Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists

In its 34th year, curator Tim Riley Walsh brings together five artists investigating society’s relationship to industry and the machine in the contemporary era. Across installation, sculpture, video, and expanded painting Francis Carmody (VIC/NSW), Alexandra Peters (VIC), Augusta Vinall Richardson (VIC), Keemon Williams (QLD) and Emmaline Zanelli (SA) reflect how new technologies and abstract modes of production and distribution are influencing art and art-making. Their works demonstrate how, despite the integration of machines in both creative and everyday lives, many people are increasingly unaware of how goods are made or function. The exhibition proposes that we now live in a ‘technical culture’, where the relationship between human and machine is deeply intertwined.

Primavera was initiated in 1992 by the MCA in collaboration with Dr Edward Jackson AM and Mrs Cynthia Jackson AM, in memory of their daughter Belinda. Since its inception, Primavera has played an influential role in the development of contemporary art in Australia, introducing a generation of artists at an early stage of their careers to a broader public. Each year the curator of Primavera undertakes extensive research, meeting with young artists from across the country.

Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists is supported by Major Patrons Chloe and Andrew Podgornik and MCA Next; the Museum’s program for young philanthropists.