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Cassie Sullivan

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Exploring knowledge held and lost of pallawah identity. Artist. lutruwita/truwana/Tas, Australia.
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'Dreams Nursed in Darkness' at Hazelhurst Arts Centre is open this long weekend 10am to 4pm, except Monday (closed).

Photos by Silversalt:
1 (from left to right) Anne Ferran, Cassie Sullivan, Ian Milliss, Sarah Goffman.
2 (from left to right) Alana Hunt, Abdullah M I Syed, Megan Cope, Cassie Sullivan, Ricky Maynard, Anne Ferran. by @cassiesullivan_._

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‘we are all complicit here, 2011’ hanging at @hazelhurstartscentre for Dreams Nurses in Darkness.
Curation by @dclairetaylor and @elizabethday28
Photos by @silversalt_photography taken in Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre by @cassiesullivan_._

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20 days ago

A lil life on film 25/26.
#film #familyonfilm #pointandshoot taken in Melukerdee Country / Huon Valley by @cassiesullivan_._

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Little one.
In the ether now.
I lay down with you in your favourite sun drenched corner of this place. Acutely aware of your whimpering.
Your hair changed in that last 24 hours. Dry and sharp. I watched your chest rise by Bruny’s. Mountain valleys in the bed covers.
I didn’t want to leave you but I had to start the fire.
And finally your face squished into the creases of Beau’s arm. Like it’s all you ever needed.
Little one. by @cassiesullivan_._

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3 months ago

Introducing the next artist-in-residence at Gunyah: Cassie Sullivan @cassiesullivan_._ . She is a Lutruwita/Trouwerner First Nations, queer artist based on Melukerdee Country in Lutruwita/Tasmania. She has a responsive practice that crosses disciplines of sculpture, moving image, photography, writing, sound, installation, and printmaking. Cassie works with a deeply considered process driven practice that prioritises a multi-sensory engagement with Country. She explores themes of intergenerational experiences that reside in bodily memory and the ancestral memory of water. Within her creative and cultural practice, Cassie works to constantly question what can be imbued through materiality to give voice to complex identities.
“... Site specific practice is important to me and I am drawn to the proximity of water to the studio. During my residency at Gunyah I plan to conduct a slow collaboration with the waterway and surrounding lands of Gathang Country, forming a deeper conversation. I will build on my exploration of a visual documentation of water having ancestral memory through listening, recording, writing, and developing a visual language around this conversation. ...”

All images courtesy the artist:
1. Cassie Sullivan with her work, ‘wayi (to hear)’, 2023, seven tarlatan monotype prints on frosted acrylic.
2. Cassie Sullivan, ‘a spectral, a chronicle (evidence)’, 2025. Moving image, loop.
3. Cassie Sullivan, ‘a spectral, a chronicle (i)’, 2025. Copper.

Gunyah artists-in-residence program is located on Gathang Country, the Ancestral Lands of the Worimi People. We acknowledge them as the traditional custodians for this place, land, sky, and waters. When artists come here to develop and share their own creativity, storytelling and cultural practices, we respect the knowledge embedded forever within First Nations Custodianship of Country. taken in Worimi Country by @cassiesullivan_._

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Celebrating NAIDOC week with a visit to @milduraartscentre for a print workshop with @movingcreature
Witnessing the wrapping up of the incredible journey that Between Waves has been on these past few years. It was an honour to yarn with these works again and I will miss the conversations they have amongst each other. taken in Mildura Arts Centre by @cassiesullivan_._

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Artist Talk 3:30pm Sunday, 31 may, The Barn.

Come along to The Barn to hear the ideas and processes of some of the exhibiting artists in There Are No Straight Lines, a group exhibition reflecting on the contrasts between deep time and the present moment to consider circular notions of time that are repetitive, familiar and continuous.

Artists: Emma Bugg, Alicia King, Eloise Kirk, Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, Sara Morawetz, Cassie Sullivan, Jodie Whalen

@emmabuggjeweller
@alicia_king_artist
@___weasel___
@amber_koroluk_stephenson
@sara_blue
@cassiesullivan_._
@jodie.whalen

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts through Support for Groups grant. @artstasmania by @cassiesullivan_._

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5 months ago

💫📣💫 Artist Talk at 3:30pm this Sunday, The Barn @rosnyfarm

Last days to catch group exhibition There Are No Straight Lines

Join Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, Sara Morawetz and Cassie Sullivan to hear about their work surrounding cyclic notions of time through contrasts between deep time and the present moment.

@amber_koroluk_stephenson @sara_blue
@cassiesullivan_._

There Are No Straight Lines
The Barn, Rosny Farm
Exhibition finishes May 31

Showing alongside magnificent :
Emma Bugg @emmabuggjeweller
Alicia King @alicia_king_artist
Eloise Kirk @___weasel___
Jodie Whalen @jodie.whalen
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This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts through a Support for Groups grant. @artstasmania taken in Rosny Farm by @cassiesullivan_._

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〰️〰️A delight to see There Are No Straight Lines featured in the Visual Arts section, written by Andrew Harper @makeanddo_tas 〰️〰️

Enter the Otherworldly, Visual Arts, Tas Weekend, The Mercury, May 23-24, 2026.

