This In Conversation event, facilitated by Museum of Brisbane Director Renai Grace, is an opportunity to hear these artists give insight into what has shaped their respective artistic practices. Join us from 5:30pm to enjoy a selection of wine, cheeses and a guitar set by Kahl Monticone.
Sam Cranstoun is a Brisbane-born and based artist whose multidisciplinary practice integrates extensive research with a wide array of media to explore how history is shaped, often focusing on the individual as an instrument to explore collective understanding and identity. His commission, funded by donations made to the 2017 Gadens Art Challenge appeal, will focus on Greek architect and town planner, resistance fighter and Government Minister, C.A. Doxiadis, who had briefly been an immigrant to Brisbane in the 1950s. The work will reveal a broader Australian narrative of identity, class and migration.
Lincoln Austin has just completed a month-long residency with Museum of Brisbane. His sculptural and multi-media works playfully explore the poetics of geometry, pattern, optics and scale. His exhibition Topography – place writing, now on show at the Museum, references spaces in Brisbane in which he has lived and visited, both real and imagined. Idiosyncratic elements of Brisbane’s subtropical architecture are the point of departure for the works, an architecture influenced and shaped by the unique conditions of place, weather and landscape.
Judy Watson is an internationally renowned, Brisbane-based contemporary Indigenous artist who reflects on hidden histories and County in artworks that boldly integrate traditional mediums such as ink, paint, charcoal, pastels and dry pigment with different binders to create a distinctive, layered finish. Judy’s work waterdragon will be purchased for the Museum of Brisbane Collection with funds acquired through the 2017 Gadens Art Challenge appeal.
Images: Sam Cranstoun, photo Lauren Panrucker; Lincoln Austin, photo supplied by artist; Judy Watson, photo Mick Richards.
