Charlie Donaldson, Joh's Vortex, 2025. Archival print, 59cm x 42cm.

This exhibition has past

21 Nov 2025  30 Nov 2025

Charlie Donaldson, Joh's Vortex, 2025. Archival print, 59cm x 42cm.

DatesFriday 21 November 2025 to Sunday 30 November 2025
(This exhibition has past)
Times10:00am — 3:00pm
CostFree
BookingNo bookings are required to visit the exhibition. Opening Event: Friday 21st of November 5:00 - 8:00 PM Artist Talk: Saturday 22nd November 3:00 - 4:00 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.

Acknowledgements

This exhibition is supported by

The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and Ipswich City Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

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Charlie Donaldson, Joh's Vortex, 2025. Archival print, 59cm x 42cm.

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