Transcriptions - A group exhibition by Wunder Gym program participants

Join us for the exhibition opening of Transcriptions on Saturday 27 September from 11:30am – 2pm. This will be an opportunity to view the works and meet the artists. The exhibition will be open at other times from 20 September - 4 October. When registering, please select and RSVP for the date you wish to attend.

Transcriptions is a group exhibition showcasing new work by participants of the Wunder Gym mentoring program. Over eight weeks, emerging artists worked closely with acclaimed artist James Nguyen to explore how personal truths, and collective histories intersect through the act of storytelling. 

Drawing from family records, forgotten archives, government documents, and oral traditions, the artists examine how memory, migration, and identity are formed—not only by what is preserved, but also by what is lost, hidden, or erased. Through painting, sculpture, video, installation, and text-based work, they engage with the silences and absences that surround their histories. 

The exhibition takes its name from the process of transcription: a translation across forms, languages, and generations. It asks what happens in the spaces between fact and fiction, the official and the anecdotal, the visible and the invisible. What is mistranslated or redacted? What persists through repetition, or mutates in retelling? 

Transcriptions is both an archive and a reimagining. It considers how art can recover and remix inherited narratives—offering space for multiplicity, resistance, and redefinition. The artists work across disciplines to create counter-histories and new mythologies that foreground nuance, vulnerability, and complexity. 

This exhibition marks the culmination this Wunder Gym program and invites audiences to witness the powerful interplay of memory and imagination, voice and silence.  

More information can be found here https://www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/wunder-gym-x-transcriptions

Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians

Wyndham City Council recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first Peoples of Australia. We acknowledge the Bunurong and Wadawurrung Peoples as Traditional Owners of the lands on which Wyndham City operates. The Wadawurrung and Bunurong Peoples have and always will belong to the Werribee Yalook (river), creeks, stars, hills and red clay of this Country. We pay respect to their Ancestors and Elders who always have, and always will, care for Country and community today and for future generations.

We acknowledge that the exhibition will take place on the Traditional Lands of the Bunurong People of the Kulin Nation.