Shapeshifting: The Art of Helen Wright
Image: Helen Wright, In the garden of live flowers, 1998, pastel on paper, 76cm x 105cm. Private collection.
The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) and City of Launceston proudly presents Shapeshifting: The Art of Helen Wright—an exhibition celebrating one of Tasmania’s most enduringly vital and visionary artists.
Spanning over four decades of creative inquiry, Shapeshifting explores Helen Wright’s remarkable capacity for enduring transformation.
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.
Helen Wright’s work responds to a world marked by ecological unease and existential fragility. Recurring motifs such as vessels, birds, and ruinous landscapes exist across media - each one an allegory of contemporary life.
At once intimate and expansive, Helen Wright’s art resists containment and rewards our own deeper interrogations. Shapeshifting is a testament to Wright’s enduring contribution to Australian art, and to the power of art as both container for ideas and catalyst for change.
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington Street
23 August 2025 – 1 February 2026
This exhibition is now closed.
Exhibition merchandise
The below items are available to purchase through the QVMAG Shop. Find them in store at the Art Gallery at Royal Park or online at www.qvmag.shop.
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Shapeshifting: Helen Wright publication
$75
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This short-run, bespoke publication is a celebration of the practice of Tasmanian artist, Helen Wright.
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T-shirts
$45
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100% Australian cotton T-shirts, each featuring an artwork by Helen Wright. Size XS to XXL available.
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Tote bags
$35
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100% Australian cotton tote bags printed in Tasmania, each featuring an artwork by Helen Wright.
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Greeting card set
$20
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A set of 8 greeting cards, each featuring an iconic artwork by Helen Wright.
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Postcard set
$16
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A set of 8 postcards, each featuring an iconic artwork by Helen Wright.
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