6 NOVEMBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2026
Official Opening & Artist Talk: Sunday 8 November 2pm-3.30pm
Open Tues to Fri 10am-4pm | Sat + Sun 10am-2pm. Closed Mon. Extended opening Hours | Sat 7 + Sun 8 Nov | 10am – 4pm
You are warmly invited to join us at the opening of our last exhibition for the year, Enough? Enough! ENOUGH featuring artists Kara Wood, Raquel Ormella and Zoe Bra at 2pm on Sunday 8 November. Hear from the artists as they discuss their respective practices and their works in the exhibition, and participate in Zoe Brand’s live performance project HOW ARE YOU FEELING. Witty, thoughtful, and at times cynical, HOW ARE YOU FEELING draws on a playful exchange with the wearer, asking them, “How are you feeling today?”. In response, Brand attaches a pennant to their body reading either MAD, BAD, SAD, GLAD, or RAD.
The opening event is presented in conjunction with Craft + Design Canberra Open Studios and Organisations and The Australian Ceramics Association (TACA) National Ceramics Open Studios.
When does patience run out? When does silence become complicity? When is enough finally enough? This powerful group exhibition brings together three nationally recognised artists whose intersecting practices in contemporary ceramics, art and design explore labour, activism and social commentary.
Enough? Enough! ENOUGH features Kara Wood, Raquel Ormella and Zoe Brand—artists who transform materials, words and objects into calls for action. Their work examines social and political systems, individual and collective action, political consciousness, and the shifts in language that shape how we understand power and protest.
At the heart of the exhibition is Kara Wood’s striking large-scale ceramic installation: a field of raw, unfired vessels that embodies both fragility and collective strength. First presented in Newcastle in 2022, Wood’s exhibition ‘Enough’ explored feminist activism and the pursuit of equality through humour, history and storytelling. For its Canberra iteration, Wood reimagines and expands the work by incorporating vessels made from reclaimed clay by Canberra Potters members and community. In doing so, she transforms individual acts of making into a powerful communal gesture of resistance and remembrance.
Raquel Ormella’s critically acclaimed practice examines how art can foster political consciousness and social action in relation to national identity and the environment. Working across textiles, video, installation and works on paper, Ormella often recontextualises the tools, materials and language of activism. In ‘Enough? Enough! ENOUGH’, works from her ongoing series Blockade in the studio, on my couch, in the office – Evict Adani address the threats mining poses to landscapes and communities, as well as the tensions between labour and economic benefit. The works draw on grassroots protest movements that build social cohesion while strengthening resistance.
Zoe Brand is internationally recognised for conceptual jewellery, objects and wearable signs that use text and ready-made materials to challenge familiar narratives. Drawing on the ambiguity of language, and the many meanings a single word can hold, she explores how interpretation shifts as an object moves from wall to body and back again. For this exhibition, Brand draws on her experiences of motherhood and womanhood. Through these works, she confronts the rage, guilt, love and profound exhaustion that have accumulated over recent years. She has had enough.
Enough? Enough! ENOUGH is more than an exhibition. It is an invitation to consider where we stand, what we are willing to tolerate, and how art, craft and design can give form to our collective yearning for change.
Presented in association with the 2026 Craft + Design Festival.
COLLECTIVE MAKING
Community participation is central to the exhibition. In the lead-up to its opening, makers of all skill levels were invited to create raw ceramic vessels and become co-creators with Kara Wood in an act of artistic activism. The resulting installation makes collective authorship tangible, embedding community voices directly in the artwork.
ARTIST BIOS
Kara Wood is a Newcastle/Muloonbina based artist working across ceramics, textiles, sculpture, and installation. Her thirty-year practice reclaims and reimagines women’s stories, interrogating history, power, and the domestic sphere through material and form. Born in Papua New Guinea, Wood studied ceramics at Newcastle Art School and has exhibited widely across Australia. A 2025 Wynne Prize finalist, her work is held in public and private collections. Her recent projects explore the fragility of memory and the enduring nature of clay as a vessel for human record.
Raquel Ormella (born Cronulla/Kurranulla, NSW) is an internationally recognised artists who lives and works Canberra/Kamberi Australia. Ormella’s research-based practice encompasses textiles, zines, performance, video, public art, and teaching in the School of Art and Design, ANU. Her work addresses political language and its effects on national identity, and the complex relationship between humans and the natural environment. Ormella’s work has been included in the Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2015); the 2013 California-Pacific Triennial, 2010 Aichi Triennial (Japan), 2008 Sydney Biennale, the 2003 Biennale of Istanbul and the 2002 Sao Paulo Biennale (Brazil) As well as many group exhibitions in Australia including Material Politics, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane (2017) and The National, New Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney (2017). She has held solo exhibitions at Canberra Contemporary Gallery, Milani Gallery in Brisbane, Artspace in Sydney, and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne.
Zoe Brand (born Brisbane, Australia) now lives and works on Yuin country (Majors Creek) NSW near Braidwood as an artist, designer and jeweller. Brand is well known for her text based wearable signs and conceptual jewellery pieces. After completing an Advanced Diploma in Jewellery and Object Design at Design Centre, Enmore, TAFE NSW Sydney Institute (2008), she proceeded to make art, curate exhibitions, run galleries and drink beer. In 2013 she returned to study and completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in Gold and Silversmithing at the Australian National University where she finished with First Class Honours in 2015. Brand has had numerous solo exhibitions as well as exhibiting in numerous group shows in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Germany, France, Estonia and the United States. Her work is also held in several significant private collections.
Image: Kara Wood, installation view Enough, 2022. Photo by Stuart Marlin.
