Curated by Talia Smith, I will tell you my story is a group exhibition that engages with some of the 800+ artworks in the UTS Art Collection to consider how the collection can be re-read in light of the present, challenged as an archive, and imagined anew.

A new video commission by Kent Morris which tells the Barkindji Ancestral constellation story of the two kiinki’ngulu sisters, who appear as two white cockatoos (Corellas) in the sky, representing the clouds of Magellan.

Citizen J is an art-as-activism project that invites UTS students to collaborate with artist collective Make or Break on analysing media, using AI technologies and creating a future news feed to explore truth, influence and subjectivity.

Presented through the lens of virtual reality, can’t buy me love is a new immersive work by Amala Groom and Andrew Burrell that purports to sell the intangibility of spiritual enlightenment.

Maggot is a video installation by Sidney McMahon that examines the act of looking, being looked at and being seen, and the relationship between our visual reality and our cognitive understanding.

Kaleidoscope Healing considers the intentional movement of energy between Hannah Brontë’s practice and her communities and the importance of language to her work over the past decade. The exhibition presents a survey of Brontë’s work alongside an immersive installation made cooperatively with members of Twenty10, a NSW-based LGBTIQA+ service for young people aged 12-25.

The history of surfing has its roots firmly planted as far back as the 12th century in Polynesia predating any European contact. There are now 2.7 million surfers nationally, yet being a Queer surfer is still considered dangerous and taboo. Commissioned for the UTS Broadway Screen, Powa Wave by Hannah Bronte explores the radical act of being a Queer woman in the ocean today.

The UTS Artist in Residence program returns for a second year in 2022. This opportunity pairs one NSW-based visual artist or collective with a UTS faculty to support the creation of a new work. Applications close 31 January 2022.