Teeya Ryan: I am my own machine presents new work by Teeya Ryan, an emerging Australian artist working across print media and performance.
Ryan’s practice explores what happens when the act of making becomes the work itself. Focusing on labour, the body and the often invisible processes that underpin printmaking, each gesture of carving, pressing, stamping and lifting becomes choreographic — revealing the physical intensity usually erased from the final print.
Rather than presenting prints as fixed 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.
Rigorous yet raw, the work reflects on precarious labour within the Australian arts landscape while proposing resistance through embodied action. In these installations, the body operates as tool, material and voice — a site of contact and protest.
This exhibition invites audiences to witness process as product and to consider printmaking not only as image, but as effort, care, frustration, repetition and strength.
Opening Night – Friday 27 February 2026
Exhibition Preview | 5–6pm (artist performance at 5.30pm – ticketed)
Opening Night Soirée | 6–8pm (performances at 6.30pm & 7.30pm)
Artist in Residence
Thursday 26 February | 11am–4pm
Saturday 28 February | 1pm–4pm
Artist Workshop
Sunday 1 March | 1pm–5pm (drop in anytime)
