QCA Thursdays are a series of QCA Galleries opening events that seek to broaden the art experience. QCA Thursdays are a space for the presentation and interpretation of contemporary visual arts and design practice, and a site for gathering, conversation and learning. Join us from 5.30pm on Thursday, 5th August to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions from students of the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
PROJECT GALLERY | Solo exhibition from QCA’s Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art student Dylan Sarra.
GREY STREET GALLERY | Lemonade Stand: Camryn Day, Sunday Jemmott, Clare O’Callaghan, Talisa Moss.
With grim and distressing news becoming a constant in today’s society, Lemonade Stand displaying work by Camryn Day (she/her), Sunday Jemmott (she/her), Clare O’Callaghan (they/them), and Talisa Moss (she/they) aims to showcase nostalgia as a tool to lift spirits.
Through mixed-media presentation, these works utilise bright colour, sugary aesthetics, nostalgic imagery, irony, and humour to explore personal narratives of identity, trauma, and life.The works grapple with the innocence of childhood memories, alongside some exploration of the incipient signs of queer identities in youth. This return to playful, child-like, aesthetic choices, in turn, reveals its healing power, resulting in a celebration of queerness, femininity, and personal identity.
