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This Friday night, join us to celebrate the launch of our latest exhibition, 'My Blood Sings Old Songs'.

'My Blood Sings Old Songs' is an exhibition that speaks to embodied memory and its legacies, guest curated by Maya Hodge.

Launch event Friday 22 May, 5 to 7 pm
with Welcome to Country by Peta Hudson

The artists in 'My Blood Sings Old Songs' capture what is deeply felt but not always said. The works in this exhibition resonate over time, unravelling layers of the body. Through photography, video, and performance, they reflect the quiet weight of being seen, where movement becomes a vessel for remembrance. Hovering between an ending and a beginning, each artistic gesture acknowledges a certain sadness in memories that cannot be shared with those who were never there. Together, the exhibiting artists consider how memory is embodied and passed on, becoming entangled with grief and joy. Across the exhibition, cultural storytelling unfolds in gestures and resonance—held within our bloodlines.

Guest curator: Maya Hodge (Lardil)
Artists: Atong Atem, Sonja Hodge (Lardil), Jenna Lee (Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, and KarraJarri), Tracey Moffatt, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis (Pitta Pitta), Leyla Stevens, and wani toaishara.

Image: Leyla Stevens, still from Kidung (2019), three channel film, stereo sound, 10:58mins.

My Blood Sings Old Songs
20 May to 9 August 2026

Atong Atem and Jenna Lee appear courtesy MARS Gallery
Tracey Moffatt courtesy Murray Art Museum Albury Collection

@_waykuu @atongatem @leyla_stevens @jenna.mlee @onyasonja27 @wanitoaishara @marsgallery @mamalbury

We are excited to announce an exhibition of new commissions and key works that speak to embodied memory and its legacies.

Guest curated by Maya Hodge, 'My Blood Sings Old Songs' presents works by artists Atong Atem, Leyla Stevens, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis (Pitta Pitta), Jenna Lee (Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, and KarraJarri), Sonja Hodge (Lardil), Tracey Moffatt and wani toaishara.

The artists in 'My Blood Sings Old Songs' capture what is deeply felt but not always said. The works in this exhibition resonate over time, unravelling layers of the body. Through photography, video, and performance, they reflect the quiet weight of being seen, where movement becomes a vessel for remembrance.

Hovering between an ending and a beginning, each artistic gesture holds the knowledge that there’s a certain sadness to memories that cannot be shared with those who were never there. Yet what ties us together is a shared understanding that ripples across cultures and communities, through performance and the spaces between what is known and shadowed.

Atists Atong Atem, Sonja Hodge, Jenna Lee, Tracey Moffatt, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis, Leyla Stevens, and wani toaishara consider how memory is embodied and passed on to honour echoes of legacy, entangled with grief and joy, and cultural storytelling unfolds in gestures and resonance—held within our bloodlines.

Join us to celebrate the opening of this exhibition on Friday 22 May, 5 to 7 pm

My Blood Sings Old Songs
20 May to 9 August 2026

Exhibition identity design by Jenna Lee

Atong Atem and Jenna Lee appear courtesy MARS Gallery
Tracey Moffatt courtesy Murray Art Museum Albury Collection

@_waykuu @atongatem @leyla_stevens @jenna.mlee @onyasonja27 @wanitoaishara @marsgallery @mamalbury

We are excited to announce an exhibition of new commissions and key works that speak to embodied memory and its legacies.

Guest curated by Maya Hodge, 'My Blood Sings Old Songs' presents works by artists Atong Atem, Leyla Stevens, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis (Pitta Pitta), Jenna Lee (Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, and KarraJarri), Sonja Hodge (Lardil), Tracey Moffatt and wani toaishara.

The artists in 'My Blood Sings Old Songs' capture what is deeply felt but not always said. The works in this exhibition resonate over time, unravelling layers of the body. Through photography, video, and performance, they reflect the quiet weight of being seen, where movement becomes a vessel for remembrance.

Hovering between an ending and a beginning, each artistic gesture holds the knowledge that there’s a certain sadness to memories that cannot be shared with those who were never there. Yet what ties us together is a shared understanding that ripples across cultures and communities, through performance and the spaces between what is known and shadowed.

Atists Atong Atem, Sonja Hodge, Jenna Lee, Tracey Moffatt, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis, Leyla Stevens, and wani toaishara consider how memory is embodied and passed on to honour echoes of legacy, entangled with grief and joy, and cultural storytelling unfolds in gestures and resonance—held within our bloodlines.

