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exhibition by Jakob Perrett
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Thomas Dixon Centre, 406 Montague Rd, West End QLD 4101, Australia
Exhibition of works by Jakob Perrett as part of the Melt Festival.
Melt Festival is back with the complete 2025 program! Brisbane/Magandjin’s boldest celebration of LGBTQIA+ art, identity and pride returns to venues across the city.
This FREE exhibition is available at the Thomas Dixon Centre until the 24th November 2025.
The intersections of queer identity, ancestry, and artistic process are visualised throughout this collection of work. Jakob uses his late Opa’s film camera alongside his own modern DSLR to create layered photographic works that blend analogue and digital, past and present, memory and re-imagination. This collaboration becomes a conversation across time: queering the archive, reframing absence, and offering a new kind of legacy. A legacy rooted not in blood, but in vision, imagination, and becoming.
The works explore how objects — both personal and inherited — can anchor and disrupt the narratives we craft about ourselves. Through this, multidimensional realities are constructed where emotions, memory, and the queer experience can be seen, felt, and reimagined. What happens when we look at the past not as something fixed, but as something still unfolding?
Melt Festival is back with the complete 2025 program! Brisbane/Magandjin’s boldest celebration of LGBTQIA+ art, identity and pride returns to venues across the city from 24 October to 8 November 2025.
Featuring hundreds of performances and events at over 60 venues across 18 days, Melt will once again see Australia’s LGBTQIA+ community and allies come together to revel in inclusivity, community, diversity and creativity as the city sings with pageants, parades and protest, musical theatre, comedy, a monumental choral installation, burlesque, visual arts, theatre and so much more!