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Ruth Cho: Australian Knockoffs

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Ruth Cho’s first online exhibition with Onespace Gallery, Australian Knockoffs, challenges the dominant Eurocentric representations in Australian art history, despite our longstanding cultural diversity. Cho appropriates very familiar compositions from iconic Australian art images – including Down on His Luck by Frederick McCubbin; Spring Frost by Elioth Gruner; Shearing the Rams by Tom Roberts and Charles Meere’s Australian Beach Pattern – to question the […]

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Anna Boghiguian: The Uprooted

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For this exhibitiion Anna Boghiguian’s The Uprooted is presented across Galleries 1 and 2. Commissioned for the 2020 Sydney Biennale and made during her residency at Monash University, this installation draws parallels between the artist’s Armenian ancestry and the Australian context. She has said: My work centres around the ways in which humans are uprooted from their

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Peter Drew: Flags 2

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Peter Drew’s flags are not for flying overhead, a remote and abstracted symbolic ideal, always out of reach. These flags are remade in the artist’s hands and given a palpable materiality. Aggressively stripped of their official governmentality with various power tools, they are enmeshed with another layer of official government record. Photographic portraits from the

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William Robinson

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William Robinson (b.1936, Brisbane) is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most distinguished contemporary artists, best known for his landscape and portrait painting. Robinson is critically acclaimed for his arresting landscape compositions of South East Queensland rainforests and seascapes of northern New South Wales. Robinson’s landscapes, with their multiple, ever-shifting perspectives generate a hallucinatory yet

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Designing Culture

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Welcome to Designing Culture, the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University‘s creative inoculation to fight the global malaise brought by the Covid pandemic. This exhibit features the works of the QCA’s multi-talented design faculty who are exploring unique facets of design that will shape our futures. The idea for the exhibit was germinated during a research

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MONO 38: Lisa Lerkenfeldt & Megan Clune

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Melbourne’s Lisa Lerkenfeldt presents A Garden Dissolves Into Black Silk, a 40 minute work exploring magnetic tape erosion, crumbling textures, and distant melodies of a dissolving world. Join us for an exercise in inter-species listening, analogue mutations and reciprocal relations as night fades to black. She is joined by Sydney-based artist Megan Clune whose divergent acoustic undertakings consider the complex

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Bridie Gillman: Amongst

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Bridie Gillman is an alumna of Queensland College of Art, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours) in 2013. In 2019 she was a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, winner of the Moreton Bay Art Award and finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Award at Campbelltown Art Centre. She is

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Moments: A Still Life Exhibition

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Featuring nationally recognised artists Tsering Hannaford (multi-Archibald prize finalist), Andrew Bonneau (works collected by the National Portrait gallery), Bronwyn Hill (Winner Clayton Utz art award and Brisbane Portrait Prize category winner) and Oliver Shepherd, Moments: A Still Life Exhibition celebrates the still life genre through the painting medium. Each artist approaches the genre with their own unique

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Tay Haggarty: LINK

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LINK is a series of new object-based works that explore slowness, productive ambiguity, and shared experience. 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 apply the same attention to bodies, gender

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Jordan Azcune & Kirralee Robinson: Material Directives

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An exhibition exploring material and process by Jordan Azcune and Kirralee Robinson. 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

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HYPERLOCAL: Indigenous Art Program

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The Indigenous Art Program transforms Brisbane’s streets into an exhibition of Aboriginal artworks. The artworks use engaging places and spaces, including large-scale banners, vitrines, and projections, in Brisbane’s laneways. Recent events have changed our ability to travel and during 2020 there was a recognisable shift in our appreciation for community resources, homegrown produce, and locally

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Figments of Figures

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‘Figments of Figures’ is an exhibition featuring the work of four emerging artists concerned with figuration in painting; or perhaps with ‘re-figuration’, as Dana Schutz recently put it. Unlike Schutz’s approach however, the works in this exhibition do not start somewhere in the public imagination, but rather in the quiet and personal recesses of memory,

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MEAT MIRROR

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Be shared! Or be scared! Ever wondered how dangerous Kim Kardashian’s booty is? And just how far social media and celebrity culture will invade? MEAT MIRROR asks what is beauty, what is horror? Through absurdity and humour MEAT MIRROR tackles the alarming normalisation of life-threatening surgical enhancement. MEAT MIRROR throws gullibility, butchery, beauty, Orwellian satire,

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Arone Meeks: Evidence

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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 punctuated by

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Seth Ellis: Sugar Ghosts

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Seth Ellis is a Senior Lecturer in Design at the Queensland College of Art, as well as a narrative artist and installation designer. ‘Sugar Ghosts’ arises out of the work that he has recently completed as 2019 Mittelheuser scholar-in-residence at the State Library of Queensland (extended to December 2020 due to COVID-19). This work investigated