Join us to celebrate the opening of this exhibition on Friday 22 May, 5 to 7 pm

My Blood Sings Old Songs
20 May to 9 August 2026

Exhibition identity design by Jenna Lee

Atong Atem and Jenna Lee appear courtesy MARS Gallery
Tracey Moffatt courtesy Murray Art Museum Albury Collection

@_waykuu @atongatem @leyla_stevens @jenna.mlee @onyasonja27 @wanitoaishara @marsgallery @mamalbury

As winter deepens and the days grow shorter, Raf McDonald's Biannual Façade Commission 'Cars and other gifts from the sun' lights up View St!

McDonald's work consistently engages the material realities of pollution and industrial waste through a process of burying paintings at contaminated sites, relinquishing control to the staining and mould produced by chemicals in the soil. This method reframes how we consider Indigenous-settler relations in Australia: how can one account not only for their own actions, but also make visible – and work with – the material conditions and ongoing fallout of the past?

Image: Raf McDonald, 'Cars and other gifts from the sun' 2026. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Leon Schoots

@rafmcdonald

We are entering our final weekend of 'All That is Alive' we reflect on a lively show that has travelled from Gadigal Country in Sydney to Djaara Country in Bendigo, being kept alive, fermenting, composting, and adapting along the way.

Thank you to our fellow curators and commissioners, Stella Rosa McDonald and Connie Anthes at UTS Gallery, and most of all thank you to all of the contributing artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, and Ivey Wawn.

As a project, 'All That is Alive' has brought together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together.

Image 1: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library', 2025.
Image 2: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Daybiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)', 2021
Image 3: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' 2025, and Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025−26
Image 4: Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025−26
Image 5: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' 2025
Image 6: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending, houseboat railing' 2025
Image 7: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard-Coyte, 'Bubblefume' 2026
Image 8: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025-6
Image 9: Mandy Quadrio, 'wurnenner' 2024, Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025, Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' 2025.
Image 10: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025
All photos by Leon Schoots

@uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron @tullyarnot @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @kyliebanyard @mandyquadrio @sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @sarahpoulgrain @magnetictopographies @madeleine___collie @other_matter @fakinandkeggs @iwawn @kenzeepatterson

#AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

We are entering our final weekend of 'All That is Alive' we reflect on a lively show that has travelled from Gadigal Country in Sydney to Djaara Country in Bendigo, being kept alive, fermenting, composting, and adapting along the way.

Thank you to our fellow curators and commissioners, Stella Rosa McDonald and Connie Anthes at UTS Gallery, and most of all thank you to all of the contributing artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, and Ivey Wawn.

As a project, 'All That is Alive' has brought together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together.

Image 1: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library', 2025.
Image 2: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Daybiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)', 2021
Image 3: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' 2025, and Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025−26
Image 4: Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025−26
Image 5: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' 2025
Image 6: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending, houseboat railing' 2025
Image 7: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard-Coyte, 'Bubblefume' 2026
Image 8: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025-6
Image 9: Mandy Quadrio, 'wurnenner' 2024, Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025, Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' 2025.
Image 10: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025
All photos by Leon Schoots

@uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron @tullyarnot @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @kyliebanyard @mandyquadrio @sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @sarahpoulgrain @magnetictopographies @madeleine___collie @other_matter @fakinandkeggs @iwawn @kenzeepatterson

#AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

We are entering our final weekend of 'All That is Alive' we reflect on a lively show that has travelled from Gadigal Country in Sydney to Djaara Country in Bendigo, being kept alive, fermenting, composting, and adapting along the way.

Thank you to our fellow curators and commissioners, Stella Rosa McDonald and Connie Anthes at UTS Gallery, and most of all thank you to all of the contributing artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, and Ivey Wawn.

As a project, 'All That is Alive' has brought together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together.

Image 1: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library', 2025.
Image 2: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Daybiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)', 2021
Image 3: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' 2025, and Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025−26
Image 4: Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025−26
Image 5: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' 2025
Image 6: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending, houseboat railing' 2025
Image 7: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard-Coyte, 'Bubblefume' 2026
Image 8: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025-6
Image 9: Mandy Quadrio, 'wurnenner' 2024, Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025, Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' 2025.
Image 10: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025
All photos by Leon Schoots

@uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron @tullyarnot @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @kyliebanyard @mandyquadrio @sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @sarahpoulgrain @magnetictopographies @madeleine___collie @other_matter @fakinandkeggs @iwawn @kenzeepatterson

#AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

We are entering our final weekend of 'All That is Alive' we reflect on a lively show that has travelled from Gadigal Country in Sydney to Djaara Country in Bendigo, being kept alive, fermenting, composting, and adapting along the way.

