Exhibitions

RIPAIRIAN [2024 – ]

Vahri McKenzie and Gemma Ben-Ary, 2024, Iso Dawn. Photograph by Christophe Canato. During a 9-week residency at Midland Junction Arts Centre, Vahri McKenzie and Gemma Ben-Ary developed a series of new performance art experiments and fibre-woven artworks in conversation with a site near Mandoon Bilya/Helena …

Temporary assembly amidst change

McKenzie, V. (2022). Temporary assembly amidst change, UPENDING | MENDING: Catalogue of the Twenty-eighth Faculty of Arts & Design Staff Art Exhibition, National Library of Australia. Fires, floods and bugs sweep the country and creatives are exhorted to recover, to build resilience, to resume our …

Zoongnosis [2022]

Like the neologism that splices the Greek roots for animal, knowledge, and disease of animal origins, ‘Zoongnosis’ splices donated audio with discarded gloves and parrot wings. This COVID-safe participatory artwork invited people to send me audio recordings that reflected their ‘COVID mood’, persistent and lingering …

Upending | Mending [2022]

Curated by Vahri McKenzie, UK Frederick and Katie Hayne, the University of Canberra’s Faculty of Arts and Design annual exhibition presents diverse creative responses to the inspiration, and provocation, of the theme Upending | Mending. Our artists, designers and creative educators brought together a variety …

Colour me, Beautiful [2021]

Colour Me, Beautiful time-lapse documentation video of live performance artwork. With thanks to the hundreds of visitors who added their colour story, and to delegate artists Annette Carmichael, Bec Bradley, Rebecca Corps, Gemma Ben-Ary, Josef Quinn, Nathan Gardiner, Sheree Dohnt, Rizzy, and videographer Katherine Ingarfield. …