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Exhibitions

Wednesday 18 March
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Tammy Kanat

Circle of Her

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 18 September – Sunday 22 March

Inbal Nissim

Regards From Your Future

Jewish Museum of Australia
Monday 6 October – Sunday 22 March

Hany Armanious

Stone Soup

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 21 November – Saturday 11 April

Nipa Doshi

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025

NGV International
Thursday 25 September – Wednesday 1 April

Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo

Westwood Kawakubo

NGV International
Sunday 7 December – Sunday 19 April

Group Show

Wyndham Art Prize 2026: Finalist

Wyndham Art Gallery
Monday 19 January – Sunday 22 March

Group Show

Wet Areas

Gallery Jones
Sunday 1 February – Tuesday 31 March

David Bradley

EPOCH

Lyon Housemuseum
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 May

Tina Stefanou

Motet Fail

West Space
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 18 April

Cindy Huang

Landings

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Augusta Vinall Richardson

Temporary Configurations

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Anna Higgins

True Love at Dawn

Neon Parc
Friday 6 March – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

Molten Tongues

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

GRAPHIC

Boom Gallery
Thursday 26 February – Saturday 21 March

Group Show

Fresh! 2026

Craft
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

Three Painters — Katherine Hattam, Milly James, Maureen Poulson Napangardi

Sarah Scout Presents
Friday 13 February – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

Darebin Art Prize 2026

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 20 June

Little Darlin'

Saxon Quinn

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 March – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

Marjorie Street – Chris & Friends

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 5 March – Saturday 25 April

Noel McKenna

The Distance Between

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 21 March

Helen Maudsley

Helen Maudsley

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 21 March

Alec Baker and Eric Barney

Paintamilani Tjungungku / Painting Together

Alcaston Gallery
Wednesday 11 March – Saturday 11 April

Matthew Harris

Stilhed

Futures Gallery
Thursday 12 March – Saturday 4 April

Group Show

Ara-Thulu (Tree)

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 5 April

Jiaxin Nong

Weather, in formation

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 21 March

Aleks Danko

A(GAP)E

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 14 June

Joshua de Gruchy

Nursery

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Leesa Cowan & Jo Dunsmuir

Floral Harvest

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Shani Black

Load of Rubbish

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Chara Meredith

Each Choice

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Paul Turner

Supply your own light

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Group Show

Linger

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Heather Lee

Vessels of Qi: Carrying What Endures

Craft
Tuesday 3 March – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 16 August

Christian Capurro

Mimic’s Turn

Five Walls
Friday 6 March – Saturday 28 March

Kate Tucker

Fragment, Unknown

Daine Singer
Wednesday 11 March – Saturday 18 April

Rebecca Jensen

Marking Out

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 6 March – Saturday 11 April

Mia Khin Boe

Walking about

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 7 March – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

Future Creatives

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 17 May

Group Show

Art + Language

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 17 May

yEAH / dUNNO

Jon Campbell

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 24 May

Group Show

Minimal

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 17 May

Group Show

A New Universe—Architecture in Print

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 7 June

Telly Tuita

A Tongpop Tale: Memoirs of a Professional Brown Man

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 18 March – Saturday 25 April

Chantel de Latour

Rooms with a View

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 18 March – Saturday 18 April

Telly Tuita

A Tongpop Tale: Memoirs of a Professional Brown Man

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 18 March – Saturday 25 April

Telly Tuita's vibrant practice has been celebrated for his bold exploration of diasporic identity and neo-Pacific expression. Working across video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation, Telly has coined the term Tongpop to describe the bright visual language used to celebrate his rich relationship with his ancestral home of Tonga.

Telly's new suite of work revisits his archetype of a professional brown man. Through his performative practice of photography, Telly's connecting these ideas with the lives and imagery of Moana men, ever since the image of the ‘other’ serves to mythologise and mislead from the true persona/likeness of these individuals.

Telly draws on figures like Mai, a young 19 year old man from Ra’iātea who was the first Moana man to visit England on Captain Cook's second voyage under the patronage of Joseph Banks. Mai was an instant celebrity in the late 1700s London, painted by Joshua Reynolds—immortalised. Forever the youthful graceful brown man. But no trace or voice of Mai remains anywhere for us to truly know who he was.

Culture and self can serve as markers of one’s identity but sometimes they can serve to interfere, even erase the true nature, true thoughts of the professional brown man.