Thank you to our fellow curators and commissioners, Stella Rosa McDonald and Connie Anthes at UTS Gallery, and most of all thank you to all of the contributing artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, and Ivey Wawn.

As a project, 'All That is Alive' has brought together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together.

Image 1: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library', 2025.
Image 2: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Daybiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)', 2021
Image 3: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' 2025, and Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025−26
Image 4: Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025−26
Image 5: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' 2025
Image 6: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending, houseboat railing' 2025
Image 7: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard-Coyte, 'Bubblefume' 2026
Image 8: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025-6
Image 9: Mandy Quadrio, 'wurnenner' 2024, Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025, Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' 2025.
Image 10: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025
All photos by Leon Schoots

@uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron @tullyarnot @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @kyliebanyard @mandyquadrio @sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @sarahpoulgrain @magnetictopographies @madeleine___collie @other_matter @fakinandkeggs @iwawn @kenzeepatterson

#AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

We are entering our final weekend of 'All That is Alive' we reflect on a lively show that has travelled from Gadigal Country in Sydney to Djaara Country in Bendigo, being kept alive, fermenting, composting, and adapting along the way.

Thank you to our fellow curators and commissioners, Stella Rosa McDonald and Connie Anthes at UTS Gallery, and most of all thank you to all of the contributing artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, and Ivey Wawn.

As a project, 'All That is Alive' has brought together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together.

Image 1: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library', 2025.
Image 2: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Daybiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)', 2021
Image 3: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' 2025, and Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025−26
Image 4: Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025−26
Image 5: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' 2025
Image 6: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending, houseboat railing' 2025
Image 7: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard-Coyte, 'Bubblefume' 2026
Image 8: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025-6
Image 9: Mandy Quadrio, 'wurnenner' 2024, Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025, Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' 2025.
Image 10: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025
All photos by Leon Schoots

@uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron @tullyarnot @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @kyliebanyard @mandyquadrio @sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @sarahpoulgrain @magnetictopographies @madeleine___collie @other_matter @fakinandkeggs @iwawn @kenzeepatterson

#AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

We are entering our final weekend of 'All That is Alive' we reflect on a lively show that has travelled from Gadigal Country in Sydney to Djaara Country in Bendigo, being kept alive, fermenting, composting, and adapting along the way.

Thank you to our fellow curators and commissioners, Stella Rosa McDonald and Connie Anthes at UTS Gallery, and most of all thank you to all of the contributing artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, and Ivey Wawn.

As a project, 'All That is Alive' has brought together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together.

Image 1: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library', 2025.
Image 2: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Daybiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)', 2021
Image 3: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' 2025, and Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025−26
Image 4: Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025−26
Image 5: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' 2025
Image 6: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending, houseboat railing' 2025
Image 7: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard-Coyte, 'Bubblefume' 2026
Image 8: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025-6
Image 9: Mandy Quadrio, 'wurnenner' 2024, Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025, Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' 2025.
Image 10: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025
All photos by Leon Schoots

@uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron @tullyarnot @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @kyliebanyard @mandyquadrio @sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @sarahpoulgrain @magnetictopographies @madeleine___collie @other_matter @fakinandkeggs @iwawn @kenzeepatterson

#AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

We are entering our final weekend of 'All That is Alive' we reflect on a lively show that has travelled from Gadigal Country in Sydney to Djaara Country in Bendigo, being kept alive, fermenting, composting, and adapting along the way.

Thank you to our fellow curators and commissioners, Stella Rosa McDonald and Connie Anthes at UTS Gallery, and most of all thank you to all of the contributing artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, and Ivey Wawn.

As a project, 'All That is Alive' has brought together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together.

Image 1: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library', 2025.
Image 2: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Daybiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)', 2021
Image 3: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' 2025, and Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025−26
Image 4: Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025−26
Image 5: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' 2025
Image 6: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending, houseboat railing' 2025
Image 7: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard-Coyte, 'Bubblefume' 2026
Image 8: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025-6
Image 9: Mandy Quadrio, 'wurnenner' 2024, Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025, Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' 2025.
Image 10: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025
All photos by Leon Schoots

@uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron @tullyarnot @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @kyliebanyard @mandyquadrio @sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @sarahpoulgrain @magnetictopographies @madeleine___collie @other_matter @fakinandkeggs @iwawn @kenzeepatterson

#AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

We are entering our final weekend of 'All That is Alive' we reflect on a lively show that has travelled from Gadigal Country in Sydney to Djaara Country in Bendigo, being kept alive, fermenting, composting, and adapting along the way.

