Working across print media and performance, emerging Australian artist Teeya Ryan explores what happens when the act of making becomes the work itself. Ryan’s practice considers labour, the body, and the often invisible processes that underpin print/making. Each gesture of carving, pressing, stamping and lifting becomes a form of choreography, revealing the physical intensity usually erased from the final print.

Rather than presenting prints as fixed, perfected outcomes, Ryan draws attention to the energy, repetition and endurance that precede them. Her performances destabilise the neutrality of the “white cube”, asking how gallery spaces might hold works that are still unfolding, still moving, and how invisible labour can become visible, political and deeply human.

At once rigorous and raw, Ryan’s work reflects on the realities of the Australian arts landscape, including precarious work, self-promotion and unpaid labour, while also proposing resistance through action. In her installations, the body is not simply a tool; it is material, voice and protest of contact.

This exhibition invites audiences to witness the process as product and to consider print/making not only as an image on paper, but also as a site of effort, care, frustration, repetition and strength.

Exhibition Opening
Friday February 27

Artist in-situ performances 5.00pm & 7.30pm