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Join us next week for a lecture by visiting scholar Hil Malatino, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State University. "Inner Visions: Gender Liberation and the Human Potential Movement" Wednesday, 20 May 6:00 - 7:30pm Chau Chak Wing Museum University of Sydney More info and registration via the link in our bio! Co-presented by the Power Institute, the Chau Chak Wing Museum, and UTS Gallery & Art Collection.

Join us at UTS Gallery from 6pm tomorrow, Thursday 7 May, to celebrate the opening of Spence Messih’s ‘A river runs through’. Across sculpture, print and film, Messih presents a significant new body of work that traces the intertwined currents of water and gender, and the fragility of the systems, or fantasies, constructed to control them. “Borders of race, gender and power are born of the same extractive forces that shape ecologies. In moments of converging ecological, social and economic crises, who benefits? Who becomes a scapegoat?” – Spence Messih RSVP at link in bio. Commissioned by UTS Gallery & Art Collection. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and the Canberra Glassworks Artist in Residence Program. – Images: 1. Spence Messih stands next to ‘A river run through’ artworks. Background: ‘Hiddener abode I–VII’ [installation view detail] 2025. Foreground: ‘False antithesis I–V’ [installation view detail], 2026. UTS Gallery, Gadigal Nura/Sydney. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Jacquie Manning. 2 and 3. ‘False antithesis I–V’ [installation view details], 2026, UTS Gallery, Gadigal Nura/Sydney. Courtesy the artist. Photos: Jacquie Manning.

OPENING SOON– “I’m interested in how both gender and water are disciplined, contained and extracted and how both reveal the fragility of the systems, or fantasies, constructed to control them. This is not an argument for a neat analogy between gender and water, but an invitation to stay with their struggles, shared unruliness and resistance to being fixed or fully known.” – Spence Messih ‘A river runs through’ presents a significant new body of work by Spence Messih that traces the intertwined currents of water and gender. Join us for opening night on Thursday, 7 May, 6–7.30pm with a Welcome to Country by Authy Rhonda Dixon Grovenor. RSVP at link in bio. Commissioned by UTS Gallery & Art Collection. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and the Canberra Glassworks Artist in Residence Program. @creative.australia @canberraglassworks

FINAL WEEK 'No place for mannequins: Remaking the fashion archive' examines the shifting form and status of the fashion archive as a site of authority—shaping narratives of dress, design, and consumption. Through storytelling, ethical inquiry, and experimental practice, the exhibition considers how fashion histories are made and remade. On view until Friday 24 April. Presented in partnership with UTS Faculty of Design and Society. Images: 'No place for mannequins', UTS Gallery (installation views), 2026. Photos: Jacquie Manning. See individual captions in comments. #noplaceformannequins #utsgallery #fashion #archives [ID: A carousel of images featuring an exhibition with displays from key vantage points within the gallery. The works in the exhibition are placed in context: deconstructed clothing, textile installations, custom wallpapers, poetry, low relief sculptures, printmaking and films.]

intergenerational knowledge, garment-making, family, material embodiment, memory, land, beadwork Artist Justine Woods reflects on intergenerational knowledge, material memory, and land-based storytelling through her Mackinaw jacket, featured in ‘No place for mannequins,’ now showing at UTS Gallery until 24 April 2026. Drawing on familial histories and the legacy of garment-making, Woods transforms the iconic Canadian jacket into a living archive – beaded with excerpts from her late grandmother Mary Woods’ 1979 journal, and shaped by a return to Moon River alongside her father. The work honours both personal lineage and the Wisaakodewikweg who first crafted the Mackinaw jacket in the ealry 19th century, weaving together memory, place, and cultural continuity through intricate beadwork and material embodiment. #noplaceformannequins #justinewoods Videography: Jason Benedek and Michael Weatherill Voiceover: Justine Woods

UPCOMING: ‘A river runs through’ Spence Messih 5 May – 21 August 2026 ‘A river runs through’ presents a major new body of work by Spence Messih that considers how both water and gender are monitored, categorised and disciplined. Moving between sculpture, print and film, Messih develops a material language shaped by tension, movement and contradiction. Over the past decade, Messih has worked across sculpture, installation, and text to create works that move between abstraction and figuration. Attuned to the nuances of materiality and transformation, Messih’s practice combines intuitive and idiosyncratic processes that challenge notions of truth and reveal the contradictions and mutability of both materials and ideas. His latest works at UTS Gallery continue to deepen this rich material language. Join us to celebrate the opening of ‘A river runs through’ on Thursday 7 May, 6–7.30 pm, with a Welcome to Country by Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor. Commissioned by UTS Gallery & Art Collection. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and the Canberra Glassworks Artist in Residence Program. #ariverrunsthrough #spencemessih [ID: White text on a heavy blue background, with an exhibition title, artist name and dates surrounding a rectangular field of grainy film footage in high contrast, which loops rhythmically.]

