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   Jon Riethmuller The Dinner Party, 2012–2026

   Photographic print. 110 × 110 cm

   A remembered dinner becomes a meditation on presence, absence and the way a photograph gathers new meaning as time passes.

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   Paul Lester Buddha Head

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   Paul Lester Pink Flamingos

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   Paul Lester Ganesh Mosaic

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   Lyn Onton Impressions, 2026

   Mixed media on paper. 29 × 29 × 1 cm

   Translucent layers preserve their individual colours as forms meet, overlap and resist being absorbed into one another.

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   Lyn Onton Fragments of our past, 2026

   Monoprint and collage. 19 × 24 × 1 cm

   Ancient female symbols and fragmented surfaces trace histories carried through the maternal line, where connection outlasts names and stories.

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   Lyn Onton The Space Between, 2026

   Mixed media on paper. 29 × 29 × 2 cm

   Curving forms approach, intersect and separate, tracing the continual pull between closeness, distance and remaining distinct.

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   Tracy Boyd Ambiguous Perspective 2, 2026

   Enamel on canvas. 60 × 75 × 4 cm

   Soft fabric becomes an uncertain landscape of light and darkness, revealing how the familiar can change when seen from another perspective.

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   Tracy Boyd Ambiguous Perspective, 2026

   Enamel on canvas. 60 × 75 × 4 cm

   Soft fabric becomes an uncertain landscape of light and darkness, revealing how the familiar can change when seen from another perspective.

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   Noel Peake Portal (1 of 4), 2026

   Photographs on transparent film, mounted in archive boxes with lights and water. 23 × 33 × 15 cm

   A young woman finds herself among Far North Queensland creeks and rainforest, moving through first queer love, its ending and what comes next.

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   Noel Peake Portal (2 of 4), 2026

   Photographs on transparent film, mounted in archive boxes with lights and water. 23 × 33 × 15 cm

   A young woman finds herself among Far North Queensland creeks and rainforest, moving through first queer love, its ending and what comes next.

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   Noel Peake Portal (3 of 4), 2026

   Photographs on transparent film, mounted in archive boxes with lights and water. 23 × 33 × 15 cm

   A young woman finds herself among Far North Queensland creeks and rainforest, moving through first queer love, its ending and what comes next.

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   Noel Peake Portal (4 of 4), 2026

   Photographs on transparent film, mounted in archive boxes with lights and water. 23 × 33 × 15 cm

   A young woman finds herself among Far North Queensland creeks and rainforest, moving through first queer love, its ending and what comes next.

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   Rick Majewski THE OTHER WITHIN, 2026

   Acrylic. 42 × 52 × 4 cm

   Layers of colour and form explore the distance between the self presented to the world and the many selves held within.

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   Rick Majewski THE SPACE BETWEEN, 2026

   Acrylic. 42 × 52 × 4 cm

   Layered colour and form give shape to the invisible space created by connection, separation and the traces people and places leave behind.

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   David Rowe THE RUNNING MAN, 2026

   Oil on canvas. 120 × 75 cm

   A deeply personal work shaped by sexuality, family and memory, tracing a return to a self and life once left behind.

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   Julie-Anne Weller Clay Sculpture, 2022

   Clay

   An exaggerated clay monster draws attention to what cannot be seen, asking us not to judge anyone by their surface.

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   Dan Gladden The faculty of thought is deranged / I mean maybe but in a hot way, 2026

   Charcoal on paper. 50 × 70 × 3 cm

   A self-portrait paired with an idealised fashion image explores the space between how we see ourselves and how we feel we ought to appear.

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   Jamie Cole It's fine, I'm fine, everything is fine., 2026

   Acrylic and mixed media on timber board. 33 × 33 × 3 cm

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   Jamie Cole He's an absolute dream, 2026

   Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 94 × 94 × 4 cm

   A meditation on intimacy and desire that finds humour and vulnerability in the physical realities of ageing.

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   Kaio Oliveira Smoke, 2026

   Mixed media. 40 × 90 cm

   Raw materials and acrylic build a gritty, industrial surface that lets the physical character of the work remain visible.

