Step into the Pride Gallery to witness a collaborative new exhibition, All the Rage from 24th September 2025 – 10th November 2025. All the Rage is a photographic exhibition celebrating upcycled fashion and diversity. The work is a collaboration with the award winning Rawcus Ensemble, the Fast Fashun Collective and Pia Johnson who together will create a photographic exhibition of fierce, sexy and powerful works.
Meet Rawcus Theatre:
Rawcus is an award-winning ensemble of 15 artists with and without disability who have been based in the City of Port Phillip for over 24 years. Collaborating with a core creative team led by Co-Artistic Directors Katrina Cornwell and Morgan Rose. Rawcus devises new work that expresses the imaginative world of the Ensemble. Drawing on dance, theatre and visual art disciplines, the work is crafted with a precision that supports the Ensemble performers but allows space for their inherent sense of anarchy. Rawcus’ work is sculptural, unexpected, beautiful, funny and tender. Rawcus’ aims to enliven people, places and perceptions.
The All the Rage exhibition features Rawcus Ensemble artists are Michael Buxton, Rachel Edward, Kerryn Poke, Paul Mately, Mike McEvoy, Ryan New, Nilgun Guven, Louise Riisik, Clement Baade, Harriet Devlin, Joshua Lynzaat, Isha Menon, Jorelene Lim, Swann Biquet, Heath O’Loughlan
About the Fast Fashun Collective:
The Fast Fashun Collective is a queer art collective from Naarm (Melbourne), focused on the climate emergency. The collective uses art therapy, improvisational theatre, and visual art making to create durational interactive installations where audiences come face-to-face with the waste produced by the fast fashion industry.
Fast Fashun has received recognition from the 2021 Green Room Awards for Contemporary and Experimental Performance and was a finalist in the Midsumma Australia Post Art Award in 2022. The collective is available to be programmed within festivals and events. Projects can be tailored to suit different scale events and age groups.
The collective comprises Tenfingerz, Famous Artist Sebastian Berto, Luna Aquatica, and Sarah Seahorse. The artists have been collaborating on projects for the past decade, using their combined skillset to create art that is a tool for social change.
About Pia Johnson:
Pia Johnson is a photographer and visual artist, whose practice emerged out of a concern with issues of cultural identity and difference, stemming from her mixed background of Chinese and Italian-Australian descent. These themes have underpinned her interest in memory, cultural spaces and performance – where she often features within her works – to investigate notions of transcultural identity, belonging and otherness through photography, moving image and installation.