Dean Ansell: The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia
The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia is an immersive exhibition that explores Melanesian heritage, environmental processes, and the transmission of Indigenous knowledge through the lens of both ancestral and diasporic experiences. Weaving together familial storytelling, fieldwork, and cultural practices from Papua Niugini, the project interprets local mythologies surrounding the caves and boulders deep…
Unhomely
Unhomely is a collaborative crossdisciplinary installation exploring the idea of a domestic uncanny, from Sigmund Freud’s definition of uncanny. Freud’s definition owes the german word unheimlich, which literally translates to unhomely. Uncanny describes a place that is at once familiar and unfamiliar, making it unsettling, uncomfortable or frightening. Cardboard packing boxes…
Post Datum: FEED
FEED is an exploration of the influence of social media and the societal implications of its wide spread use. This exhibition seeks to critically examine how these forces shape our identities, behaviours, and perceptions, often blurring the lines between public and private, real and virtual, and empathy and apathy. Join…
Dennis Golding: POWER - The Future is Here
POWER – The Future is Here is the result of a collaboration between artist Dennis Golding and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Alexandria Park Community School. The superhero capes were created during a workshop in 2020, led by Golding who was an artist in residence at the school through…
Paula Payne: Shifting Sands of Land and Memory
Shifting Sands of Land and Memory features a new series of acrylic paintings by Magan-djin/Brisbane-based artist Paula Payne. Drawing inspiration from recent time spent as Artist in Residence at the Broken Hill Art Exchange—located on Wilyakali Country in far-west New South Wales—this new series captures the emotive resonance of the…
Jacqueline Larcombe: Postcards from Athens
Postcards from Athens is a series of bold and energetic monotype prints inspired by the artist’s recent travels to Greece. Having been selected as finalist in the 2025 Australian Monoprint Prize, Jacqueline has recently been recognised for her talents in this medium. Connecting with her Greek heritage, the artist followed her interest…
The Shape of Time
The Shape of Time combines two compelling exhibitions from Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contemporary craft and design practitioners. Together, these exhibitions offer a unique glimpse into the diverse and vibrant artistic making practices from across Queensland’s vast far north regions. MAIN GALLERY Explore how time is shaped by the…
Miranda Skoczek: Paradise Garden
Miranda Skoczek’s newest body of work, Paradise Garden, is imbued with moments of peace, joy, and life in bloom. This exhibition reflects her deep contemplation on our connection to nature, with electric pinks layered against muted purples and greens — an evolution of her previous palettes. Abstract flowers and organic…
Spencer Harvie: RAT BOY
RAT BOY is an exhibition of new paintings by Spencer Harvie, created over the past year. Drawing from a collection of found online images—ranging from the absurd to the abject, the paranormal to the art historical—Harvie reconfigures these sources, incorporating his own likeness, imagined characters, and surreal constructs. Harvie paints…
Alethea Richter: Pulse Systems
In response to our post-digital world, Alethea Richter’s Pulse Systems extends her engagement with digital fluidity and fixed structures through screenprinting. By translating digital marks alongside hand-generated marks, Richter explores the ephemeral qualities of screens—fluctuating luminosity, transient colours, and movement to create a dynamic works of expansion and contraction, that resists static…
David Fenoglio: Breathe
‘Breathe’ is David Fenoglio’s second exhibition with Jan Manton Gallery. His previous exhibition, “Squaring the Circle” in 2023, spoke of elements, minerals, and transmutation through processes of observation. This new series of oil paintings includes plants and natural forms arranged into serene compositions painted from life. Transferred into these paintings…
Jacques van der Merwe: The morphology of transience
We are delighted to announce Jacques’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Logan Art Gallery, showcasing the culmination of his four-year research conducted at the Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD), Griffith University. As a Doctor of Visual Arts candidate (DVA), Jacques has dedicated his studies to exploring the visual…
Wildflowering by Design
Wildflowering by Design is an exhibition that explores contemporary responses to our botanical and wildflower heritage, presenting works by Queensland artists from various art and design fields. Many women, both well-known and unsung, have highlighted the significance, functionality and beauty of Australian wildflowers. These include Traditional Custodians, illustrators who have documented…
Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene (and other examinations)
