Open Road brings cars and road culture to the centre, driving questions about who we are and how we engage with the world. The artists in this exhibition use vehicles as both a symbol and metaphor, turning something familiar into a reflection of identity and culture.

The exhibition traces how vehicles and the road shape movement, migration and work, and the divide between the city and the region. Artist’s featured use the car to examine and challenge tropes associated with status, gender and sexuality. Some works draw directly on the road trip: the ritual of the journey, connection to the landscape, signage and roadside landmarks, familiar touchstones reframed as subjects in their own right. Other works use vehicles and the road to hold contradictions: sensuality and danger, leisure and labour, freedom and confinement. A vehicle built for service or industry becomes a vessel for something far more personal.

Open Road spans installation, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture, and will feature significant loans alongside key works from Goulburn Regional Art Gallery's permanent collection.