25 April | 6pm - 9pm | RSVP

afterbodies, by Camille Therese and Ruby Donohoe, is a viscerotropic channel. The slow, instinctive turning of the body toward what it cannot name; a pull that begins beneath language, in the wet grammar of organs. It is the gut leaning before the mind agrees. An exhibition of chimeric orientation. Toward shimmering heat, systematic rust, and intimacyWhere desire thickens into direction and the interior finds its way outward. The exhibition is a feral pull - a speculative present shaped by multiple, even contradictory impulses at once. Part apparition, part residue the works are a beautiful defiant growth in The Old Lock Up- sculpture, textile, video, and installation. 

afterbodies operates as a counter-logic to the authoritarian imagination- dissolving fixed identities, interrupting narratives of inevitability, and generating porous symbolic worlds through which alternative social relations can be sensed, rehearsed, and held.

A choreography of almosts, summoning unruly undercurrents as an antidote. 

Here the undisciplined grows - like when you leave a potato in the dark in a cupboard and it grows looking for soil and something to stick its roots into, thriving in unlikely conditions. 

6pm - 9pm | Biblically Bluetooth | DJ Set


Camille Therese is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice engages with material as a site of inquiry — not to master it, but to enter into dialogue with its resistances, contradictions, and thresholds. Working across sculpture and installation, she embraces processes that are physically demanding and often precarious, exploring balance, tension, and momentum through acts of fracturing and repair.

Her work holds paradox as method — where violence and care, destruction and creation, control and surrender coexist. Refusing medium hierarchy and easy beauty, Camille’s sculptures offer a complex tactility that honours the vulnerability required to persist through adversity. They speak to the unseen labour of transformation and to the way bodies, like materials, bear the trace of every force that has shaped them.

Drawing on lived experiences of neurodivergence, chronic illness, queerness, and motherhood, her recent works layer cyanotype, satin, glass, thorns, and hardware to examine the fragile webbing between our inner and outer worlds. Through this material dialogue, Camille invites reflection on how discomfort, error, and fragility can be sources of profound generative potential.


Ruby Donohoe is an interdisciplinary artist working with choreography as a mode of critical inquiry into the body’s political, sensory, and relational capacities. Ruby’s practice spans live performance, participatory frameworks, video, and installation to examine how bodies negotiate visibility, coherence, and control. 

Informed by living with epilepsy, Ruby’s work foregrounds instability as a generative methodology- where interruption, hesitation, and disorientation become tools for rethinking embodiment. Attentive to expanded thresholds between animate and inanimate, public and private, Ruby’s works propose estrangement as an ethics of attention and a strategy for queering perception, relation, and form.

Ruby’s recent works engage with dissolution, soft architectures, and speculative forms to explore the intelligence of instability. By allowing structures to melt, slip, or drift between definitions, Ruby examines how disappearance alters attention and how ephemeral processes can illuminate narratives otherwise marginalised or obscured. Their works are interested in how archives - bodily, material, institutional- are shaped as much by what they omit as what they hold, and how estrangement might serve as an ethic for encountering differently. 

Informed by their curatorial practice as founding director of IN | artist run initiative at The Old Lock Up in Cotton Tree,  Ruby’s artistic research explores how time-based and ephemeral practices can reshape understandings of history, place, and community; how instability can surface suppressed or overlooked narratives; and how institutions- like bodies- might soften, unmake, or become otherwise.


Find out more about IN | artist run initiative via @in_ari

This program is proudly supported by Sunshine Coast Council.