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20 September, 2025
New exhibits hit The Condensery
The Condensery – Somerset Regional Art Gallery will open two new exhibitions on Saturday, 20 September, featuring works by Zanny Begg and Shari O’Dwyer.
Australian artist and filmmaker Zanny Begg presents ‘These Stories Will Be Different,’ a collection that draws on ancient literary traditions while exploring the politics of storytelling. The exhibition includes three of Begg’s major video installations: The City of Ladies (with Elise McLeod, 2017), The Beehive (2018), and Stories of Kannagi (2019). These works use creative storytelling and computer-generated elements to offer new perspectives on history, identity, and community.
In the bomb shelter exhibition space, Shari O’Dwyer’s ‘holemtaet hemia (hold this/ hold this tightly)’ uses humour and documented performance to explore her South Sea Islander heritage and identity. The exhibition highlights her mother’s childhood memories and her father’s work in Queensland sugar cane fields, reflecting her family’s contributions to the sugar cane industry. The space is symbolically significant, as the bomb shelter previously housed archives of Nestlé’s business operations, including sugar procurement, in the 1940s.
Both exhibitions will run from 20 September to 30 November.