Thank you to our fellow curators and commissioners, Stella Rosa McDonald and Connie Anthes at UTS Gallery, and most of all thank you to all of the contributing artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, and Ivey Wawn.

As a project, 'All That is Alive' has brought together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together.

Image 1: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library', 2025.
Image 2: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Daybiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)', 2021
Image 3: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' 2025, and Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025−26
Image 4: Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025−26
Image 5: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' 2025
Image 6: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending, houseboat railing' 2025
Image 7: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard-Coyte, 'Bubblefume' 2026
Image 8: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025-6
Image 9: Mandy Quadrio, 'wurnenner' 2024, Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025, Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' 2025.
Image 10: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025
All photos by Leon Schoots

@uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron @tullyarnot @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @kyliebanyard @mandyquadrio @sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @sarahpoulgrain @magnetictopographies @madeleine___collie @other_matter @fakinandkeggs @iwawn @kenzeepatterson

#AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

We are entering our final weekend of 'All That is Alive' we reflect on a lively show that has travelled from Gadigal Country in Sydney to Djaara Country in Bendigo, being kept alive, fermenting, composting, and adapting along the way.

Thank you to our fellow curators and commissioners, Stella Rosa McDonald and Connie Anthes at UTS Gallery, and most of all thank you to all of the contributing artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, and Ivey Wawn.

As a project, 'All That is Alive' has brought together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together.

Image 1: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library', 2025.
Image 2: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Daybiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)', 2021
Image 3: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' 2025, and Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025−26
Image 4: Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025−26
Image 5: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' 2025
Image 6: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending, houseboat railing' 2025
Image 7: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard-Coyte, 'Bubblefume' 2026
Image 8: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025-6
Image 9: Mandy Quadrio, 'wurnenner' 2024, Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025, Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' 2025.
Image 10: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025
All photos by Leon Schoots

@uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron @tullyarnot @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @kyliebanyard @mandyquadrio @sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @sarahpoulgrain @magnetictopographies @madeleine___collie @other_matter @fakinandkeggs @iwawn @kenzeepatterson

#AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

We are entering our final weekend of 'All That is Alive' we reflect on a lively show that has travelled from Gadigal Country in Sydney to Djaara Country in Bendigo, being kept alive, fermenting, composting, and adapting along the way.

Thank you to our fellow curators and commissioners, Stella Rosa McDonald and Connie Anthes at UTS Gallery, and most of all thank you to all of the contributing artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, and Ivey Wawn.

As a project, 'All That is Alive' has brought together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together.

Image 1: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library', 2025.
Image 2: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Daybiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)', 2021
Image 3: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' 2025, and Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025−26
Image 4: Madeleine Collie and George Criddle, 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025−26
Image 5: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' 2025
Image 6: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending, houseboat railing' 2025
Image 7: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard-Coyte, 'Bubblefume' 2026
Image 8: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' 2025-6
Image 9: Mandy Quadrio, 'wurnenner' 2024, Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025, Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' 2025.
Image 10: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025
All photos by Leon Schoots

@uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron @tullyarnot @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @kyliebanyard @mandyquadrio @sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @sarahpoulgrain @magnetictopographies @madeleine___collie @other_matter @fakinandkeggs @iwawn @kenzeepatterson

#AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

As we enter the final week of 'All That is Alive', come down to the gallery on this Thursday lunchtime and hear from the curators of the exhibition.

Join co-curator of All That is Alive La Trobe Art Institute Curator Jacqui Shelton for a relaxed and conversational tour of the exhibition.

We offer free guided tours and curatorial walk-throughs for schools and community groups to engage with the themes and materials of our exhibitions. Interested groups are invited to get in touch at lai@latrobe.edu.au

Image: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson with Hal Banyard, 'Bubblefume', 2025-26. Courtesy of the artists. Image: Leon Schoots

As we approach the final week of 'All That is Alive', don't miss you chance to see local Bendigo-based artists Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson's new commission, 'Groundwork'.

