Jewelled Nights

artists: Jacqueline Dortmans
dates: 16—19 October 2025
location: Queenstown RSL
collaborators: Cassie Sullivan, Hannah Foley

Cassie Sullivan

100 years on, Jewelled Nights returns as a fabulous disruption. This installation and participatory performance revives the shared history of author Marie Bjelke Petersen and Hollywood silent film actress Louise Lovely, two artists who broke gender roles while producing the first major feature film in Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Jewelled Nights tells the story of a woman disguising herself as a man to seek her fortune in the wild osmiridium mines of Savage River. Marie Bjelke Petersen became a pioneer of one of the world's first exercise regimes: the Bjelke-Petersen School of Physical Culture.

Jewelled Nights: Queenstown RSL

An installation meets love letter honouring the women behind the original silent film, Jewelled Nights.

address: Queenstown RSL
Cutten St, Queenstown TAS 7467
artists: Jacqueline Dortmans – Curator
collaborators: Cassie Sullivan – Coordinator
Hannah Foley – Coordinator
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