OPENING EVENT Natalya Hughes: The Interior and Amanda Bennetts: Fragmented, divided—yet whole

Join us for the opening of two new exhibitions, Natalya Hughes: The Interior and Amanda Bennetts: Fragmented, divided—yet whole.

Can we use the talking cure to solve society's 'problem' with women? The Interior invites audiences into an exaggerated consultation room, playfully furnished for psychoanalysis. Natalya Hughes's immersive installation—combining sculptural seating, richly patterned soft furnishings, and uncanny objets d'art, nestled around a hand-painted mural—generates a stimulating space to unpack our collective and unconscious biases.

Fragmented, divided—yet whole brings together recent works by Amanda Bennetts that use time as both material and metric for understanding the body. In Bennetts' practice, time is not linear but lived. It is stretched, slowed, ruptured, and suspended by the realities of living in a body in flux that refuses normative rhythms and constantly requires new forms of understanding.

The Interior will be opened by Robert Leonard, Director of the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), and the event will be preceded by Natalya Hughes and Amanda Bennetts in conversation with Megan Williams from UniSC Art Gallery from 2 – 3pm.

Exhibition partners

The Interior is a travelling exhibition organised by the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) and toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. 

The Interior has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; the Australia Council’s Contemporary Touring initiative; The Queensland Government through Arts Queensland; the Fini Artist Fellowship through the Sheila Foundation; Queensland College of Art, Griffith University; Creative Art Research Institute, Griffith University; and Porter’s Paints, New Farm. 

Natalya Hughes is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane, and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.

Presenting partner

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