What Remains

'What Remains' marks the 40th anniversary of the first artwork acquired by Murray Edwards College - 'Extase' (1986) by artist and writer Mary Kelly. Taking this work as its starting point, the exhibition brings together contemporary artists working across archives, personal and collective histories, and material traces of the past. Rather than treating history as something to preserve unchanged, the works activate it as a living resource, reflecting on what persists, what disappears, and how activist legacies evolve. Accompanying display cases foreground the role of independent publishing in feminist art.