Tom Carment, 'Enmore Road', 1978, silkscreen print, 38 x 54 cm
Tom Carment’s work is featured in a group exhibition titled Set States, at the Wollongong Art Gallery until March 22, 2026.
Set States brings together a selection of video works by Kate Mitchell, known for her constructed sets and performative, often absurdist gestures. Spanning key works such as Fall Stack, I Am Not a Joke, Beyond Setting Suns, and Hypnotised into Being—recently acquired by Wollongong Art Gallery—the exhibition explores shifting psychological states and embodied experiences: states of mind, states of action, states of play, states of being.
Mitchell’s videos play with humour and endurance, capturing moments where physical and emotional limits are tested or transcended. Her practice examines the fragile space between control and collapse, seriousness and silliness, labour and levity.
Presented in dialogue with works from the Wollongong Art Gallery collection, Set States invites new connections between contemporary Australian video art and historical representations of human agency, ritual, and transformation. The exhibition considers themes of play, perception and performance—suggesting that to “set states” is to be actively engaged with the world, however unstable it may be.
Including works by artists: David Aspden, Annette Bezor, Stephen Bird, Simon Blau, Lizzie Buckmaster Dove, Tom Carment, Julian Day, Helen Eager, John Fisher, Graham Fransella, Michelle Hanlin, Col Jordan, Robert Klippel, Pat Larter, Kate Mitchell, Mike Parr, Karen Paterson, Neil Roberts, Sally Smart, Robyn Stacey, Emma White.
Exhibition Dates: 8 November – 22 March 2026
Wollongong Art Gallery: 46 Burelli St, Wollongong NSW 2500