Other Worlds brings together artists whose work draws on gaming culture, fantasy and speculative forms of storytelling. Across painting, sculpture, installation and digital media, the exhibition explores how imagined worlds are constructed and inhabited, offering spaces that sit somewhere between reality and fiction.
Influenced by video games, online communities and world-building practices, the works in Other Worlds consider the ways people use fantasy to experiment with identity, navigate experience and imagine alternative possibilities. Rather than simply providing an escape, these invented environments become sites for reflection, transformation and connection.
The exhibition invites audiences to move through a series of imagined spaces that challenge familiar perspectives and open up new ways of seeing. In these worlds, the boundaries between the personal and collective, the virtual and physical, become fluid, revealing fantasy as a powerful tool for making meaning and imagining what might exist beyond the everyday.
Featuring Abigail Michell, Aidan Sefo, Anna Dehm, Daniel Pace, Darcy Scott, Gavin Porter, Heidi Beard, Jenny Ngo, Joey Balliro, Nicholas Capaldo and Simon Madaffari.
Curated by Joey Balliro, Carolyn Hawkins and Peter Douglas.
Accessibility
Wheelchair accessible
The Northcote Project Space is located in Arts Project Australia’s studio foyer.
The studio is a two-story wheelchair accessible building.
The second story is accessible via lift or stairs.
Wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral toilets available on site.
The Northcote Project Space and studio can be a noisy place. Those with audio sensory sensitivities are recommended to bring ear protection.
Service animals and guide dogs welcome.
Social pets are unable to be inside the studio.
Getting Here
The closest tram to the Studio is the 86 Tram.
Stop #506, on Westgarth/High Street is the closest stop. It is a 100 metre walk to the studio.
The 250 and 251 (Cunningham/High Street), and the 506 (Westgarth St/McLachlan St) stops are less than a 300 metres from the studio.
Westgarth Station and Rushall Station are the closes train station and less than a 400 metre walk from the studio.
Please note there is Limited parking in the surrounding streets.
We recommend travelling via public transport were possible.
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