Please join us for the opening celebration of ‘Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene (and other examinations)’ Open times: 6:00-8:00pm Film screening and Q&A from 6:30pm Image: Alana Hunt, Surveilling a Crime Scene, 2023 image still (detail), Super 8mm film transferred to digital file: 21:58 minutes, colour, sound, 4:3. Courtesy of the…
Danish Quapoor: Tightly Wound
‘tightly wound’ features textile works from Danish Quapoor’s recent good grief series, recontextualising them amongst related works. The title references both the laborious process of creating the works and the related personal memories, anxieties and catalytic concepts explored within. These include grief, memorialisation, prophesies, expectations, gender roles and sexuality. The…
You Are Here Too
You Are Here Too presents a collection of works by contemporary Australian artists exploring queer desire and sexuality. It serves as both a celebration and a response to the groundbreaking 1992 show You Are Here at the Institute of Modern Art, which made history as Australia’s first exhibition featuring exclusively gay artists during…
Rosslynd Piggott: In ether
This April in galleries 1 and 2, we are presenting In ether, an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and objects by Rosslynd Piggott. In the words of the artist, this latest body of work explores themes of ‘grief, terror, and hope, the present fractured nature of the world, but also its…
Reece George: Martu Faces ~ Stories of Shadow & Light
Wentworth Galleries is proud to present the evocative work of Reece George, whose art practice brings Martu cultural narratives to life through a masterful fusion of tradition and contemporary technique. His work celebrates connection and identity, with a profound sense of place, offering a unique perspective on Martu culture. Reece’s…
Pamela Wardell: Still
ArtSpace Teneriffe is pleased to present Pamela Wardell’s latest exhibition, Still, a collection of still-life paintings. Image: Egg shell blue (jug, 4 bottles, 1 bowl) 2023, oil on marine ply, 32.5 x 32.5 cm
A.J. Taylor: On Surface
A.J. Taylor’s latest body of work, On Surface, continues his exploration of the Queensland landscape. His paintings capture scenes from locations close to his home in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, such as Stony Creek and Mooloolah River National Park, as well as more distant sites, including Carnarvon Gorge, Lamington National…
Topographia: harmonies of place
In richly layered prints, Jo Lankester evokes the texture of Queensland’s north. A recent move onto the foreshore of Townsville’s North Ward, an established beachside suburb which overlooks the sea toward Magnetic Island, has ushered birds into the foreground of her imagery, along with the trees, undergrowth and lichens that…
Riley P: New Paintings
Recently completed paintings by Riley P completed during the time period of 2024 to 2025. Image: Doughnuts on a Rainy Night, Medium: Acrylic on board, 50cm by 40cm
Enduring Proof: 30 Years of Contemporary Printmaking in Focus
Printmaking is often thought of as a process of multiplication, yet within each edition lies something singular—a mark of artistic exploration, a moment of innovation, a lasting impression. Enduring Proof brings together a selection of printmaking works on paper created over the past 30 years, revisiting the ways artists have engaged…
Ingrid Burkett: Feathers and Fingerprints
One porcelain pinch-pot. One bird painting. Every day, for a year. In 2024, I embarked on a daily practice—part deep dive into artistic process, part meditation, part activism—that led to a flock of 365 Australian birds. I chose a simple yet profound form: the humble pinch-pot, an ancient ceramic practice…
James Drinkwater: Kick hard off the ocean floor
How many summers do we get? how many cats eyes will pierce our feet,? How many freckles will I have? how many wild yellow flowers will sweep and carpet the salt kissed grassy hills? The southerly winds will come regardless, rattling across the sea to cool and settle our worried…
Precious
Museum of Brisbane’s major new exhibition, Precious, brings together over 3,000 extraordinary objects from 30 remarkable collections and collectors. For the first time, these treasured items—often hidden away in suburban homes and institutions—are on public display, offering a rare glimpse into Brisbane’s diverse collecting culture. From Queensland Rugby League memorabilia…
Hollie: Some of those Spaces Tween Life and Death
I am old. My Mum and Dad are older. I am thinking about all the different kinds of spaces negotiated in a span of life and living. I like the way the fragility of paper, the transformation of recycled materials into new forms and the slightly ramshackle construction of these…
Sam Harrison: Fair Dinkies
Snowy River Toy Inc. is pleased to present its newest line of toy collectables in celebration of Australia’s rich cultural diversity! Fair Dinkies is a series of collectable Koalas ironically tasked with representing the vast cultural diversity within Australia. Simmering beneath the façade of playful innocence, along with promises of…
Danie Mellor: marru (the unseen visible)
