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Coral Futures Exhibition
🪸1 August to 17 October

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UniSC Art Gallery is closed from Monday 19 October until Friday 23 October for exhibition changeover.

We look forward to welcoming you back to experience 'Metamorphosis', the 2026 student showcase.

The opening event for 'Metamorphosis' is Friday 23 October from 6 pm.

Free, all welcome. Registration is essential via the link in bio ⛓️‍💥 by @uniscartgallery

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We're entering the final days of 'Coral Futures' at UniSC Art Gallery 🪸

Visit before it closes. The final day is Saturday 17 October.

Opening hours
10 am – 4 pm, Monday to Friday
10 am – 1 pm, Saturday
Free, everyone welcome.

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This exhibition presents a range of poetic and speculative responses to coral. These small marine animals form the foundations of healthy reef ecologies, now facing unprecedented, existential threats from human-induced climate change. 'Coral Futures' brings together new and recent projects by First Nations and other contemporary Australian artists, considering coral's importance to the survival of vital marine ecosystems like the Great Barrier Reef, as well as its implications for broader cultural, economic, and environmental systems.

Artists
Erub Arts (Jimmy John Thaiday, Florence Gutchen, Nancy Naawi, Lavinia Ketchell), Helga Groves, Laresa Kosloff, Nicholas Mangan, Rachel O'Reilly, Marian Tubbs

Curated by Hamish Sawyer and presented in partnership with Linden New Art, Naarm (Melbourne) and Cairns Art Gallery, Gimuy (Cairns).

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Last days to see ‘Coral Futures’, and fill in our (very quick!) survey for your chance to win a prize pack worth over $150 😍

‘Coral Futures’ closes this Saturday 17 October at 1 pm. Get in quick!

If you’ve already been to see the exhibition and missed filling in the survey, you can still be in with a chance by following the link in our bio🪸

Opening hours
10 am – 4 pm, Monday to Friday
10 am – 1 pm, Saturday
Free, everyone welcome.

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This exhibition presents a range of poetic and speculative responses to coral. These small marine animals form the foundations of healthy reef ecologies, now facing unprecedented, existential threats from human-induced climate change. ‘Coral Futures’ brings together new and recent projects by First Nations and other contemporary Australian artists, considering coral’s importance to the survival of vital marine ecosystems like the Great Barrier Reef, as well as its implications for broader cultural, economic, and environmental systems.

Artists
Erub Arts (Jimmy John Thaiday, Florence Gutchen, Nancy Naawi, Lavinia Ketchell), Helga Groves, Laresa Kosloff, Nicholas Mangan, Rachel O’Reilly, Marian Tubbs

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A big thank you to everyone that joined us for the Coral Futures Symposium! 🪸

We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate this important exhibition.

We’re in the final week of ‘Coral Futures’. Visit by this Saturday 17 October, and next stop for the exhibition is Gimuy (Cairns)! 🐠

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🪸 Artist Spotlight: Erub Arts (Jimmy John Thaiday, Florence Gutchen, Nancy Naawi, Lavinia Ketchell)

Erub, the most north-eastern of the Torres Strait Islands, marks the end of the Great Barrier Reef and is home to approximately 400 Erub le (people). Central to Torres Strait culture is the belief that islands, sea, sky and all nature possess a soul or spirit.

Since opening in 2009, Erub Arts has given the community a platform to express its identity and Sea Country through creative practice. Like several Indigenous Art Centres across northern Australia, it is recognised for colourful, whimsical sculptures made from ghost nets, fishing line and other plastic waste. Ghost nets strangle and kill marine life, and break down into microplastics that damage food chains and ecosystems.

'Home Reef', 2025, a collaboration between senior Erub artists Jimmy John Thaiday, Florence Gutchen, Nancy Naawi and Lavinia Ketchell, was made especially for 'Coral Futures'. The panoramic textile depicts the reef's marine life, connecting Erub with the wider Great Barrier Reef system. As Gutchen has said, "The ocean holds all mankind together; we are all connected by it, and we must look after it."

By transforming rescued ocean plastic into engaging works, Erub artists highlight their deep connection to the sea and the importance of individual and collective action in protecting reef ecosystems.

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1, 3. Photos: Marcia Grimm
2, 4. Installation views of 'Coral Futures' at UniSC Art Gallery. Photos: Carl Warner by @uniscartgallery

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We're entering 'Coral Futures' at UniSC Art Gallery 🪸

Visit before it closes. The final day is Saturday 17 October.

Opening hours
10 am – 4 pm, Monday to Friday
10 am – 1 pm, Saturday
Free, everyone welcome.

〰

This exhibition presents a range of poetic and speculative responses to coral. These small marine animals form the foundations of healthy reef ecologies, now facing unprecedented, existential threats from human-induced climate change. 'Coral Futures' brings together new and recent projects by First Nations and other contemporary Australian artists, considering coral's importance to the survival of vital marine ecosystems like the Great Barrier Reef, as well as its implications for broader cultural, economic, and environmental systems.

