Exhibition Floor Talks: Colin Reaney, Anastasia Klose

To celebrate the opening weekend of our new exhibitions, you are invited for a morning with the artists. Gain special insight into our three exhibitions as the artists and curator take you on a guided Floor Talk.

Colin Reaney: objects in a situation
objects in a situation: /fabrications according to measured drawings/ brings together recent works spanning drawing, sculpture and spatial installation, coalescing in an exploration of global and personal concerns and an examination of ‘belonging’ in an interconnected world. Reaney’s interventions in the gallery conjure fragments of shared memories and experiences through an eclectic arrangement of symbols, quotes and objects.

Anastasia Klose: World without End
World without End explores intertwined ideas of ecological extinction and human mortality—and the tenacity of life to persevere beyond loss. The exhibition brings together works shaped by Anastasia Klose’s involvement in environmental activism and conservation in Far North Queensland alongside new works responding to the life and recent death of a close friend.

Rachel O'Reilly: Northern Waters
Northern Waters (2025) is a feature-length video installation exploring complex aftermaths of the 1967–75 Save the Reef campaign, which successfully protected the Great Barrier Reef from the global oil industry. At the time, Indigenous people in Queensland lived under apartheid conditions, and non-Indigenous artist/activists involved had no knowledge of the reef’s cultural heritage. Today, as Indigenous governance is increasingly recognised in World Heritage reef and rainforest regions, hyper-real images of bleached coral circulate globally as symbols of climate crisis, while biodiversity policies continue to fail many at-risk species.

When: Saturday 7 March, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Price: FREE, all welcome

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Image: Gallery view, Joe Furlonger: Horizons 2025. Photos: Zac Shaw.

As part of our opening weekend events, HBRG will also be hosting a choral performance by Bayside Harmony choir and feature-length film screening of Northern Waters.