Danie Mellor’s multidisciplinary art practice explores Australia’s shared history through the lens of his Ngadjon-jii, Mamu and Anglo-Celtic ancestry and ongoing connection to Country in the Atherton Tablelands and rainforests of far north Queensland. ‘marru | the unseen visible’ brings together works examining memory and remembrance; the relationship between First…
Group Exhibition
Jan Murphy Gallery presents a compelling group exhibition featuring a diverse selection of artists whose practices span painting, sculpture, ceramics, and photography. Each artist brings a distinct perspective, engaging with themes of culture, identity, memory, and materiality. ZAACHARIAHA FIELDING Born in Port Augusta (1991),Zaachariaha Fielding comes from a strong…
The Ancient PRESENT
The Ancient PRESENT brings together two remarkable Aboriginal artists, Tommy Yannimar Pikarli Watson (c1935-2017) and Joanne Currie Nalingu (b 1964), whose works highlight their unique journeys and shared connection to Aboriginal art. Watson, a senior elder from the desert heartlands of Central Australia, and Nalingu, who grew up beside the…
Monochrome
Mitchell Fine Art presents Monochrome, an exhibition showcasing a striking collection of Aboriginal and contemporary artworks that forgo colour in favour of a bold black and white narrative. Monochrome explores the interplay of contrast and harmony within these two shades, highlighting the depth and diversity of artistic expression. Each piece…
Caitlin Franzman: Recompose
recompose 2021 – onwards, is a tarot reading led by artist Caitlin Franzmann. By engaging with a deck of hand drawn divination cards, audiences are invited to attune to the understory of a forest, its leaf litter, humus, microbes, and symbiotic entanglements as analogies for personal and collective guidance. Learning from decay…
Harvest Biennial: Volatile Terrain
Volatile Terrain is an exhibition that explores the intersections and divergences of geography and geology, with consideration to a world in constant flux. The exhibition provides an opportunity to examine how humanity lives on Earth, as well as interacts, destructs and rehabilitates it. Featuring work by Bonita Ely, Cassandra Hodgins, Dylan…
Rachel North: Anthology of memory
Rachel North is an Ipswich based artist and educator, working across textiles and ceramics. Growing up and living in predominantly rural and regional areas, her connection to landscape is an inherent component of her artwork. This exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of connections between the landscape and memory and how…
15 Artists 2025
15 Artists is an annual acquisitive prize developed to enhance City of Moreton Bay’s Art Collection and exhibition program. Each year, Council invites 15 artists to take part in the exhibition. The winning artist is awarded $20,000 and their work is acquired into the City of Moreton Bay’s Art Collection. The…
See The Sun
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Edwina Corlette Gallery
See The Sun’ Curated by Bridie Gillman featuring Jordan Azcune, Amelia Carroll, Nancy Constandelia, Nicolette Johnson, Lauren O’Connor, Cosima Scales See the sun takes a specific experience as its starting point. Driving out of Murwillumbah…
Children of Independence: The Rise of Central Asian Cinema
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Gallery of Modern Art
Offering audiences a chance to see acclaimed films rarely screened in Australia, ‘Children of Independence’ charts the recent development of filmmaking from the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Emerging from years…
Dane Mitchell: The Imponderables
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20250301
The Renshaws
Dane Mitchell’s exhibition ‘The Imponderables’ explores loss, containment, and future-contingent propositions by way of an island that is not, and a place that does not. Continuing Mitchell’s long-standing interest in the evanescent nature of loss, absence,…
SOUND PERFORMANCE: Arriving Slowly
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Ipswich Art Gallery
Join Sandra Selig, Ross Manning and Robert Curgenven and experience a sound performance among artwork in the Arriving Slowly exhibition. Manning and Selig’s visual practice is featured in the exhibition, and their work explores parallel…
Rachel Burke: Thanks for Nothing
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Side Gallery
Thanks for Nothing is a body of work born out of a recent personal experience of recurrent pregnancy loss over a 12-month period. Created with over half a million de-stashed and thrifted melty beads, these works…
Elysha Rei: 静寂 (Seijaku): Serenity
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The Brisbane Quarter
Brisbane Quarter, The City’s most stylish restaurant and retail precinct, marks the Year of the Snake with the striking new 静寂 (Seijaku): Serenity art installation by renowned local artist Elysha Rei on display from 24 January…
Kellie O'Dempsey: A Cloud Never Dies
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Jan Manton Gallery
Rooted in the experiential and gestural, this exhibition incorporates Plein-air painting, lusciously pigmented watercolours on paper, punctuated with collage and video projection. Created during a period of profound personal transition, the work attempts to translate…