Van Pagee Anderson and Banyard invite visitors into a space of tactile and visual play, shaped by the slow unfolding of material relationships. Here, oversized Correa and Billy Button flowers bloom among painterly gestures and sculptural forms. Plants sustain us in ways that extend beyond their nutritional value; Groundwork captures the care and wonder that arises through purposeful coexistence with the vegetal world.

Images: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Groundwork, 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: Leon Schoots

@kyliebanyard @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @uts_art @stellabellarosa @connieanthes @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron

As we approach the final week of 'All That is Alive', don't miss you chance to see local Bendigo-based artists Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson's new commission, 'Groundwork'.

Van Pagee Anderson and Banyard invite visitors into a space of tactile and visual play, shaped by the slow unfolding of material relationships. Here, oversized Correa and Billy Button flowers bloom among painterly gestures and sculptural forms. Plants sustain us in ways that extend beyond their nutritional value; Groundwork captures the care and wonder that arises through purposeful coexistence with the vegetal world.

Images: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Groundwork, 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: Leon Schoots

@kyliebanyard @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @uts_art @stellabellarosa @connieanthes @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron

As we approach the final week of 'All That is Alive', don't miss you chance to see local Bendigo-based artists Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson's new commission, 'Groundwork'.

Van Pagee Anderson and Banyard invite visitors into a space of tactile and visual play, shaped by the slow unfolding of material relationships. Here, oversized Correa and Billy Button flowers bloom among painterly gestures and sculptural forms. Plants sustain us in ways that extend beyond their nutritional value; Groundwork captures the care and wonder that arises through purposeful coexistence with the vegetal world.

Images: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Groundwork, 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: Leon Schoots

@kyliebanyard @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @uts_art @stellabellarosa @connieanthes @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron

As we approach the final week of 'All That is Alive', don't miss you chance to see local Bendigo-based artists Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson's new commission, 'Groundwork'.

Van Pagee Anderson and Banyard invite visitors into a space of tactile and visual play, shaped by the slow unfolding of material relationships. Here, oversized Correa and Billy Button flowers bloom among painterly gestures and sculptural forms. Plants sustain us in ways that extend beyond their nutritional value; Groundwork captures the care and wonder that arises through purposeful coexistence with the vegetal world.

Images: Kylie Banyard and Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Groundwork, 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: Leon Schoots

@kyliebanyard @saskia.vanpagee.anderson @uts_art @stellabellarosa @connieanthes @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron

This SUNDAY MAY 3rd -2pm @ La Trobe Art Institute Bendigo -- Three ! brand new live performances integrating moving image and sound... from Subgenre(aka Justin P Butler) performing a piece for Vocoder, Osmose and EWI(Electronic Wind Instrument) ""Expanded Miniature" (Anthony Lyons/Paul Fletcher audiovisual semi-improv). Twin Cinema: an experimental guitar duo from Castlemaine- will play an improvisation set to the video works of Paul Fletcher. Twin Cinema's second album Archipelago is out now:
https://twincinema.bandcamp.com/album/archipelago

There are still a few spots left in our workshop this weekend, with artist George Criddle and curator Jacqui Shelton!

Join us Saturday from 1 to 3 pm for a participatory workshop that brings together reading, making, and storytelling through the living practice of fermentation, presented as part of A Fermentation Plot in our current exhibition, All That is Alive.

To learn more and book your place, visit the link in our bio.

@georgesteelecrids

Tully Arnot's 'Silicon' is a modified robotic vacuum cleaner whose movements, stripped of utility, become gestures of longing or confusion. Arnot speculates on what a machine might desire beyond its programmed function, cleverly playing with ideas of machine agency imbued with pathos. Speaking to the audience, it reflects on its domesticated existence and the imagined lives of its ancestors. The robot’s dream to return to its elemental origins—silicon, sand—mirrors human quests for meaning and origin, but with a fatal twist: its journey of self-discovery could lead to its undoing.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May

Images: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025 at our exhibition opening and roaming our foyer space. Courtesy of the artist. Images 1, 3 &4: AJ Taylor, Image 2: Leon Schoots

@tullyarnot @uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron #AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

Tully Arnot's 'Silicon' is a modified robotic vacuum cleaner whose movements, stripped of utility, become gestures of longing or confusion. Arnot speculates on what a machine might desire beyond its programmed function, cleverly playing with ideas of machine agency imbued with pathos. Speaking to the audience, it reflects on its domesticated existence and the imagined lives of its ancestors. The robot’s dream to return to its elemental origins—silicon, sand—mirrors human quests for meaning and origin, but with a fatal twist: its journey of self-discovery could lead to its undoing.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May

