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Exhibitions

Tuesday 2 September
2025

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Izabela Pluta

Lumina

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 5 October

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Chunxiao Qu

I am a Contemporary English Language Mother

Gertrude Glasshouse
Saturday 26 April – Saturday 31 May

In I am a Contemporary English Language Mother, Chunxiao Qu constructs a space where power, language, and authorship collide in a series of playful yet unsettling inversions. Through sculpture, neon text, and performative gestures, Qu questions whether reversing roles can ever truly dismantle the structures they seek to subvert.

By claiming the title of a ‘contemporary English language mother’ as a non-native speaker, Qu embodies a contradiction where authority is both seized and undermined. Her works confront the futility of reversal — where the gaze, once flipped, merely mirrors the original power dynamic, leaving its core disturbingly intact.

I am a Contemporary English Language Mother invites viewers to navigate a terrain where humour and contradiction destabilise certainty, leaving them to confront the unsettling realisation that even in reversal, authority remains a game that refuses to be won.

Location

Gertrude Glasshouse
44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood VIC, Australia

Date

Saturday 26 April – Saturday 31 May

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Website

https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/chunxiao-qu-i-am-a-contemporary-english-language-mother

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Exhibitions

Tuesday 2 September
2025

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Izabela Pluta

Lumina

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 5 October

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Chunxiao Qu

I am a Contemporary English Language Mother

Gertrude Glasshouse
Saturday 26 April – Saturday 31 May

In I am a Contemporary English Language Mother, Chunxiao Qu constructs a space where power, language, and authorship collide in a series of playful yet unsettling inversions. Through sculpture, neon text, and performative gestures, Qu questions whether reversing roles can ever truly dismantle the structures they seek to subvert.

By claiming the title of a ‘contemporary English language mother’ as a non-native speaker, Qu embodies a contradiction where authority is both seized and undermined. Her works confront the futility of reversal — where the gaze, once flipped, merely mirrors the original power dynamic, leaving its core disturbingly intact.

I am a Contemporary English Language Mother invites viewers to navigate a terrain where humour and contradiction destabilise certainty, leaving them to confront the unsettling realisation that even in reversal, authority remains a game that refuses to be won.

Location

Gertrude Glasshouse
44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood VIC, Australia

Date

Saturday 26 April – Saturday 31 May

Save to Calendar

Website

https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/chunxiao-qu-i-am-a-contemporary-english-language-mother

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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