Beth Thompson Art & Photography

18/06/2026

Brisbane City Rollers present - Roller Derby Rivalry! History hits hard. Revenge hits harder. We are looking for market vendor's to be part of our very first "Roller Derby Rivalry" at Superordinary. BCR is hosting a fun event celebrating roller derby and our incredible community. A nod to the old sk...

17/06/2026

Bluey will be available for the first time in an Indigenous language in Australia.

Five episodes, The Creek, The Beach, Sleepytime, Grandad and Rug Island have been dubbed by north-east Arnhem Land residents into Yolŋu Matha.

📲 Full story: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/bluey-launches-in-yolnu-matha-for-naidoc-week/106803138

17/06/2026

VERY DISCO - or a warped perspective of ‘Discovery’? 👀 Check out this new artwork in Fish Lane! 🕺🏾

“Very Disco” by Darren Blackman continues his practice of using text, humour and sharp wordplay to create work that is both playful and political. The original artwork was created from LED neon and mirrored surfaces, and transforms the word “discovery” into “Very Disco”, collapsing a loaded colonial term into something glamorous, humorous and unexpected.

The work speaks to the enduring myth of the “discovery” of Australia, despite this continent never being terra nullius. By removing and rearranging the letters, Blackman undermines the authority of that narrative and exposes its absurdity. Rendered in bright yellow neon, “Very Disco” is full of joy and irreverence. The work invites us to consider our own relationship to these histories and whose perspective is privileged. Through wit and visual seduction, Blackman turns a word associated with colonisation into an act of resistance, resilience and self-determination.

Thanks to Fish Lane Arts Precinct and OneSpace Gallery for working with us.

Darren Blackman
Onespace
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16/06/2026

amazing heart breaking book

15/06/2026

In our current issue, Troy-Anthony Baylis celebrates migratory exhibition The Blak Laundry, conceived and created by Gamilaroi artist Dominique Chen and Quandamooka artist Libby Harward, as a site for community conversations that break ‘colonial power cycles’.

‘The Blak Laundry happenings are agitations and rinses that are not quite held inside institutions, adjacent, on the margins—the orientation is a creative choice blending with the idea and reality that both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and our thoughts are marginal, still being politicised, our voices still being cast aside after so many years of social progress and regress.’

Keep reading in ‘EXPERIMENTAL ART_Rattling the Archive’.

Image: Dominique Chen and Libby Harward, The Blak Laundry, 2025. Installation view at Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art. Photo:

10/06/2026

Went to Adelaide to play at and ran into these two super rad people sporting their jerseys 🤩

Also saw lots of people at the tournament in the scrim tops made by but didn’t get photos 😞

More roller derby designs to come??? 🤔
Watch this space!