Constance ARI Archive

Contemporary Art Tasmania (CAT), Nipaluna/Hobart.
10 - 25 October 2025
Co-curator with Bonni Que & Hannah Foley.

Artists: Neil Haddon, Matt Warren, Grace Gamage, Jacob O’Leary, Robert O’Connor, Selena de Carvalho, Georgia Lucy, Scot Cotterell, Caitlin Fargher

The Constance ARI Archive exhibition brings together artists from across the life of the organisation — from its early days as Inflight to its current form as Constance 22 years later. This intergenerational assembly of practices reflects the shifting, cyclical nature of artist-run culture: its ruptures, renewals and the communities that sustain it.

The exhibition coincides with the launch of the Constance Online Archive. Rejecting fixed hierarchies of record keeping, the archive proposes memory as a shared, living process — one that documents not only projects, but the conditions, relationships and entanglements that shape them. In this way, the archive proposes a site of resistance and reimagining, exploring the porous boundaries between art, place and collective care.

The opening event will be a celebration of the Constance community and its many contributors. Join us for an evening of live performance, sharing food, and limited-edition merchandise making as we mark the launch of the online archive and exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania. This is a moment to gather, reflect, and activate — to honour the many forms Constance has taken, and the artists who continue to shape its future.

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