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Zane Saunders outside Bulmba-Ja

Zane Saunders

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Zane Saunders | Bulmba-ja Facade

24 November — 01 February 2026

Bulmba-ja, 96 Abbott Street, Cairns
Kat Hall

Intimate Worlds II

Exhibition

11 October — 24 December 2025

Group Exhibition
Billy Missi, Sapur Au Kubi, printmaking

Billy Missi

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Billy Missi’n Wakain Thamai

25 October — 22 February 2026

TOURING: Currently at State Library of Queensland - Brisbane, QLD
Hannah Murray I ‘Pearl Garden’ I 2025 I Acrylic on board I 63 x 53cm

Hannah Murray

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Sunshine Noir

04 December — 07 February 2026
Combined Image

Tetsuya Tabata & Mariana Verdaasdonk

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Jakuzuré 蛇崩: Shaping pathways through time and place

06 December — 31 January 2026
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PSBK (INDONESIA)

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Dialog Lensa 1&2: SERAKAH & BERSIAR SINAR Special Screening and Performance

06 December — 06 December 2025

Bulmba-Ja Theatre, 96 Abbott Street
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Yandell Walton

Melbourne (formerly Cairns)

“I’m very interested in the tension between the ephemerality of projection and the solidity of the architectural form. Most of my work is site-responsive because, with projection, the space or object you’re projecting onto merges with the moving image and becomes part of the artwork.””

Darren Blackman

Cairns | Sunshine Coast | Aurukun

Jane Heraghty

Cairns

Wendy Mocke

Cairns, Australia | Madang, PNG

Emma Gardner

Meanjin/Brisbane

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24 November, 2025

Dialog Lensa #6: Sitting With a Village, Listening to the Ocean

Written by: (Melania) Jack, The Ironing Maidens In late October, Patty and I travelled to Yogyakarta for the Dialog Lensa artist residency…

Ashleigh Campbell at PSBK Artspace, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

30 March, 2025

Dialog Lensa Creative Exchange: Ashleigh Campbell’s Visit to Yogyakarta, March 2025

In March 2025, Ashleigh Campbell, CEO of NorthSite Contemporary Arts, embarked on a research and relationship-building journey to Padepokan…

Sportfire II exhibition, 2024. Photography by Cristina Bevilacqua, courtesy of NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.

25 September, 2024

Linear Horizons: A Collaborative Printmaking Exchange

Linear Horizons: A Collaborative Printmaking exchange between Baguio, Philippines and Cairns, Australia A highlight this month is…