Images: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025 at our exhibition opening and roaming our foyer space. Courtesy of the artist. Images 1, 3 &4: AJ Taylor, Image 2: Leon Schoots

@tullyarnot @uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron #AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

Tully Arnot's 'Silicon' is a modified robotic vacuum cleaner whose movements, stripped of utility, become gestures of longing or confusion. Arnot speculates on what a machine might desire beyond its programmed function, cleverly playing with ideas of machine agency imbued with pathos. Speaking to the audience, it reflects on its domesticated existence and the imagined lives of its ancestors. The robot’s dream to return to its elemental origins—silicon, sand—mirrors human quests for meaning and origin, but with a fatal twist: its journey of self-discovery could lead to its undoing.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May

Images: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' 2025 at our exhibition opening and roaming our foyer space. Courtesy of the artist. Images 1, 3 &4: AJ Taylor, Image 2: Leon Schoots

@tullyarnot @uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron #AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

Ivey Wawn’s performance works and their residues explore modes of thinking with and through bodies: hers and ours, human and non-human. Ivey’s collaborative, collective and solo performances feature echoic gestures, textual glitching, twitching movement, loops and micro-repetitions. Wawn speaks about dance as a kind of transformative portal, where her body can inhabit different sensory capacities and priorities.

'Feeling in a triangle' was performed at the opening of this exhibition and navigates the vulnerability of being alive. Wawn’s body movements and vocal loops—falling, failing, losing, feeling—are actively noticing what we carry unseen within us, like a nervous system being cruised.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: 1–6 by AJ Taylor, 7–9 by Leon Schoots

Ivey Wawn’s performance works and their residues explore modes of thinking with and through bodies: hers and ours, human and non-human. Ivey’s collaborative, collective and solo performances feature echoic gestures, textual glitching, twitching movement, loops and micro-repetitions. Wawn speaks about dance as a kind of transformative portal, where her body can inhabit different sensory capacities and priorities.

'Feeling in a triangle' was performed at the opening of this exhibition and navigates the vulnerability of being alive. Wawn’s body movements and vocal loops—falling, failing, losing, feeling—are actively noticing what we carry unseen within us, like a nervous system being cruised.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: 1–6 by AJ Taylor, 7–9 by Leon Schoots

Ivey Wawn’s performance works and their residues explore modes of thinking with and through bodies: hers and ours, human and non-human. Ivey’s collaborative, collective and solo performances feature echoic gestures, textual glitching, twitching movement, loops and micro-repetitions. Wawn speaks about dance as a kind of transformative portal, where her body can inhabit different sensory capacities and priorities.

'Feeling in a triangle' was performed at the opening of this exhibition and navigates the vulnerability of being alive. Wawn’s body movements and vocal loops—falling, failing, losing, feeling—are actively noticing what we carry unseen within us, like a nervous system being cruised.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: 1–6 by AJ Taylor, 7–9 by Leon Schoots

Ivey Wawn’s performance works and their residues explore modes of thinking with and through bodies: hers and ours, human and non-human. Ivey’s collaborative, collective and solo performances feature echoic gestures, textual glitching, twitching movement, loops and micro-repetitions. Wawn speaks about dance as a kind of transformative portal, where her body can inhabit different sensory capacities and priorities.

'Feeling in a triangle' was performed at the opening of this exhibition and navigates the vulnerability of being alive. Wawn’s body movements and vocal loops—falling, failing, losing, feeling—are actively noticing what we carry unseen within us, like a nervous system being cruised.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: 1–6 by AJ Taylor, 7–9 by Leon Schoots

Ivey Wawn’s performance works and their residues explore modes of thinking with and through bodies: hers and ours, human and non-human. Ivey’s collaborative, collective and solo performances feature echoic gestures, textual glitching, twitching movement, loops and micro-repetitions. Wawn speaks about dance as a kind of transformative portal, where her body can inhabit different sensory capacities and priorities.

'Feeling in a triangle' was performed at the opening of this exhibition and navigates the vulnerability of being alive. Wawn’s body movements and vocal loops—falling, failing, losing, feeling—are actively noticing what we carry unseen within us, like a nervous system being cruised.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: 1–6 by AJ Taylor, 7–9 by Leon Schoots

Ivey Wawn’s performance works and their residues explore modes of thinking with and through bodies: hers and ours, human and non-human. Ivey’s collaborative, collective and solo performances feature echoic gestures, textual glitching, twitching movement, loops and micro-repetitions. Wawn speaks about dance as a kind of transformative portal, where her body can inhabit different sensory capacities and priorities.

