Presented as part of Midsumma Festival 2026, ‘Molten Tongues’ will open on 30 January and will run all the way until 28 March at Incinerator Gallery in Melbourne! The show draws its spark from the historic Essendon Incinerator, exploring the many tongues through which fire speaks—across ritual and industry, desire and destruction, technology and ecology. Bringing together works by 28 contemporary Australian and international artists, the exhibition engages fire as material, metaphor and memory.

The exhibition is curated by Jake Treacey and unfolds over four chapters across the entirety of the gallery: the Pyrocene, the Age of Fire; the Temple of Flames; the Hall of Singing Suns; and Hades Smoke. Here, histories smoulder and new possibilities ignite. I will be presenting work from my series ‘The Mark of a Terrible Sun’.

With artists: Ali Tahayori, Ara Dolatian, Dr Bon Mott _/\_, Cheng Ran, Dr Christian Thompson AO, Claybia (Cassandra Chilton and Molly O’Shaughnessy), Diego Ramírez, Diogo Evangelista, Emily Parsons-Lord, Felix Saturn, Glynn Urquhart, Hannah Hallam-Eames, Iluka Sax-Williams, Ioanna Sakellaraki, Joshua Serafin, Jenna Lee, Makiko Ryujin, Michael Jalaru Torres, Moorina Bonini, Morehshin Allahyari, Naomi Blacklock, Nicholas Burridge, Priyageetha Dia, Sha Sarwari, Shireen Taweel, Yhonnie Scarce, and Yumemi Hiraki.

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