Artists: Josh Carlier, Mitchel Cumming, Brodie Ellis, Susan Jacobs, Daryl Lindsay, Tracey Moffatt, Tom Nicholson, Studio Folder, Joseph Williams Jungurrayi, Rupert Betheras and Lindsay Nelson Jakamarra, and Afghan War Rugs (1980 to present) with accompanying text by Polly Stanton.

The last in The line is life itself exhibition series, Surfaces addresses questions of boundedness and entanglement through the motif of the line. With particular attention as to what lines are inscribed into and onto, the exhibition reveals and deconstructs surfaces in all their multiplicities. Anthropologist Tim Ingold, providing the throughline of this exhibition series, positions the surface as significant for what it discloses, identifying the surface as a “primary condition for generating meaning,” an interfacial mediator. This exhibition navigates a path through these ideas, with works attentive to the material conditions of surfaces, and the ways in which they are transformed by thought and action.