More than 400,000 people have flocked to Dark Mofo as the Hobart winter festival farewells curator Leigh Carmichael after a sometimes controversial decade.
Organisers ran the ruler over the 10th Dark Mofo after showcasing 400 artists in 65 events at 35 venues across the city, including free exhibitions.
Some performances were relocated after record-breaking early ticket sales, which generated $5.5 million for the festival box office.
More than 100,000 tickets were sold, with almost 65 per cent of buyers from interstate.
Venues counted more than 427,000 entries across the festival's 14 days, including 110,000 for the City of Hobart Winter Feast, 90,000 at Dark Park and 17,500 for the Ogoh-Ogoh Procession and The Burning.
Another 2000 people took the plunge on Thursday for a near-freezing naked swim at Long Beach to mark the winter solstice and end of the midwinter festival.
The 2023 edition was the last to be the curated by Carmichael, who has been the festival's creative director since it was established in 2013.
"We have created something truly special," he said on Monday.
"While my time curating the festival is now over, I'm entirely confident that it will continue to captivate and inspire audiences in the years to come under the direction of incoming artistic director Chris Twite.”
In 2021, Mr Carmichael cancelled an artwork that planned to soak a British flag in the blood of Indigenous people following community backlash.
Dates for the 2024 festival will be announced later this year.
