Other creative works
shields and the metaverse café [Solo exhibition]
Marian Tubbs: shields and the metaverse café, Solo exhibition (Station Gallery, Sydney, 05/07/2025–02/08/2025)
05/07/2025
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Abstract
STATION is delighted to present shields and the metaverse café - Marian Tubbs' seventh solo exhibition with the gallery.
Within this latest body of work Tubbs places her digital paintings in a dynamic dialogue with AI-generated scenes by way of lenticular photographic printing. These visual collisions spill into one another across surfaces that dissolve and reconfigure in response to the viewer’s movement through space. Nothing in the exhibition is fixed, offering limitless encounters with form and light.
While often humorous and surreal, the works also carry poignant political resonances, resisting dominant narratives of technological progress and ecological decay. Tubbs blends rich visuals of both natural and synthetic forms, drawing from encounters both global and local. On the exhibition, writer Denise Thwaites reflects;
'The absurd and ecstatic joy that underlies this show reflects a practice of flowing through and against the ossified architectures of advanced capitalism.'
In this body of work, the shield becomes less an emblem of defence than a proposition for how to move through hostile environments.
Details
- Title
- shields and the metaverse café [Solo exhibition]
- Creators
- Marian Tubbs (Artist) - Southern Cross University, Creative Arts
- Event
- Marian Tubbs: shields and the metaverse café, Solo exhibition (Station Gallery, Sydney, 05/07/2025–02/08/2025)
- Identifiers
- 991013330128302368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Creative Arts
- Resource Type
- Other creative works; Solo exhibition