Clothes drying on an inside hanger, golden sunsets, a postman in mid-delivery, and an elderly couple embracing – these are some of the images emerging from peoples’ experience of self-isolation, which are being curated and share under the Instagram project Mass Isolation Australia (or #massisolationAUS).
Curated by the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, the Mass Isolation project asks viewers in Australia, and most pertinently, at least right now, in Melbourne, to share their photographs of self-isolation with the tags #massisolation and #massisolationAUS. From here, the specially created Mass Isolation Aus Instagram then shares a selection of these images – it’s a humble and poignant way to come together, via photography, during this moment.
Below, we’ve gathered a selection of images shared via the project, showing intimate moments of isolation. Find out how you can participate in the project.
For decades, beginning well before the advent of social media, Barbara Kruger’s prescient use of words and text has invited people to consider their context in contemporary society. In Brisbane, between 4–7 September, audiences may experience her concise, dynamic aesthetic within the internationally acclaimed Gems delivered by choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the L.A. Dance Project.
New South Wales-based artist Sophie Cape, has won the Hadley’s Art Prize for 2025. The winning piece, alongside the 28 finalists, will be on display at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart until 21 September.
For Listening Acts at the Now or Never Festival, the music and performance company Chamber Made invited artists to interrogate the intersection between the body, listening and technology.
Evie Adasal’s show Light and Space unveils a series of works that look at the intersection of design, light and space at The Garden Gallery in Sydney.
The everchanging nature of what constitutes a home is celebrated and explored in Boundaries: Transcended, now showing at the Bank Art Museum Moree.
Offering a “new kind of hope,” Jacobus Capone’s solo show, End & Being, is the inaugural exhibition at the National Centre for Environmental Arts in Halls Gap.