‘bodies, things, sensations, correlations, wear, time, holes, destruction, preservation, transformation’ Artist and exhibition curator Todd Robinson describes influences and relational elements of his archival practice when discussing his works ‘Holey singlet’ (2025) and ‘Helmut Lang parachute jacket with bondage straps Automne/Hiver 1998/1999’ (2026), both featured in ‘No place for mannequins,’ now showing at UTS Gallery until 24 April 2026. Drawn to the multiple connections between his wardrobe and personal and familial stories, Robinson playfully elevates these garments into gleaming objects cast in white-patinated bronze and aluminium. #noplaceformannequins #toddrobinson #sculpture #bronze Videography: Jason Benedek @death_daiquiri Voiceover: Todd Robinson @t_o_d_d_robinson

‘Fashion m̶a̶g̶a̶z̶i̶n̶e̶s̶ menageries: issue: Ru(s)sh Unity!’ is a magazine (intervention) as the result of a workshop by artist and researcher Femke de Vries, as part of the research project “Who Are You Wearing?,” with contributions by 2nd and 3rd year UTS Fashion and Visual Communication students. In this workshop, each participant responded to a fashion page of their choice from the magazine Russh (November 2025 issue), with the aim to spotlight the nonhuman animal(s) present and/or to disrupt the human-centric narrative of the fashion magazine. You can now view this collaborative work in the exhibition ‘No place for mannequins’ for a limited time. Workshop facilitator: Femke de Vries @femkedvrs Contributors: Amina Adjis, Fiona Andrews, Audrey Bollington, Allegra Cooke, Nathalie Doyle, Ella Dunnallen, Piper Finnegan, Alanna Frawley, Danielle Goodrick, Molly Hall, Jasper King, Jade Leaman, Jacqueline Lee, Madeline Macleod, Sienna Martin, Emily Ooi, Maia Stratos, Jocelyn Vo, and Ruby Wright Label graphic design and graphic design workshop guidance: Ella Cutler Printing: Jacob Hirsch Coordination and support: Todd Robinson @t_o_d_d_robinson Supported by: The research trip to Sydney and Melbourne under which the workshop took place was supported by ArtEZ Fashion Professorship, ArtEZ MA Critical Fashion Practices, Creative Industries Fund NL, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and UTS Gallery & Art Collection. Video animation: Finn Marchant Music: ‘October’ by Matthew Herbert

“feminism, labour, (re)publishing, archive, memory, library, garment industry, patriarchy, exploitation, gossip” These words introduce “All Work is Women’s Work” (2025), a collaboration between the Library of Unruly Fashion Practices and XEROXED. Instead of a traditional wall label, the work is introduced through association, echoing how these garments disrupt ideas of authorship, hierarchy, and the archive. Printed, photocopied, and worn, archival histories are written onto the body. ‘No place for mannequins: Remaking the fashion archive’ continues at UTS Gallery until 24 April. #noplaceformannequins #libraryofunrulyfashionpractices #XREOXED #womenswork @libraryofunrulyfashionpractice @xero.xed @hankavdvoet @aliamascia @beaubertens Image credits: XEROXED: wearable pages, readable garments (established 2022, Italy; Alia Mascia, designer) & Library of Unruly Fashion Practices (established 2025, Netherlands; Hanka van der Voet, author and Beau Bertens, designer), ‘All Work is Women’s Work’, 2025. Sublimation prints, screen prints, puffy white ink and black ink on cotton textiles, and 68-page publication. Courtesy the artists. Videography: Jason Benedek and Michael Weatherill. Voiceover: Hanka van der Voet, Library of Unruly Fashion Practices. [ID: Images and text quotes about an artwork by Library of Unruly Fashion Practices with XEROXED. The artwork consists of archival Dutch language trade union newspapers pasted up behind a set of black & white screen-printed garments, which are wall-mounted and hanging from a black wall-mounted clothes rail. There is also a bench seat with a print publication that audiences are invited to sit and read.]

𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐱 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 128 pages, 148 × 210 mm 2 colour risograph printed cover BW internal pages Folded, gathered and bound by elastic band Design by Zenobia Ahmed Risoprint by Alisa Croft, Pinch Press Internal pages, offset print by Gunn & Taylor Published by: UTS Gallery & Art Collection Authors: Ricarda Bigolin, D and K, Femke de Vries, Tim Hardy, Alix Higgins, Hansol Kim, Library of Unruly Fashion Practices, Kyra Mancktelow, Marco Marino, Todd Robinson, XEROXED, and Justine Woods. Commissioning Editors: Todd Robinson and Ricarda Bigolin Gathering responses from eleven local and international artists and collectives included in the exhibition, the index inventories a wide range of contemporary approaches to fashion archives. Six indexes invite readers to build their own paths through the archive, allowing personal acts of making and unmaking to emerge. “If the exhibition acts as a catalogue, then this publication is its indexical relative, mapping the ideas, materials, and critical practices that inform and extend beyond what is displayed.” – Ricarda Bigolin Copies now available at the gallery ($30) or please contact UTS Gallery for shipping options. Video animation: Finn Marchant @utsfds @alixhiggins @d__and__k @ricardabg @chantallkirby @femkedvrs @studiosol_ @kyramancktelow @libraryofunrulyfashionpractice @xero.xed @appocundriaa @tmhdy @t_o_d_d_robinson @zenobiaahmed

ON TOUR 'All That Is Alive' is an iterative touring exhibition co-commissioned by UTS Gallery & Art Collection and La Trobe Art Institute, which brings together eleven Australian artists and collectives working with living systems. Drawing on ancient kinships and ancestral knowledge, mycelial intelligence and fermentation, non-hierarchical and interspecies relations, machine desire and collective agency, the artworks in the exhibition engage with the interconnected practices that sustain and define life—human and otherwise. First presented in Sydney/Gadigal in 2025, the show recently opened on Djaara Country in Bendigo, and responds to local conditions, allowing artworks to speak not just of place, but from it. The exhibition continues at @latrobe_ai until 10 May 2026. Artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, Ivey Wawn. Curatorium: Connie Anthes, Stella Rosa McDonald, Jacqui Shelton, Amelia Wallin #allthatisalive #latrobeartinstitute #utsgallery Artist credits below. Artwork documentation photos: Leon Schoots. 'All That is Alive' opening images, La Trobe Art Institute. Photos: AJ Taylor. Image 1: OTHER MATTER signage, design by Alex Tanazefti. Madeleine Collie 'A Fermentation Plot' (2025-6). Images 2 - 4: Keg de Souza, 'Growth in the Shadows' (2025). Images 5 & 6: Ivey Wawn, 'Feeling in a Triangle' (2025-6). Images 7 - 9: Kylie Banyard & Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' (2025-6). Images 10 - 12: Elisa Jane Carmichael & Sonja Carmichael, 'Dabiyil Bajara (Water footprints)' (2021). Image 13: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' (2025-6). Image 14: Mandy Quadrio, 'marrawah' (2024). IMage 15: Sarah Poulgrain, 'Tube bending', 'houseboat railing' (2025). Image 16: Tully Arnot, 'Silicon' (2025-6). Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' (2025-6). Image 17: Magnetic Topographies, 'Materials Library' (2025-6). Image 18: Kylie Banyard & Saskia van Pagee Anderson, 'Groundwork' (2025-6). Image 19: Welcome to Djaara Country by Uncle Jason Kerr.

Publication Launch 📖 “An index of wearing and reading fashion archives” gathers and presents a collection of artist responses on how to make or unmake an archive. With introductory essays by commissioning editors and curators Todd Robinson and Ricarda Bigolin, the volume collects material and written assemblages of creative and research-based processes, including photographs, sketches, references, and citations, along with garments and accessories from participating artists’ personal wardrobes, into an index of living traces. Published on the occasion of the exhibition “No Place for mannequins: Remaking the fashion archive”, the publication will be launched at UTS Gallery on Wednesday 11 March from 9.30am, coinciding with the opening reception of the sympoisum program. All welcome. 128 pages, 148 × 210 mm 2 colour risograph printed cover BW internal pages Folded, gathered and bound by elastic band Published by: UTS Gallery & Art Collection Authors: Ricarda Bigolin, D and K, Femke de Vries, Tim Hardy, Alix Higgins, Hansol Kim, Library of Unruly Fashion Practices, Kyra Mancktelow, Marco Marino, Todd Robinson, XEROXED, and Justine Woods. Commissioning Editors: Todd Robinson and Ricarda Bigoin Copy Editors: Stella Rosa McDonald and Alice Rezende Design: Zenobia Ahmed Risoprint: Alisa Croft, Pinch Press Internal pages, offset print by Gunn & Taylor @alixhiggins @d__and__k @ricardabg @chantallkirby @femkedvrs @studiosol_ @kyramancktelow @libraryofunrulyfashionpractice @xero.xed @appocundriaa @tmhdy @t_o_d_d_robinson @zenobiaahmed @pinchpress