'Feeling in a triangle' was performed at the opening of this exhibition and navigates the vulnerability of being alive. Wawn’s body movements and vocal loops—falling, failing, losing, feeling—are actively noticing what we carry unseen within us, like a nervous system being cruised.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: 1–6 by AJ Taylor, 7–9 by Leon Schoots

Ivey Wawn’s performance works and their residues explore modes of thinking with and through bodies: hers and ours, human and non-human. Ivey’s collaborative, collective and solo performances feature echoic gestures, textual glitching, twitching movement, loops and micro-repetitions. Wawn speaks about dance as a kind of transformative portal, where her body can inhabit different sensory capacities and priorities.

'Feeling in a triangle' was performed at the opening of this exhibition and navigates the vulnerability of being alive. Wawn’s body movements and vocal loops—falling, failing, losing, feeling—are actively noticing what we carry unseen within us, like a nervous system being cruised.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: 1–6 by AJ Taylor, 7–9 by Leon Schoots

Ivey Wawn’s performance works and their residues explore modes of thinking with and through bodies: hers and ours, human and non-human. Ivey’s collaborative, collective and solo performances feature echoic gestures, textual glitching, twitching movement, loops and micro-repetitions. Wawn speaks about dance as a kind of transformative portal, where her body can inhabit different sensory capacities and priorities.

'Feeling in a triangle' was performed at the opening of this exhibition and navigates the vulnerability of being alive. Wawn’s body movements and vocal loops—falling, failing, losing, feeling—are actively noticing what we carry unseen within us, like a nervous system being cruised.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: 1–6 by AJ Taylor, 7–9 by Leon Schoots

Ivey Wawn’s performance works and their residues explore modes of thinking with and through bodies: hers and ours, human and non-human. Ivey’s collaborative, collective and solo performances feature echoic gestures, textual glitching, twitching movement, loops and micro-repetitions. Wawn speaks about dance as a kind of transformative portal, where her body can inhabit different sensory capacities and priorities.

'Feeling in a triangle' was performed at the opening of this exhibition and navigates the vulnerability of being alive. Wawn’s body movements and vocal loops—falling, failing, losing, feeling—are actively noticing what we carry unseen within us, like a nervous system being cruised.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a triangle' 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photos: 1–6 by AJ Taylor, 7–9 by Leon Schoots

Sonja Carmichael and her daughter Elisa Jane Carmichael work together in aintergenerational collaboration that traces ephemeral marks left
in tidal zones: footprints that vanish with the tide yet persist
in cultural memory.

The artists position weaving not only as a material practice but as a mode of cultural transmission, performed and sustained through lived experience. Natural fibres and dyes sourced from Minjerribah embed the work with the rhythms and textures
of place. In this context, 'Dabiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)' functions as a tactile archive—where the act of making evokes the living presence of Quandamooka women’s connection to sand and sea. It gestures toward the liveness of Country itself, and to the footsteps of women who continue to walk with, and along, its waters.

All That is Alive continues until 10 May

Images: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Dabiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)' 2021. Courtesy of the artists and Onespace Gallery, Brisbane. Photos: Leon Schoots.

@sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @onespace_au @uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron #AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

Sonja Carmichael and her daughter Elisa Jane Carmichael work together in aintergenerational collaboration that traces ephemeral marks left
in tidal zones: footprints that vanish with the tide yet persist
in cultural memory.

The artists position weaving not only as a material practice but as a mode of cultural transmission, performed and sustained through lived experience. Natural fibres and dyes sourced from Minjerribah embed the work with the rhythms and textures
of place. In this context, 'Dabiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)' functions as a tactile archive—where the act of making evokes the living presence of Quandamooka women’s connection to sand and sea. It gestures toward the liveness of Country itself, and to the footsteps of women who continue to walk with, and along, its waters.

All That is Alive continues until 10 May

Images: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Dabiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)' 2021. Courtesy of the artists and Onespace Gallery, Brisbane. Photos: Leon Schoots.

@sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @onespace_au @uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron #AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

Sonja Carmichael and her daughter Elisa Jane Carmichael work together in aintergenerational collaboration that traces ephemeral marks left
in tidal zones: footprints that vanish with the tide yet persist
in cultural memory.

