The Mourning After

24 Jul 2025 - 20 Sep 2025
Various Times
FREE
RMIT Design Hub Gallery, Building 100, RMIT University, 150 Victoria St, Carlton VIC 3000

The Mourning After invites people to explore grief in all its multiple forms — as something felt, shared, and expressed through different rituals and creative practices.

The exhibition offers space for reflection, connection, and conversation, with a program of workshops that explore how creative methods can help us understand grief better. These workshops explore everything from personal experiences of loss to collective grief.

As we navigate a world in flux, reshaped by our relationship to technology and its impact on the environment, we engage with different types of grief — anticipatory, connective, ritualistic and, for some, grief as a life-long companion. Grief can be a way of meaning-making, a practice through which we navigate absence and reimagine what comes next. We invite the audience to consider ethical and creative responses to both tangible and intangible losses lived within our communities, and how these responses might help us connect to more hopeful, collective futures.

Including works by Lauren Berkowitz, Centre for Reworlding (Noongar Claire G. Coleman and Metis Jen Rae in collaboration with High Volume), Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti/ Yorta Yorta and Boon Wurrung/ Wemba Wemba), Megan Cope (Quandamooka), Vicki Couzens (Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara), Heather Hesterman, Shahee Ilyas, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker, Joel Stern), Paula Mahoney, Annie Frost Nicholson, The Death Letter Project (Tina FiveAsh), and Lara Thoms (APHIDS).

Curated by Larissa Hjorth.

View the workshop program

Paula Mahoney, Jump on through (to the other side), 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.

Opening Hours

11am - 5pm Tuesday to Friday

12 - 4pm Saturday

Info for schools and groups of more than 10

Related events

The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place

05 Jun 2026 - 29 Aug 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.

Dance: Vertical View

12 Jun 2026

Experience 'Dance: Vertical View' through live performance, music and installation, where dance returns as the central, ephemeral material of the work.

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

Learn more about our commitment to Indigenous cultures

The Mourning After