Neon Oracle considers Hannah Brontë’s use of language as a form of resistance.
The exhibition presents over 30 text-based prints, banners, and textile works produced by the artist since 2012, alongside a series of new works made cooperatively with members of Twenty10, a NSW-based LGBTIQA+ service for young people aged 12-25.
Known for her videos, banners and large-scale installations, Hannah Brontë has created public works that are spirited affirmations of matriarchy and collective power. Brontë uses language—inspired by the nexus of poetry, visual art and music—as a form of public address driven by her personal, political and social contexts. Neon Oracle brings focus to her text-based works, situating the word-as-image as a means to inspire collective action in the face of ecological disaster and political change, affirm individual agency and create safe social space. Together, the works in Neon Oracle form a rallying cry for a liveable future and are united by Brontë’s spirit; playful, empathetic, and sincere.
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She Speaks in Sculpture is an exhibition by Diana Baker Smith exploring the histories of Sydney’s built environment through the work of Australian-American sculptor Margel Hinder (1906-1995).
The project maps the extraordinary journey of Hinder’s sculpture Growth Forms, held in the UTS Art Collection, through a series of new works that explore the tension between public art and urban development in Sydney.
The exhibition includes a new video installation developed with cinematographer Gotaro Uematsu, choreographer Brooke Stamp, dancer Ivey Wawn, costume designer Leah Giblin, and musician Bree van Reyk, as well as a display of archival material related to Hinder’s work, supported through loans from the Art Gallery of NSW.
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Sidney McMahon is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculptural installation, video and performance, with an interest in the body, memory and feeling.
McMahon’s work brings together distinct cultural contexts, as well as social and economic systems to explore a personal queer narrative.
Maggot uses brain sensing wearable technology to read the users visual cortex and translate neural activity into real-time digital commands. Presented as a narrated ‘choose your own adventure’ three channel video, Maggot examines the act of looking, being looked at and being seen, and the relationship between our visual reality and our cognitive understanding.
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Presented through the lens of virtual reality, can’t buy me love is an immersive experience that purports to sell the audience the intangibility of spiritual enlightenment.
Amala Groom is a Wiradyuri conceptual artist whose practice is informed and driven by First Nations epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies. Andrew Burrell (UTS, DAB, School of Design) is a practice-based researcher and educator who investigates the relationship between human subjectivity and virtual and augmented environments.
Presented through the lens of virtual reality, can’t buy me love is an immersive experience that purports to sell the audience the intangibility of spiritual enlightenment. It brings “reality” into a space that is “unreal” and where the item that is for sale is one that cannot be bought.
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Curated by Talia Smith, this exhibition considers how collections can be re-read in light of the present, challenged as an archive, and imagined anew.
Institutional art collections can be an archive of their past attitudes and future aspirations as well as a constellation of knowledges and times. As records of evolving tastes and values, collections are prone to inevitable gaps in knowledge, language and care.
I will tell you my story is a group exhibition that engages with works from UTS Art Collection by Tony Albert, Dion Beasley, Reg Campbell, Lex Dickson, Marian Drew, Vanessa Inkamala, Mabel Juli, Jumaadi, Sam Leach, Eun-Jong Lee, Guy Maestri, Sanné Mestrom, Henry Moore, Joycie Pitjarra Morton, Peter Newry, Sidney Nolan, William Pidgeon, Margaret Preston, Jude Rae, Kate Scardifield, Pamela Thalben-Ball, Christian Thompson, Judy Watson, Emma White and Xia Xiong. The exhibition considers how collections can be re-read in light of the present, challenged as an archive, and imagined anew. New commissions and loans by unrepresented artists bring new context to the UTS Art Collection, its history and future.