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   Kaio Oliveira Golden, 2026

   Charcoal on canvas. 93 × 104 cm

   Drawing on kintsugi, broken and mended surfaces become a meditation on imperfection as something to embrace rather than hide.

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   Anthony Newton United, 2026

   62 × 92 × 4 cm

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   Anthony Newton Meeting Place, 2026

   62 × 92 × 4 cm

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   Anthony Newton Waterhole Tadpoles, 2026

   62 × 92 × 4 cm

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   Julie-Anne Weller Mother & baby kookaburras, 2026

   Clay. 8 × 10 × 4 cm

   A mother and baby kookaburra hold the quiet tension between protection and letting go, closeness and growing independence.

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   Tim Ellis Thirsty, 2025

   Acrylic on canvas with video projection. 120 × 100 × 4 cm

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   Benjamin O'Hagan The Cost of Passing: Belonging in the Margins (1 of 2), 2026

   Charcoal and acrylic. 35 × 47 × 2 cm

   A reflection on the complicated relationship between passing, safety, visibility and belonging within trans community.

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   Benjamin O'Hagan The Cost of Passing: Belonging in the Margins (2 of 2), 2026

   Charcoal and acrylic. 35 × 47 × 2 cm

   A reflection on the complicated relationship between passing, safety, visibility and belonging within trans community.

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   Jamie Cole 30min prior to sexual activity, 2021

   Acrylic and mixed media on timber. 40 × 50 × 4 cm

   A playful reflection on ageing, desire and the expectations surrounding male sexuality, with humour centred on the familiar little blue pill.

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   Jamie Cole Same as Zoloft, 2021

   Acrylic and mixed media on timber. 40 × 50 × 4 cm

   A reflection on distorted self-perception, depression and anxiety within LGBTIQ+ communities, ending with a simple reminder that no one is alone.

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   Carmen Seaby Selfie 2024, 2023–2026

   Recycled and new fabric, felt, found objects. 250 × 250 × 3 cm

   A labour-intensive textile self-portrait charts a lifelong negotiation with identity, sexuality and belonging, turning what was once hard to accept into something celebrated.

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   Dominic Violi The green shirt, 2025

   Oil on canvas. 62 × 61 cm

   A meditation on visibility, concealment and the fragile boundary between what is revealed and what remains protected.

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   Dominic Violi Nude with monstera flower, 2025

   Oil on canvas. 106 × 127 cm

   A reflection on identity, belonging and the experience of living between how we understand ourselves and how we are perceived by others.

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   Dominic Violi Wrestlers, 2026

   Oil on canvas. 76 × 76 × 5 cm

   Physical contact between men becomes a site of strength, connection and tension, caught between celebration and the shame once attached to the male body.

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   Dominic Violi Twisted torso, 2025

   Oil on canvas. 62 × 61 cm

   A work exploring the shifting relationship between inner identity and outward appearance, where recognition and uncertainty exist side by side.

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   David Rowe RENAISSANCE AFTER THE AFTER-PARTY, 2026

   Hydroseal on canvas. 240 × 125 cm

   Memory, elation and guilt converge in the aftermath of a night, becoming a lesson in living openly and freely.

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   Charlie Collins I hope therefore I..., 2026

   Acrylic paint and oil pastels. 135 × 190 cm

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   Mark Cochrane CAIRNZILLA, 2026

   Digital print. 42 × 60 × 5 cm

   A giant kangaroo turns Cairns into a 1950s B-movie disaster, gleefully upending familiar tourism imagery, regional icons and local memory.

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   Tim Ellis Superman Changing, 2024

   Acrylic on canvas with video projection. 160 × 100 × 4 cm

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   Danish Quapoor wishing for a better future (rub me the right way), 2025

   Hand-coiled and stitched twine and repurposed polypropylene baling twine. 10 × 32 × 10 cm

   A pink genie bottle coiled from baling twine holds a wish for a gentler future, where hope becomes an act of labour and endurance.

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   Kurt Engledow The Green Room, 2026

   Acrylic on canvas. 50 × 50 × 2 cm

   A cinematic scene draws on mid-century visual culture to imagine private desire and vulnerability within the performance of masculinity.

