Panopticon III - Garden of Earthly Delights

cell i: the earth of trash

Through the production of packaging and waste materials, the earth loses more natural resources. By using commonly discarded trash, we'll be creating a forest that continuously grows, trying to rebuild what we once had.

Artists: Chen Huang, Rachael Soo, Hayley Strutt

cell ii: the other feast

Colonialism, capitalism and patriarchal power structures create an Eden for some and a hell for others.

This work explores the artist’s experience of brownness and womanhood in Australia. Through offering her body and traditional exports from her ancestral homeland, Sri Lanka, she considers the boundaries between desire and consumption, assimilation and erasure.

Artists: Rebecca Mitchell, Chen Huang

cell vii: sin space

Contained within these walls, the rituals of both the mundane and the sinful are performed, engaging in a sadistic exploration of greed, vanity and pain. The room compares both the constructive rituals performed daily with the devious rituals performed in secret.

Artists: Jordan Flynn, Skye Smith, Henry Watson

cell viii: we make great pets

‘We Make Great Pets’ shows hidden violence in ordinary actions and behaviours. This encounter aims to provide the audience with an experience that uses innocuous materials like children’s toys to bastardise the connotations of everyday life and the aesthetics we rely on. The exhibition blends many objects and metaphors to establish an understanding of the abilities and effects of human conduct.

Artists: Leonie Agius, Lilly Amos, Clara Martin, Amber Miller, Bryce Schreuder

cell xi: live drawing no i

In this performance you will find 3 artists drawing in response to an individual panel of the famous Bosch triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. They are also listening to music that resonates with the mood of the panel they are immersed in. The sounds you hear are an amalgamation of the three soundtracks the artists are listening to, from the serene to the debaucherous and brutal.

Artists: Harrison Bowe, Tim Coad, Corinna Howell, Maggie Jeffries, George Kennedy, Colin Schildhauer, Courtney Simpson, Matthew Willes

cell xii: regeneration

A response to the recent bushfires in Tasmania. Regeneration is a reference to Hieronymus Bosch’s third panel in his Garden of Earthly Delights triptych - Hell. This work represents paradise lost through the use of light and shadow. Demonstrating how our actions cause a ripple effect on the environment and encouraging working together to achieve regeneration

Artists: Rachael Soo, Hayley Strutt