All That is Alive

An iterative touring exhibition co-commissioned by UTS Gallery & Art Collection and La Trobe Art Institute, All That is Alive brings together 12 Australian artists and collectives working with living systems.

Artists: Tully Arnot, Saskia van Pagee Anderson, Kylie Banyard, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Sonja Carmichael, Madeleine Collie, Other Matter, Sarah Poulgrain, Mandy Quadrio, Keg de Souza, Magnetic Topographies, Ivey Wawn.

Drawing on ancient kinships and ancestral knowledge, mycelial intelligence and fermentation, non-hierarchical and interspecies relations, machine desire and collective agency, the artworks in the exhibition engage with the interconnected practices that sustain and define life – human and otherwise. 

Presented across two sites, the exhibition responds to local conditions, allowing artworks to speak not just of place, but from it. Across dance, weaving, printmaking, sculpture, and publishing, regeneration is a refrain throughout many of the works.

The exhibition also looks inward, foregrounding the often-invisible labour, care, and institutional memory that sustains the museum. In collaboration with the staff, artists repurpose tools and spaces and reshape habits and routines, revealing the museum itself as a living system, shaped by relationships.

All That is Alive brings together diverse practices to reflect on life in its many forms, evoking the entangled relations that sustain us and imagining new ways of living together. 

All that is Alive is co-commissioned by UTS Gallery & Art Collection and La Trobe Art Institute and presented in partnership with the UTS Faculty of Design and Society. 

The exhibition is on view at UTS Gallery between 16 September–12 December 2025 and at La Trobe Art Institute between 25 February–10 May 2026.

The exhibition opening night coincides with the launch of All That Is Alive: Research Symposium.