The IMA’s 7th Annual Gala and Benefit Auction will take a suitably experimental form, inviting cutting edge artists to perform alongside an enviable selection of artworks available to bid on in support of the gallery.
Dress Code: Glamorous
Dining Style: Cocktail event with food by the teams at Agnes, Anges Bakery and Jocelyn’s Provisions. Drinks by Pommery, Domaine Royal de Jarras, Bird In Hand, Coopers and Malfy Gin.
Performances by: Tay Haggarty, Tara Pattenden, Naomi Blacklock and more.
Benefit Auction Artists: Tony Albert, Robert Andrew, Jordan Azcune, Christopher Bassi, Megan Cope, Sam Cranstoun, Kevin Diallo, Wanda Gillespie, Tay Haggarty, D Harding, Visaya Hoffie, Natalya Hughes, Gordon Hookey, Nicolette Johnson, Kyra Mancktelow, Carol McGregor, Laith McGregor, Claire Milledge, Five Mile Radius, Sebastian Moody, Phuong Ngo, Kahli Perkins, Jason Phu, Ryan Presley, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Heather B. Swann, Shireen Taweel, Anna Varendorff, Anne Wallace, Justene Williams, Jemima Wyman, and more to be announced.
2022 Honouree: Lawrence English
The IMA Annual Gala and Benefit Auction 2022 is held in honour of globally renowned, Brisbane-based experimental composer, artist, and curator Lawrence English.
Lawrence is a composer, artist, and curator based in Meanjin/Brisbane. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, affect, and memory. He investigates the politics of perception and creates works that ponder subtle transformations of space, asking audiences to become aware of that which exists at the fringes of recognition.
He has curated IMA’s experimental sound program MONO for over fifteen years and is the director of the imprint Room40.
Gala Committee
Bec Malouf, Courtney Norris, Marie-Louise Theile, Bayoush Demissie and Jesse-Jack De Deyne.