Spanning over four decades of creative inquiry, Shapeshifting explores Helen Wright’s remarkable capacity for enduring transformation. Wright’s work responds to a world marked by ecological unease and existential fragility through motifs such as vessels, birds, and ruinous landscapes. Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, Wright embodies the archetypal shapeshifter – an artist capable of moving between mediums and meanings, inhabiting different states, and slipping between boundaries both physical and metaphysical. At once intimate and expansive, Wright’s art resists containment and rewards our own deeper interrogations.
Queen Victoria Art Gallery
Until 1 February 2026
Tasmania
Helen Wright, Birdscape 1, 2016–17, oil on linen, 152.5 × 122cm
On loan from Helen Wright
Photograph: Jack Bett
Courtesy the artist, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne and Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania