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   Kurt Engledow In the morning, we awoke., 2026

   Acrylic on canvas. 50 × 50 × 2 cm

   A cinematic scene draws on mid-century visual culture to imagine private desire and vulnerability within the performance of masculinity.

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   Kurt Engledow I Never Knew You, 2026

   Acrylic on canvas. 50 × 50 × 2 cm

   A cinematic scene draws on mid-century visual culture to imagine private desire and vulnerability within the performance of masculinity.

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   Robb Wang PAPERBARK GECKO, 2021

   Acrylic on canvas. 90 × 90 cm

   The gecko, Robb’s totem, is rendered against a paperbark-like surface that connects personal meaning, material experimentation and the natural world.

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   Lyn Onton Ancient Bloodlines, 2025

   Acrylic on canvas. 50 × 60 × 2 cm

   Colour, texture and symbolism bring lesbian identity and experience into view, asserting presence within spaces where it has often been overlooked.

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   Kaio Oliveira Eve, 2025

   Acrylic on canvas. 43 × 54 cm

   Mixed media gives physical form to the unachievable expectations placed upon women, making their weight visible within the work.

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   Mark Willems Luminescence (coming out), 2026

   Oil on canvas. 70 × 100 cm

   A solitary figure rises from dark water into luminous colour, transforming coming out into an image of emergence, visibility and release.

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   Dayna Kelly Becoming, 2026

   Acrylic. 120 × 60 × 5 cm

   A work about queer self-recognition and the experience of seeing one’s own feelings reflected in the stories of others.

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   Lyn Onton The bike rider, 2026

   Acrylic and silver leaf on canvas. 69 × 32 × 2 cm

   A meditation on the emotional distance between people and the fragile possibilities for connection across that space.

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   Lyn Onton Leather Tension, 2026

   Acrylic on canvas. 50 × 60 × 2 cm

   Forms move towards and away from one another, exploring the tension between intimacy, independence and the desire for connection.

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   Lyn Onton She still lingers, 2025

   Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas. 28 × 35 × 4 cm

   A work about presence and absence, holding the impression left when a person, experience or connection is no longer physically there.

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   David Rowe FROM CLOSET TO CAVE, A HIBERNATING BEAR, 2026

   Oil on canvas. 120 × 160 cm

   A meditation on loneliness, guilt and longing, as a man hungry for love hesitates at the threshold of freedom.

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   Dominic Violi Love and power in a hostile world (1 of 3), 2025

   Oil on canvas. 183 × 40 × 10 cm

   The male nude is brought openly into view as an assertion of vulnerability, love and the right to be seen without shame.

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   Dominic Violi Love and power in a hostile world (2 of 3), 2025

   Oil on canvas. 183 × 40 × 10 cm

   The male nude is brought openly into view as an assertion of vulnerability, love and the right to be seen without shame.

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   Dominic Violi Love and power in a hostile world (3 of 3), 2025

   Oil on canvas. 183 × 40 × 10 cm

   The male nude is brought openly into view as an assertion of vulnerability, love and the right to be seen without shame.

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   Luke Thurgate Love story (inside out), 2024

   Oil on board mounted in hinged frame. 34 × 22 cm

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   Kaio Oliveira Meat mermaid, 2026

   Print on canvas. 88 × 47 cm

   The classical reclining nude is made strange and surreal, her face replaced with marbled meat.

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   Charlie Collins (Very), 2026

   Acrylic paint and oil pastels. 50 × 75 cm

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   David Rowe ROADHOUSE RENAISSANCE, 2026

   Pen, wash and watercolour on paper. 145 × 117 cm

   A billboard of stories reflects a life and a community of bears, where the past is learned from and the present holds the chance to change.

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   Gareth Ernst Shadowlands

   Live drawing performance

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   Cairns Pride Community Reflections, 2026

   Interactive mixed media installation: mirror and text written by visitors. 60 × 180 × 5 cm

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   Mark Cochrane TEA TOWELS, 2026

   Digital print. 400 × 60 × 5 cm

   A distinctly Australian visual language brings humour, sarcasm and irony to familiar cultural imagery and everyday experience.