OUTDOOR GALLERY
Fitzroy St Projections

 

The Tamworth Regional Gallery is excited to deliver digital artwork onto the Outdoor Gallery in Fitzroy St until December 2026. 

Each month you can experience a different large-scale art installation created by regional artists and local groups. This project helps celebrate our legacy as the city of light and showcases some of the regional talent we have.

 

City of Lights Festival

September 25-26

 

Sonotextility III, 2026
Projection 
Joseph E. Burgess

JAGERA/TURRBOL COUNTRY

Rooted in Material Engagement Theory, sonotextility foregrounds the shared material logics of music and textile tension, rhythm, repetition, patterning, and embodied manipulation of flexible media. Through these material interactions, the corpus of physical work generated reflects the monumentality and ubiquity of textiles in technology and language; reaffirming the communicative capacity of textiles and the relevance of textile practices under the ever-looming presence of intangible and immaterial notions of technology in contemporary media.

 

Artist Bio

Joseph E. Burgess (b. 1987) is a Portland, Oregon, USA–born and Brisbane-based artist and unregistered master builder who works at the nexus of textiles, sound and kinetic art. Through carpet-based performance and custom instrument building, his practice connects the latent political and technological dimensions of textile creation – extracting, highlighting and repurposing the excessive forces and forms embedded in the act of making. Drawing on archival materials and the heritage of technology, Burgess’s work provokes an ongoing interplay between media, mediums and technical process. In 2026, he published ‘The Carpet Maker’s Hafted Tool: A Hackable Instrument for Sonoric Textile Practice’ in Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2026.
Burgess has performed his carpet-making performance, Sonotextility, at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and as part of ‘MONO X IAG’ at Ipswich Art Gallery, curated by Lawrence English, in 2026. In 2025, he exhibited This Light at First Draft in ‘What Falls Must be Pushed’, an exhibition considering the function of art in articulating opposition, fostering solidarity and imagining alternative futures. Concurrently, Burgess has been active in academic publishing and is the recipient of the award for Best Music at NIME 2025. He directs the KEPK creative space and has delivered projects with architecture and interactive design studios such as Atelier Sisu (Sydney), Freeform (for Logan Art Gallery, Queensland), and the Onion Lab, based in Barcelona, Spain.

 

https://www.josephburgess.com.au/

https://www.instagram.com/unregistered_master_builder/

 

 

 

The Lyrebirds, 2021

Single channel video, 1080p, 
Wade Marynowsky

 

Artist Statement

In Unruly Times, like many of us, I have experienced two significant stand-out events, the devastating bushfires of 2019-2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, my focus has been on reconnecting with the natural world by closely observing local Superb Lyrebirds, documenting their unique behaviours, vocalizations, and dance. As the field of deep fake algorithms continues to evolve, their ability to convincingly simulate the visual appearance and acoustic characteristics of real individuals becomes increasingly advanced. Interestingly, the Australian Lyrebird has been a master of mimicry since ancient times, mimicking birds within its environment and more recently, chainsaws and cameras. Inspired by this natural and artificial phenomenon of mimicry, this project explores the intricate dynamics of representation, perception, and deception. The video features a sequence of slowly animated hybrid creatures, that are morphed together. Created using genetic algorithms trained on millions of images, new images were created by crossbreeding multiple image genes. These morphing entities exist in a synthesised latent space, created by the artist, the community, and algorithms, challenging notions of abstraction, representation, and authorship. By blurring the boundaries between these seemingly separate domains, I invite viewers to contemplate the interplay between the enigmatic aspects of nature, our conceptual understanding of representation and perception, the potential dangers of hyper-realistic fakes, and the potential futures of virtual characters embodied with animal behaviours

.Artist biography

Wade Marynowsky, is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, robotics, immersive performance, installation, music and video. His practice spans nearly three decades, beginning in 1998,and is defined by a sustained engagement with technology as both medium and subject. Marynowsky uses humour and aesthetic devices to critique the systems he works with, exploring automation, surveillance, environmental degradation and the uncanny relationship between humans and machines. His work has been presented in major festivals, biennales, and survey exhibitions including, The International Triennial of New Media Art, Beijing, The International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Poland, Siggraph Tokyo, Japan and The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney. His mid-career survey exhibition was held at the National Gallery of Victoria in2014. Marynowsky’s work is held in the collections of The National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank  Australia, UTS Art Collection, Bundanon Trust Collection, Wollongong Art Gallery and private collections internationally.

 

 

WHEN AND WHERE

Tamworth

📅 Friday 25 - Saturday 26 September 2026

🕘 From 6.30pm

📍 Fitzroy Street Plaza

This project funding was secured by Tamworth Regional Council through the NSW Government Department of Planning, Industry and Environment ‘Streets as Shared Spaces’ initiative and Council has now allocated ongoing funding to continue the Outdoor Gallery for a two-year trial period.