IN | artist run initiative

IN SITE RESIDENCY | @odessa_devries March x April 2026 | Read more via our website and “Encountering The Other” by Mae Stanton 🎥 @ryanjones Proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

Full text 🔗 in bio Developed during a four-week residency at The Old Lock-Up with IN | ARI, this body of work moved in close dialogue with site, material and scale. Through responsive sculptural forms, @odessa_devries explored the racially ambiguous body, tracing the tensions between visibility, objectification and belonging. As bodies shift between subject and object, the installation unfolded as a spatial encounter-asking how we are read, positioned and mediated within space. @maestanton_ is an emerging arts worker, researcher and writer whose practice centres decolonial praxis and critical cross-cultural dialogues of Asian-Pacific artists. 📷 @ryanjones Proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

TOMORROW | The Old Lock Up | 🔗in bio An exhibition of chimeric orientation. afterbodies, by Camille Therese and Ruby Donohoe, is a viscerotropic channel. The slow, instinctive turning of the body toward what it cannot name; a pull that begins beneath language, in the wet grammar of organs. It is the gut leaning before the mind agrees. An exhibition of chimeric orientation. Toward shimmering heat, systematic rust, and intimacy Where desire thickens into direction and the interior finds its way outward. The exhibition is a feral pull - a speculative present shaped by multiple, even contradictory impulses at once. Part apparition, part residue the works are a beautiful defiant growth in The Old Lock Up- sculpture, textile, video, and installation. afterbodies operates as a counter-logic to the authoritarian imagination- dissolving fixed identities, interrupting narratives of inevitability, and generating porous symbolic worlds through which alternative social relations can be sensed, rehearsed, and held. A choreography of almosts, summoning unruly undercurrents as an antidote. Here the undisciplined grows - like when you leave a potato in the dark in a cupboard and it grows looking for soil and something to stick its roots into, thriving in unlikely conditions. SPLIT ENDS Artist x Sound | @rubybridgetdonohoe Video | @timothybirch.smithmadden Light | @trav_lane Assistant Direction | @jamillamc Find out more about IN | artist run initiative via @in_ari | .au This program is proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

ASHTRAY TOM | DJ SET | 25 APRIL “sticky, mutated forms, iridescent pearly translucent bog, echo-y. Double headed things. Humour ( a little) straddling the edge. Sexy. Fertile. Sound scapy and atmospheric. Pump it up at the end.“ ASHTRAY TOM is a Sydney-based DJ and dancer. She has djed at @sydneymardigras , @heapsgay , @girlthing_au , and @fredasforever . Dancer, performer and teacher at queer line dance collective @saddle___club . OPENING (and only) NIGHT 🔗 in bio afterbodies Camille Therese x Ruby Donohoe 25 April | 6-9pm The Old Lock Up, Cotton Tree @pintofpinot @camille__therese @rubybridgetdonohoe Supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

TONIGHT | @odessa_devries x @moshak67 Odessa Mahony-de Vries unveils a new sculptural installation exploring the racially ambiguous body developed during her IN | SITE Residency. One night inside The Old Lock-Up, Cotton Tree. Odessa Mahony-de Vries unveils a new sculptural installation spread through the cells and corridors of the building. Her work explores the racially ambiguous body - how bodies are seen and read - using sculptural forms that blur the line between body, object and architecture. Expect strange shapes, shifting bodies, and sculptures that feel a little bit alive in the space they’re in. Guest DJ - Moshak - will be playing through the night, with the building open after dark - come wander, hang out, and see what’s been growing inside the walls. Find out more about IN | artist run initiative via @in_ari | .au This program is proudly supported by Sunshine Coast Council.

afterbodies, by Ruby Donohoe and Camille Therese, is a viscerotropic channel. The slow, instinctive turning of the body toward what it cannot name; a pull that begins beneath language, in the wet grammar of organs. It is the gut leaning before the mind agrees. An exhibition of chimeric orientation. Toward shimmering heat, systematic rust, and intimacy Where desire thickens into direction and the interior finds its way outward. The exhibition is a feral pull - a speculative present shaped by multiple, even contradictory impulses at once. Part apparition, part residue the works are a beautiful defiant growth in The Old Lock Up- sculpture, textile, video, and installation. afterbodies operates as a counter-logic to the authoritarian imagination- dissolving fixed identities, interrupting narratives of inevitability, and generating porous symbolic worlds through which alternative social relations can be sensed, rehearsed, and held. A choreography of almosts, summoning unruly undercurrents as an antidote. Here the undisciplined grows - like when you leave a potato in the dark in a cupboard and it grows looking for soil and something to stick its roots into, thriving in unlikely conditions. 25 April | 6pm - 9pm @camille__therese x @rubybridgetdonohoe RSVP 🔗 in bio The program is proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

afterbodies, by Ruby Donohoe and Camille Therese, is a viscerotropic channel. The slow, instinctive turning of the body toward what it cannot name; a pull that begins beneath language, in the wet grammar of organs. It is the gut leaning before the mind agrees. An exhibition of chimeric orientation. Toward shimmering heat, systematic rust, and intimacy Where desire thickens into direction and the interior finds its way outward. The exhibition is a feral pull - a speculative present shaped by multiple, even contradictory impulses at once. Part apparition, part residue the works are a beautiful defiant growth in The Old Lock Up- sculpture, textile, video, and installation. afterbodies operates as a counter-logic to the authoritarian imagination- dissolving fixed identities, interrupting narratives of inevitability, and generating porous symbolic worlds through which alternative social relations can be sensed, rehearsed, and held. A choreography of almosts, summoning unruly undercurrents as an antidote. Here the undisciplined grows - like when you leave a potato in the dark in a cupboard and it grows looking for soil and something to stick its roots into, thriving in unlikely conditions. 25 April | 6pm - 9pm @camille__therese x @rubybridgetdonohoe RSVP 🔗 in bio The program is proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

