Danica I. J. Knežević

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.

Easton Dunne

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: a group exhibition by Refugee Art Project + Taring Padi

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.

Dorcas Tang 邓佳颖

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

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.

Foong/McGrath

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.

Curated by Katie Winten

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.

EO Gill

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.

Anna May Kirk

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.

Betty Russ

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.

Curated by Stephanie Beaupark
First Peoples Curators Program

Ngali Jugun Ganaree (Of Our Country) centres Indigenous relationships with Country that have been ongoing for all time.

Monica Rani Rudhar

I Cook A Lot Of All These Foods reflects on the home as a key space where the complexities of cultural negotiations exist, especially within a multi-racial household.

Lucy Goosey Feminist Art Collective

A(Di)pology explores how fatphobia and discrimination shape perceptions of our own and others' bodies.

Charlotte Haywood

FUTURE NOSTALGIA looks at emergent narratives of the future through our relationships to song, dance, craft, food, ecologies, ourselves and each other.

200+ artworks contributed by 175 artists from across Australia

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Shaye Dương

In Telesm, objects endemic to the urban landscape are reimagined as talismanic artefacts that promise protection and guidance within the urban landscape.

Gabriel Curtin

Just Guzzling imagines how images and ideas are inherited, metabolised and manifest as logics that are difficult to outmanoeuvre.

EJ Son

댄싱머신: Dancing machine came to birth parallel to EJ Son’s fascination with the story of the artist-king Pygmalion of Cyprus and his sculptural waifu of Galatea.