8th July - 14th October, 2023
FIRST SPACE
Wiringini Tina (The Lost Animal)
Tristan Templar
“Wiringini Tina is a mixed media exhibition that explores the history and extinction the Tasmanian Tiger and the effects its had on the Tasmanian ecosystem, most prominently the Tasmanian Devil.
Tristan would like to thank Trowunna wildlife sanctuary for their help and contribution to this exhibition.”
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Tristan is a Palawa artist from Launceston who has spent the past decade specialising in charcoal/graphite portrait work and colour pencil work. Tristan is also an accomplished tattoo artist with several years experience. Tristan enjoys experimenting with different artistic mediums including clay, airbrushing, woodwork, and resin.
INNER SPACE
Other Worlds
Erin Linhart
“Other Worlds explores the tension between reality and the staged through an experimental amalgamation of traditional creating techniques and contemporary technology. This exhibition challenges the conventional ways in which we live and create by harnessing collaborative technologies using prompts, found imagery and text. Drawing inspiration from theatrical archives, natural disasters, and observation, Other Worlds blurs the intricate boundary between reality and performance, humanity, and technology and probes the interchangeable, often indistinguishable line between truth and orchestrated construct.”
BACK SPACE
Situated / text and textuality
Saskia Haalebos, Tess Mehonoshen, Ju Bavyka, Tyza Hart, Carolyn Craig, Justine Youssef
‘Situated’ brings together artists who work within ideas of material trace and cultural residue to consider how text and language intersect as a conceptual matrix. Their work considers text outside out didactical ideas of ‘script’ to incorporate forms of communication between bodies, interspecies relations and social/geo-political spheres. These ideas draw upon theories of material dialogues such as the work of Rosi Braidotti and Karen Barad who consider matter itself as an entangled language. Barad states that “the very nature of materiality is an entanglement. Matter itself is always already open to, or rather entangled with, the ‘Other.’
THE SPACE
Tales of Precarity
Tales of Precarity is a series of 13 co-curated visual stories that document the affective tensions that artists experience in sustaining their individual practice despite political and economic structures that place little value on their work. Embodied in each story are life histories that reflect why artists struggle to sustain their practice. Together the tales illustrate a relatable but too often unheard narrative of precarious yet deeply meaningful work.
This sociological film is the outcome of a four-year international academic research project. Conceptually, it seeks to challenge everyday misconceptions of artistic freedom and contest contemporary economic logics that devalue cultural production and render artists’ struggles invisible. Analogue photography and dialogue combined and entwined through a series of one-to-one encounters to slow the sensemaking process, develop shared understandings and invoke deeply felt embodiments. Together, subjects and I co-curated their individual visual stories, to show through this film a narrative that is faithful to their truths.
Stories from this body of work also feature in Tim's new book, Creative Work Beyond Precarity: Learning to Work Together, published by Routledge in 2023.