Subject Line brings together the work of three emerging artists and one writer who are connected to the Gold Coast and Scenic Rim regions, and whose work links via writing, text, signs, messages, the media and the plethora of sign based information that feeds into our daily lives.
Subject Line situates the practices of Tallara Gray, Michelle Gunther and Joshua White, accompanied by writer Kate O’Connor, as the ‘subject lines’ of The Walls and the Gold Coast more broadly in an attempt to elevate the work of emerging contemporary practioners in our regional landscape and beyond.
Tallara Gray is curently undertaking her Honours year at Queensland University of Technology. Gray’s art practice creates a platform for environmental issues by repurposing ready-made objects and imagery from their original context, prompting us to question our relationship to them. They often take the form of installation, text works, sculpture and site-specific interventions that explore the boundaries between Art and Life.
Michelle Gunther is completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Queensland College of Arts, in Brisbane. She is currently exploring the conceptual and spatial potential of moving-image artwork within her sculptural-based art practice. Language and text are also an integral part of her most recent projects. In 2014 Michelle was awarded the Billie Hall Bursary for Outstanding Achievement in Fine Art and as the recipient of an Australian Government ISEP Grant Michelle is currently furthering her studies in Fine Art at Kassel University.
Joshua White graduated Queensland College of Art at Griffith University Gold Coast with a Bachelor of Digital Media, Photo Media Major, in 2014. White photographs friends, family and strangers in an attempt to record and document his own life and the lives of those around him. Substance and depth are the drivers of his work, as he seeks to uncover the core of social interactions and human relationships in contemporary life.
Kate O’Connor is a Brisbane and Gold Coast based contemporary art writer whose research interests lie in transmedia art practices. She currently works in Brisbane at Edwina Corlette Gallery and The University of Queensland Art Museum and interns within QAGOMA’s International Contemporary Art department as a curatorial assistant. O’Connor recently graduated from the University of Queensland with first class honours in Art History, focusing on the parallels between the immaterial art practices of the 1960s and contemporary installation art.
Closing Event and Hannah Smith Open Studio: Saturday 28 March, 5-8pm
Essay by Kate O’Connor
Image: Joshua White ‘The World I Love is Dying’ (2014)
