Tortuga Studios will open I Am My Home, a group exhibition exploring identity,
belonging, and the spaces we carry with us, on September 25th. The show features new work by Swerve, alongside Subtropical Goth, Mellitios Kyriakidis, and Suriya Black.
I Am My Home asks what it means to inhabit a sense of self rather than a physical
address — how memory, ritual, and material can turn any space, or no space at all,
into home. Across painting, mixed media, collage and DIY printmaking the four
artists bring distinct visual languages to a shared question: when everything else is
in flux, what stays constant?

“Home isn’t where I live. It’s everything I’m made of, everything I’ve picked up,
everything I’ve put down, it is as real as a building , as ephemeral as a memory
that’s what home is. It’s you.” -Swerve

Exhibiting artists:
 Swerve — Northern Rivers-based artist exploring identity and belonging,
shaped by three decades in commercial design and his experience as an
adopted person. Has exhibited previously at Tortuga Studios, Elevator ARI,
Northern Rivers Community Callery and that burrito restaurant near the hub in
newtown amongst others.
 Subtropical Goth — An artist of mystery and multimedia persuasion
 Melitios Kyriakidis — Melletios’ work unfolds as a lived conceptual practice,
an immanent, immaterial art reality where performance, body, and
documentation blur. Life itself becomes medium and critique, recorded not to
preserve but to expose the irony and instability of constructed systems. The
work resists classification, operating beyond disciplines, within the everyday,
as subversive process rather than fixed form.
 Suriya Black — Suriya Black is an artist, photographic Retoucher and
colourist in Sydney. She uses scale, composition and colour to draw on
themes of existentialism, the absurd and ephemeral memory.

Exhibition details:
 Opening: 6pm Friday, September 25, 2026
 Venue: Tortuga Studios, 31 Princes Hwy, St Peters NSW 2044
 Exhibition runs: September 25 – October 25, 2026
 Gallery hours: https://tortugastudios.org.au/
For media inquiries, interviews, or image requests, please contact:

Swerve@cardboardrobotcreative.com
tortugastudiosinc@gmail.com

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It’s seen in rage-bait videos, A.I. reels and porn, in deep fakes, trend jacking and filter bubbles. It’s felt in the doomscroll buzz that entraps exhausted minds, in a raw sense of disconnection, in rising mental isolation, extremism, polarisation, and a society fragmenting into angry pieces.

Insta feeds are optimised for engagement; film franchises are calibrated to audience testing; Spotify playlists are designed to maximise listening time (while syphoning funds to killer drones) – a bleak and predictable uniformity tuned to the flashpoint where generic taste, limited expectation and aggressive commercial demand converge.

Behind it all is an algorithm, built not to understand you, but to flatten you. To turn a living contradictory human into a predictable profile, a demographic, a consumer category and a political reaction waiting to be triggered…

A computation, an equation, a mathematical process designed to solve a problem, they exist in cascades, silent extraction engines powered by prediction, fear, convenience and synthetic noise, sorting, searching, determining, encrypting. Taking control.

The moment the system can fully predict you, it can replace you.

Featuring the work of some of Sydney’s most subversive artists, Overthrow the Algorithm explores the counter moves required to resist the psychological terrain of algorithmic control. It urges us to break the feedback loop, to work together, embrace the idea of unknowability, and fight for a new sense of freedom.

Pete Strong
Dillon MacEwan
Justin Maynard
H Morgan-Harris + Azelia Maybolt
Lu Campbell Smith
Alessandro Berini and Selina Springett
Alien Proof Construction
Rod Nash
Datascene
Alex Holver
Brian P
Luigi Rossi
Graham Power
Maylei Hunt
Margaret Mayhem
Roberto Cáceres
Pierre Cavalan
Gawaa Lundaa
Nikki McLennan
+ more to be announced

Sounds from:
Organarchy
Charlie McMahon and Gondwana
DJ Sofie Loizou
DJ Florian

Food with…
Food Not Bombs

Save the date. On a post-it note, in a diary, or scrawled in a corner of your mind.

Together we are better.

10% art sales to Black Caucus

https://www.facebook.com/events/4003199756477956

Friday 31^st July
6pm – 10pm
 
TORTUGA STUDIOS
31 Princes Hwy, St Peters

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