KEPK exhibition 2022

For its first show of the young year 2022, KEPK exhibition will feature artists who have been cooking art within KEPK’s warm felted walls.

Clementine Belle @clementinebelleart

Clementine Belle McIntosh is an emerging rural artist from Gilgandra NSW, Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi and Wailwan country. McIntosh’s expanded painting practice comments on the relationship of art within the non-human environment through the construction of place-based works.

Rhiannon Daly @rhiharm

Aotearoa born, Meanjin based Fashion Designer and Visual Artist, Rhiannon Daly (Ngati Kuri, Ngati Porou), is mostly a self-taught painter who had help in her teachings from her Artist father growing up. Surrealism, homoerotism, feminism and fashion are themes which are portrayed evidently through her clothing collections and artworks.
Rhiannon’s subject matter experiments with creatures of sexual desire, femme figures, water symbolism and phallic metaphor. Her technique uses oils and acrylics on canvas, often weightless in varying gestures of movement and stillness.
Rhiannon’s works for the Simmering 22 Exhibition showcase her fabulously peculiar and outlandish imagination, eccentric style of subject matter and amused disposition on life.

Sidney Herbst @sidneyherbstart

Sidney is an artist specialising in drawings and poetry. His work evokes emotion particular to each individual viewer, asking them the questions only they can answer. Every piece is driven by emotion, life from a focused perspective and aims to capture humans in their purest form, as a part of the natural world, co-dependent, unified, and separate only through the illusion of control.

Poem:
Line by line, as it’s seen
Seen and not known
Just like all of it really

Anna Jackson @black.cactus.studio

Anna Jackson works predominately with natural and found objects and recycled materials. She imagines forms where organic and synthetic matters spontaneously merge together.

Sonny O’Brien @sonnyobrien

“Your creations are what I imagine the inside of a black hole looks like: A mishmash of bizarre but cool things for my eyes and ears.” Sonny is an interdisciplinary artist mixing forms into a gooey, iridescent mess of collage. Fusing photographic sampling, digital design and an anachronistic mingling of cultural references, there’s an order in his chaos that feels both reckless and elegant. Colour is an obvious inspiration, both the subversion of abrasive combinations and its absence altogether, in work that hopscotches between being eye popping lurid and classically monochrome. He has a fascination with experimenting in digital and analogue mediums, spawning a growing portfolio of music, animations, photography, 3D design, collage, film and video and generative art.

Joseph Rabjohns

Saturday 11th December 2021

Presented by MADE NOW MUSIC, Brisbane-based guitarist/composer Joseph Rabjohns will be launching their album ‘Folklore’ on Saturday, December 11th.

The launch show will be supported by the Brisbane singer-songwriter Jo Davie.

Time: 7:00 pm
Tickets: $20, available here

RESTORE: Re-enchanting Connection

December 3-9th 2021

Exploring the restoration of inner and outer ecologies through a collection of paintings, photography, videography, and installation pieces.

Kate Chadwick: Painting

Alison Leonard: Animation

Helen Schwencke: Photomontage

Jason Sparrow: Nature Installation

Megan Young: Photography

OPENING NIGHT 6-9 pm Friday December 3rd

Luke Cuerel Quintet

Sunday 14th November 2021

The Luke Cuerel Quintet will be releasing their album, "Far From The Tree" on Sunday 14th November. The launch will be accompanied by pianist, composer and improvising artist Sophie Min.

Luke Cuerel is a jazz saxophonist, composer and educator from Brisbane, Australia. His work explores music in unique contexts; specifically in relation to people, places and events in Australian life. Luke is currently busy writing, performing and managing projects such as his original jazz quintet “The Luke Cuerel Quintet”, electronic/experimental duo “Voltfruit”,14 piece ensemble the “Luke Cuerel Orchestra”, electronic project “Expo 88” and regular stints as a sideman for artists such as “Boy and Bear”, “The Kite String Tangle” and experimental, jazz and improvised music groups. As a composer and improvisor, Luke has recently been involved in Soundstream’s Emerging composer forum, and Tone List’s Sounding Together workshops in Adelaide (SA) and Perth (WA) respectively. Luke will be releasing a Jazz Quintet album on November 4th 2021 entitled “Far from the Tree” featuring original jazz compositions written over the last decade.

Luke Cuerel Quintet:
Luke Cuerel
Marike Van Dijk
Dan Hirsch
Euan Cumming
Blake Lonie

Sophie Min + Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung

Sophie and Jasmine is a new ensemble that draws a unique emotional quotient for piano and Chinese erhu. Their playing animates peculiar sound in a scenic manner by exploring prepared instruments and instructed writing.

Date: 14th November 2021
Time: 6:00pm
Tickets: $20 / $15, available at https://lcq2021.eventbrite.com.au

Pop Mythos V1

October 30th-November 10th 2021

Mythology and spirituality in pop culture. This exhibition includes paintings, 2D media, 3D wall art.

