UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Opening 14.04.2025
Exhibitions run until 18.04.25
FIRST SPACE
Return Country
Cheryl Rose
Return country
It only lasted a very short time
Sea present close by
Place South Cave
as far back as 8000 years ago
periwinkles, untwined
Middens be told,
Layers disturbed in 1965
Stone Tools (Jones)
Box 49
Stacked, forgotten unseen,
contents unable to breath
non-permanent repatriation
return own country
it was only for a little while
Box 49 returned.
Contents unable to breath.
Bio: Cheryl Rose is a (Burnie) based artist from lutruwita’s North West.
As a multi-media artist Cheryl’s work is inspired by, and responds to the coastal lands, sky and sea that surround her. Her work endeavors to reflect her relationship with the north-west coastal region capturing all that is contained within through intimate and intricate studies of her ‘place’. Cheryl’s work is deeply informed by her community, culture and country.
Image credit: Natasha Mulhall
INNER SPACE
Other together
Alice McCool and Ena Grozdanić
“To love a friend is to recognise the difference and estrangement of the other. Friendly love, which is based on asymmetrical reciprocity, demands the recognition of the foreignness at the core of intimacy.” — Svetlana Boym
Friendship is a rich thematic field for both cultural and political analysis, offering a way of thinking about bonds between persons and the transformative potential such bonds can carry. Though friendship is a relation commonly entered into, suffusing everyday life with a joyful texture, the effect/affects of friendship are often overlooked and under-examined.
In ‘Other together,’ we look to friendship as a position of shared vulnerability, recognising ‘comradely love’ as a basis for collective solidarity. Activated from a ground of estrangement, by recognising the stranger as a friend, we consider personal and political notions of affiliation.
‘Other together’ attempts to slip friendship into the centre of cultural analysis, addressing new forms of agency and identity mobilised by the process of collaborative production between friends: friendship is a way of being free in the world, of preferring encounter to resolution, of sharing, extending, co-constituting.
Bio: Alice McCool (she/her) is a curator, writer and arts worker, living and working on unceded Kaurna Yarta. She is currently co-Facilitator of fine print magazine and Creative Producer at Open Space Contemporary Arts. Alice was formerly a Co-Director of FELTspace and General Manager of Nexus Arts. Alice has recently written for unExtended and curated two group exhibitions at Post Office Projects and FELTspace in Tarntanya. In 2024 Alice was a participant of the Creative Australia (re)situate Biennale Delegates program.
Ena Grozdanić (she/her) is a writer and artist living and working on unceded Kaurna land. She is Co-Chair/ Editor at Runway Journal, and was formerly a Chair/Co-Director of FELTspace. Ena has written for national and international publications, and has exhibited and screened her work at TCB gallery, Watch This Space, Performance Space, Cool Change Contemporary, Pari Ari, Seventh, Post Office Projects, and FELTspace. Most recently, she was a shortlisted finalist for the Writers SA Literary Fellowship 2025.
BACK SPACE
Portrait of Community
Curated by Lisa Roberts, aka Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill )
Artists: Andrea Juan, Helene Weeding. Vicki West, Melissa Smith, William Gladstone, Francesca Partidge, Eveline Kolijn, Georgina Harley, Tracey Bensen, Nicholas Dawkins, and many more
Portrait of Community is a travelling recognition of knowledge, an ever-evolving exhibition created by the community, scientists, artists, academics, musicians, dancers, doctors and many others who have joined to communicate and express ideas. Sharing the impacts climate change is having on our planet, ourselves, and the organisms we share it with. It is a response to the failure of governments globally to act on recommendations from Indigenous scientists and the IPCC (International Panel for Climate Change) with relation to climate change and its impacts on humans and the communities of organisms we interact with and rely on.
From the curator:
“I dance, draw and make animations. Born on Norfolk Island in 1949, my heritage is Aboriginal Australian and European. My totem is Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill) who works as both an individual and a swarm. I grew up in Victoria in the house built by my ancestors, artists Lillie Williamson and Tom Roberts. My mother Jean worked in Bill Onus's Aboriginal Enterprises studio. My father Noel built and operated radio communication systems. Like many people dispossessed of cultural knowledge of their Indigenous forebears, I work with my community to reconnect diverse ways of knowing that sustained Aboriginal Australia for tens of thousands of years. By community I mean the entities that interact to sustain Life.
I work both independently and as a collaborator. In the summer of 2001-2 I worked in Antarctica as an artist in with the Australian Antarctic Division and then in the University of Technology Sydney’s Faculty of Science. I completed Aboriginal Studies at Eora College and then a PhD at the University of New South Wales. These explorations led me to reconnect with my Aboriginal family in Victoria and to recognise the primal forms in nature, art and scientific data, as languages of relationship, change and transformation, that are available to everyone.”
Image details: tintinnid, single-celled animal. Scanning Electron Microscopy: Ruth Eriksen, Simon Wright.
THE SPACE
the future is always second hand
Marguerite Carson
Curated by Zara Sully
the future is always second hand traces a fragmented narrative of images; lingering on a ship sunk, a submerged graveyard and above all a bird, though perhaps we never see it.
Mobilising a dislocated perspective to explore material affinities between place and memory and the historical construction of landscape, paired with a voice that floats above, the film seeks to move through the space between articulation and belief, lostness and belonging.
The lighted taper a lighthouse, the bird a messenger, the voice a ghost.
Bio: Marguerite Carson is an artist and writer based between so called Australia and Scotland. Working collaboratively across mediums they are interested in place and image through themes of myth, navigation and information.
They have previously shown at the Schoolhouse Gallery and with Constance ARI, and written for UN mag, TCB gallery and SPAM zine.
Image credit courtesy of the artist.