Monumental Imaginaries

This exhibition champions how regional NSW will adapt to the agenda of renewable energy and highlights how local advocates consider replacements for carbon intensive resources such as coal. It invites visitors to consider the scale of these transformations under way and the important role of visual media - drawing attention to the legacies of fossil fuel dependency and the emerging green visions of the upper and lower Hunter Valley.

Curated by Daniel Ryan and Jennifer Ferng

Exhibition Design: Matthew Darmour-Paul and Elizabeth Walling

Artists & Participants: 

• Ben Brown
• Collins & Turner Architects
• Merilyn Fairskye
• Jess Harwood
• Luke O'Connor
• Prevalent
• Gino Volpato
• Christopher Wright
• Daniel Burtt, Chiara Nunes & Rabia Naseer
• Will Gallen & Annie Kang
• Sarah Henderson, Dylan Slattery & Ben Wong
• Melissa Li & James McCauley

The exhibition acknowledges the support of the Sydney Environmental Institute, the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, Powerhouse Collection, Surfrider Foundation, Boral, University of Newcastle, Newcastle Libraries.

Tin Sheds Gallery acknowledges the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, upon whose ancestral lands our exhibitions take place. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge of these lands, waterways and Country.

Top image: Detail from Yesterday New Future (Liddell). Three-channel video installation with sound.  Merilyn Fairskye. (Commissioned by the Powerhouse Museum using funds generously donated by the Australian Centre for Photography, 2023)

Bottom image: Coal Monument at Parnell Place, Newcastle. Created by Newcastle Morning Herald, courtesy of Newcastle Library