CUSP

Dr Merri Randell

Friday 17 October – Saturday 8 November 2025

Exhibition Launch: 5.30, Thursday 16 October

Public Program: The CUSP polyphonic soundscape workshop — Saturday 18 October, 10am-1pm

Artist Talk: Artist Talk — Saturday 1 November, 11am

The CUSP exhibition is an immersive, multisensory, embodied, mesmerising audio-visual installation artwork, which celebrates the birth of a respectful, symbiotic relationship between humans and nature.

CUSP is a more-than-human encounter that explores how humans can tune:in to a polyphonic, multi-species, symbiotic reality where diverse perspectives create strong resilient ecologies.

Dr Merri Randell seeks to empower Nature and celebrate diversity through photographing native forests using a cubist approach. These images are combined with sound and motion to create worlds full of beautiful monstrosities to challenge persistent dominant colonial anthropocentric apocalyptic cinematic landscape myths.’

Entry to the galleries is free.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Moonah Arts Centre and Glenorchy City Council acknowledge the Muwinina people as the traditional owners of this Land on which we gather. We recognise all Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the original owners and continuing custodians of the land and waters of this island, Lutruwita. We pay our respect to Aboriginal Elders, past and present. We commit to working for a City that welcomes and respects all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

SAFE SPACE
We believe in safe and positive spaces where all people are welcome and respected. If you experience or see something that doesn’t look right, please report it to one of our friendly staff.

Image credit: Randell, ‘Plantcenta’, 2023, still from video, Courtesy of Artist

The CUSP polyphonic soundscape workshop was supported by MAC and the Tasmanian Government through Working it Out.

The CUSP project mentorship was made possible by the Australian Governments Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia