On the afternoon of the opening of Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi , Dr Melinda Mann has a yarn with Judy Watson one of the exhibiting artist's in the exhibition and Nathan Mudyi Sentance, RMOA First Nations Reference Group Chair.

Meanjin/Brisbane based artist, writer, and educator Sally Molloy's practice explores colonial pasts and presents as they relate to her everyday life through an open-ended engagement with Australian landscape painting history, the backyard, and popular culture. This framework provides a sweaty context for critique, loaded with the potential for meaning making, affect, and contemplation.Molloy works with painting, collage, sculpture, sound, and poetry often challenging the implied hierarchy of media with her strategically naïve aesthetic, humour, and enthusiasm for play. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has contributed to large-scale public artworks in South-East and Regional Queensland.

Three generations of Darumbal women, Nhaya Nikki, Kristina Hatfield & LeLarnie Hatfield having a yarn to celebrate NAIDOC week, 50 years of Deadly.

Best known for her evocative self-portraiture and collaborative storytelling through Modor & Dohter, a creative partnership with her daughter, Hoare’s practice explores identity, transformation and the unseen labour of caregiving. Her body itself has become an archive, marked by lived experiences of motherhood, breast cancer survival, and self-expression including tattooing her own skin in sovereignty. Naomi has also delved into breastmilk archival, memorial jewellery and mural painting, layering both intimate and public forms of storytelling into her work. She frequently experiments with new materials and processes to deepen her ongoing commitment to witnessing, reclaiming and reimagining the stories of women and families.

Locust Jones is a contemporary, Australian artist. For over 20 years, Locust's practice has woven layers of stories and images that replicate the frenetic pace at which society consumes everyday news and current affairs, in a variety of mediums. Jones' exhibition, To Bear Witness  featured large scale vertical drawings cascading through RMOA’s Atrium Gallery. 18 October 2025 - 26 April 2026.

Michelle Hamer & Talitha Kennedy are two contemporary Australian artists. Hamer and Kennedy are part of a group exhibition titled Intimacy, on display at RMOA from 28 March - 5 July 2026.

In 2025 Sally Smart transformed RMOA’s Long Gallery, responding to the monumental yet intimate scale of this space through exploration of the legacies of theatre and visual art.

Shari O'Dwyer is an exhibiting Artist in the Cane exhibition. O'Dwyer's work is: It hangs over my head, it lurks in the shadows 2023, hand knotted sisal twine, private collection.

Cane is exhibiting at RMOA from 28 February - 21 June 2026

Right of Reply: a response to 'Cane' exhibition at RMOA 28 February 2026 - 21 June 2026.

Joella Warkill, Imelda Miller and Jacob McGuire in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann.

The work of Sandra Selig frequently meditates upon space, withmany of her works charting a course between the installation itself, and thematerials in use, which are often found. Here, Selig’s pieces use space totease out the poetic. Using small paper cuttings from extant book pages,sections are removed and singled out, represented as a kind of collage-poem, byway of installation. Specific words are left, removed, or simply blocked out,leaving a small sequence of images, and the voids left by text, to tell thestory, fitting in regard to the pages’ contents, which appear to be photographsof stars and lunar phenomena. Hidden Theorem exists in a space betweenforms and definitive meanings, like snippets of overheard conversation, or asong that one can’t quite place, reaching for the profound, but finding comfortin the everyday.

-Jonathan McBurnie