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Swingers

The Art of Mini Golf

Miranda July, Kaylene Whiskey, Nabilah Nordin, Saeborg, Natasha Tontey, Delaine Le Bas, BKTHERULA, Soda Jerk, Pat Brassington

  • Visual Arts
  • Exhibition
  • Participate
  • Standing
  • Flinders Street Station

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Swingers

  • $26 — $35

The art of mini golf comes to Flinders Street Station. An exhibition of rebellion and play. For anyone who swings outside the lines.

Flinders Street Station becomes a holey new world with Swingers, a playable art exhibition featuring nine mini golf holes and any number of untold obstacles.

Each hole is created by a female artist. Miranda July, the artist, filmmaker and writer who gave us the off-beat brilliance of All Fours goes ‘All Fores’ for the project. Kaylene Whiskey sets course, weaving pop icons through traditional Anangu culture. Tokyo’s Saeborg brings latex creatures with a cartoonish menace. Expect more twists around every nook, cranny and bend.

The roster doesn’t stop there, Nabilah Nordin, now based in Los Angeles, returns home to Naarm, reimagining her signature playful and experimental sculptures with a putting twist. Delaine Le Bas brings politically charged sculptures and intricate embroidery, and Natasha Tontey entwines speculative storytelling through mythology, technology, and alternative histories.

And just announced to round out the lineup is Atlanta rapper BKTHERULA, Australian film duo Soda Jerk, and prolific Hobart-based photographer and artist Pat Brassington.

We’ve chosen only the most adventurous artists because mini golf’s radical roots go deep. The game was dreamed up by 19th-century Scottish women who were banned from the “real” courses but refused to sit on the sidelines. Over the centuries, it’s continued to be a game for rule breakers, from fuelling a putt-putt craze in prohibition-era Los Angeles (as late-night booze haunts), to being one of the first desegregated public spaces in the USA in the 1940s.

For Swingers, RISING taps into the subversive history of mini golf with an art exhibition about rebellion and play. For anyone with a curious mind, a competitive edge, or who swings outside the lines.

Pick your putter. It’s art that fills the cup.

ARTISTS

Miranda July (USA)

Kaylene Whiskey (AU)

Nabilah Nordin (AU)

Saeborg (JPN)

Natasha Tontey (ID)

Delaine Le Blas (UK)

BKTHERULA (USA)

Soda Jerk (AU)

Pat Brassington (AU)

Artistic Team

Curator

Grace Herbert

Major Projects Lead

Lucy Forge

Project Manager

Zillah Morrow

Supporters

Official Transport Partner

Supporting Partner

Verve Super

Saeborg's RISING in-residency is supported by Playking Foundation.

Image Credits

Swingers. PHOTO: Eugene Hyland

Miranda July. PHOTO: Spike Jonze

Kaylene Whiskey, Kaylene TV, 2023 (detail). Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain with generous assistance from the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. Courtesy the artist, Iwantja Arts and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. © Kaylene Whiskey. Installation view, 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns, 2024, White Bay Power Station. Photograph: Document Photography.

Nabilah Nordin | Statue, 2023, Beeswax, bird netting, dry pigments, timber, marble. 293 x 150 x 100 cm. The National 4, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Saeborg’s Slaughterhouse_CAM 2024. PHOTO: © Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Pedro Pina

Natasha Tontey

Delaine Le Bas, Turner Prize 2024. PHOTO: Alexander Christie

RISING: Melbourne 04 — 15 June 2025 — RISING: Swingers—The Art of Mini Golf, Melbourne 2025