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Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South
RMIT Gallery & Design Hub Gallery
20 February - 2 May 2026
Creative Antarctica is a multifaceted exhibition featuring Australian artists and writers who have been influenced by their observations and experiences of the Far South.
The exhibition seeks to foster new encounters and perspectives, highlighting the power of art and literature to transform human awareness of the South Polar region. Examining the role artists and writers play in expanding the Antarctic imaginary, this exhibition offers new understandings of one of the world’s most remote and fragile wilderness zones.
Creative Antarctica features work by over 35 artists including new, site-specific installations as well as historically significant artworks, and is supported by a rich suite of talks, panels and workshops that provide a variety of engagement opportunities and modes of encounter with the Far South.
Creative Antarctica demonstrates how artists and writers play an increasingly vital role in observing and recording the tensions between climate, landscape, technology, politics and humans.
This exhibition was produced as part of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South, in collaboration with project team members.
Lead Curator: Philip Samartzis
Artists include James Batchelor, David Bridie, Maria Buchner, David Burrows, Stephen Eastaugh, Lawrence English, Kirsten Haydon, William Hodges, Frank Hurley, Nicholas Hutcheson, Keith Jack, Leila Jeffreys, John Kelly, Janet Laurence, Nel Law, Phillip Law, Alison Lester, Sue Lovegrove, Bea Maddock, Douglas Mawson, John McCormick, Adam Nash, Miranda Nieboer, David Neilson, Sidney Nolan, Lin Onus, Charles Page, Judith Parrott, Christian Clare Robertson, Sally Robinson, Philip Samartzis, Jörg Schmeisser, Jan Senbergs, Polly Stanton, Charles Turnbull Harrisson, K. Verell, Martin Walch, and Sean Williams.
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The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place
RMIT Gallery
5 June - 29 August 2026
The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place positions Australia at the centre of an ambitious global dialogue on conceptual art, influence and the circulation of ideas. Instigated and directed by Dr Irene Barberis, the project demonstrates how Australian scholarship and curatorial innovation can actively shape international discourse surrounding one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
Exhibitors: Irene Barberis, Jonas Balsaitis, Emma Coulter, Sarah Duyshart, John Hogan, Robert Hunter, Fransje Killaars, Robin Kingston, Simon Klose, Sara Lindsay, Jordan Mitchell-Fletcher, Kerrie Poliness, Antonia Sellbach, Jacqueline Stojanović, Anne Scott Wilson, Wilma Tabacco and David Thomas.
Co curators: Irene Barberis and Helen Rayment.
The Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing is generously loaned by the LeWitt Family and Estate.
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #123A, 2026. Acrylic paint, crayon
Courtesy of the Estate of Sol LeWitt, Chester, Connecticut, USA © Sol Lewitt. ARS/Copyright Agency, 26.
The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place — Ten Countries / Australia.
A Metasenta® international project in partnership with RMIT Gallery.
Instigated and directed by Dr Irene Barberis. International Director and Curator: Dr Irene Barberis.
Australian iteration co-curated by Dr Irene Barberis with Helen Rayment.
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VENTUROUS brings together the projects and design explorations of innovative contemporary architects and designers associated with the RMIT University School of Architecture and Urban Design’s groundbreaking design practice PhD program, over the last decade. The School’s focus is on ideas-led venturous design experimentation that seeks to contribute to the future of our disciplines and professions in an increasingly complex world. The exhibition makes visible the projects, processes and propositions of these practitioners, capturing both current practice and innovations that have emerged from their design-practice explorations.
Exhibitors: Natalie Alima, Alisa Andrasek, Michael Banney, Beau de Belle, Matias del Campo, John Doyle, Anthony Hoete, Emma Jackson, Mark Jacques, Gwyllim Jahn, Roger Kemp, Christian Lange, Michael Lavery, Erik L'Heureux, Carey Lyon, Patrick Macasaet, Sandra Manninger, Eva Prats, Gilles Retsin, Deborah Saunt, Roland Snooks, Fleur Watson and Leanne Zilka.
Curators: Vivian Mitsogianni, Leanne Zilka & Sophie Sung
