Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery: Helen Wright
Helen Wright is the subject of an exciting exhibition at The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) opening in August. Presented by QVMAG and the City of Launceston Shapeshifting: The Art of Helen Wright celebrates one of Tasmania’s most enduringly vital and visionary artists.
Spanning over four decades of the artist’s practice, Shapeshifting features painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture by Helen Wright, who works across a number of mediums and scales.
At once intimate and expansive, Helen Wright’s art resists containment and rewards our own deeper interrogations. Shapeshifting is a testament to Wright’s enduring contribution to Australian art, and to the power of art as both container for ideas and catalyst for change. Courtesy of QVMAG.
This exciting exhibition is accompanied by a short-run, bespoke publication, available now for pre-order with delivery in late-August. Further information below.
Shapeshifting: The Art of Helen Wright
Art Gallery at Royal Park, Launceston, TAS
23 August – 30 November 2025
SHAPESHIFTING: Helen Wright features 92 illustrated works completed over four decades, from early small mono lithographs, large pastel, charcoal, graphite and coloured pencil drawings, watercolour and pearlescent oil paintings through to sculptures cast in resin, bronze and concrete. Written texts include a Foreword by artist and lead curator at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Dr Kellie Wells, an essay titled ‘A Curious Gaze’ by arts writer and broadcaster Courtney Kidd and an Afterword from Helen herself that reflects on her ‘shapeshifting’ career.
Size: 280mm [high] × 220mm [wide]
Binding: section sewn, hard case (Wibalin), debossed pattern and titling with two foils
Printing: Full colour throughout, plus special PMS 5th colour
Extent: 116 pages on 157gsm Elemental Chlorine Free (EFC) coated paper stock
Proceeds from the sale of SHAPESHIFTING : Helen Wright will be used to provide an artist’s royalty to support Helen’s art practice and to fund future art-based projects that intersect with environment and/or social justice issues through OUTSIDE THE BOX / Earth Arts Rights.
$75
