18th November - 10th December 2023

The Politics of Snails is a group project curated by IN | ARI with works that speak to connection, collaboration, and/or challenge the idea of singular authorship. The artists in this exhibition merge and combine methods of making and practice that question social engagement, community, and process by way of sculpture, painting, sound, video, and movement practice. Together, the artists have become pen pals. Here, they have written a chain of letters where the ‘snail’ has become a central motif and conceptual marker to consider modes of engagement. Individually, their works carve out different forms of relationships and associations working with personal networks and broader communities.

9 - 23 September 2023

Average Recurrence Interval is a site responsive exhibition from Chantelle Mitchell (VIC) and Jaxon Waterhouse (NT). Through material investigation drawn from the premise of the meteorological ARI, this exhibition centres around relationships across temporality, containment and climate.

25 August - 2 September 2023

WARP is a Jack MacRae exhibition, presenting in an old abandoned jail.

An explosion of distilled geometric forms, Jack’s new body of work takes on an expanded painting practice — rationalised, brutalised, explored, and expanded.

Born from solitary, WARP is a raw, lost-in-thought and hopeful portrayal of what’s to come. Lock yourself in and throw away the key.

22 July - 13 August 2023
Sugar Ghosts x Inmates presents works by Dr. Hope O’Chin and Perrin Ellis unpacking the role of archive as both a living and lived artefact, the traditions of the archivist, and what is made both present + obliterated in the course of creating record.

27 May - 11 June 2023
Join us for the opening of Talk Soon / Cool Fountains, a group exhibition presented by IN | artist run initiative that informs and explores narratives around personal identity and lived experience. Intimate understandings of the personal are weaved and materialise through, video, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. The artists in the exhibition pull from an ecology of their daily life and facilitate alternative modes of storytelling to position an affirmative point of view of their lived experiences of queer identity, living with a speech disorder and managing trauma.

11 February 2023

BULKING is a developmental exhibition from IN | artist-run initiative's latest Cellmate pairing, Emma Gow x Seren Wagstaff.

27 August - Friday 2 September 2022

Medicament For Your Predicament is an experimental pharmacy of political medicines.

From antidotes, to ire and diuretics for disillusionment, to cures for capitalism — tonics, salves, gargles and powders for our soluble and insoluble bodies.

18 -26 June 2022

Nicholas Tossmann’s practice investigates his experience of being a conceptual artist as part of his philosophical search of self and purpose. He explores these ideas methodically by analysing and questioning his art practice, which involves the process of researching, making and critically reflecting.

19 - 24 April 2022

PURE POTENTIAL: do you know when you are *working*? is a one-week intervention to interrogate The Old Lock Up as a site and space for experimentation, interaction and social practice. Presented as a series of site-specific experiments using temporary installation methods and care practices, the work responds to the spatial ‘conditions’ of the site. These interactions question how human and non-human resources might inhabit space, revealing new and unutilised potentials.

1 - 18 April 2022

It’s both the heat and the humidity explores connections and intersections of queer identity and environment through video and sound. Drawing on home movies and field recordings, the two immersive works are emblematic of past actions and rituals, both personal and social, mediated and contemporised through hindsight and digital intervention.

24 - 28 March 2022

Lowana-Skye Davies, Keith Armstrong, Tessa Bergan, Merinda Davies, Bella Deary, Adrienne Kenafake, Tom Lyons, Amelia Mcleish, Hira Sheikh, Lillian Whitaker

CATCHING A WHIFF - OLFACTORY ECOLOGIES is an invitation to dive nose-first into the fragrant atmospheres of 9 artists that care deeply for the survival of this precious multi-species planet.

22 -30 January 2022

'entwined as others' is a collaboration between Helen Hardess and Tiana Jefferies, combining their shared art practices of casting, collecting, assembling and collaborative action. It will focus on the affective registers of objects, bodies and architecture of The Old Lock Up site. Through material histories and the sensorial, the project explores the ungraspable forces of our destabilised biosphere, and recognises that humanity cannot survive without non-human others. 

8 - 18 December 2021

Artist Aaron Perkins and screenwriter/director Sam Dixon's Cherry Stones takes inspiration from children's games of make-believe that model these choices. Perkins and Dixon's paintings and writings converse across media to similarly invite make-believe and to offer an imaginative escape from the game of life carried on just outside the pockmarked and graffitied walls of The Old Lock Up.