Presented by the artists Natasha Bradley, Bliss Sandhu, Keryn Fountain, Annie Geard, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Brigita Ozolins and Sally Rees.

Daily Opening Times:
30 May – 16 June 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily

Opening event :
30 May 2024 – 5.30pm

A small curated group show featuring 6 emerging and established Tasmanian artists working across a diverse range of mediums including installation, video, photography, assemblage and performance explore the idea of invisible power and forces.

Power is a natural force in our structures, our networks and our environment. The invisible forces of power acting around us in our buildings and earth and our bodies, the powers of tension and physics holding walls and barriers and regulating the way we engage and carry out our lives. This includes the power of one’s own body and mental power through the ability to have power over oneself or regulate or change individual behaviour.  Poet and musician, Lou Reed talked about how his practice in martial arts and tai chi put him in touch with the power of ….’ the universe’. He said, “the best of energies become available, and soon your body and mind become an invisible power” (2023).

Many of these forms of power are not manifest nor are we conscious of them all at any one time. At any time we might feel powerful or experience power, conversely we feel powerless or inferior to another force but what are the power dynamics at play that make this so? Is it society, technology, our position, our internal feelings of control, our environment?