameddine has been engaging with her overgrown and neglected areeshi (grapevine) since the first covid lockdown in 2020.
Wh0r3s 4eva is an exhibition of experimental art by sex workers and allies. Responding to the frequent erasure, censorship and deplatforming of sex workers, this exhibition celebrates the creativity, innovation and perseverance of sex workers who continue to make work both online and offline.
Conversion uses Hollywood melodrama, porn and “reality” or “documentary” aesthetics and stereotypes to draw on the inherently erotic, persuasive, and seductive nature of cinema and its capacity for conversion.
Year Without a Sun looks at the present through the lens of a historical climate crisis. In sculptural glass and film, the historical climate catastrophe caused by a bygone volcanic eruption is reanimated as an eye through which to view the environmental precarity of the present.
Within the context of imminent global catastrophe, speculation around plant consciousness and monstrous plants, as manifested in both philosophy and popular culture, is a site of productive tension concerning the vegetal, the more-than-human, and the future.
The Visible Invisible is an installation of expanded photography that uses black holes as a poetic device to explore identities shaped by adoption and diasporic existence, where not-knowing is an active lived-experience.
