RELIC Exhibition Launch

Parramatta Artists Studios in partnership with Fairfield City Museum and Gallery presents RELIC.

Please join us for the exhibition opening of RELIC at FCMG on Saturday 29 November from 2 – 5pm. Refreshments and food will be provided.

Launch event: 2–5pm Saturday 29 November 2025Fairfield City Museum and Gallery634 The Horsley Dr, Smithfield NSW 2164FREE, registrations requiredFood and beverages provided

Exhibition dates: 29 November 2025 – 14 March 2026

RELIC is an exhibition of newly commissioned and reconfigured artworks by studio artists and alumni of Parramatta Artists Studios. Featuring Akil Ahamat, Bonnie Huang, Kirtika Kain, Del Lumanta, and Phuong Ngo, RELIC centres artists whose practices gain definition through accumulation, each nurturing their own intuitive processes of transcribing and recording the world around them.

Derived from the Latin reliquiae, meaning "remains", relics may be objects, physical remains or personal effects, and form an important part of many religions and cultures of veneration. Alternately, a relic is an affront – it is antiquated, outmoded, and arcane. Across the artists’ works, layers of ritual, sediment, sound, and meaning gather in uneasy tension to interrogate the temporal and institutional frameworks through which we understand visual and material culture.

RELIC is presented in partnership with Fairfield City Museum and Gallery and curated by PAS Curators JD Reforma and Nithya Nagarajan. The project was seeded by an initial development lab encompassing workshops, presentations and studio conversations where artists were invited alongside interdisciplinary practitioners to co-create the frame of the exhibition.

The exhibition and its associated public program also feature key contributions from Sydney-based designer Alix Higgins, Think+DO Tank Foundation, as well as a participatory artwork by Bonnie Huang, where audiences are invited to contribute to a sculptural installation that will evolve over the period of the exhibition.

Limited parking available onsite, street parking available on Oxford Street.

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