UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Opening 31.10.25 | 6-8pm.

First Space

Fair Dinkies
Sam Harrison

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.

Bio: Sam Harrison is a proud Kamilaroi/Wiradjuri artist working in Meanjin. As a figurative painter combining historical, cultural and contemporary imagery Harrison holds the belief that an artist’s role is to research and understand the morals, motives and circumstances that inform identity. His practice explores the hypocrisies and idiosyncrasies of local, national and global histories to find stories that are worth telling…

This exhibition was originally commissioned by Outer Space (Meanjin/Brisbane). We acknowledge and thank Outer Space and Sam Harrison for their generosity in sharing this project with our audiences in Lutruwita.

Inner Space

No Beast is there without glimmer of infinity
Estelle Dobbs
University of Tasmania Sawtooth ARI Award Winner (2024)

I sit across from my brother. Immersed within our daily ritual of chess, he moves the small magnetic pieces. Engaged in a competitive dance.
A family wanders through the train searching for seats. We shift our bags to make room, a gesture of welcome. We’ve been playing well. Getting better as the weeks go on. Learning each-other’s moves. I have confidence and trust in myself, but I make a mistake. Losing a major piece, then the game.
We shake hands. A man from the family asks who won. I point to my brother.
The man says one word and points at me.
‘Weibchen’
I feel its English equivalent hit me.
‘Bitch’
I take the pants I’ve been repairing out of my backpack and start sewing.
Processing the interaction I’d just had, I weave the needle in and out of the fraying hem of my camouflage shorts.
Last year I learnt to feel anger, to meditate on a house burning to the ground.
I use the small segments of thread in the coin-sized repair kit and my pants are now multicoloured at the hem.
After a while the man says I should be using thread that matches the colour of my shorts.
I tell him I like the colours.
I want my repairs to be visible.

Bio: Estelle Dobbs has a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Studio Practice from the University of Tasmania (UTAS). She completed her final semester of art school at Colorado State University (CSU) in 2025. Estelle has led soft sculpture workshops at UTAS through the Creative Pod and completed an industry placement at Interweave Arts. At Interweave Arts she co-delivered making workshops to primary school children and aided in delivering community events. Estelle received first place in the Precinct Art Society art prize 2023 and has exhibited in group shows and art prizes around Australia, including Sawtooth ARI (Launceston), dAda mUse (Launceston) and Woolloongabba Art Gallery (Brisbane).

Back Space

Delicious FREAK
Curated by Mimir Soboslay Moore & Beatrice Tucker

Artists include; Kyla Dabron, Sophie Dumaresq, Claire Fletcher, Asil Habara, Roz Hall, Emma Rani Hodges, Paris Robson, Litia Roko, Dash Ridley-Griffiths, Bronwyn Sargeson, Mimir Soboslay Moore, Beatrice Tucker & April Widdup.

Resisting spectacle and definition, Delicious FREAK is an exhibition honouring queer and gendered lives through shared inquiry. Bringing together the work of fourteen emerging artists in exploration of the constructions and expectations of gender, identity, and the conditions that shape them. The exhibition examines the ways that queer, trans and gendered lives are inhabited, resisted, and reimagined within and against these conditions. Delicious FREAK examines shifting sites of struggle to interrogate and celebrate the unruly, the tender, and the strange as sites of both resistance and possibility.

The Space

I Made Portals, You Didn't Come Back
Abigail Giblin

I Made Portals, You Didn’t Come Back investigates attitudes towards death and memorial in modern western society. Death has become professionalised and largely diminished from the social conscious. It exists in the margins of our society, hidden in spaces with boundaries in place to sequester the living from the dead. As a consequence, we have marginally lost rituals and language for mourning.

These installations are both my interpretation of modern memorial and a longing for my loved ones to come through from the other side. When my family home was inundated with flowers during our mourning period, I realised that this was one of the main rituals we have for death. Though beautiful, the flowers felt alien in our home. This artwork interrogates the question I have been exploring since then; what life and meaning do flowers take on when they are experienced in unexpected places?

Bio: Abigail Giblin is a Hobart based artist that uses flowers to create ephemeral installations. Through her ongoing practice she investigates how death is perceived and dealt with in contemporary western society. As a culture we treat death as a taboo topic, with few conversations and limited rituals for mourning. Since graduating from Honours at the School of Creative Arts (UTAS), Abigail has presented installations within gallery spaces and public arenas, and has explored participatory and ephemeral art with the aim of opening up discussions about death, transience and flowers as communicators for abstract human emotion.

Image details (from top to bottom)

  1. Image by Louis Lim, courtesy of the artist and Outer Space gallery.

  2. Image credit courtesy of the artist.

  3. Roz Hall, ‘And Roz’ detail, 2025. Image courtesy of Brenton McGeachie (indicative)

  4. Image credit courtesy of the artist.