Primavera: Young Australian Artists, the MCA Australia’s annual exhibition for artists aged 35 years and under, presents work by six early-career artists who challenge society’s prescribed structures to deliver compelling alternatives to the status quo. Each artist, drawing on their lived experiences, reckons with the perils of history, education, culture and language to question authoritative structures and systems.

Tiyan Baker (NSW), Christopher Bassi (QLD), Moorina Bonini (VIC), Nikki Lam (VIC), Sarah Poulgrain (QLD), and Truc Truong (SA)

Christopher Bassi, Small Monument to the Arafura Sea, 2023, oil on canvas, image courtesy the artist and Yavuz Gallery © the artist. Photo Christopher Bassi.