Practice

Exhibitionist is a development-focused digital studio based across Australia, working exclusively with cultural institutions and arts organisations. With over 50 years' collective expertise, we've become trusted partners to institutions including Powerhouse, MONA, Rising Festival, NGV, and Phoenix Central Park—building digital architecture that balances artistic aesthetics with scalable, secure infrastructure.

Development Focus

Exhibitionist creates bespoke digital systems built for the arts. We primarily work with cultural institutions, artists and organisations looking for forward thinking web work.

Our work spans complex CMS implementations, deep API integrations, collection systems handling 500,000+ objects, and onsite museum experiences from ticketing to wayfinding to interactives.

What we deliver: scalable, modern platforms that connect your digital services and actually work for the people using them.

Collaboration

We work best when we're close to the people who understand your organisation - sitting alongside your ticketing, marketing and technical teams. Senior members of the team stay involved throughout, decisions happen in conversation, and when something needs to change, it changes without a kafuffle.

Full Stack Services

Strategy & Discovery We run workshops that bring the right people into the room - across teams, across departments - to figure out what your organisation needs. From there we audit what you have, work out what's possible, and build a plan that balances ambition with reality.

Design Services When projects require design, Melanie Huang brings extensive museum and arts experience to translate your brand to the web. We also collaborate with leading design agencies nationally and internationally including: Studio Ongarato, Linked By Air, TCYK, and Studio MASS.

Development & Build This is what we do most: digital transformation projects, enterprise platforms managing thousands of pages, and everything in between. We build on Sanity CMS and Next.js, with integrations across Tessitura, collection management systems, CRMs, forms - whatever sits in your digital ecosystem.

Support & Maintenance We keep your platforms secure, performant and current. 24/7 monitoring with 1.5-hour critical response times, and strategic improvements and optimisations retainer if needed

Industry Specific

Cultural institutions need partners who understand both artistic vision and operational realities. We have lasting ongoing relationships with all major clients (Powerhouse, MONA, Newcastle Art Gallery, Phoenix Central Park) reflect our commitment to:

• Intuitive systems designed for non-technical staff
• Cost-efficient solutions without traditional agency overhead
• Clear documentation reducing reliance on specialist IT
• Sustainable engineering built to evolve with your organisation