Australian artist and fashion designer Jordan Gogos transforms ephemera into visions of paradise. Using textiles as one medium among many, his practice is open-ended and improvisational, collaging colour and texture, folk traditions with queer sensibilities, domestic craft with pop exuberance, to reimagine oddments as an opportunity for invention. Rooted in diaspora and family memory, his work acknowledges the past as an active presence, conscious that all things will one day be ancient.

'Parádeisos' is framed around the Greek vision of a cultivated paradise, at once real and imagined, connecting the celestial and terrestrial. In antiquity, parádeisos described enclosed gardens where architecture, art, and nature intertwined. Here, it becomes a metaphor for the deeply personal and joyfully collective worlds Gogos creates with textiles, photography, sculpture and live modelling.

'Parádeisos' marks Gogos’s first institutional solo exhibition and his most ambitious presentation to date. It unfolds as a sprawling environment where art and fashion converge, bringing together his expansive textile and photographic projects alongside wearable works by his acclaimed label Iordanes Spyridon Gogos. This exhibition also features ambitious new works and materials developed in collaboration with the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Fujifilm, Designer Rugs, Pallion, and UNSW Art & Design.

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Curated by José Da Silva and Emily Roebuck