visual artist / storyteller / creative researcher
exhibition UPDATES
Coming up in mid-October 2025, the Moonah Arts Centre is presenting my exhibition 'CUSP.'
CUSP is an immersive, embodied audio-visual installation artwork, which offers threshold experiences to participants as they walk from one end of the MAC Project gallery to the other. As participants traverse the space they will experience a connected underground network of plant life, surrounded by larger-than-life animated photographs of tree roots sending energy down this darkened soil passageway towards the light at the end. Completion of this journey represents an opportunity, a re-emergence, a re-wiring, a re-birth - celebrating the start of a new, respectful, symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. A change in perspective is necessary to assist negotiations, to provide a way forward, to minimise the effects of climate change by Valuing Our Environment, Diversity, People and promote a Sense of Pride, Belonging and Place.
The CUSP exhibition is part of an ongoing, innovative, practice-led inquiry into the 'Tune:In’ model by a Queer intersectional Glenorchy artist who has exhibited around Tasmania, the mainland and
internationally. Previous artworks which explore the ‘Tune:In’ model and were inspired and created in Hobart include, 'The Yearning' (MAC, 2023), 'Plantcenta' (Rosny Barn, 2023) and 'Polyphony'
(SAC, 2023).
Check out the Artist talks from the 2023 'Kairos' exhibition at Rosny Farm and the 2021 'Her Beauty and Her Terror' exhibition in Queensland which explain my practice and gives you a taste of what to expect from CUSP. Click here to access the handout and to see/hear the Kairos exhibition artworks.
CUSP Exhibition dates: Friday 17 October – Saturday 8 November 2025
Moonah Arts Centre, 23-27 Albert Rd, Moonah, Tasmania
exhibition HIGHLIGHTS
Tune:In - The Yearning (Randell, Pieri, VoiceLab 2023)
2023 The Yearning exhibition: Moonah Arts Centre (HBA)
A mesmeric, tuning experience of embodied transformation. This project is a collaboration between myself, Hugo Pieri, the Hobart
VoiceLab: Queer+Allies and the Octopus Tree of kunanyi/Mt Wellington. Read more...
''Tune:In - The Yearning' installation (Randell, Pieri, VoiceLab 2023)
The Fen: Mama, Friggy, Pan 14 (Randell 2013-2014)
2023 Her Beauty and Her Terror exhibition: Redcliffe Art Gallery (QLD) and 2021 at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery (QLD) Click
to see documentation of 2023 exhibition
Photographer: Katie Bennett, courtesy Moreton Bay Regional Council
2023 My World: Voice & Visibility exhibition: QVMAG (TAS)
Featuring works by members of the Queer Artists Collective (QAC), this exhibition allowed me to show the 'truth' of this artwork which I was not 'able' to show when it
initially toured Brisbane and Sydney in 2016. Please click for more info about 'GASH'
'Tune-in: GASH' (Randell 2023)
![2016 [UN] natural Urges exhibition @ Brenda May, Sydney: All work to date except 'GASH'](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=1920x400:format=jpg/path/sb7a5975c6974661c/image/i370678bc386831b9/version/1541905914/image.jpg)
ARTWORKS
'Touching the Mauri' (Randell 2018) is a multi-projection immersive AV installation created for the 'He kākano āhau' (I am a seed) group
exhibition (2018) at the Logan Art Gallery. Artists included: Cheremene Castle, Tania Hapai Heta, Jackie Hawkins, Leona
Morete, Mihimai Nikora, Onesian (Allen Vili), Merri Randell and Teraimana Tahiata. Click for exhibition catalogue.
The journey of 'Touching the Mauri' travels from Peru to Hawaii to New Zealand and back to Australia, blending magical landscape creation story myths from a childhood in a rural Anglo Māori Australian Mormon household to fold time on itself. Soundscape created by Whaia Whaea (whaiacreation.com) This artwork has also been shown at Sydney's Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) for the 'Plant + Human' exhibition (2019), in Brisbane as part of the Pacific Arts Association Symposium 'Coming Together Through Strength & Culture' (2019) and at the 2019 Moreton Bay Region Art Awards exhibition ( 2019). This project is supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Logan City Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Bunya: Whip Roots (Randell 2015)
Outings:
2023 Kairos exhibition: The Barn at Rosny Farm (HBA), 2015 Queensland Regional Art Awards finalist and touring exhibition, 2016 [UN] natural
urges exhibition: Brenda May Gallery (SYD), 2015 Arts meets Science exhibition (BNE)
The Fen: Pan 14 (Randell 2014)
Outings:
2023 The Loop (HBA), 2023 Her Beauty and Her Terror exhibition: Redcliffe Art Gallery (QLD), 2021 Her Beauty and Her Terror exhibition: Caboolture Regional Art Gallery (QLD), 2016 [UN] natural urges exhibition Brenda May Gallery (SYD), 2016 Uncanny Nature exhibition Logan Art Gallery, 2014 Hans Heysen Art Award finalist exhibition, 2014 Clayton Utz Art Award finalist (noted) exhibition, 2014 BEAF (BNE), 2014 Virion Festival: Parer Place (BNE), 2012 Crane Arts Icebox (USA)
The Fen: Friggy (Randell 2013)
Outings:
2023 Kairos exhibition: The Barn at Rosny Farm (HBA), 2023 Her Beauty and Her Terror exhibition: Redcliffe Art Gallery (QLD), 2021 Her Beauty and Her Terror exhibition: Caboolture Regional Art Gallery (QLD), 2016 [UN] natural urges exhibition: Brenda May Gallery (SYD), 2015 Sunshine Coast Art Prize finalist exhibition (QLD), AntiMation touring exhibition (2014 BNE, 2015 CNS, 2016 SYD), 2015 Paramor Prize: Art+Innovation finalist exhibition, 2014 Brisbane Experimental Art Festival (BEAF), 2014 Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) Salon exhibition (MEL), 2014 Virion Festival: Parer Place (BNE)
The Fen: Furnace (Randell 2013)
Outings:
2023 The Loop (HBA), 2022 Glenorchy Open exhibition: Moonah Arts Centre (HBA), 2016 [UN] natural urges exhibition: Brenda May Gallery (SYD), 2014 Noosa Art Award finalist exhibition (QLD), 2014 BEAF (BNE), 2014 CCP Salon exhibition (MEL), 2014Virion Festival: Parer Place (BNE), 2012 Crane Arts Icebox (USA)