The CUSP: PhotoBooth provides a fun, creative pathway for Queer+Ally communities in Tasmania to express solidarity with their identity, their community and with Nature.
In partnership with Working it Out and the Rainbow Stable, three FREE Queer+Ally community CUSP: PhotoBooths will pop-up in Devonport, Burnie and Launceston from July to August.
Selected photographs from the North and North West Tasmania PhotoBooths will be added to the CUSP artwork in the Rainbow Stable exhibition, ‘Celebrating Identity: Activism and Ecstasy’ (QVMAG, 20 June – 13 Sept 2026) for its final month, to create a dynamic evolving artwork in which the community participates in real time as an act of solidarity.
The CUSP artwork in the Rainbow Stable exhibition is entitled ‘With Love, from the CUSP evolution revolution’, and is a photowall documenting Queer+Ally people from Southern Tasmania demonstrating their solidarity at the CUSP. CUSP is a Queer eco-conscious solidarity art project by dr Merri and the Myrtle Forest. During the ‘Celebrating Identity’ exhibition this artwork will evolve into a Queer+Ally solidarity photowall which represents North, North West and Southern Tasmanians.
In the PhotoBooth, Queer+Ally people will be photographed expressing themselves while standing or moving through a projection of the CUSP artwork ‘The Opening.’ ‘The Opening’ is a multi-perspective sound, vision and voice portrait of the Tasmanian Myrtle Forest, captured through a non-binary lens…
Costumes, flags and props welcome!
Or just come and create a fun photo which you can share with your friends.
QVMAG has commissioned a new North, North West Tasmanian Queer+Ally Voice soundscape for ‘The Opening’ to be recorded on 20 June as two FREE Queer+Ally community Voice workshops with Bec Tilley for the Rainbow Stable exhibition. The evolved North, North West Tasmanian version of ‘The Opening’ will be the projection used for the PhotoBooths in Devonport, Burnie and Launceston.
A FREE workshop conducted by Bec Cannon, a local movement therapy practitioner and dance artist, will be offered in the central location of Devonport before the Devonport PhotoBooth in July. This workshop will assist the North and North West Tasmanian Queer+Ally community to creatively respond to the CUSP projection with Tasmanian Voices from their region. Each person’s photographs will be shared to a private online google drive folder which only they and the artist can access.
Please find the link below for the CUSP: PhotoBooth pop-up dates, times, locations, information about the CUSP project and to book your rendezvous at the CUSP evolution revolution!
https://www.merrirandell.com/2026/05/27/cusp-photobooth/
This project was made possible by the Australian Governments Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.
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Rainbow Stable presents the ‘Celebrating Identity: Activism and Ecstasy’ exhibition at QVMAG, Inveresk 20 June – 13 Sept 2026
