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Oct 23, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Brooke Ferguson |Louise Martin-Chew
Who knew that as well as being an author and artistic director of Brisbane Writers Festival, Jackie Ryan is an artist? That’s a surprise to some of us, although not to John Stafford and Jodie Cox of Onespace at South Brisbane. They have been engaged in sporadic projects with Ryan for a decade or so and recently offered her a solo exhibition at their spanking new gallery, which overlooks the Brisbane River at South Brisbane.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Farrin Foster |Brooke Ferguson |Louise Martin-Chew
Standing in a 1:1 replica of artist Archie Moore’s childhood bedroom, peering at his teenage sketches – many inspired by the visceral style of MAD magazine – pinned to the wall, a strange sense of vertigo begins to take hold. What starts out as an almost overwhelmingly intimate experience (because whose childhood homes do we visit as adults? Really, only those of people very close to us) spirals to a bigger and bigger scale.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Brooke Ferguson |Louise Martin-Chew |PHIL BROWN
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Louise Martin-Chew |Jane Llewellyn |Heidi Maier
Mackay might be best known for sugarcane and mining but it has long punched above its weight also as a cultural powerhouse. Put that down, in part, to Mackay’s diverse population. Its first inhabitants and custodians were the Yuibera peoples and since colonisation South Sea Islanders, Italians, Maltese and Filipinos have also created communities in this North Queensland city. This cultural strength is visible in the quality of the city’s public art and the programming of Artspace Mackay since 2003.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Jane Llewellyn |Heidi Maier |Louise Martin-Chew
Brisbane Powerhouse artistic director and CEO Kate Gould was interrupted by otherworldly sounds during her speech opening the venue’s Night Feast, but more on that later …Set within the lush surrounds of the creative hub, Night Feast invites food and culture fans to dine under the stars by the Brisbane River.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Heidi Maier |Helen Barlow |Louise Martin-Chew
Tarnanthi Art FairA reminder to art lovers near and far that thousands of works from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists across the country will be for sale this weekend via the online Tarnanthi Art Fair. While the digital platform – here – may not offer the same tactile and social opportunities as an in-person fair, it does mean you can browse the works from any location – and return to shop as often as you like between 5pm on Friday, October 18, until 9pm on Monday, October 21.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Jane Llewellyn |Heidi Maier |Louise Martin-Chew
Bridget Currie: each one a worldCarrick HillBridget Currie’s exhibition, each one a world, invites audiences to interact with her work and explore our relationship to nature. Co-presented with the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) for the Nature Festival, the exhibition at Carrick Hill celebrates the stunning house and its expansive gardens. Through works developed over two years, Currie presents a series of varied responses to the environment.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Louise Martin-Chew |Michelle Wakim
Scale and material draw nature and culture together to capture “the great unfolding of now” in FireWorks Gallery’s Evidence of Scale IV exhibition. Largely figurative in content and themed around materiality, this fourth annual show includes experimental work by artists from the gallery’s impressive stable. Director Michael Eather says the exhibition is “a loaded concept that allows us to show drawing and sculptural works”. “Drawing, and all art really, explores how to scale an idea,” Eather says.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Brooke Ferguson |PHIL BROWN |Louise Martin-Chew
HELD, currently showing at The Mill, is an intriguing exhibition presented by the SACE Visual Arts students at Youth Inc. They began with the prompt “something you can hold”, moving from the physicality of artworks contained within small boxes to more abstract interpretations of caring for, holding space, and emotional connections. Sarah Keane, the artist-in-residence at Youth Inc., facilitated this exploration, guiding students to express these ideas through a range of forms.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Olivia Stewart |Louise Martin-Chew |Gillian Cumming
As a collective of artists with and without disability, Restless Dance Theatre spotlights what unites us all as people. Playing during Brisbane Festival, Private View is the company’s most intimate work yet. Conceived by long-time creative producer Roz Hervey to challenge taboos around sexuality and disability, Private View steps behind closed doors to explore sex and love in a series of vignettes capturing desire, dreams and despair.
