Deviations is a collaborative video project dedicated to celebrating and highlighting the importance of queer space and time that sits outside the hegemonic structures governing daily life. The work has been specifically produced for installation in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane a site where queer spaces have been carved out for decades. From nightclubs, sex clubs, art […]
Normally a paper artist, Lesley Kendall felt compelled to use clay to express the significant beauty and transitory nature of living creatures for her exhibition Moths With meticulous attention to detail, Kendall has delicately hand-crafted over 300 life sized porcelain moths. Each of these tiny, white-winged insects is unique and extraordinary in its detail. The […]
Discover a stunning open-air art exhibition in the heart of Brisbane City at Botanica- Contemporary Art Outside. As the sun sets over Brisbane’s iconic urban skyline, Brisbane’s City Botanic Gardens come to life with large-scale projections, surprising installations and interactive artworks that will captivate children and adults alike. Featuring new artworks from some of Australia’s […]
Hot’n’Heinous can refer to many things, including the experience of the worst days of a typical Brisbane summer, and the characters create a portal into the imaginary world of the artist. With one-line grabs from clickbait advertising, sweetly sinister characters from bootleg cartoon imagery, and painterly passages of descriptive familiarity, Visaya’s imagery often seems like […]
A moving testament to the ineffable value of time, Stephen Hart’s open studio is a reflection on his forty-two year long career spent as a sculptor. Join him for an open studio during BAD 2021 to take a walk through not only his body of work, but a collection of the ephemera and curiosities that […]
In his typical whimsical style Bernard Ollis has produced artworks of lush, kaleidoscopic renditions of artists’ gardens and studios he has visited during his lifetime. Primarily a figurative artist Ollis’ interest lies with the human form; the everyday lives of people, what environment they create and inhabit, however in this exhibition it is nature that […]
Hot’n’Heinous can refer to many things, including the experience of the worst days of a typical Brisbane summer, and the characters create a portal into the imaginary world of the artist. With one-line grabs from clickbait advertising, sweetly sinister characters from bootleg cartoon imagery, and painterly passages of descriptive familiarity, Visaya’s imagery often seems like […]
On Earth traces conceptions of landscape and the environment as it is expressed and represented through the poetic devices of art. The exhibition examines the ways landscape manifests through culture, or personhood, and attempts to bring the two together, rather than separating them. On Earth includes artworks from the QUT Art Collection alongside the work […]
With a body of work that spans sculpture, installation, photography and mixed media, this is your invitation to come and be a part of the conversation when Mandy opens her studio to the public. Come and meet the artist from 10am, and stay on for an in conversation from 2pm-3pm. This project has been made […]
Take a turn around the Riverbend to Ferryman’s Hut where Artist-in-Residence Helle Cook draws on the atmospheric and affecting presence of the hut, the river and Brisbane (Meanjin). During her residency Helle’s exhibition Light Affection, will invigorate Ferryman’s Hut with ephemeral installations through a lens of light and sensory experience, created by diaphanous painting on […]
