Name: Mythical Mashup: The Graphic Worlds of Brian Robinson
Start: 2026-05-22T08:00:00
End: 2026-06-13T13:00:00
Location: Australian National Maritime Museum

A collision of Indigenous culture, mythical sea creatures and pop-culture transforms the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM), drawing upon the playful...

Location:

2 Murray Street
2000 NSW
Australia

Venue:

Australian National Maritime Museum

Price:

Free

Mythical Mash-up: The Graphic Worlds of Brian Robinson

Artist Details

Brian Robinson

Brian Robinson is an acclaimed contemporary Torres Strait artist based in Cairns who has exhibited in Australia, Europe and North America. Over the past three decades, he’s developed an artistic practice across prints and sculpture that draws deeply on ancient and contemporary ideas, themes and icons, fusing reverence and spirituality with a sense of humour.

Junior Major

Junior Major is a collective of artists and technologists based on Gadigal land who specialise in digital and physical installations for cultural and public sites designed to spark play, connection and new ways of seeing and feeling spaces.Previous collaborators span major Australian institutions The Powerhouse, WA Museum Boola Dardip, ACMI, the Museum of Sydney and more.

S1T2

S1T2 is a Sydney-based studio that creates world-class immersive experiences with interactive technologies. Standing for Story 1st, Technology 2nd, S1T2 works with artists, museums and companies to create meaningful and memorable experiences that centre story and expand our understanding of the world.

Event Details

A collision of Indigenous culture, mythical sea creatures and pop-culture transforms the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM), drawing upon the playful world of decorated Torres Strait artist Brian Robinson.

Over the last three decades, Robinson has developed an instantly identifiable style across graphic linocut prints and sculptures, blending with equal parts humour and reverence a mix of ancient Greek, Roman and Indigenous mythologies with his childhood pop-culture icons of the '80s.

Mythical Mashup: The Graphic Worlds of Brian Robertson celebrates the artist’s multi-media approach via two major works: Cosmic Chase, an animated adventure projected onto the ANMM rooftop, and Floating Realm, a triptych of LED sculptures atop the Harbour seas and scaling the Museum’s lighthouse.

Floating Realm

Monumental tentacles, mythical fishermen, pop-culture icons and soy sauce fish bottles fight in surreal, silly scenes, inspired by Indigenous marine mythology.

Presented in Robinson’s trademark linocut aesthetic and developed in collaboration with collective Junior Major, Floating Realm is a charming, vivid combination of pop-culture, Indigenous storytelling and ancient cross-cultural mythology.

Cosmic Chase

Classic sci-fi and 8-bit video game icons meet ancient legends across cultures in a fast-paced pursuit across flower fields, harbour seas and more.

Presented in Robinson’s trademark linocut aesthetic and developed in collaboration with S1T2, Cosmic Chase imagines a vibrant world where retro futurism, contemporary culture and European mythologies combine with Indigenous knowledge and spirituality.

Country represented by installation: Australia

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