LAUREN BRINCAT / When do I breathe?

When do I breathe? by artist Lauren Brincat is the first exhibition inspired by the 2024 public performance of the same title by the artist, which shaped new paths through the streets of Sydney, connecting communities in collaborative action. In March 2025, as the first exhibition of 2025, The Lock-Up, Muloobinba/Newcastle will present the film, fabric sculptures, and sound installation of the performance—making the presentation a performative structure and whole-of-exhibition experience. The exhibition and titular film work, When do I breathe? is inspired by the in-between breaths of the choir, whose composition reflects these sounds, sighs, pauses, breaks, rests, and moments of gathering and anticipation before action.

Artworks first commissioned by Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct as part of the Transport for NSW Safer Cities Program. Proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with Transport for NSW and Create NSW.

LOCUST JONES / The green dream

Nationally recognised contemporary artist Locust Jones presents The green dream at The Lock-Up in 2025 — an exhibition surveying the artist’s intimate and internal lens through which he has interpreted the political throughout his distinguished career, to capture the tension between global events and the immediate, tangible realities of daily life. Diaristic drawings, rendered in ink on paper, entangle fragments of world news with reflections on the artist’s personal—and tumultuous—lived experiences, offering a raw, unfiltered experience of how the contemporary chaos of the infosphere, or hypermodernity, intersect with psychological experience. Each work is product of a moment in time, layered with the immediacy of his chosen material to reflect both permanence and fragility.

The green dream invites viewers to wander through this interplay of thought and artefact, grappling with the fluid boundary between the public and the private, the ephemeral and the eternal.