Event Type : Exhibit

Boobah Boosca I am and burning sunshine
Matthew Dean
Avago Window Gallery

Exhibition Dates: 9 June – 1 July 2023
Gallery Open Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 10am–5pm and Saturday 10am–2pm

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

with myself ruminates and speaks on the artist’s unfolding sexuality, the fullness of desire and connection. Specifically, the soft sculptural works respond to her recently realised bisexuality – resting, pulling, and playing with the broad concept of ‘making love’. Having been single for many years, in this body of work Kate examines intertwined narratives of solitude and emerging desire. Muddling around in the space between sensuality and sexuality, her work processes the eb and flow of happiness, loneliness, and disorienting new desire.

Kate Marshall is a nipaluna based artist whose work moves from sculpture to installation, drawing, zine making and performance. Currently her practice ponders personal and social relationships with bodies, sexuality, femininity, and vulnerability. Her works are intimate, rich in colour, intensely tactile, and playful. Since graduating with a BABFA in 2020 she has shown works exploring these themes in multiple group shows, locally and interstate. Kate’s recent accomplishments in her practice include winning Best Work in 3D at Artfully Queer 2021, and showing work in a small group show at Good Grief in April 2023.

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Project Space Gallery.

Image credit: Kate Marshall, Pleasure Inside Out, 2022, repurposed fabrics. Image courtesy of the artist

Matthew is always in the moment- both in the drawing and creating process, and in his subject matter. He is constantly asking “what is the time now?”. He explores themes that are relevant to his interests in pop culture and current events in Australian society, absorbing and translating snippets of current news like a sponge. His work depicts national holidays, tv shows, traditions and world famous events, which he draws and then layers with text. He uses language in an absurd, often humorous way, and his spelling is unique but he translates it so others can share the stories.

Supported by Mosaic Support Services’ ongoing Create program

This exhibition is presented in MAC’s Avago Window Gallery.

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan

Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies is generously supported by the Bellendena Small Grants Scheme.

The Yearning is supported by the Tasmania Government.

Exhibition

The Yearning is a mesmeric, high vibration, tuning experience of embodied transformation. To ‘tune in’ to the tree’s message the participant must step out of their reality, spend time in the gallery space and become immersed in this multi-projection, multi-channel, AV installation. The Yearning is a collaboration between cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell, conductor/composer Hugo Pieri, the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies and iconic trees of kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The amazing multi-channel, looping, harmonic soundscape created by Hugo from VoiceLab experiments, creates a complex and ever-changing conversation with the trees to ensure each participant’s experience is unique and personal.

Public program series

Voice Bath

Dates: Saturday 10, 17, 24 June & Saturday 1 July

Start Time: 11am

Duration: 40 minutes

Join us each Saturday at MAC for a unique, meditative experience through vibration, sound and visuals. Wear comfy clothes and bring a yoga mat, water bottle and an open mind to allow your body to ‘tune into’ recordings of spontaneous co-created vocal ensemble compositions.

In-Conversation: Dr Merri Randell and Hugo Pieri

Saturday 10 June

Start Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 10 June for a conversation with the highly talented conductor/composer Hugo Pieri and cinematic artist Dr Merri Randell to discuss their collaboration with the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies for their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

In-Conversation: Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies

Saturday 24 June

Time: 12pm (shortly after Voice Bath)

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Please join us at MAC at 12pm on Saturday 24 June for a conversation with members of the Hobart VoiceLab:Queer+Allies to discuss the development of their mesmeric exhibition The Yearning.

Artist bios

Dr Merri Randell is a cinematic artist and shameless tree hugger who has travelled, lived and worked all over the world. She is a NeuroDivergent, NonBinary Lesbian of colour who lives and works on the lands of the Muwinina people in nipaluna/Hobart. She creates worlds full of beautiful, abject monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb by working in distorted realities – combining digitally manipulated, hyper-real photographs of under-represented native forests and swamps with human sounds and uncanny motion design to create immersive, compulsive, kairological Sisyphean cycles to celebrate diversity.

Hugo Pieri is a Queer professional Brazilian musician, singer, performer, teacher, conductor, composer and soundscape improviser. He has studied Yoga, Biodanza, Somatherapy, Shambhala Meditation and has academic degrees in Conducting, Singing and Teaching from Germany, France and Brazil. He started the VoiceLab with Merri and Richard Dearden, as an invitation for Queer people to explore the expansion of their unique individual sound-body. From a centred place of trust and joy, each individual tunes and surrenders to the group-sound-body which unifies the group to experience oneness while maintaining uniqueness. Hugo draws on this group-sound-body as the raw material to create ephemeral elementary structures which manifest and disappear, like mandalas – again and again to nothingness.

Credits
Hobart VoiceLab: Queer+Allies :
Richard Dearden
Mike Brady
Lili Calitz
Oliver Cassidy
Kaikai Tang
Suzy Cooper
Emmanuelle Decourty
Jane Dunsford
Tessa Hutchison
Iona Johnson
Heather Jones
Felicity Smart
Brian Wyatt
Sound Engineer: Gabriel Brennan