From 6-9pm Friday 28 May, Gladstone Rd Studios will remain open until late for visitors to check out the exhibition and meet the artists, designers and curator over a bevvy or two. Over the past 6 months, artists Jordan Azcune and Kirralee Robinson have been collaborating with local design studio, Five Mile Radius on new […]
Strange flowers are blooming at BiB’N’Brace Collective in an emotive group exhibition, Gardens of Babylon. Featuring a hot house collection of contemporary painters and sculptors, come and take a walk through a wild variety of works that draw on the botanical world for inspiration. Featuring works from David Henderson, Fintan Magee, Jane Grealy, Paula de […]
There is a common misconception that the purpose of highly crafted work is to primarily demonstrate technique or skill. Craft based practices may be less likely deemed as conceptual. Reflective material requires a spatial engagement; as you move, so does the reflection. The nature of highly polished, reflective material is to blur the division between […]
Brisbane designer IVY NIU’s Tent Dress Project is a collaboration with 10 featured artists from Australia and abroad, where fashion meets art in a colourful expression of creativity. Featured artists Frances Cannon, Bianca Mavrick, Ellie Hopley, Kitiya Palaskas, Emily Green, Rachel Burke, Chantal Fraser, Phil Ferguson, Tantri Mustika and Nadeesha Godamunne have each interpreted Ivy’s signature tent dress in their […]
Side Gallery’s annual small work or “smalls” group exhibition joins BAD2021 . A group show titled Landing consists of small works, no larger than 30cm x 30cm to explore the themes inspired by or relating to Brisbane/Meanjin, its people, land, objects, the environments and multitude of businesses of the greater Brisbane city. […]
May 2021 sees Onespace Gallery launch a solo exhibition entitled, Evidence, by Cairns based artist, Arone Meeks. Creating works of art that speak of cross cultural interaction, relationships, gender, traditional and modern spirituality and his environment – this body of work also delves into notions of anthropological fetishisation of First Nations people. Paintings and prints […]
Established in 2003, Brisbane-based Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW has returned from a five-year hiatus to present OCCURRENT AFFAIR. The exhibition showcases new and recent works by Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Megan Cope, Jennifer Herd, Gordon Hookey, and Laurie Nilsen. Engaging wordplay through its title, OCCURRENT AFFAIR references the sensational journalistic style of […]
An ephemeral, degenerative sound-focused happening featuring enigmatic local & interstate multidisciplinary artists in a collaborative, experimental installation discarding mercantile tools for amplified found/recycled/stolen objects while rejecting anticipated latent profound purpose and celebrating the unexplainable intrinsic fascination toward the unaesthetic discord. Immaterial Counterpoint Act is curated by A Natural Low – a small, local independent community […]
During BAD the Woolloongabba Art Gallery will be home to Stephen Nothling’s latest offering, Bellevue. A homage to his meanderings along Bellevue Street in Highgate Hill, each large-scale landscape is accompanied by an intimate floral motif collected from an obliging front yard along the way. […]
The exhibition brings the book to life, with an audio book recording guiding visitors through artworks, photographs and artefacts referred to in the text. By the Book also features a new collaborative sound work produced by artist Lawrence English, which draws on field recordings from the landscapes that Robinson painted. […]
