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UTS Gallery & Art Collection UTS Gallery is a space where creativity and technology meet, focused on diverse, innovative and cros

Select UTS Gallery titles are now available to purchase via (Naarm/Melbourne) as well as when you visit UTS Gallery.Wor...
20/05/2026

Select UTS Gallery titles are now available to purchase via (Naarm/Melbourne) as well as when you visit UTS Gallery.

World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, and the avant-garde.



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Join us at UTS Gallery from 6pm tomorrow, Thursday 7 May, to celebrate the opening of Spence Messih’s ‘A river runs thro...
06/05/2026

Join us at UTS Gallery from 6pm tomorrow, Thursday 7 May, to celebrate the opening of Spence Messih’s ‘A river runs through’.

Across sculpture, print and film, Messih presents a significant new body of work that traces the intertwined currents of water and gender, and the fragility of the systems, or fantasies, constructed to control them.

“Borders of race, gender and power are born of the same extractive forces that shape ecologies. In moments of converging ecological, social and economic crises, who benefits? Who becomes a scapegoat?”
– Spence Messih

RSVP at link in bio.

Commissioned by UTS Gallery & Art Collection. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and the Canberra Glassworks Artist in Residence Program.

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Images:
1. Spence Messih stands next to ‘A river run through’ artworks. Background: ‘Hiddener abode I–VII’ [installation view detail] 2025. Foreground: ‘False antithesis I–V’ [installation view detail], 2026. UTS Gallery, Gadigal Nura/Sydney. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Jacquie Manning.
2 and 3. ‘False antithesis I–V’ [installation view details], 2026, UTS Gallery, Gadigal Nura/Sydney. Courtesy the artist. Photos: Jacquie Manning.

OPENING SOON–“I’m interested in how both gender and water are disciplined, contained and extracted and how both reveal t...
28/04/2026

OPENING SOON–

“I’m interested in how both gender and water are disciplined, contained and extracted and how both reveal the fragility of the systems, or fantasies, constructed to control them. This is not an argument for a neat analogy between gender and water, but an invitation to stay with their struggles, shared unruliness and resistance to being fixed or fully known.”
– Spence Messih

‘A river runs through’ presents a significant new body of work by Spence Messih that traces the intertwined currents of water and gender.

Join us for opening night on Thursday, 7 May, 6–7.30pm with a Welcome to Country by Authy Rhonda Dixon Grovenor.

RSVP at link in bio.

Commissioned by UTS Gallery & Art Collection. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and the Canberra Glassworks Artist in Residence Program.
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FINAL WEEK'No place for mannequins: Remaking the fashion archive' examines the shifting form and status of the fashion a...
20/04/2026

FINAL WEEK
'No place for mannequins: Remaking the fashion archive' examines the shifting form and status of the fashion archive as a site of authority—shaping narratives of dress, design, and consumption. Through storytelling, ethical inquiry, and experimental practice, the exhibition considers how fashion histories are made and remade. On view until Friday 24 April.

Images: 'No place for mannequins', UTS Gallery (installation views), 2026. Photos: Jacquie Manning. See individual captions in comments.



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17/04/2026

intergenerational knowledge, garment-making, family, material embodiment, memory, land, beadwork

Artist Justine Woods reflects on intergenerational knowledge, material memory, and land-based storytelling through her Mackinaw jacket, featured in ‘No place for mannequins,’ now showing at UTS Gallery until 24 April 2026. Drawing on familial histories and the legacy of garment-making, Woods transforms the iconic Canadian jacket into a living archive – beaded with excerpts from her late grandmother Mary Woods’ 1979 journal, and shaped by a return to Moon River alongside her father. The work honours both personal lineage and the Wisaakodewikweg who first crafted the Mackinaw jacket in the ealry 19th century, weaving together memory, place, and cultural continuity through intricate beadwork and material embodiment.



Videography: Jason Benedek and Michael Weatherill
Voiceover: Justine Woods

14/04/2026

UPCOMING:
‘A river runs through’
Spence Messih
5 May – 21 August 2026

‘A river runs through’ presents a major new body of work by Spence Messih that considers how both water and gender are monitored, categorised and disciplined. Moving between sculpture, print and film, Messih develops a material language shaped by tension, movement and contradiction.

Over the past decade, Messih has worked across sculpture, installation, and text to create works that move between abstraction and figuration. Attuned to the nuances of materiality and transformation, Messih’s practice combines intuitive and idiosyncratic processes that challenge notions of truth and reveal the contradictions and mutability of both materials and ideas. His latest works at UTS Gallery continue to deepen this rich material language.

Join us to celebrate the opening of ‘A river runs through’ on Thursday 7 May, 6–7.30 pm, with a Welcome to Country by Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor.

Commissioned by UTS Gallery & Art Collection. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and the Canberra Glassworks Artist in Residence Program.



