Dark Mofo 2025 makes first announcement, already generating controversy

Dark Mofo 2025 includes a new commission from Nathan Maynard involving flesh and its marketing campaign has come under fire.

11 Mar 2025 14:34

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Three jars with preserved sheep heads, softly illuminated in white light from above. Dark Mofo 2025.

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Promotional image for Nathan Maynard’s ‘We threw them down the rocks where they had thrown the sheep’, commissioned for Dark Mofo 2025. Photo: Jesse Hunniford, courtesy of Dark Mofo 2025.

Dark Mofo 2025, Nipaluna/Hobart’s winter arts festival, returns in full this June after a drastically slimmed down program last year.

The festival’s first work for its recalibrated 2025 program was announced this morning (11 March): a new commission by multidisciplinary Trawlwoolway artist Nathan Maynard.

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