Celebrate the opening of our first quarter exhibitions, featuring a sound activation by Platform 2026 artist, Dean Ansell.

Platform 2026 is the third iteration of our annual commissioning project for emerging Queensland artists. Dean Ansell is of Melanesian (Riḡorabana, Balawaia, Papua Niugini), Maltese, and Anglo-Celtic descent. They interpret Melanesian mythologies and rituals in their installations, soundscapes, and performances. Spencer Harvie explores dark, surreal, nonsensical aspects of online and fan subcultures. Processing the slop of found, AI-generated, and imagined imagery within an elaborate cartoon logic, he unleashes the psychosexual horrors bubbling beneath. Seren Wagstaff works in installation and performance. They explore working‑class cultures and the queer innuendoes embedded within them.

John Stezaker, known for his witty surrealist collages, also makes flicker films, presenting collections of found images of similar subjects. We present Train (2012–21) and Kiss (2019–20), two films whose jittery eroticism nods to the early days of cinema.

And in the screening room, we present manifesto films by two collectives of paper architects from the 1960s and 1970s Archigram and Superstudio that responded to the pop-art, space-age zeitgeist. There’s a 1967 television program on Archigram and two films by Superstudio: Supersurface: An Alternative Model of Life on Earth (1972) and Ceremony (1973).