Affording Truth

28 March - 21 June 2026 | Gallery 1

Affording Truth explores how we perceive and navigate truth in an era of global uncertainty, using the framework of affordances - the qualities of objects or environments that suggest or enable particular actions and interactions. Perceived, false or hidden, affordances are everywhere and key to how humans navigate the world.

Fuelled by the rapid integration of digital networked systems and hardware, social media, algorithms and artificial intelligence, truth has become relative, contested and ambiguous.  Facts once deemed indisputable are now questioned and open to manipulation in social, political and digital worlds through the creation and widespread distribution of unfiltered content, artifice, fake news, disinformation and confected realities. 

The exhibition presents new and existing work by artists who interrogate this increasingly muddy space including Alison Alder (NSW), Robert Andrew (QLD), Lorraine Connelly-Northey (NSW), Lauren Dunn (VIC), Honor Freeman (SA), Tyza Hart (QLD), Daniel McKewen (QLD), Juanita McLauchlan (NSW), Raquel Ormella (ACT), Baden Pailthorpe (ACT), Ryan Presley (QLD), Alex Seton (NSW), Scotty So (VIC) and Esther Stewart (VIC).

Affording Truth examines how artist's use affordances to shape experience, influence behaviour, and challenge assumptions, revealing alternative truths and disrupting dominant narratives.

Affording Truth is a collaborative curatorial project between Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and City of Moreton Bay Galleries curated by Rachel Arndt, Dr Lee-Anne Hall and Hannah Williamson. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Tyza Hart, Expanding, 2026 (detail), stoneware, porcelain slip, glaze, cotton canvas, synthetic dye, 16 x 215 x 125cm. Photo Louis Lim.