‘ROADIE’
Exhibition | 2022 | The Argyle Inn, Taralga NSW
ROADIE brought together works by Ned Henderson and Steven Cavanagh, responding to shared histories of travel and mentorship. The collaboration was commissioned with the title ROADIE as a conceptual framework, drawing on Henderson’s 20,000km road trip around Australia and Cavanagh’s extensive, ongoing travel throughout Central West NSW. While Henderson approached the work as a form of documentation—assembling images that function as memories and narratives of movement—Cavanagh’s multidisciplinary practice responded directly to the environments encountered along the way.
Henderson exhibited 30 photographic works made over a three-month journey, captured across 25 distinct Australian locations. Selected for their immersive quality and narrative weight, the images reflect moments of encounter, distance, and presence, positioning travel not only as movement through landscape, but as a process of accumulation, reflection, and memory.
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Deep tunnel
Light in Mimbi
Light to grow
Red Sand Patterns
Dark dunes
Spinifex and sand
Kati Thanda stars
Grandmother Moon at Uluru
Dalmanyi at dusk
Rock colours 1
Iron reflections
Rolling tide
Desert meets sea
Pinnacles sunrise
Purnululu morning
Rock colours 2
Rock colours 3
Manta ray family
Algebuckina gum
Kati Thanda colours
End of the bite
Murchison river
Murchison Station Barn Owl
Shingleback lizard
Echidnas back
Female red tailed cockatoo
Eyes from above
Kakadu fires
Flinders dawn
Untitled 1
Untitled 2
Untitled 3
Untitled 4
Untitled 5
Untitled 6
Untitled 7
Mimbi Caves art
Mimbi Caves stalectite
The Exhibition was a pilot exhibition presented in late 2022 as part of the Regional Arts Fund (RAF) Tourism Accelerator, delivered in partnership with Galah Press and curated by the CORRIDOR Project. The program explored new ways of activating tourism in rural Australia through contemporary art, with a particular focus on exhibiting in uncommon and repurposed spaces. ROADIE was installed at the Argyle Inn Store in Taralga, one of three exhibitions presented at the site over the year, each pairing a mentor and mentee in a collaborative model.
View The Corridor Project exhibition page Here