Green

Presented by CUCKoO Tasmania

Opening Event :
Friday 5 September 2025, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Exhibition Dates :
Wednesday 3 – Monday 8 September 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm daily*
Sunday 11:00am – 3:00pm

An exhibition exploring the many shades of green — as colour, symbol & force of nature. From regeneration and growth to envy, inexperience, and the environment, Green invites artists to interpret this complex hue through personal, political, and ecological lenses.

At once a colour, an idea, a warning, and a promise, Green is an exhibition that invites artists to explore this complex and deeply symbolic hue. Across cultures and contexts, green carries a multitude of meanings: it is the colour of renewal, fertility, and hope — but also of naivety and envy. In contemporary discourse, green has become a loaded word, standing in for sustainability, climate urgency, political movements, and the push-and-pull between nature and human industry.

This exhibition brings together a diverse range of artists who work across mediums — from painting, ceramics, installation and sculpture to photography and the hand crafted. Each contributes a unique interpretation of green, offering perspectives that range from the poetic and personal, to the political and planetary.

Some works examine green as an aesthetic gesture — using its chromatic presence to evoke the lushness of growth or the eeriness of toxicity. Others take a more conceptual route, looking at green as a symbol of environmental beauty and fragility and the shifting state of our ecosystems. In many works, green becomes a lens through which to view connection — to place, to memory, to seasons.

In regional and rural contexts, particularly here in Tasmania, green holds a powerful resonance. It conjures the dense canopy of forests, cultivated agricultural land, and the political debates that continue to shape the island’s future. For some artists, green is a site of beauty, belonging and abundance. For others, it is a reminder of loss, erosion, or contested ground.

As a group show, Green invited artists to contribute work without any agenda, encouraging a plethora of readings. The exhibition opens a space for dialogue — between works, between artists, and between visitors and their own associations with this much-loved and multifaceted colour & theme. It invites reflection on how we live alongside the natural world, how we mythologise it, explore it, care for it, and imagine its future. 

Accompanying the exhibition, CUCKoO will have a curated retail offering from it’s Huon Valley store to introduce Hobartians and those from further afield to the range of hand-crafted and artisan products stocked by us.