AMPLIFY at Side Gallery presents the original artworks featured in AMPLIFY ME!, Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery exhibition celebrating local artists with lived experience of disability.
This exhibition offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience the detail, materiality and creative processes behind the large-scale public artworks currently installed throughout Brisbane’s city streets. By bringing these works into the gallery, AMPLIFY reveals the artistic practices and stories that underpin the public installations.
Grounded in inclusive arts practice, the exhibition continues the ethos of collaboration, barrier-free creativity and meaningful connection established through the Outdoor Gallery project. The exhibition highlights the importance of lived experience in shaping Brisbane’s cultural landscape while encouraging greater inclusion and social change.
Curator Nicole Crosswell notes that the participating artists’ unique practices and creative voices shaped the curatorial framework of the exhibition, celebrating Brisbane’s artistic diversity while foregrounding the significance of lived experience within the city’s cultural story.
The exhibition features works by Marcus Nunn, Ruby Herrenberg, Ella Doyle, Duane Doyle, Greg Chambers, Frazer Campbell, William Melrose, Rupert Campbell, May Washington and Grace Lindeman.
Through painting, drawing, animation and mixed media, the artists explore themes including identity, community, environmental awareness, storytelling and personal connection. Together, the exhibition celebrates diverse creative voices and the role of inclusive arts practice within Brisbane’s contemporary art scene.
