POSTCODE

Submission deadline: midnight, Tuesday 28 October 2025

Opening: 2pm, Saturday 8 November 2025

Exhibition: 8 – 29 November 2025

Main gallery, Contemporary Art Tasmania

POSTCODE is a participatory exhibition which invites artists and communities around the state to respond to the question, what are you sending on for 2026? Developed with lead artist Jade Irvine, the project creates a call and response with the public.

I found this old postcode book recently. When the postcode system was introduced in 1967, a total of 4.5 million booklets were sent to Australian households and businesses to show people how to best use this new system . This type of automation was supposed to improve efficiency, saving time and allowing people to undertake “more interesting work.”

— Jade Irvine, lead artist

POSTCODE is about how we connect with each other. Today, we’re always online, flooded with messages and expected to be available. This project asks: if we slowed down, would our ways of talking and sharing be more thoughtful?

We’re living in a time where new technologies dominate, but creative expression is just as important. POSTCODE asks what’s on your mind right now? As we move into 2026, do you have any hopes, reflections or concerns? 

How to participate

Alongside the exhibition, POSTCODE includes a series of workshops at CAT and Migrant Resource Centre (South).

POSTCODE: Kids Workshop

Lead artist bio

Jade Irvine is an early-career artist, writer and curator living in Nipaluna/Hobart. Her creative work centres on re-examining her cultural identity and communicating a sense of place – particularly through writing and painting.

Jade’s most recent project was curating SITE: Richmond – an expansive, multi-site public art project in Richmond, with eight artists responding to perceptions of heritage and community during the town’s bicentenary. In November 2025, Jade is presenting a site-specific artwork at Mawson Place for Hobart Current: Here, a biennial exhibition by the City of Hobart and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Jade is passionate about sustainability in her life and work.

Accessibility

The exhibition is mobility accessible. Roomsheet available online and in large font hardcopies at the front desk. Please contact CAT if you have any accessibility requirements.