Location

MARS Gallery
7 James St, Windsor VIC 3181, Australia

Date

Wednesday 18 March – Saturday 25 April

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Website

https://marsgallery.com.au/exhibitions/108-a-tongpop-tale-memoirs-of-a-professional-brownman-telly-tuita/

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 18 March
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Tammy Kanat

Circle of Her

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 18 September – Sunday 22 March

Inbal Nissim

Regards From Your Future

Jewish Museum of Australia
Monday 6 October – Sunday 22 March

Hany Armanious

Stone Soup

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 21 November – Saturday 11 April

Nipa Doshi

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025

NGV International
Thursday 25 September – Wednesday 1 April

Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo

Westwood Kawakubo

NGV International
Sunday 7 December – Sunday 19 April

Group Show

Wyndham Art Prize 2026: Finalist

Wyndham Art Gallery
Monday 19 January – Sunday 22 March

Group Show

Wet Areas

Gallery Jones
Sunday 1 February – Tuesday 31 March

David Bradley

EPOCH

Lyon Housemuseum
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 May

Tina Stefanou

Motet Fail

West Space
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 18 April

Cindy Huang

Landings

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Augusta Vinall Richardson

Temporary Configurations

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Anna Higgins

True Love at Dawn

Neon Parc
Friday 6 March – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

Molten Tongues

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

GRAPHIC

Boom Gallery
Thursday 26 February – Saturday 21 March

Group Show

Fresh! 2026

Craft
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

Three Painters — Katherine Hattam, Milly James, Maureen Poulson Napangardi

Sarah Scout Presents
Friday 13 February – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

Darebin Art Prize 2026

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 20 June

Little Darlin'

Saxon Quinn

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 March – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

Marjorie Street – Chris & Friends

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 5 March – Saturday 25 April

Noel McKenna

The Distance Between

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 21 March

Helen Maudsley

Helen Maudsley

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 21 March

Alec Baker and Eric Barney

Paintamilani Tjungungku / Painting Together

Alcaston Gallery
Wednesday 11 March – Saturday 11 April

Matthew Harris

Stilhed

Futures Gallery
Thursday 12 March – Saturday 4 April

Group Show

Ara-Thulu (Tree)

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 5 April

Jiaxin Nong

Weather, in formation

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 21 March

Aleks Danko

A(GAP)E

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 14 June

Joshua de Gruchy

Nursery

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Leesa Cowan & Jo Dunsmuir

Floral Harvest

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Shani Black

Load of Rubbish

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Chara Meredith

Each Choice

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Paul Turner

Supply your own light

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Group Show

Linger

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 5 March – Sunday 22 March

Heather Lee

Vessels of Qi: Carrying What Endures

Craft
Tuesday 3 March – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 16 August

Christian Capurro

Mimic’s Turn

Five Walls
Friday 6 March – Saturday 28 March

Kate Tucker

Fragment, Unknown

Daine Singer
Wednesday 11 March – Saturday 18 April

Rebecca Jensen

Marking Out

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 6 March – Saturday 11 April

Mia Khin Boe

Walking about

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 7 March – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

Future Creatives

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 17 May

Group Show

Art + Language

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 17 May

yEAH / dUNNO

Jon Campbell

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 24 May

Group Show

Minimal

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 17 May

Group Show

A New Universe—Architecture in Print

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 7 June

Telly Tuita

A Tongpop Tale: Memoirs of a Professional Brown Man

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 18 March – Saturday 25 April

Chantel de Latour

Rooms with a View

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 18 March – Saturday 18 April

Telly Tuita

A Tongpop Tale: Memoirs of a Professional Brown Man

MARS Gallery
Wednesday 18 March – Saturday 25 April

Telly Tuita's vibrant practice has been celebrated for his bold exploration of diasporic identity and neo-Pacific expression. Working across video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation, Telly has coined the term Tongpop to describe the bright visual language used to celebrate his rich relationship with his ancestral home of Tonga.

Telly's new suite of work revisits his archetype of a professional brown man. Through his performative practice of photography, Telly's connecting these ideas with the lives and imagery of Moana men, ever since the image of the ‘other’ serves to mythologise and mislead from the true persona/likeness of these individuals.

Telly draws on figures like Mai, a young 19 year old man from Ra’iātea who was the first Moana man to visit England on Captain Cook's second voyage under the patronage of Joseph Banks. Mai was an instant celebrity in the late 1700s London, painted by Joshua Reynolds—immortalised. Forever the youthful graceful brown man. But no trace or voice of Mai remains anywhere for us to truly know who he was.

Culture and self can serve as markers of one’s identity but sometimes they can serve to interfere, even erase the true nature, true thoughts of the professional brown man.

Location

MARS Gallery
7 James St, Windsor VIC 3181, Australia

Date

Wednesday 18 March – Saturday 25 April

Save to Calendar

Website

https://marsgallery.com.au/exhibitions/108-a-tongpop-tale-memoirs-of-a-professional-brownman-telly-tuita/

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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