EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

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Upcoming/current  events and exhibitions

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Click the below track to listen to an audio description by Zoe Partington of "Wild Light" solo exhibition at the Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery On from Feb-May 2026.

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This Audio Description was created with the support of Regional Arts Australia - administrated by RANT Arts in Tasmania 

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The Duncan Meerding Workshop/Studio has open studio events periodically. Some of which as part of the annual Open House Hobart event, organised by the Australian Institute of Architects. Drop Duncan and the team an email if you want to find out when the next likely Open Studio event will be or when Duncan will have works exhibited next. 

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​Previous exhibitions & events

February – May 2026

‘Wild Light’ – Solo Exhibition

Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery

See above for an audio described tour of the exhibit by international access, art and design expert Zoe Partington and images of the show respectively.

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February 2026

From Barriers to Belonging – An Equity in the Arts Forum - Feature Light installation, panellist and steering committee member.

Organised by access expert and consultant Morwenna Collett in partnership with Arts Tasmania and with the support of the University of Tasmania

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December 2025

Home – Inspired by this place – organised by Designed; Made Inc

Mawsons Pavillion, Hobart, Tasmania

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September 2025 and October 2023

Clarence Prize Finalist Exhibition

The Barn, Rosny Farm, Tasmania

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September 2025

rethink/ refine/ remake  - Designed; Made Inc  - Group exhibition

The Schoolhouse Gallery – Rosny Farm, Tasmania

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May 2025

100 Lights Exhibition - Curated by Friends and Associates (Dale Hardiman and Tom Skeehon)

Melbourne Design Week

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March 2025

DOT 25 Member Exhibition – Organised by Designed Objects Tasmania Inc

Social Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania

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December 2024 back to December 2014

Designed: made, makers market showcase.

Yearly participation in the Hobart Town Hall designer/maker event.

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November 2024

National Festival of Design, - Building Designers Association of Australia

Hobart Hosted National Conference: Keynote Speaker

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June 2024

Design Show Australia – Trade Exposition

Sydney, Australia

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October 2023

Clarence Prize Finalist Exhibition

Rosny Barn, Tasmania

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August 2023

Beaker Street ‘Light Forest’ Feature Art and  ‘UnSeen by Design’ Panel with Emma Bennison and Zoe Partington, conversation facilitated by Natasha Mitchel

Hobart, Australia

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July 2023

Light Wave Festival,

Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia

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May- June 2023

‘Light Forest’ immersive light installation commissioned work
Vivid Sydney Light Walk.

Click here to have a look through the ‘Light Forest’

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August 2022 and July 2019

Guest Teaching Fellow and Lecturer Architecture Beyond Sight, The Bartlett School of Architecture and Design, University College of London and the Dis-Ordinary Architecture Project.

Click here for more info about this project.

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December 2021

35 Years of Designed Objects Tasmania (DOT) Exhibition

Social Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre.

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August - September 2021

Interplay 

Moonah Arts Centre, Tasmania, Australia

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July - August 2021

Winter Light Festival Feature Light installations, Salamanca Arts Centre,

Tasmania, Australia

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May 2021

Ability to Create opening keynote speech and guest exhibitor, Hobart City Hall

Hobart City Hall – Organised by Hobart City Council

Tasmania, Australia

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June 2020

Tasmanian Salon, curated Design Tasmania event as part of Den Fair 2.0, National Online event

Tasmania section hosted by Design Tasmania (Launceston)

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​November 2019

Speaker at Visible City: inclusion, access and empowerment event.

Canberra Design Festival

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August 2019

Arts Activated Conference: Speaker on New Technologies in Design

Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney​​

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June 2019
Annual General Meeting

Organised by Friends and Associates

Curated by Dale Hardiman and Tom Skeehan

Melbourne

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April 2019

Euroluce
Salone Del Mobil, Milan

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March 2019

Sydney Design Festival Talk and Exhibit:

'Alternative Sensory World: A Conversation With Duncan Meerding'

May - November 2018

Venice Design 2018 (part of the Venice Biennale)

Venice, Italy
Take the virtual tour here

 

November 2018

Exhibitor and presenter

Sambhav International Arts and Disability Conference

New Delhi, India

April - May 2018

Penumbra

Rosny Barn, Tasmania

February – March 2018

Lightheaded: New Directions in Fine Craft Lighting

Florida ArtCraft Centre, Florida USA

September 2017 – January 2018

Contemporary Lighting Exhibition

The Centre for Furniture Craftsmanship, Maine, USA
Read the essay about the exhibition

View online catalogue

July 2017

In House

Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart

June 2017

Design Institute of Australia Curation for DEN Fair

Melbourne

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April 2017

Euroluce

Salone Del Mobil, Milan

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May 2016

produce:produce
Rosny Barn, Hobart

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March 2016

Tasmania Exhibition

KreativHaus H6, Böhl-Iggelheim, Germany

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March 2016
Light+Building Trade Show
Messe Frankfurt, Germany

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September 2015
produce:produce Exhibition
Design Centre Tasmania, Launceston 

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November 2014
Inform - Co-Curator and Exhibitor
Long Gallery, Hobart

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November 2014
LAMP - Top 10 Finalists Exhibition
Vancouver, Canada

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May 2014

DesignEx - Nest14
Glebe Island, Sydney

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April 2014
From the Side (Solo Exhibition)
Sidespace Gallery, Hobart

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August 2013

Holding Exhibition
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne 

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May 2013
Object Future
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne 

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March 2013
Objects in Place

Hobart, Tasmania

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February 2013 - August 2014
Wood: Art/Design/Architecture
Australian Tour

Organised by the Jam Factory Adelaide

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August 2012

Prototyped
Hobart, Tasmania

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August 2011
Off-Track, a collaboration with Zach Sonstegaard 
Hobart, Tasmania

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March 2011

Furnished 
Hobart, Tasmania

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August 2010
New Designers
Mittagong, NSW 

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April 2010
Living
Hobart, Tasmania

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2008
Enhance
Hobart, Tasmania