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Sweet Enough

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EXHIBITION RMIT Rose Agnew, Sweet Enough. Image courtesy of the artist

Sweet Enough

25 Feb 2025 – 21 Mar 2025

Sweet Enough looks at sugar from a feminist perspective, examining the complex history, uses and roles of the medium, while celebrating the artists layered relationship with the sweet stuff.

Growing up in suburban Brisbane, oppressive gender roles and the invasive cane toad were omnipresent in the artist's adolescence. The cane toad, introduced to control cane beetle in Queensland’s sugar cane farms, subsequently devastated native animal populations, and continues to spread throughout Australia. The exhibition explores the cultural complexity of this ubiquitous substance and its farming impacts, dissecting the medium to find new ways to see and use sugar.
Sweet Enough draws on techniques from glass blowing and culinary arts, in the form of sculpture, video installations and 2D works. The gallery will become a site of production and exchange as Rose creates exuberant sugar sculptures on-site.

Curated by Julia Powles.

Image: Rose Agnew, Sweet Enough. Image courtesy of the artist.

Gallery Details

RMIT First Site Gallery
RMIT Building 16,
Level 2 (Storey Hall Basement)
City Campus, RMIT University
344 Swanston Street
Melbourne VIC 3000


T: 03 9925 1717
E: first.site@rmit.edu.au

W: rmit.edu.au/about/culture/first-site-gallery


Opening Hours
(during exhibition periods)
Tuesday – Friday: 11am to 5 pm
Closed public holidays, Saturday – Monday, and RMIT Campus closures.
Entry is Free

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The Public Galleries Association of Victoria (PGAV) acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the lands where our office is located, and all Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and Australia. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enduring traditions and continuing creative cultures. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging.

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