Filmed on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra’s Parliamentary Triangle, The Lodge engages with Amala Groom’s history of direct action at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and ceremonial rites of passage within and without the halls of Parliament House spanning the past 20 years from activist to advocate to artist. Image credit: Amala Groom, The Lodge, 2025 (production […]
In Masked Memory, Rosalind Lemoh presents new works which focus on personal cultural objects from her family home in Sydney, with reflections on the particularities of her connection to Mende and Themne cultures from West Africa. Image credit: Rosalind Lemoh, My father’s drum (memory flight), 2025, Wood, goatskin, wire, cockatoo feathers, 80 x 90 x […]
Through archival materials, video, and performance, Inheritance reconfigures post-colonial, familial and geographical relationships across South Vietnam, Tarntanya/Adelaide, Naarm/Melbourne and Kamberri/Canberra, in an attempt to deepen connections with the past, present and future. Image credit: Phuong Ngo, Inheritance 2025, installation view, West Space, Collingwood Yards. Photo by Janelle Low.
Water operates simultaneously as material, infrastructure, and lived experience. It circulates through bodies and environments, enabling daily acts of washing, drinking, and immersion, while also being managed through systems of storage and control — dams, reservoirs, tanks, and domestic plumbing. Its presence is both immediate and mediated, shaped by cultural habits, ecological conditions, and technological […]
Deep End is an immersive sensory installation that invites exploration through touch, sight, and sound. The project explores the concept of accessible and adaptive ‘third spaces’. Third spaces, beyond home and work, are informal social environments that foster community and connection (Oldenburg, 1989). However, for many Disabled people, third spaces often default to medical environments […]
Join the Hands On Studio artists for an afternoon of ink drawing, open conversation, and a cup of tea within their current exhibition, 'Water' on display at Canberra Contemporary. Attendees are invited to take part in an artist-led workshop inspired by the extended mural at the entrance to 'Water.' The mural was collaboratively designed and […]
'Sweat the System' is a disability-led movement workshop facilitated by artist Amy Claire Mills. This in -person workshop invites participants to move and shake their bodies through sweat and play. With guided exercises, movement, and music, 'Sweat the System' explores how our bodies become a form of rebellion. This is not about fitness; it's about […]
BLAZE is an exciting group exhibition at Canberra Contemporary, featuring 8 emerging artists from the Kamberri/ Canberra region and beyond. BLAZE spotlights; Asil Habara, Isaac Kozlovskis, Nathan Nhan, Eliott O'Dowd, Litia Roko, Florence Steel, Natasha Tareen and Jackson Taylor. Curated by Sophia Cai, Artistic Director & CEO of Canberra Contemporary. These 8 artists will engage […]
'Rematriate' is a feminist, Indigenous reimagining of the word “repatriate,” intentionally disrupting colonial language to recentre matriarchal knowledge, care, and cultural continuity. Through large scale woven banners and textile installations, Jessika Spencer expands her weaving practice into immersive acts of cultural resistance and renewal. Working with secondhand textiles, raffia and naturally dyed materials, Spencer draws […]
What does it mean to reclaim power when the house always wins? Every system, object, experience has been designed and created with human intention and intervention. This exhibition immerses audiences into the artists’ attempts at reclaiming narratives crafted by larger powers to regain agency in their lived histories. Artists Maggie Douglas and Sandy Ma ruminate […]
‘Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing… Or you get lost, in which case the world has become larger than your knowledge of it.’ - Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2006) Distant blues, from a little closer is […]
'All For You Page' inspects how the solitary act of doom scrolling has flourished into a new mode of meaning-making, infiltrating private space and experience. Driven by Stuart Hall’s belief that our primary method of how we make sense of the world—having one-to-one conversations—has shifted from personal exchange to sponsored broadcasts, Johanna Ng looks for […]