KUDLILA SEASON

Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface
Ida Sophia: Patience and Penitentia

Friday 26 June — Friday 18 September 2026

Two internationally based Australian artists highlight human behaviour at a macro and micro scale. Exploring social movements and relational dynamics, these exhibitions draw attention to inherent patterns that foster and thwart connection.

Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface
LA-based Australian artist and Samstag Scholar (2005) Jemima Wyman’s (Palawa) practice is a visually and politically charged exploration of camouflage, collective organising, democracy and dissent. This survey exhibition of Wyman’s work spans decades. Known for her vivid, kaleidoscopic hand-cut collages, Wyman’s maximalist environments channel the upheaval, uncertainty, and distress of protest into a hypnotic and rhythmic harmony of patterned surfaces.

Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface is a QUT Galleries and Museums travelling exhibition curated by Katherine Dionysius.

Ida Sophia: Patience and Penitentia
Ida Sophia’s installation and durational performance Patience and Penitentia explores the painful and damaging experience of relational withdrawal—the silent treatment—in a work that enacts the power dynamics, strategies of control and form of punishment at its core. Over the span of the exhibition, a participatory ritual performed by the artist and a select number of performers will see Sophia incorporate elements of sound, language, movement and gesture to publicly transfigure private suffering through collective release.