Artists
Erub Arts (Jimmy John Thaiday, Florence Gutchen, Nancy Naawi, Lavinia Ketchell), Helga Groves, Laresa Kosloff, Nicholas Mangan, Rachel O'Reilly, Marian Tubbs

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🪸 Artist Spotlight: Helga Groves

Helga Groves' triptych 'Sea Surface Temperatures (Anomalies Series 2008–2025)', 2025, extends an earlier series of paintings that reference scientific graphs recording environmental change. Clusters of vertices in each panel suggest the rise and fall of ocean temperatures, while a mesh of individually painted squares evokes sunlight dancing across the water, as well as the subtler changes affecting ocean currents and temperatures.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's Summer 2024–25 Health Update reported significantly higher-than-average sea surface temperatures, a key factor in coral bleaching later confirmed as the largest ever recorded on the Reef. This reporting informed 'Incremental—Sea Surface Temperatures—Summer 2025', 2025, a luminous textile woven from fishing line, in which colour segments shift from cool to warm tones in step with the temperature recordings.

Both works are contextualised by 'Deep Ocean Currents', 2004, in which text sandblasted onto glass recounts the world's oceans' thousand-year journey, layered over hand-woven fishing line. Together, they reflect Groves' sustained observation of climate phenomena and their impact on coral health.

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1, 2. Installation views of 'Coral Futures' at UniSC Art Gallery. Photos: Carl Warner
3, 4, 5. Installation views of 'Coral Futures' at UniSC Art Gallery. Photos: Carl Warner by @uniscartgallery

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 'Coral Futures Symposium' last weekend! 🪸

We had a wonderful day listening, learning, and discovering the many ways artists, researchers, First Nations knowledge holders, and community members are engaging with coral and the urgent challenges facing our marine environments.

From creative practice and scientific research to cultural knowledge, advocacy and collective action, the day reminded us that coral is not only a symbol of ecological crisis; it can also help us imagine new possibilities for care, connection and collaboration.

A huge thank you to our generous speakers, panellists and attendees for sharing your knowledge, experiences and questions with us. We left feeling inspired, hopeful and energised by the conversations that unfolded throughout the day.

Presented with support from the Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund (provided through Regional Arts Australia and administered in Queensland by Flying Arts Alliance), along with the UniSC Creative Ecologies Research and the UniSC Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre, University Art Museum's Australia and Linden New Art.

📸 Marcia Grimm

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Congratulations to Ian Friend and Ipswich Art Gallery on the opening of 'Ian Friend—The Noise of Time'.

'The Noise of Time' brings together more than 30 years of Ian Friend’s artistic practice. The exhibition includes works from 1993 to works made in his Ipswich studio in 2026.

We're thrilled that 'Les Perspecteurs' (2011) from the UniSC Art Collection is featured in the exhibition, which continues until 29 November. Head over to @ipswichartgallery for all the details.

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Ian Friend
Les Perspecteurs
2011
Indian ink, gouache, crayon and pen on Arches paper
90 x 124cm
University of the Sunshine Coast Art Collection
Donated through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program by Robyn Daw, 2019
© Ian Friend

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1. Detail of 'Les Perspecteurs'. Photo: Carl Warner
2-3. The opening of 'Ian Friend—The Noise of Time' at Ipswich Art Gallery. Photos: Rachel Harris by @uniscartgallery

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Who gets to define conservation, and whose knowledge counts?

Artist Rachel O'Reilly and Aunty Helena Gulash (Kabi Kabi) will join Megan Williams for a conversation unpacking the politics of contemporary conservation.

Moving between the specific and the systemic, the discussion will examine who defines conservation, whose knowledge is heard, and what these questions mean for Country.

Coral Futures Symposium
Saturday 3 October
9 am – 3 pm
UniSC Sunshine Coast

Tickets via the link in our bio.
Supported by the Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre at UniSC.

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📹 Installation view of Rachel O'Reilly's 'NORTHERN WATERS' at UniSC Art Gallery.

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2. Helena Gulash. Photo: Tricia King
3. Rachel O’Reilly. Photo: Joe Ruckli

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🪸 Artist Spotlight: Rachel O'Reilly

Now showing in 'Coral Futures' is NORTHERN WATERS (2025) by Rachel O'Reilly. O'Reilly's third major moving-image commission responds to the archive of the historic 'Save the Reef' campaign (1967–75), which culminated in the protection of the entire Great Barrier Reef from the global oil industry. At the time, Indigenous people lived under apartheid conditions in Queensland, and activists had no knowledge of the Reef's Indigenous cultural heritage.

NORTHERN WATERS maps a landscape of perspective, shaped by unequal experiences of industry, tourism, and environmental defence across North Queensland's (under)protected areas. Shot in Mission Beach on Djiru Country, Girringun National Park, Mungalla Station, and Townsville's marine research infrastructures on Wulgurukaba and Bindal Country, it attends to at-risk ecologies, the objectivity of 'management', and archives of refusal.

Screened in the Gallery daily at 10 am, 12 pm and 2 pm.

Hear from the artist about this work at the Coral Futures Symposium' on Saturday 3 October. Details in our bio.

Featuring Phil Rist (Nywaigi), Sonya Takau (Jirrbal), Percy Neal (Guru Bana Kungunghj/Djungan), Leonard Andy (Djiru), Margaret Moorhouse (Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook), Rohan Lloyd, Hillary Smith, Jacob Cassady (Nywaigi) and Isaac Cassady (Nywaigi).

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Installation views of Rachel O'Reilly's 'NORTHERN WATERS' 2025 at UniSC Art Gallery. Photos: Carl Warner.

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