It’s late afternoon and Susie Choi is guiding me through her new exhibition Searching Chords at Mitchell Fine Art, in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. Warm light reflects off the white walls and polished concrete floor, emphasising the pearlescent glazes and gold … Continue reading Susie Choi: Searching Chords
In a mezzanine-level studio accessible via a precarious metal staircase, in an old factory building on Brisbane’s southside, Jeanette Stok has been expanding on an art practice that began in 2013 when she first merged her career as a scientific … Continue reading Jeanette Stok: Become
Common Knowledge and Learning Curves expands on Keg de Souza’s interest in the ways we teach and learn, exploring common knowledge held by communities and maintained across generations. Curated and developed by Artspace, Sydney, and presented in partnership with Griffith … Continue reading Keg de Souza: Common Knowledge and Learning Curves
My second favourite household chore is ironing. My first is hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. Erma Bombeck WASH. IRON. COOK. CLEAN. WORK. WORK. WORK. Repeat. The words glow neon across a bedspread made of … Continue reading Deborah Eddy’s Domesticity
The Ambience Store Project was a year long program of exhibitions featuring emerging and unrepresented Australian artists held at Queensland design institution Ambience Store. After a national call out, 27 artists were selected across nine exhibitions that comprised painting, sculpture, … Continue reading The Ambience Store Project
When I think of tapestry, I think of my grandparents’ house. Each room had at least a couple hanging on the walls. Not the expansive (and expensive) Belgian ones that decorate the Vatican and other European sanctoriums, but small ones, done by my grandmother, of English interiors, childhood scenes and landscapes of thatched roofs, floral gardens and footpaths that trailed off beyond the timber frame. They weren’t spectacular, and they didn’t reflect any aspect of life as I knew it, but they were special in their own way. I loved watching grandma attach the linen to the stretcher, prepare the wool … Continue reading Erin M Riley’s TapArseTry
“There’s a reason people build miniatures. Doesn’t matter if it’s guys laying out model railroads or women decorating dollhouses. It’s about control. It’s about reinventing reality. Some people get a lot of satisfaction in creating a little world they can escape to. In making things turn out the way they want, at least in their dreams.” ― Jane Lotter, The Bette Davis Club Christmas Day, 1983. There is an enormous box sitting to the left of the tree, wrapped in what must have been yards of pink tissue paper. Honestly, it’s so huge I could live inside it. I wonder … Continue reading The Little Things
Here’s something I never expected to find myself doing late on a Tuesday night – standing in a vacant, candlelit block high up on a hill in Brisbane’s West End, reading a book by torchlight with a bunch of strangers, while fruit bats circled above us and a cold breeze turned the trees in to scary dancing spirits. I quite sincerely thought I was going to die. But these are the things I am willing to do for my friends, particularly treasures like my mate Pete Foley. When Pete first told me about his concept for The New Pantheon, I reacted … Continue reading Pete Foley: The New Pantheon
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