Artists:

Laing Rahner @rahnerism

 Diz aka JB @whodafukisdiz

 Lucks @luckylucks

 Blu Art Xinja @blu.artxinja

 Gillie Jetnikoff @gilliejtattoo @hokio_by_jetnikoff  

 Anthony Jigalin @anthonyjigalin

Astro Ark

October 6-12th 2021

We’re heading to the stars and taking our cultures with us. Instead of fading into assimilation and climate disaster, we are taking our languages, traditions and experiences into shining futures. What does our world look like in our wildest imaginations and what does it mean to belong to culture in the year 3021?

 This group multimedia exhibition contributes to the growing cannon of Pacific Futurism and showcases the wildest decolonial imaginings of artists across multiple mediums. The artists will explore speculations about the near and far future. Audiences are invited to step away from colonial constructs of progress and experience many possible futures through projection work, painting, installation and sculpture (maybe more).

This project is presented as a part of Backbone Festival and proudly supported by Brisbane City Council. Backbone’s Young Producers Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Artists: Allen Vili, Rhanjell Villanueva, Lalatuai Grogan, Dislah De Rham, Natalie Quan Yau Tso

OPENING NIGHT 6pm-9pm, Thursday October7th

Tickets - Free but please ensure you RSVP due to limited capacity at https://events.humanitix.com/astro-ark

The Cyanotype in Australia Exhibition

Saturday 25th September 2021

A day to discover cyanotype prints made by Australian and a New Zealand artists responding to the theme REJUVENATION.

Gail Neumann and David Symons will be the hosts of this year's event. Victoria Cooper and Doug Spowart fellow CinAust Team members will join the event online.

Attendance at the event and the serving of light refreshments will be by COVID Safe practices.
https://www.facebook.com/events/226021915702949

Vein Cage : A Praxis of Existence and Identity

September 18-23rd 2021

Vein Cage : A Praxis of Existence and Identity, is a Group Exhibition showcasing the diversity and strength of Artists, Musicians and Performers working within the experimental, underground, and emerging scenes in Meanjin. Through the use of a multitude of mediums, such as sculpture, installation, paintings, print- and mixed-media, projections and live sound performances, the artists create a multi-sensory, intimate experience.

The artists explore an array of concepts surrounding themes of Queer Identity, Gender, Culture, Conscious Observation, and Wilful Disruption. This collection of work is relevant to current social and political themes of existentialism and the deconstruction of the human experience, and opens up a conversation of vulnerability, individuality, resilience and presence.

The title ‘VEIN CAGE’ refers to our mortal bodies, in which we are currently trapped, the praxis of exploring existence, and identity is approached throughout our creative processes, and expressions.

This project is supported by the Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland.
Facilitated by Backbone Youth Arts, Young Producers Program. Curated by Summer Hiskens-Ravest.

Visual Artists: Ben Ramsey, Des Skordilis, Kit Syvret, Pamela Rosel, Summer Hiskens-Ravest, Wiremu Hohaia, Yvette Ofa Agapow

Live Performances: Amanda Terry, Moscos, Yvette Ofa Agapow

OPENING NIGHT 6:30-10:00 pm Saturday September 18th

ARTIST TALKS  6:30-8 pm Wednesday September 22ND

Patty: Stories from my Deaf world

September 11-14th 2021

An exhibition of paintings sharing experiences of deafness with the hearing world: A window into Patty’s work

OPENING NIGHT 4-7 pm Saturday September 11th

How creativity is informed by technology

Saturday July 24th 2021

As part of the exhibition program for Hyper Real by Cornelia Van Rijswijk, KEPK is hosting a panel discussion with guests from Queensland AI Hub and Xandra Media to discuss connections between creativity, technology, and artificial intelligence. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Thom Ryan.

Panelists
Dr. Sue Keay
Sue heads up the first technology hub of its kind in Australia, backed by $5 million seed funding under the Queensland Government’s $755 million Advance Queensland Initiative. Prior to stepping into the role of Queensland AI Hub’s inaugural CEO (August 2020), she worked as Research Director for Cyber-Physical Systems at CSIRO’s Data61. Sue led the set-up of the world’s first robotic vision research centre, and developed Australia’s first Robotics roadmap, outlining how robotics and automation positively impacts every sector of the national economy. She chairs the Board of Robotics Australia Group; serves on the Board of Women in Robotics; and is a founding director of the Australia AI Collective.
Find out more about Sue: https://www.qldaihub.com/meet-the-team-sue-keay/

Zach Johnson
Zach launched award-winning interactive production studio, Xandra, in 2016. At the forefront of design-led conversational interfaces, Xandra creates AI-powered experiences – bringing together a diverse team of writers, actors, visual and sound designers, and cutting-edge technologists to conceive of and produce some of the most compelling and engaging interactive experiences in the market today. For Zach, art and entertainment exist as an expression of humanity. Something reflected in Xandra’s development of some of the highest profile conversational co-productions, with partners including Amazon, Google, HBO, Nickelodeon, Sesame Street, and AMC Networks. Zach also moonlights as Queensland AI Hub’s Designer in Residence and has recently taken on a role as Head of Narrative at Josephmark, a global venture studio with offices in Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, and Los Angeles.

