Biennale of Sydney: Rememory - Penrith Regional Gallery

Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery is proud to be a presenting partner of the 25th Biennale of Sydney: Rememory, led by 25^th edition Artistic Director Hoor Al Qasimi.

A means of revisiting, reconstructing, and reclaiming histories that have been erased or repressed, Rememory signifies the intersection of memory and history, where recollection becomes an act of reassembling fragments of the past—whether personal, familial, or collective. The 25th edition of the Biennale connects the delicate space between remembering and forgetting. By engaging with Rememory, artists will highlight marginalised narratives, share untold stories, and inspire audiences to rethink how memory shapes identity, belonging, and the creation and celebration of new communities and connections.

The Biennale of Sydney is a leading international art event that presents the work of artists from Australia and around the world.

Artists and projects featured in Rememory at Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery will include:

Respected Yindjibarndi Elder Wendy Hubert expands her arts practice to create a large-scale native plant garden that celebrates ancestral knowledge at the Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery. Focussing on native plants that are used for food, medicine, and ceremonial purposes, the garden will be a space for communities to gather, learn, and yarn.
Monica Rani-Rudhar presents a vibrant and poetic new multi-channel video installation exploring the colonial legacies of both trauma and resistance embodied in family stories, heirlooms and bloodlines. This work at the Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery uses Rani-Rudhar’s personal history to interrogate the dual ideas of inheritance and intergenerational trauma.

Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery is a presenting partner of the 25th Biennale of Sydney alongside Art Gallery of New South Wales, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney and White Bay Power Station.

For more information about the Biennale programs, visit the Biennale of Sydney website.

Accessibility

Wheelchair Accessible

14 March – 14 June 2026

Meet the Exhibiting Artists

Yindjibarndi Elder Wendy Hubert

Wendy Hubert is a respected Yindjibarndi Elder, cultural custodian, artist and linguist. Born at Red Hill Station on Guruma Country, Hubert lived at Red Hill Station, Minderoo Station and Onslow before settling in Roebourne. She began painting with Juluwarlu Art Group in 2019 and has become a dedicated artist known for her landscape paintings recounting scenes from her childhood and featuring important places on Yindjibarndi and Guruma Country. In a powerful testament to her artistic journey, Hubert reflects: “I know my Ngurra. I know its Laws. I am a Yindjibarndi Custodian, old now, but strong in my thinking and my life.” (2021)

Monica Rani-Rudhar

Monica Rani Rudhar is an artist based on Gadigal land, working across sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice explores the themes of longing and loss related to cultural identity, tracing intergenerational stories within her family to create space for imaginative possibilities. Born to Indian and Romanian migrant parents, her work is influenced by the forces of cultural conformity, essentialisation, and commodification within a settler colonial context. Rani Rudhar’s practice seeks to restore familial histories, traditions, and rituals that have been dispersed by the migration and displacement of her ancestors. Through her auto-ethnographic approach, she translates her family’s fragmented oral histories to reclaim narratives of relationships, resistance, and ritual. These stories intertwine, weaving a personal mythology that manifests their cultural fictions and futures in so-called Australia.

Image Credits:

Monica Rani Rudhar. Photograph: Jacquie Manning
Wendy Hubert. Courtesy of the artist and Juluwarlu. Photograph: Claire Martin.