d i a s p o r a e is based on Stuart Elliott’s long-term fascination with built environments, this exhibition comes from an interest in environments that are not currently active and viable but rather those that are abandoned, degraded and superseded. These might be ruins, places that have degraded silently over time or those devastated by sudden violent action. Elliott presents a series of environments devoid of linear interpretation accompanied by painted wall works, digital prints and video.

Alongside Diasporae, we present The Human Condition. Challenging the perceived exceptionalism of humanity, Weller represents a series of forty eight paintings of animals and their associated symbolism to consider what it means to be human in the era of the Anthropocene. Why look at animals? Through doing so, “for better or worse, we construct what it means to be human. That is, we construct culture through assertions of its differences and similarities to that which we simultaneously imagine as nature. As is now apparent on a planetary scale, these assertions have life and death consequences for all living things.” Richard Weller

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To be officially opened by Janet Holmes à Court AC

6.00 pm | Friday, 1 November 2024

Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat | 11am - 5pm | 2 Nov – 14 Dec

Image: Stuart Elliott, Bone Yard, 2024; Richard Weller, The Human Condition (Dugong), 2024, copyright of the artists

**Image: Stuart Elliott, Bone Yard, 2024; Richard Weller, The Human Condition (Dugong), 2024, copyright of the artists**