C*Town Conservatory: The ArtHITects (Gary Carsley and Ren Jie Teoh)

Next date: Tuesday, 28 April 2026 | 10:00 AM to Sunday, 21 June 2026 | 04:00 PM

The ArtHITects, C*town Conservatory, 2026. Digital image. Commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre.

C*Town Conservatory reimagines the history and architecture of the conservatory — once a symbol of aristocratic prestige and colonial exploitation of the natural world — as a contemporary, inclusive space for community, reflection, and creative exchange.  

Confabulated by The ArtHITects (Gary Carsley and Ren Jie Teoh), this immersive installation transforms the glass-walled foyer of Campbelltown Arts Centre into a fantastical, illusionistic environment reflecting on its 20-year history of commissioning artwork.  Linking the black box of the performance space to the white cube of the gallery spaces, the C*Town Conservatory acknowledges the role of this unique nexus in the programming of Campbelltown Arts Centre ahead of its forthcoming capital expansion.   

Drawing on the conservatory’s traditions of wonder and contemplation, the project embeds the history of the CAC’s diverse cross-media programming into ornamental QR codes, evoking breeze-block patterns of Australian suburbia and global architectural traditions.  

Audiences are invited to scan the QR codes embedded in the artwork to discover and learn about the commissioned programs at Campbelltown Arts Centre dating back to 2005.   

About the artists

Established in 2018 by Gary Carsley and Ren Jie Teoh as a dialogue between art and architecture enacted across the geographies and cultures of the Asia-Pacific. The artHITects (artist Gary Carsley and architect Ren Jie Teoh), reinterpret building and gardening typologies to confabulate large scale, immersive environments as the confluence of their diasporic Chinese and European Cultural Backgrounds and their contrasting generational and cultural backgrounds.

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Location

Campbelltown Arts Centre, 1 Art Gallery Road, 2560, View Map