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09/04/2026

‘bodies, things, sensations, correlations, wear, time, holes, destruction, preservation, transformation’

Artist and exhibition curator Todd Robinson describes influences and relational elements of his archival practice when discussing his works ‘Holey singlet’ (2025) and ‘Helmut Lang parachute jacket with bo***ge straps Automne/Hiver 1998/1999’ (2026), both featured in ‘No place for mannequins,’ now showing at UTS Gallery until 24 April 2026. Drawn to the multiple connections between his wardrobe and personal and familial stories, Robinson playfully elevates these garments into gleaming objets d’art cast in white-patinated bronze and aluminium.



Videography: Jason Benedek Jason Benedek
Voiceover: Todd Robinson Todd Robinson

01/04/2026

“feminism, labour, (re)publishing, archive, memory, library, garment industry, patriarchy, exploitation, gossip”

These words introduce “All Work is Women’s Work” (2025), a collaboration between the Library of Unruly Fashion Practices and XEROXED.

Instead of a traditional wall label, the work is introduced through association, echoing how these garments disrupt ideas of authorship, hierarchy, and the archive. Printed, photocopied, and worn, archival histories are written onto the body.

‘No place for mannequins: Remaking the fashion archive’ continues at UTS Gallery until 24 April.


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Image credits: XEROXED: wearable pages, readable garments (established 2022, Italy; Alia Mascia, designer) & Library of Unruly Fashion Practices (established 2025, Netherlands; Hanka van der Voet, author and Beau Bertens, designer), ‘All Work is Women’s Work’, 2025. Sublimation prints, screen prints, puffy white ink and black ink on cotton textiles, and 68-page publication. Courtesy the artists.

Videography: Jason Benedek and Michael Weatherill.
Voiceover: Hanka van der Voet, Library of Unruly Fashion Practices.

[ID: Images and text quotes about an artwork by Library of Unruly Fashion Practices with XEROXED. The artwork consists of archival Dutch language trade union newspapers pasted up behind a set of black & white screen-printed garments, which are wall-mounted and hanging from a black wall-mounted clothes rail. There is also a bench seat with a print publication that audiences are invited to sit and read.]

Call for Papers: Opening Up the Fashion ArchiveWhat does it mean to open the fashion archive today—and who gets to shape...
23/12/2025

Call for Papers: Opening Up the Fashion Archive

What does it mean to open the fashion archive today—and who gets to shape it?

UTS Gallery and UTS Fashion & Textiles invite scholars, curators, artists, designers, archivists, and practitioners to submit proposals for ‘Opening Up the Fashion Archive’, a two-day research symposium held 11–12 March 2026 at the University of Technology Sydney, alongside the exhibition ‘No place for Mannequins: Remaking the Fashion Archive’.

As fashion archives expand beyond institutional vaults into digital platforms, personal wardrobes, subcultures, social media, and AI-driven systems, this symposium asks how archives operate as sites of power, memory, experimentation, and resistance. We welcome scholarly papers, practice-led presentations, and workshops that critically engage with material, digital, social, q***r, decolonial, and participatory approaches to archiving fashion.

Indicative themes include:
- Expanded and alternative notions of fashion archives
- Q***r, decolonial, and counter-archival practices
- personal and community-based archives
- the impact of digital platforms and resale economies
- AI and generative approaches to fashion memory
- The relationship between archival work, sustainability, and ecological or social justice imperatives
*See link in bio for a wider suggestion of possible thematics.

Submission deadline extended to 15 January 2026.
Hybrid participation available for international presenters.

Submit a 250–300 word abstract and short bio via the link in bio.

Image: Femke de Vries in collaboration with Youngeun Sohn, ‘Telling Tremors: “Sheep have good memories”’ (moving image still), 2025. Courtesy the artists.

23/12/2025

THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY–

As 2025 draws to a close, we extend our heartfelt thanks to the artists, students, staff, and partners whose knowledge and generosity have shaped our year on Gadigal Country.

This year, UTS Gallery & Art Collection delivered a program that fostered creativity and connection across four exhibitions and 46 public and learning programs, welcoming more than 8,200 visitors to UTS.

These projects affirm UTS Gallery & Art Collection’s commitment to supporting artists and researchers to share knowledge and imagine new futures, while enriching learning and engagement across the university and beyond.

In a challenging year for the arts and education sectors, we remain committed to cultivating spaces where art offers critical insight, fosters belonging, and creates possibilities for positive change.

After a short summer break, we’re excited to launch our 2026 program in February. Join us on 12 February for the opening of No place for mannequins, a group exhibition featuring local and international artists and designers exploring the shifting form and status of the contemporary fashion archive. In May, Spence Messih will present a major solo exhibition of new work, A river runs through, supported by Creative Australia.

Learn more about the exhibitions at our links in bio.

Video: Opening night images of 'Extinguishing Hope', 'Elsie (and Minnie)', and 'All That is Alive'. Symposium image: Aunty Rhonda Dixon giving attendees a Welcome to Country. Photos: Jacquie Manning.

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