Matthew Hurdle: Should I remember you…
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PARKER Contemporary
With its rich textures and layers of pulped sackcloth and ash, Hurdle’s papermaking practice invites a tactile engagement, encouraging viewers to connect deeply with the subtle nuances of the surface. Beneath these layers, a compelling…
Regi Cherini: Such is Life
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Artisan
Regi Cherini, recipient of artisan‘s inaugural Regional Artisan Residency Program, presents Such is Life, a provocative exploration of Australian identity through the lens of “bogan” culture. This exhibition showcases Cherini’s masterful subversion of traditional embroidery techniques,…
Larissa Borteh: Paintings on Paper
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TW Fine Art
Larissa Borteh’s evocative paintings explore the delicate interplay between memory, mark-making, and storytelling. Her works, created on Yupo paper, reveal the layered process of their creation, reflecting the transient and fragile nature of past experiences.…
Cara-Ann Simpson: Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers)
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Onespace Gallery
Launching our 2025 program is a stunning exhibition, titled Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers) by newly represented artist Cara-Ann Simpson. Furari Flores is a rich visual display of the Australian landscape and Cara’s deep personal connection…
Geoart: Mapping Nature, Culture & Climate
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Webb Gallery, QCA
Dr Ata Tara, a registered landscape architect and academic, explores the intricate relationships between people, culture, and the land. Utilizing geospatial mapping and design tools, he transforms technical data into compelling visual art, offering fresh…
Director's Choice 2025
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Mitchell Fine Art
Mitchell Fine Art begins its 2025 gallery exhibition calendar year with the personally curated exhibition ‘Director’s Choice’ showing from January 28th. The gallery greets the year with an especially enthused spirit as it celebrates the…
Block Party
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UQ Art Museum
Join the UQ St Lucia Museums for a FREE community day, art, workshops, performances, tours, learning, heritage, food and more! Enjoy exclusive openings at four of UQ St Lucia’s Museums, all day food trucks and…
Panel Discussion: Collective and Customary Practice
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Griffith University Art Museum
Please join us for a discussion exploring the modes of collective and customary practices across contemporary art. Reflecting on Yuriyal Bridgeman: yubilong(mi)bilongyu, panellists will discuss concepts of the individual artist and collaborative ways of making and…
Gallery Walk Through: Cara-Ann Simpson
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Onespace Gallery
Onespace invites you to an exclusive walk through the gallery with exhibiting artist, Cara-Ann Simpson to explore the beautiful intricacies of Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers). Furari Flores is a multi-sensory project celebrating the wonder and exploration of plants.…
Experiential Artist Talk & Performance: Arianna Nixon and Amy Sargeant
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Outer Space
Join us for an experimental artist talk by Arianna Nixon and Amy Sargeant that will explore the themes of their exhibition Climate of Violence II: Lamentum through performance, sound and vision. Climate of Violence II: Lamentum is…
Panel Discussion: Film versus Dance
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Institute of Modern Art
We’re used to seeing dance on film. But what is lost—and gained—in the translation? And, in a time when film has become the key medium for recording and disseminating dance, how can dance itself—live, momentary,…
Contemporary Queensland Glass
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Artisan
Contemporary Queensland Glass is an exhibition celebrating the exceptional talent, innovation, and craftsmanship of five accomplished glass artists from Queensland. Despite limited local glass training opportunities and facilities, these artists have excelled in their craft. The…
Victoria Wareham : Contact Zone
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Metro Arts
Contact Zone by Victoria Wareham is an exhibition of new and recent work that understands screen-based technologies as temporal living entities that are subject to the mortal conditions of ageing and extinction. The included works use analogue and digital…
Neon
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State Library of Queensland
Sydney has the King Cross Coca-Cola sign, New York has the lights of Times Square, and Brisbane has Stefan’s rainbow, which is one of 26 original neon signs you will see in Neon exhibition alongside photographs and…
Sonja and Elisa Jane Carmichael: Deep Blue
