Abstract This essay aims at exploring the many facets of art and its ability to change how the society thinks of refugees in their search for asylum in foreign states. The study will identify whether it is possible for art to have the power of dissenting against the society’s perception of refugees. The study expects to crown the findings of the research with a summary that is expected to discern whether it is true or false that art can change how the society thinks of refugees. Introduction This essay is built-up based on work that had been previously done by other writers in identifying whether it is possible for art to change how the society thinks about refugees. The essay will identify some of the motivating factors that have made artists create some of the unique artistic creations with regard to the experiences of the refugees in their hazardous journeys in pursuit of safety and stability from their mother countries. The essay will review some of the experiences that the refugees have encountered and the treatment they have received from their hosting communities. The information obtained will act as a buffer for the summary that will be drawn from the essay. Literature review The ways through which refugees are treated is objectionable given the predicaments they go through every day in the countries that they seek asylum. It is evident that they are treated in an inhumane, absolutely hypocritical and xenophobic ways that are meant to serve the self-interest of a few minorities in the country. This sends a horrible message to the rest of the world about the bad treatment of the refugees more so in Australia. It has been noted that the treatment of immigrants in Australia is not only isolated to the incoming refugees, but also to the multicultural Australians. They have been treated the same by the natives in which it negates their well-being as Australians and it erases their contribution towards nation-building over the years. These plights necessitated the Australian immigrants to come up with a way of expressing themselves in Australia and this was witnessed in the field of contemporary Australian visual art which boasts of hosting some of the most celebrated practitioners of this form of art. It should be noted that artists trooped from the migrancy, that is, intercultural Australians whose history depicts that they had visited Australia with the primary objective of refuge from their motherland (Carruthers, Oakley and Thi 150). Isle of refuge is a group that is composed of prominent Australian visual artists who in their linage have close ties with refugees who were held in detention in Australian camps located in the south pacific borders of Australia. The close ties arise from personal histories, their ethnicity or political realignments from which these arts have come from. The group is composed of artists who were refugees in Australia due to political or racial unrest in their countries and they represent regions and countries such as Europe, Indonesia, the Middle East, Tibet and East Timor (Carruthers, Oakley and Thi 150). This group of artists had fruitful collaborations with some professional and non-professional artists who were in detention in Villawood detention camp. It is through this artistic work that this group sort not to define the experienc