Through fashion, light, sound and performance Bad Olive encourages the audience to engage in the multiple forms of expression Brisbane has to offer. As part of the BSAF program the ‘Within These Walls’ art showcase will still be able to be viewed as this will become integrated into the Bad Olive exhibition. Large Scale group […]
‘Within These Walls’ is a group showcase of over 100 works by local street artists, along with a number of interstate and international artists with connections to the festival and local arts community. This year the Within These Walls group exhibition will be co-produced by emerging arts organisation Bad Olive. If you haven’t been able […]
Deadly Threads is a new showcase examining Indigenous shirts – born from protests in the 1970s and evolving as permanent mainstays in wardrobes across Australia. In Deadly Threads, see over 170 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designed singlets, t-shirts, polo shirts, and jerseys. From colourful sporting jerseys to protest and artists shirts, Deadly Threads looks […]
Come visit ILEANA to see works by leading international artists, including the British father of Popart, Richard Hamilton, and Pop artists from the US and China. The gallery will be showing a special temporary exhibition for BAD 2021 from 14-16 May, featuring works that have not been exhibited before. To find out more about the […]
Which way? is the long-awaited exhibition from contemporary Indigenous artists, Fiona Omeenyo, Rosella Namok and Samantha Hobson. Through their art and design sensibilities – across painting and sculpture – the artists explore the themes of ‘tradition’ and ‘change’ through their chosen subjects. The themes that the artists have individually explored in their art practices involve […]
Natalie Lavelle’s exhibition Physical Perception, is a gathering of life-size works that appear to be in negotiation of the space between art object and viewer – matter and body. The works’ premise considers the two bodies – both abstract and visceral – to be intimately related aspects of the same principle. Painted flat on the ground, […]
LINK is a series of new object-based works that explore slowness, productive ambiguity, and the shared experience of risk taking. These objects presented as reductive forms will be specifically placed within the gallery space, to encourage us to slow down and take care. LINK invites us to foster this culture and practice of care, and […]
Invisible Border comprises sound installation, miniature painting, and a monumental 9-metre-long tapestry, hand woven by a community of Hazara men and women, some who have lost family members in war. Featuring existing work alongside new commissions developed for the IMA, the exhibition will also feature Otherness, a major body of work developed in partnership with […]
Over the past 6 months, artists Jordan Azcune and Kirralee Robinson have been collaborating with local design studio, Five Mile Radius on new material experiments. Through an exchange of practice and knowledge, the artists and Five Mile Radius have explored the environmental impact of their work and proposed new lines of enquiry into material and […]
Championing the artwork and creations of hand-building students, Dabbler Studio aims to channel and draw out the artist living in all of us. This exhibition features work from beginners to experienced artists and hand-builders. Featuring the work of the studios two resident Teachers, Bonnie Hislop and Michelle Leplastrier, come and put your hands together for […]
