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Frame Shift Commission: The Future is our lover, with the sun in our eyes, 2026. Commissioned by The Sydney Opera House and Accessible Arts. Presented at the Sydney Opera House 3 December 2026, NSW, Au.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Creative Team
Kieran Hugues Butler, Artist
Dior Angel Sutherland, Creative Assistant (textiles and video)
Ava Lacoon, Photography and Videography
Max Cheevers, Sound Artist
Jorlene Lim, Auslan Performer
Allison Wright, Music Composer
Filmed on Boonwurrung Country
Special thank you to Amy Claire Mills and Melinda Dransfield
Solo Exhibition: A Gift of Cherry Guava’s and HIbiscus Flowers, Part 2, Trocadero Projects, Footscray, VIC, Au.
Solo Exhibition: A Gift of Cherry Guava’s and HIbiscus Flowers, Part 1, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds, VIC, Au.
Solo Exhibition:
2022
2021
Public Artwork: This is but a horizon we are working towards, Newtown Art Seat, Inner West Council, Newtown, NSW, Au.
Workshop: Online Collage Workshop with the MCA’s Youth committee program.
2020
Performance: For Venus in Thorns, Midsumma 2020, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, Vic, Au.
Public Artwork: - Magic Circles, Siteworks: City of Sydney’s Alfresco Seating public art program, Sydney, NSW, Au.
Workshop - Show Ponies, Digital skills development workshop series with Twenty 10 as part of Twenty 10’s annual Show ponies exhibition for LGBTQIA+ youth.
Workshop - Heart on my Sleeve, Online digital skills workshop series, with Twenty 10 and UNSW Galleries as part of UNSW Galleries exhibition Friendhsip as a way of life.
2019
Solo Exhibition- Until the Sky Falls down on me, Peacock Gallery, Cumberland City Council, Auburn, NSW, Au.
Solo Exhibition- A Blockade for one, Accomplices in Love, Sawtooth Artist Run Initiative, Launceston, TAS, Au.
Solo Exhibition- You’re that person to someone, Mailbox Artspace, Melbourne, VIC, Au - Solo Exhibtion.
Group Exhibition - YES Exhibition, Spunky Bruiser, Darlinghurst, NSW, Au.
Group Exhibition - Moon in My Mouth, curated by Jake Adam Treacy, School House Studios and Gallery, Collingwood, VIC, Au.
Group Exhibition - What we have to say, Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery, Hawkesbury, NSW, Au.
Performance - for Queer Nu Werk, Performance Space Queer Development Program, PACT, Erskineville, NSW, Au.
Performance - Magic Circle for Heaps Gay, Camp Country Mardi Gras After Party, Manning Bar, Camperdown, NSW, Au.
Performance - Magic Circle for You’re that person to someone, Mailbox Artspace, Melbourne, VIC, Au.
Residency - Performance Space Queer Development Program - Queer Workshop Intensive, Carriageworks, Redfernand PACT, Erskineville, NSW, Au.
2018
Solo Exhibition- Queen Size, ANCA, Dickson, ACT, Au.
Solo Exhibition- Rainbow Bois and Magical Gurls, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne, VIC, Au.
Group Exhibition - Form and Fluid, Tributary Projects, Fyshwick, ACT, Au.
Group Exhibition - NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace Sydney, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Au.
Group Exhibition - In Motion, Air Space Projects, Marrickville, NSW, Au.
Group Exhibition - As if by Magic, Stacks Projects, Potts Point, NSW, Au.
Performance - Magic CIrcle for NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace SYdney, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Au.
Performance - Magic Circle for As if By Magic, Stacks Projects, Potts Point, NSW, Au.
Performance - Magic Circle for Art Month Chippendale precinct night, The Landsdowne Hotel, Chippendale, NSW, Au.
Performance - Magic Circle for Rainbow Bois and Magical Gurls, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne, VIC, Au.
Festival - In Motion Festival, Air Space Projects, Marrickville, NSW, Aus.
Festival - Fambo: A Queer Festival for all Kinds of Families, 107, Redfern, NSW, Au.
Awards and Prizes - Finalist, NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace Sydney, Woolloomooloo, NSW, AU.
Awards and Prizes - Finalist, MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW, Au.
2017
Solo Exhibition- Boys
Group Exhibition - Young Moderns, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, NSW Au.
Group Exhibition - Could all this be it? Cold Cuts, Petersham, NSW, Au.
Group Exhibition - Emerging, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, NSW, Au.
Residency -The Green House: Imaging the land Residency, UNSW Fowlers Gap Research station in partnership with Arc @ UNSW Ltd, Fowlers Gap, NSW, Au.
Awards and Prizes - Finalist, Gosford Emerging Art Prize, Gosford Regional Arts Centre, Gosford, NSW, Au.
2016
Solo Exhibition- Look at this stuff, isn’t it neat?! Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Au.
Group Exhibition - Modes of Practice, Verge Gallery, Chippendale, NSW, Au.
Group Exhibition - Sydney ARI show, Articulate Projects, Leichardt, NSW, Sydney, Au.
Awards and Prizes - Winner, Inaugural Gaffa Contemporary Photography Prize, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Au.
2015
Residency - MiXER Collaborative Residency, D’CLINIC Studios, Zalaegerszeg, Hu.