Exhibition continues until May 31
The Barn, Rosny Farm @rosnyfarm

Artists:
Emma Bugg @emmabuggjeweller
Alicia King @alicia_king_artist
Eloise Kirk @___weasel___
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson @amber_koroluk_stephenson
Sara Morawetz @sara_blue
Cassie Sullivan @cassiesullivan_._
Jodie Whalen @jodie.whalen

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts. @artstasmania taken in Rosny Farm by @cassiesullivan_._

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A huge thanks to everyone who joined us at The Barn this Thursday to celebrate the opening of There Are No Straight Lines.

15 May - 31 May 2026
Wed-Sun 11am-5pm

Artists: Emma Bugg, Alicia King, Eloise Kirk, Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, Sara Morawetz, Cassie Sullivan, Jodie Whalen

@emmabuggjeweller
@alicia_king_artist
@___weasel___
@amber_koroluk_stephenson
@sara_blue
@cassiesullivan_._
@jodie.whalen

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts through Support for Groups grant. @artstasmania

This exhibition was selected through Rosny Farm’s independent Expressions of Interest process prior to its inclusion in the current program. taken in Rosny Farm by @cassiesullivan_._

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There Are No Straight Lines
15 May - 31 May 2026
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Opening Event: Thursday 14 May, 5:30pm
The Barn, Rosny Farm @rosnyfarm

Artists:
Emma Bugg @emmabuggjeweller
Alicia King @alicia_king_artist
Eloise Kirk @___weasel___
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson @amber_koroluk_stephenson
Sara Morawetz @sara_blue
Cassie Sullivan @cassiesullivan_._
Jodie Whalen @jodie.whalen
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Catalog essay excerpt, written by Jade Irvine @jade.irvine

There Are No Straight Lines presents works which critically consider our conceptions of time – of common occurrences such as life and its synchronicities: of emotion, history, being as certain as the gradual slippage of night into day.
Sahil Prasad, a seventh grader from Maryland, writes, “the concept of nothing going in a straight line can be associated with life as much as it relates to science and architecture ... life is a curvy path full of unexpected twists, turns, and adventures that nobody can ever predict.”[1] The topic is a source of interest for students, scientists, philosophers, architects and artists alike.

For Plato, a fundamental element of a work of art is the way it was created, and the perspective it considers. He writes, “because you’ve seen the truth about the fine, just, and good things, you’ll know each image for what it is and also that of which it is the image.”[2] Art reflects life, and life reflects the infinite – straight lines in nature are seen as an illusion. They are one way for us to make sense of life’s complexity. To make art is to bring these unpredictable forces into being, and to give space to these ambiguities and contradictions.

1] Sahil Prasad, ‘A Straight Line: Simply Nonexistent’, Skipping Stones: A Multicultural Magazine, 2023, viewed on 3 August 2025

[2] Jeremy Killian, ‘That Deceptive Line: Plato, Linear Perspective, Visual Perception, and Tragedy’, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Summer 2012), pp. 89-99 Published by: University of Illinois Press
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Images: Jodie Whalen, Stranger in Paradise, 2018, digital image printed on fabric.
📷 @cassiesullivanphotography

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts. @artstasmania taken in Rosny Barn by @cassiesullivan_._

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There Are No Straight Lines
15 May - 31 May 2026
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Opening Event: Thursday 14 May, 5:30pm
The Barn, Rosny Farm @rosnyfarm

Artists:
Emma Bugg @emmabuggjeweller
Alicia King @alicia_king_artist
Eloise Kirk @___weasel___
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson @amber_koroluk_stephenson
Sara Morawetz @sara_blue
Cassie Sullivan @cassiesullivan_._
Jodie Whalen @jodie.whalen

There Are No Straight Lines reconsiders constructed notions of time as being linear, instead looking towards notions of circular time that is considered to be repetitive, familiar, and continuous. This exhibition is a mediation of what it means to think about the contrasting effects between deep time and the present moment. Indeterminate spaces where beginnings and endings loop, continually forming in the middle. Time never ended, it never started.

In a complex web of the infinite, time is marked by repetition. The sun rises and sets, seasons change, planets and solar systems orbit, and living things go through the biological cycle of birth, life, death. The cyclic nature of time space blurs boundaries between memory and systems of knowledge, between fact and fiction, being and not being, between self and other, the now and then. In this setting, time and space are experienced and understood in multiple ways, paving out a rich tapestry for capturing the minute and monumental, the everyday and the sublime.

Image: Cassie Sullivan, a spectral, a chronicle, 2025 @cassiesullivan_._

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts. @artstasmania taken in Rosny Farm by @cassiesullivan_._

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