The artists position weaving not only as a material practice but as a mode of cultural transmission, performed and sustained through lived experience. Natural fibres and dyes sourced from Minjerribah embed the work with the rhythms and textures
of place. In this context, 'Dabiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)' functions as a tactile archive—where the act of making evokes the living presence of Quandamooka women’s connection to sand and sea. It gestures toward the liveness of Country itself, and to the footsteps of women who continue to walk with, and along, its waters.

All That is Alive continues until 10 May

Images: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Dabiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)' 2021. Courtesy of the artists and Onespace Gallery, Brisbane. Photos: Leon Schoots.

@sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @onespace_au @uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron #AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

Sonja Carmichael and her daughter Elisa Jane Carmichael work together in aintergenerational collaboration that traces ephemeral marks left
in tidal zones: footprints that vanish with the tide yet persist
in cultural memory.

The artists position weaving not only as a material practice but as a mode of cultural transmission, performed and sustained through lived experience. Natural fibres and dyes sourced from Minjerribah embed the work with the rhythms and textures
of place. In this context, 'Dabiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)' functions as a tactile archive—where the act of making evokes the living presence of Quandamooka women’s connection to sand and sea. It gestures toward the liveness of Country itself, and to the footsteps of women who continue to walk with, and along, its waters.

All That is Alive continues until 10 May

Images: Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, 'Dabiyil Bajara (Water Footprints)' 2021. Courtesy of the artists and Onespace Gallery, Brisbane. Photos: Leon Schoots.

@sonniecarmichael @leeceecarmichael @onespace_au @uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron #AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

Mandy Quadrio presents a continuum of living history through her three works: 'noiheener', 'wurnenner', and 'marrawah'. Through recent mitochondrial DNA testing, Quadrio has traced her unbroken matrilineal lineage across 60,000 years, spanning approximately 2,400 generations.

Quadrio honours her identity and deep connections to Country, including all human and non-human kin. In Palawa lore, the kangaroo is a creation spirit and ancestor of the first human, Parlevah. Palawa people and kangaroos have co-adapted to shifting ecologies over millennia, including the rising sea levels that separated Lutruwita/Tasmania from mainland Australia at the end of the last ice age. Emerging from this ancient kinship and history, Quadrio’s works assert the resilience and ongoing cultural practices of her people and interspecies kin.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Mandy Quadrio, 'noiheener', 'wurnenner', and 'marrawah', all 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Photos: Leon Schoots.

@mandyquadrio @uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron #AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

Mandy Quadrio presents a continuum of living history through her three works: 'noiheener', 'wurnenner', and 'marrawah'. Through recent mitochondrial DNA testing, Quadrio has traced her unbroken matrilineal lineage across 60,000 years, spanning approximately 2,400 generations.

Quadrio honours her identity and deep connections to Country, including all human and non-human kin. In Palawa lore, the kangaroo is a creation spirit and ancestor of the first human, Parlevah. Palawa people and kangaroos have co-adapted to shifting ecologies over millennia, including the rising sea levels that separated Lutruwita/Tasmania from mainland Australia at the end of the last ice age. Emerging from this ancient kinship and history, Quadrio’s works assert the resilience and ongoing cultural practices of her people and interspecies kin.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Mandy Quadrio, 'noiheener', 'wurnenner', and 'marrawah', all 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Photos: Leon Schoots.

@mandyquadrio @uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron #AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo

Mandy Quadrio presents a continuum of living history through her three works: 'noiheener', 'wurnenner', and 'marrawah'. Through recent mitochondrial DNA testing, Quadrio has traced her unbroken matrilineal lineage across 60,000 years, spanning approximately 2,400 generations.

Quadrio honours her identity and deep connections to Country, including all human and non-human kin. In Palawa lore, the kangaroo is a creation spirit and ancestor of the first human, Parlevah. Palawa people and kangaroos have co-adapted to shifting ecologies over millennia, including the rising sea levels that separated Lutruwita/Tasmania from mainland Australia at the end of the last ice age. Emerging from this ancient kinship and history, Quadrio’s works assert the resilience and ongoing cultural practices of her people and interspecies kin.

All That is Alive continues in our galleries until 10 May.

Images: Mandy Quadrio, 'noiheener', 'wurnenner', and 'marrawah', all 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Photos: Leon Schoots.

@mandyquadrio @uts_art @connieanthes @stellabellarosa @ameliawallin @jacquismelltron #AllThatisAlive #UTSGallery #LaTrobeArtInstitute #CreativeBendigo