Inspired by the many versions of Les Misérables, this exhibition encompasses a kaleidoscopic range of artistic approaches to subverting and interpreting personal and historical narratives, via high-drama, excess and passion.

Moving image work by Ella Sowinska and new textile work by Thea Jones come together in this collaborative exhibition, inspired by the secret writing practices of the artists’ mothers.

Combining appropriated lyrics and party decorations, Love Me, Love Me plays with the intertwined representations of romantic narratives in pop music and personal expressions of love.

Through practices of hand-stitching, Yaad Karo considers the history of migration that links the artist’s personal history to the indentured labour communities of India and the Pacific.

Christine Morrow exploits the material qualities of the painter’s canvas and stretcher frame to create dynamic, three-dimensional modular structures.

This is Pep Too! is a new body of sculptural work that explores a revised meaning of ‘pep’ – found in the ambivalent spaces between failure, doubt and defiant enthusiasm.

As part of an exchange with Melbourne-based gallery MARS, Metro Arts will present the work of three innovative Melbourne video artists.

Life on Earth presents a selection of intense unscripted encounters with wild animals, plants and landscapes that reflect on the ongoing impact of human activity on our environment.

We Koppel, We Dala; Restitution and Reclamation. An exhibition addressing representation, land and identity in the context of South Africa’s Apartheid history and its ongoing impacts.

It is December 1999 and Alex’s 10th Birthday party at Temora public pool. A moment of hope is embraced as they dive for a treasure at the bottom of the pool.

Flash Lights in Low Visibility investigates current frameworks of justice, which reinforce isolation and removal as punishment.

Grace Blake’s exhibition will be comprised of predominantly new work that considers a future dominated by non-human and hybridised beings. Blake will model formative anatomies and ecologies through the use of digital modelling software and 3D printing combined with 2D elements.

Across installation, sculpture and moving image, this exhibition repurposes weather instruments in order to experiment with our perception of spatio-temporal experience, and its orders and structures.

Priscilla Beck enacts a series of repairs to an empty gallery, which then break apart over the course of the exhibition. The installation is first made of making, and then unmade.

The cities, they tremble is a three-part audio-visual installation, that traces the connections between place, identity and sound, through an examination of resonance and vibration in everyday life. 

Shy Love explores how the physical body experiences desire. Each sculptural form delves into shared experiences of bodily pleasure and anticipation.

Video Visions is Channels Festival’s flagship open-call video art program, running since the inaugural festival in 2013.