Where to from here? Supper Club #2

Western Sydney Creative warmly invites you to our Where to from here? Visions for Australia Supper Club Event on 4 December at the Margaret Whitlam Galleries, from 5:00 PM. Join us for an evening of connection, conversation and community.

Where to from here? Visions for Australia. -This exhibition asks 12 contemporary Western Sydney artists to respond the legacy of the Whitlam Government, 50 years post The Dismissal, with the question where is Australia now? and where are we heading, where do we see ourselves in the future?

Artists:

Anney Bounpraseuth, Linda Bresica, Travis De Vries, Jagath Dheerasekara, Mehwish Iqbal, Monica Rani Rudhar, Khaled Sabsabi, Marikit Santiago, Feras Shaheen, Chris Tobin, Garry Trinh and Justine Youssef 

Exhibition open- 8 october 2025 – 5 February  2026

Event Details

4:00pm-5:00pm (limited spaces) Workshops Scent distillation with Justine Youseff and Tie dying with Mehwish Iqbal

Signing of Gamilaroi Declaration of Independence by people from the Gamilaroi Nation in the Whitlam Reading Room with Travis de Vries

Whitlam permanent collection open until 5:30pm

4:30pm Drinks/nibbles and chance to view “Where to from here? Visions for Australia”  exhibition (Margaret Whitlam Galleries)

5:30pm Introduction MC Margaret Hancock (seminar room)

5:40pm Welcome to Country Aunty Peta Strachan (seminar room)

5:50pm Panel discussion Justine Youseff, Travis De Vries, Mehwish Iqbal, Monica Rani Rudhar and moderator

6:50pm Dinner House of Welcome

7:35pm Introduction to performance MC Margaret Hancock (seminar room)

7:40pm Performance Georgia Lucy presents: Gough and Margaret’s Bull Clip (seminar room)

8:45pm EVENT CLOSES

Georgia Lucy presents: Gough and Margaret’s Bull Clip

Gough and Margaret’s Bull Clip is a liberation of the could-a-beens. The people's huge and hidden hits, butchered live in front of your eyes. Processed and served up as a sonic selection of smallgoods for your enjoyment (cheese and crackers included). Anthems to taste.

The spread will be treated through the late Ross Hannaford's 1974 Space Echo unit. After all, the word for anthem comes from antiphon, a call and response style of singing... singing... singing... Is a cooee an antiphon? An echo bouncing off the walls? At the time the anthem entries were being composed Australia was doing the Eagle Rock. I'm hoping Daddy Cool's Space Echo can help make these patriotic pieces sound less daggy and more dancy.

Copyright or wrong, Gough and Margaret's Bull Clip are leaking the tapes. The songs that diva belter Delta could have blessed the MCG with. We all stand and sing along, diaphragms expanded. Imagine.

This event was part of a series of showings from Next Wave's 2024–25 Kickstart Program. The program supported seven individual artists and one collective to develop a project over 18 months, under the guidance of Next Wave and local mentors.