Unstable

Artist: Helen Spencer

Friday 20 February – Saturday 14 March

Exhibition Launch: 5.30pm, Thursday 19 February

Artist Talk — 12pm, Saturday 21 February 2026

Unstable explores the enduring impact of trauma and how it shapes perception and memory.

Helen Spencer’s paintings on repurposed cardboard reflect fragmentation and disorientation through disrupted materiality. The surface and structure of the artworks are intentionally torn and compromised, providing a ground for exploring burden and vulnerability.

Each work represents a small piece of a larger collective experience, acknowledging the complexity of experiences without offering resolution.

Helen Spencer is a Nipaluna/Hobart based artist creating work that examines power, trauma, and social justice through painting and other artforms.

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
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Image credit: Helen Spencer, various works, 2025, oil and acrylic on repurposed cardboard. Courtesy of Artist.