Fair Dinkies – Outer Space

Outer Space invites you to explore Fair Dinkies by Sam Harrison, the second exhibition of its 2025 Main Gallery Exhibition Program. 

Fair Dinkies is a series of collectable toy Koalas tasked with representing the vast cultural diversity within Australia.

Simmering beneath the façade of playful innocence, along with promises of equality, safety and prosperity, is a world of nuanced cultural and political tensions—a friction that keeps its inhabitants suspended in a moral and ethical limbo. As a well-meaning commercial product by fictional manufacturers, Snowy River Toy Inc., the Koalas are destined to fail at their task.

Within the frame of the Fair Dinkies store, you are invited to participate in the parody of ‘the great Australian mixing pot’ to explore and question the motivations and mechanics of Australia’s unique form of social conformity. At the exhibition’s core, it is a statement that diversity is necessary to create ‘Australian-ness’.