TENSE PAST documents Julie Gough's major survey show held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart from 7 June-3 November 2019.This epic culmination-exhibition, curated by Dr Mary Knights, of 25 years of arts practice and exhibiting, reunited more than 30 artworks from collections across Australia. Resonant historic artworks and objects were co-exhibited with Julie's work to investigate and critique the colonisation of Tasmania and the aftermath-impacts on Aboriginal people and colonists.The publication also documents the installation MISSING OR DEAD which was part of the Dark Path activation on the Queens Domain during the 2019 Dark Mofo festival from 14-23 June 2019, as well as selected works since 2019 to the present day.