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A Natural Low: Immaterial Counterpoint Act

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A new exhibition in collaboration with A Natural Low. 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

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Nick Earls: By the Book

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Author Nick Earls and artist Lawrence English present an immersive exhibition of words and art. 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

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Arryn Snowball : I have had the privilege of seeing dawn and dusk bite through daylight hours

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Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to debut Arryn Snowball in his latest exhibition i have had the privilege of seeing dawn and dusk bite through daylight hours on show from May 12 – 30 2021. Driven by a constant ‘open process’, his new works are injected with effervescent colour. Each piece is drenched in the ambiguity of

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Inner Worlds

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The subtle hum of vast inner worlds dwells within each of us, a space where our hopes, dreams, desires, thoughts, feelings and fears reside. In this group exhibition, the gallery features the work of three emerging Australian artists who navigate the theme of self-reflection in distinctive ways. Artists: Carla Adams, Kevin Diallo and Hal Witney

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CTRL ALT DEL presents SHIFT

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A pop-up art exhibition featuring First Nations, Pasifika and, culturally and linguistically diverse artists. CTRL ALT DEL creates a space of cross solidarity between diverse intersections of cultures and communities. We activate exhibition space through cultural ceremony, song, dance and spoken word. CTRL ALT DEL offers artists a network to connect, meet like minded creatives

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Jeff Moorfoot: Artifact

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An artifact is typically an item of cultural or historical interest. It is often said, you can judge a person’s character by the company one keeps, or the ingredients of one’s refrigerator, or one’s choice in fashion. These images of collected ephemera feature a few of my valued possessions, acquired over the years by various

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The Glassery

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A showcase of the best glass artists in South East Queensland. The Glassery is a co-operative collective of artists who work with glass. Our wide range of unique skills and expertise includes hot and cold glass working. Members of the collective are represented both nationally and internationally including at the National Gallery Collection (Wagga Wagga),

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MELT Portrait Prize

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The annual MELT Portrait Prize returns, celebrating heroes in the LGBTIQ+ community, attracting exceptional artworks from across Australia. The annual Melt Portrait Prize gives visual artists the creative license to celebrate heroes in the LGBTIQ+ community; whether it be a local icon or an internationally acclaimed personality. Having developed a reputation for attracting exceptional works of art from across

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Kirralee Robinson: Move Together

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Three new kinetic sculptures by Kirralee Robinson. Clutching the southern corner of the CBD, Brisbane Quarter is set to become the home of three new kinetic sculptures courtesy of artist Kirralee Robinson. Building on Robinson’s 2020 work In Unison, Move Together stimulates a dynamic conversation about perspectives and relationships. Guaranteed to beguile audiences with its

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RMXTV

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Experience a live art remix as a group of artists test their creative agility this May at Museum of Brisbane. Over the course of three weeks, participants will draw and paint on a large purpose-built environment guided by a series of prompts delivered via the big screen. RMXTV is the latest in the RMX series of

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Dan Molloy ft The Runway Movement: Silenced in the Shadows

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Silenced in the Shadows (photographed by Dan Molloy, curated by Ella Ganza, the founder of The Runway Movement) is a series of strikingly raw photographs portraying the emotional internal battle that LGBTIQ+ Pacific Islander and Indigenous people often face. These intimate portraits, featuring members of The Runway Movement, explore and represent the reality of living

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Eliza Adam: Submerged

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In this new series of works, Eliza Adam responds directly to the river systems of the Moreton Bay Region in her ongoing investigation, which examines landscape as an informal archive. Adam’s work explores how past incidents and experience directly and persistently impact the present, and how previous actions and energies are transferred and retained in

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Alexandra Matthews: Home by Nightfall

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Alexandra Matthew’s paintings juxtapose urban landscape within boundaries both limited and expanded by light. Each work is its own entity but comprise multiple constituent compositions with light, natural and artificial, the defining and amalgamating theme. Daytime sees the sun dominating light and shadow, with the verandahs, awnings and landscapes of Queensland architecture responding and protecting.

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Janine Dello: Inhabit

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Drawn to the beauty of everyday rituals, Janine Dello’s new body of work, Inhabit, plays upon the feminine in domesticity through a series of intimate moments.  Pastel coloured hues and playful narratives show these characters caught in that space between longing and contentedness. Inspired by domestic subject matter and covetable objects, this work explores ambiguous emotions in

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Aster + Asha Gallery

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New online commercial gallery featuring emerging Australian artists. Launching on 21 May 2021, Aster + Asha Gallery is an online contemporary art platform dedicated to bringing a curated selection of collectable art to a national audience. Featuring emerging artists from across Australia, it has a strong focus on presenting artists that reflect the multiplicity of

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