Within Horizon's Urban Gallery, Shadowgram invites audiences to contribute to a wall of ideas expressed through shadows and words.

Shadowgram is a community-focused project inspired by 19th-century photogenic drawings, bringing this unique image-making process to the digital age. Audiences generate their own shadowgram portraits and display them with an associated statement, contributing thoughts and ideas to the ever-growing collective of voices. 

The Sunshine Coast community will be able to participate in social brainstorming through images and text to generate engaging insights into how they envision the Sunshine Coast of tomorrow.

About the Urban Gallery

This work is part of the Festival Precinct, where we invite you to wander and wonder through our Urban Gallery every day of Horizon 2025.

Situated in Ocean St, Maroochydore (Kabi Kabi Country), you’ll find a diverse collection of works nestled into streets, laneways and Big Top Shopping Centre — blurring the lines between physical, artistic and digital realms.

Suitable for all ages, this free-to-enjoy 10-day art-trail will feature inspiring work from visionary Queensland and Australian contemporary artists, including First Nations artists.

Experimenta: Curatorial statement

The festival's provocation of radical hope is the inspiration for Experimenta's public art presentation. Radical hope is a transformative framework that challenges us to move beyond passive optimism, instead embracing collective action, shared goals and resilience.

Radical hope is rooted in the belief that social change emerges from community-driven efforts. It calls on diverse groups to coalesce, transcend societal limitations, and actively imagine and walk towards a just and equitable future.

The works featured in this presentation by Experimenta, as part of Horizon 2025, reflect this ethos. These works go beyond a single act of art making; they are part of long-term projects embodying the artists' acts of radical hope.

Creative Team - Sunshine Coast

• Artists – Art Thinking
• Producer (Art Thinking) – Kristefan Minski
• Experimenta Curator – Lubi Thomas
• Experimenta Creative Producer – Anna Nalpantidis

Acknowledgements

Shadowgram is curated by Experimenta and presented by Horizon 2025 as part of the Festival Precinct Urban Gallery supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and Big Top Shopping Centre.