Le Ceol, With Music

19 November 2025 to 8 Feb 2026

Artists: Dr Lou Bennett AM, Harley Dunolly-Lee with Kira Simpson, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Alice Heyward with Oisín Ó Manacháin/Oisín Monaghan, Susan Hiller, Tamsen Hopkinson and Mary Lloyd Jones
Curated by Jacqui Shelton

Le ceol, with music is an exhibition of artists engaging with languages impacted by colonial contexts, each using song or poetry as a primary place of sonic and musical texture from which language resists. In this exhibition, the voice is a site of performance, agency, silences and confusions; difficult to grasp (yet easy to swallow). Here, voice exists both inside and outside the body, it is as intangible as it is socially and politically weighty. Voice quite literally refers to, speaks to, or enacts performativity and action: it can name things, it can protest, it can preserve, it can demur.