Gerwyn Davies: Sunburn

This exhibition brings together a series of vibrant textile and photographic works that reimagine the ephemera, icons, and images of the nation’s glittering Sunrise Strip.

Drawing in part upon the immense Tweed Regional Museum collection, postcards, souvenirs, and signs are refashioned into sequins and spandex. A party of costumed figures dis/appear beneath elaborate sculptural forms, relaxed in photographic worlds that conjure the distinctive visual landscape of coastal Australiana.

Sunburn is a love letter to Tweed and the borderlands—a declaration of deep affection for the lurid, the leisurely and the lowbrow.

A Tweed Regional Gallery initiative. The Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence studio is supported by benefactor Mr Tim Fairfax AC via the Tweed Regional Gallery Foundation Ltd.

Gerwyn Davies is represented by Jan Murphy Gallery (Brisbane) and Michael Reid Galleries (Sydney/Berlin).

Gerwyn Davies, Sunburn, 2025. Archival pigment print, 85 x 150 cm. Courtesy the artist, Jan Murphy Gallery (Brisbane) and Michael Reid Galleries (Sydney/Berlin). © The artist.