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 Jennifer Ferng, Daniel Ryan and Elizabeth Walling

Artists & Participants: 

• Ben Brown
• Merilyn Fairskye
• Jess Harwood
• Prevalent
• Gino Volpato
• Christopher Wright

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: Yesterday New Future (Liddell), image by Merilyn Fairskye, 2023

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