10 APRIL | RSVP 🔗 IN BIO Moshak joins Odessa Mahoney-de Vries IN | SITE Residency Showing. Moshak AKA (Moscos) is an Iranian sound artist based in Australia. His studio production style can range from deep and driving ambient techno to hard-hitting Industrial sounds. When playing live he utilises synthesisers and drum machines to create sound sets that take forms from seemingly chaotic combinations that materialise in unexpected ways into captivating rhythmic structures. SOUNDCLOUD | /moscos_cosmos @moshak67 @odessa_devries @artscoast 📷 i. @cynthialee.c ii. @thomas__oliver Supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

DATE CHANGE 10 April One night inside The Old Lock-Up, Cotton Tree. RSVPs essential | 🔗 in bio @odessa_devries unveils a new sculptural installation spread through the cells and corridors of the building and developed as part of her IN | SITE Residency. This new work explores the racially ambiguous body - how bodies are seen and read - using sculptural forms that blur the line between body, object and architecture. Expect strange shapes, shifting bodies, and sculptures that feel a little bit alive in the space they’re in. guest DJ @moshak67 will be playing through the night, with the building open after dark - come wander, hang out, and see what’s been growing inside the walls. About the IN | SITE RESIDENCY The IN | SITE RESIDENCY is a paid, four-week opportunity for artists to create and present new work at The Old Lock-Up. The program invites projects that are site-responsive, site-specific or site-designed, encouraging artists to engage the building as a total environment. Emerging from IN | ARI’s long-standing culture of dialogue and collaboration, the residency supports artists to move beyond the contours of their current practice - testing new materials, ideas and conceptual trajectories that may not yet have a public form. It provides a platform for research-led experimentation and immersive, spatially responsive work that unfolds across the site. IN SITE RESIDENCY is designed as a space for risk, depth and new propositions - a context where artists are trusted to expand their practice and develop ambitious, sensorial projects that respond directly to place. Supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

• Odessa Mahony-de Vries is the next artist undertaking the IN | SITE RESIDENCY at The Old Lock-Up • Across four weeks, @odessa_devries will develop a new body of sculptural work that examines the racially ambiguous body and the dynamics of objectification. Working in direct dialogue with the architecture and material presence of the site, the artist will produce highly responsive forms shaped by the scale, textures and spatial conditions of the building. The resulting installation unfolds as a spatial encounter between body, object and site- inviting audiences to consider how bodies are read, positioned and mediated within space. — About the IN | SITE RESIDENCY The IN | SITE RESIDENCY is a paid, four-week opportunity for artists to create and present new work at The Old Lock-Up. The program invites site-responsive, site-specific and site-designed projects that treat the building as a total environment. Emerging from IN | ARI’s culture of dialogue and collaboration, the residency supports artists to move beyond the contours of their existing practice—testing new materials, ideas and conceptual trajectories that may not yet have a public form. It is a context for research-led experimentation and spatially responsive installation: a space for risk, depth and new propositions. — Residency Showing / Opening Night Friday 10 April 2026 6–8pm The Old Lock-Up 4 First Ave, Maroochydore Kabi Kabi Country Stay tuned for more details. 📷 I and III. @christinehallphotographer II. Courtesy of the artist Proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

One chapter closes, another begins. Ruby Donohoe continues as Founding Director of IN | ARI — carrying forward the vision and critical foundations that have shaped the organisation since 2021 - and is now joined by Camille Therese as Director, marking the start of a new and evolving chapter. Ruby Donohoe works with choreography as a mode of critical inquiry into the body’s political, sensory and relational capacities. Across live performance, participatory frameworks, video and installation, their practice examines instability as generative. Informed by living with epilepsy, Ruby foregrounds interruption, hesitation and disorientation as tools for rethinking embodiment. Their work explores dissolution, soft architectures and speculative form - asking how bodies and systems hold, omit and transform meaning over time. Camille Therese is an interdisciplinary artist whose sculptural and installation-based practice engages material as a site of dialogue - embracing resistance, tension and precarious balance. Through acts of fracturing and repair, her work holds paradox as method: violence and care, destruction and creation, control and surrender coexisting. Drawing on lived experience of neurodivergence, chronic illness, queerness and motherhood, Camille honours fragility and error as generative forces. Together, their curatorial vision is shaped by a shared commitment to instability as framework - exploring how instability can surface suppressed or overlooked narratives, and how institutions - like bodies - might soften, unmake, or become otherwise. 📷 I @sunshine_tintypes II @gdocs.co at @_softwash_ III Courtesy of the artist Proudly supported by @sunshinecoastcouncil

A change of eras at IN | ARI We’re saying farewell to Sharna Barker and June Sartracom from their roles as Directors. Alongside Ruby Donohoe, they were founding directors of IN | ARI in 2021, laying the groundwork for everything the organisation has become. From big ideas to the unseen labour, Sharna and June helped build the tone, values and heart of IN | ARI. Their influence is everywhere, and this next chapter wouldn’t exist without them. Sharna continues her work as Exhibition Program Officer at Museums & Galleries Queensland, alongside her independent arts practice. You can keep up with June’s evolving practice via @junometry . Endless thanks to @sharna.a.barker and @junometry for what they’ve given - and so much love for what comes next 💛 📷 I. @mica_schettini II. @jaxoliverstudio