UPCOMING
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
30.01.26 | 6-8pm
Join us for our first exhibition celebration for 2026!
First Space
Shaping Space
First Space Committee Showcase
Since 2021, Sawtooth ARI has been working closely with the First Space Committee (formerly FNAC) to bring to you over twenty exhibitions featuring local and interstate First Nations contemporary arts practices.
For this special edition of our First Space exhibition calendar, and to launch us into 2026, we are proud to present the First Space Committee group exhibition. Peep into the diverse and evolving practices of the artists and creatives who have shaped First Space to be what it is today. From traditional weaving to contemporary works on paper, this exhibition reflects the breadth of approaches within the First Space program.
Our current First Space Committee members include Bianca Templar, Cheryl Rose, Rod Gardner, and Cindy Thomas.
Sawtooth and the First Space Committee also extend our thanks to former committee members Adam Thompson, Louise Daniels, Vicki West, and Denise Robinson for their ongoing contributions to First Space.
Inner Space
Altered Brink
Cedar Butcher
Altered Brink explores the swamp beneath our feet, where the scars of colonisation and industrialisation are ever-present. The work embodies the experience of living, loving and making, on and with the soft soil at the convergence of the three rivers in so called Invermay. Through walking and deep site observation, the borders between memory, emotion, animal, place, and human dissolve. Offering both a speculative future and past that seeks joy over climate anxiety.
Bio: Cedar Butcher is a queer emerging multidisciplinary artist based on the banks of kanamaluka, lutruwita. They received their Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania in 2025. Their practice seeks to embody radical joy and whimsy, considering the entanglement of human and non-human agents through the lens of the unfolding climate crisis. Growing up on Bundjalung country in New South Wales allowed their deep appreciation for the environments they occupy to flourish. The flooding of the Wilson River in 2022 saw their hometown and community of Lismore devastated. The deep impact of this natural disaster is evident throughout their practice.
Back Space
make a r/evolution
i kitty & pim pimparat
make a r/evolution is a story-telling diorama: visitors are invited as interventionists, little gods.
we made this work from a bunch of suppositions:
- giving & making within community is revolutionary/evolutionary.
- the process of making is inherently human & vital for sustained holistic well-being.
- there are many ways & ‘currencies’ in which we are all able to give.
- our current system assigns unequal values to equally valuable lives, intentionally driving inconsistent responses to visceral needs.
- nothing leaves our closed planetary system. - inaction is also an action, & a choice.
- contribution to a place or purpose increases connection.
- access to play & creation is fundamental to being a contented human
- each day, we all have the capacity to encourage creation or enable destruction: salvation or devastation. & it’s choosing time.
Bios: laura is an immigrant on unceded land. she makes handbuilt, lowbrow, sentimental, functional ceramics - most often storytelling of a speculative post-human future. her maker name is i, kitty.
Pim Pimparat works under the name Handlewithclay. She works with clay in her own time. Making allows her to rest, play, and create small worlds shaped by memory, curiosity, and her own perspective. Her practice values feeling over productivity and invites gentle interaction, supporting her own growth through making and offering a space to pause.
The Space
today and tomorrow
amy jane
Examining where we meet ourselves, today and tomorrow, explores the daily collision of mind and body in the context of the bathroom. Grounded by an ambient soundscape of running water, large scale sculptures of a tooth brush and pill bottle are positioned on a plinth of ceramic tiles.
Ceramic text is delicately displayed on a wall-mounted glass panel, shedding overtime as it cracks, falls, and breaks on the shimmering tile beneath. Certainly uncertain is the time of which it will take for the text to peel in its entirety, with each letter leaving behind a scar like residue.
Representative of daily rituals and self-care, this exhibition makes visible the unseen struggles of living in a disabled/chronically ill body.
Bio: Amy Jane is an emerging artist who moved to Lutruwita/Tasmania from Meanjin/Brisbane last year to complete their Honours in Fine Art at The University of Tasmania. In addition to their artistic practice, which spans sculpture, installation, ceramics, drawing, tech, and sound, Amy is an aspiring curator and lover of artist-run initiatives.
First Space image courtesy of Bianca Templar. All other images courtesy of the artists.