Moonlight States

Charlie Donaldson, Joh's Vortex, 2025. Archival print, 59cm x 42cm.
21 Nov 2025 — 29 Nov 2025

Charlie Donaldson, Joh's Vortex, 2025. Archival print, 59cm x 42cm.
Dates | Friday 21 November to Saturday 29 November |
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Times | 10:00am — 3:00pm |
Cost | Free |
Booking | No bookings are required to visit the exhibition. Opening Event: Friday 21st of November 5:00 - 8:00 PM |
Four artists respond to footage from the Bjelke-Petersen era, exploring their cultural inheritance as creative Queenslanders.
Moonlight States sees four Queensland artists respond to Chris Masters’ ‘The Moonlight State’, a Four Corners episode exposing the corruption of the Bjelke-Petersen Government and the Queensland Police. The airing of the episode in May, 1987 led to the commissioning of the Fitzgerald Enquiry. The exhibition treats the footage of Moonlight State as a found object - examined and deconstructed to create a dialogue with the community about our shared histories and presents. The Chris Masters’ episode of Four Corners is a rich resource in that it provides specific and contextual detail to what had previously, to the artists’ generation, been oral history and hearsay.
Exhibition by Jack Rodgers, Charlie Donaldson, Sally Molloy and Phoebe Paradise.