Fair Dinkies – Sam Harrison Exhibition Opening

Snowy River Toy Inc. is pleased to present its newest line of toy collectables in celebration of Australia’s rich cultural diversity!

Fair Dinkies is a series of collectable Koalas ironically tasked with representing the vast cultural diversity within Australia.

Simmering beneath the façade of playful innocence, along with promises of equality, safety, and prosperity, is a world of nuanced cultural and political tensions—a friction that keeps its inhabitants suspended in a moral and ethical limbo.

At the exhibition's core, it is a statement that diversity is necessary to create ‘Australian-ness’. As a well-meaning commercial product by fictional manufacturers, Snowy River Toy Inc., the Koalas are destined to fail at this task.

Within the frame of the Fair Dinkies store, you are invited to participate in the parody of ‘the great Australian mixing pot’ to explore and question the motivations and mechanics of Australia’s unique form of social conformity.

For more info, please click here. 

ACCESSIBILITY: The gallery is wheelchair accessible from the Brunswick St entrance. If you have any specific access needs or questions, please either email admin@outerspacebrisbane.org or send us a message on Instagram. 

This is a free event, and all are welcome to attend, engage and explore, respectfully. There will be a licenced bar with non-alcoholic options.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Outer Space is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, the Australian Government through Creative Australia and the Outer Space community.