Tasha Finn Kim Demuth’s exhibition, Second Hand Pose: Portraits of the Unknown, was as much about the subjects of Demuth’s artworks as it was about the processes of representation. Demuth takes lost and found photographs of unknown people and remodels these images to create an illusion of three dimensional presence. Using an optical device, [...]
Jacina Leong Brisbane has a paucity of decent spaces to exhibit in so ambitious and motivated artists just graduating from art school are using their domestic residences as independent art spaces. These galleries provide an alternative platform for works and practices that are not always supported by the commercial gallery system. A recent example of [...]
Digital and hypermedia poet and artist, Jason Nelson, was invited by brisbanedialogues to present an interactive web artwork for readers to negotiate and participate in. Between Treacherous Objects uses the screen landscape to build complex 3-dimensional architectures. Each space is fully controlled by the user’s movements, encouraging them to move in and out, and around [...]
an exhibition developed by Accidentally Annie Street Space to compare and contrast the autonomous practices of Timothy P. Kerr and Erika Scott. Jacina Leong I would like to start by discussing the relationship between the respective works presented in Minds and Islands and earlier works made, such as: Early Machines Such as the Commodore 64 [...]
The Sink is a joint initiative of Accidentally Annie Street Space and brisbanedialogues to address a lack of critical dialogue and exchange about the practices of local and emerging artists in Brisbane. Unlike a review – which typically does not encourage multiple opinions or considerations about a work – The Sink is aligned with the [...]
Jade Williamson Ruth McConchie’s installation The howl of a big hot jug of General-Purpose Milk is enveloped by the dark, painted walls of Metro Arts’ second gallery space. Light emitted by a series of reading lamps permeates this dimness, their golden glow revealing a complex and curious arrangement of mundane objects. Swollen ballpoint pens are [...]
Exposure was an exhibition of contemporary Australian art curated by Chris Bennie, Director, Moreton Street Spare Room (MSSR) featuring works by Peter Alwast, Nicola Chatham, Matt Dabrowski and the Many Hands of Glamour, Marian Drew, Julie Fragar, Luke Jaaniste, Rose Phillips, Rebecca Ross, Dave Smith with Scam Productions and Chris Bennie. Exposure is also a [...]
Curated by Dani Woolbank for Accidentally Annie Street Space, POW showcased a motley collection of performance-based works that materialized at different times and within different areas of this residential-cum-gallery space. What follows is an unedited conversation, held on MSN Messenger, on Monday 8 June 2009, between members of the Brisbane collaborative group The Crash Crew [...]
Four Brisbane-based artist-run initiatives talk about the current state of alternative project spaces in this northern capital. Jacina Leong What are the critical issues affecting the production and presentation of contemporary art in Brisbane? Box Copy Understandably, this is an extensive topic and given my limited experience, having primarily exhibited in ARIs (artist run [...]
Jacina Leong Art writer and curator, Rosemary Forde, indicates that the driving force behind the establishment of un magazine was to address an imbalance that (founder) Lily Hibberd recognised between a proliferation of artist-run spaces in Melbourne and the lack of critical response about works and practices operating within these structures and outside of existing [...]
