The Australian Ugliness - just opened at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre / by Helen Grace

We’re happy that The Housing Question - our video work from 2019 - is included in The Australian Ugliness, this amazing show in Melbourne at the Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Wednesday 4 November 2026 - Saturday 27 February 2027

Artists: Alana Hunt, Aleks Danko, Callum Morton, Ciaran Begley and James Nguyen, Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, Elvis Richardson, John Citizen, Kenny Pittock, Lenie Namatjira, Mia Khin Boe, Narelle Jubelin and Helen Grace, Natalie Thomas, Raquel Ormella, Ray Thomas, Reinhold Inkamala, Rosemary Laing & Scotty So.

Curated by Sarah Werkmeister.

The Australian Ugliness interrogates the ongoing complications around housing in Australia. The exhibition brings together contemporary artworks that address such themes as public housing, the impact of utopian modernisms on our built environment, the power of real estate, the environmental aspects of housing and the dichotomy of private property on stolen land. It addresses local and global issues within the Australian context. This timely exhibition delves into current discourses around housing and asks what the arts can contribute to these conversations.