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Pine Rivers Art Gallery
Dive into the sparkling waters of the Quandamooka this summer with mother-daughter artists Sonja and Elisa Jane Carmichael. Both are proud Ngugi women from Minjerribah on Quandamooka Country. Creating alongside one another and other family…
Ronelle Reid: Conversations with Nature
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Logan Art Gallery
Amidst the hum of modern life, we are quietly navigating the sixth Great Extinction Event, a stark reality where nearly 150 species of plants and animals vanish each day. Yet, rather than focusing on loss,…
Artist in Residence: Sara Nejad
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Museum of Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane is excited to welcome Sara Nejad as the Artist in Residence from January 2025. Sara’s residency will harness the mandala as a motif to explore themes of identity and belonging. Mandalas have…
Leah King-Smith: rhythm wRites
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QUT Art Museum
rhythm wRites is an immersive exhibition orchestrated by Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith, exploring simultaneity, interconnectivity, rhythm, ethereality, spatiality and sound. Rooted in a decolonising framework, the exhibition features new work produced in collaboration with leading…
Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial
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Home of the Arts
A contemporary art exhibition exploring the depth and dynamism of the Gold Coast’s creative community. Be immersed in the ‘Here and Now’ with an extraordinary collection of works of art by 42 artists who are…
Arriving Slowly: Exploring the Abstract
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Ipswich Art Gallery
As global unrest reaches unprecedented levels, the art world appears to be gravitating towards works that exude a profound sense of stillness and tranquillity—perhaps as a way to offer solace in these turbulent times. Arriving…
Lionel Fogarty: Moiyum wungumbil mugerra bullonga
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The Condensery
Lionel Fogarty since the early 2000s has been creating ‘poem paintings’, where viewers are immersed in the language written by his own hand, rather than by the mechanical typeset of publishing. This exhibition Moiyum wungumbil mugerra…
Elysha Rei: Yohaku no bi (the beauty of empty space)
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The Condensery
In 余白の美: Yohaku no bi (the beauty of empty space) Japanese Australian artist, Elysha Rei uses hand cut paper and principles of Japanese garden design to explore transcultural identity, family history and the silent narratives…
Genevieve Staines: Temporary Treasures
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Boondall Wetlands Environment Centre
Connect with, and contemplate, artefacts from the local natural world in Brisbane, with Genevieve Staines’ current exhibition ‘Temporary Treasures’. Visual Artist and Environmental Educator Genevieve Staines extends on her work connecting with nature as meditation…
Christie-Lee Newsham: Restriction
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Cyber Bunker
Christie-Lee Newsham is a dynamic artist using a range of mediums—including sound, installation, and casting—she invites audiences to confront the complexities of limitation in both personal and societal contexts. “Restriction,” is a thought-provoking installation that…
Remembering the Future
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Milani Gallery
Remembering the Future brings together four remarkable artists—Megan Cope, Judy Watson, Taloi Havini, and Ruha Fifita. Image: Kato Kakala 1, 2019-2021, Ivi (Ruha Fifita, Minaira Fifita, Sheida Vazir-Zadeh), konga ngatu (cut section of painted barkcloth),’umea (earth…
Dylan Jones: Back to Front
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Jan Manton Gallery
Dylan’s artworks vary in subject matter and medium but regardless of what he chooses to depict there always remains an interest in colour, composition and the simplification of form. The imagery Dylan creates has a…
Dylan Bolger: Leaf SZN
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Carpark Gallery
Dylan Bolger is a proud Maiawali, Karuwali, Pitta-Pitta and Gomeroi artist. Over the past three years Dylan has been working on the Leaf SZN project; creating 100 works based on the macaranga leaf. The macaranga…
Strange New Ways
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Fireworks Gallery
“Strange New Ways” invites exploration into the unexpected and uncharted territories of contemporary art, where the familiar is transformed into something strange and profound. Featuring a dynamic array of voices, this exhibition showcases the work…
Prita Tina Yeganeh: The Sacred Shared Labour
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Onespace Gallery
Onespace is delighted to present The Sacred Shared Labour, the second iteration of Prita Tina Yeganeh’s ongoing series My Soil Farsh فرش. This iteration explores collective labour as a vessel for activating community kinship. In a deeply symbolic and…