Artist
Cornelia Van Rijswijk
Cornelia is A Dutch / Welsh Artist & Designer based in Queensland, Australia. She studied Graphic & Media Design at University of the Arts London, United Kingdom. With a background in Graphic Design, her practice has primarily moved into the realm of fine art, using mostly digital mediums in her process and ending with the creation of physical prints. Her work explores the world of online technology, digital landscapes and hyper realities. She imagines what these abstract concepts might look like and how they are best expressed. With the use of vibrant and saturated colour palettes, she pushes and pulls pixels into chaotic repetitive entanglements to conjure synthetic worlds. https://www.corneliavanrijswijk.com/

Musical performances using AI, creativing coding, and modular synths by artists
Moscos
@moscos.cosmos
https://soundcloud.com/moscoscosmos

Unregistered Master Builder
@unregistered_master_builder
https://unregisteredmasterbuilder.bandcamp.com/releases

HYPER REAL

July 16-30th 2021

Cornelia Van Rijswijk is A Dutch / Welsh Artist & Designer based in Queensland, Australia. She studied Graphic & Media Design at University of the Arts London, United Kingdom. With a background in Graphic Design, her practice has primarily moved into the realm of fine art, using mostly digital mediums in her process and ending with the creation of physical prints. Her work explores the world of online technology, digital landscapes and hyper realities. She imagines what these abstract concepts might look like and how they are best expressed. With the use of vibrant and saturated colour palettes, she pushes and pulls pixels into chaotic repetitive entanglements to conjure synthetic worlds. @corneliavanrijswijk

Our reality exists in a universe filled with space, where we are collectively perceived, it is organic and living. 

Hyper reality exists in a universe created online, where we are collectively imagined, it is synthetic and artificial.

A hyper reality is collectively imagined and created online, it is built together with a singular output. 

This world is synthetic, made by its designer or architect via code and binary language, it is polished with a plastic feel which lacks human emotion.

It is a designed world existing within servers , accessed and interacted with via computers, absorbed and understood via a screen.

The inhabitants of this world exist online via facades, filters or avatars that connect via social media to present a hyper real version of themselves, albeit human-like or fantasy.

OPENING NIGHT 6-9 pm Friday July 16th

MADE NOW MUSIC

MADE NOW MUSIC are launching the debut album of Australian-based wind trio DÜT (McAllister/Saragossi/Rogers).

The launch show will be supported by the newly formed Sax/Guitar duo featuring Marike van Dijk and James Wengrow.

7-11 pm Friday July 9th

@madenowmusic

www.madenowmusic.com/

Tickets

https://www.facebook.com/events/182900750364112

Diz Vs Rahner: Exploring method, surface and surroundings

'Diz vs Rahner' showcases a long dedication to arts practice in the urban art and digital design spaces.

Diz examines the role of surface and context in his painting practice by recreating urban and industrial textures and pattern as a substrate for studio works. Further, he has merged hand drawn and digital design to create three dimensional artworks from materials used in the sign industry. Throughout the exhibition, Rahner will perform an ongoing live improvised work painted directly onto the gallery wall. Progress will be documented and the piece covered again after the show, representing a life form that emerges, flourishes, diminishes and disappears. Rahner's paintings are responses to our surroundings in the urban environment, reflecting on the process of change and renewal, using a complex, layered approach to painting.

Rahner - @rahnerism
Diz - @whodafukisdiz

OPENING NIGHT 6-9 pm Saturday June 26th

Let sex flow: The influence of psychoanalysis, politics, and dialectics in understanding 20th Century Music

Monday June 14th 2021

Paul Young will provide a brief introduction to theoretical frameworks that have influenced our understanding of western musical genres in the 20th century, including a discussion on alienation, fetishism, negative synthesis, the libidinal economy, and ‘The Real’.

These themes are considered orthodoxy in western thought and have been utilised by musicologists to discuss key philosophical principals that underpin the emergence of 20th century musical genres and cultural movements, with an emphasis on drone music and minimalism.

The discussion will be framed by a comparative study between 'American Minimal Music' by Wim Mertens and 'Repeating Ourselves: American minimal music as a cultural practice' by Robert Fink.

Momentum

Sharna Barker

May 27 - June 6

Through an expanded painting practice, Sharna considers the strategy and role of chance in artistic practice, and its relationship with chaos and order.

Considering a space between intention and outcome, the attention is drawn to an openness residing within the material object, to potentials and excesses that find new directions and forms through chance/chaos yet in an ordered methodology. Thinking in excess, Sharna takes existing forms, textures and colours into new works, allowing each work to inform the next in multiple directions. In this way, the exhibition aims to shift the emphasis from the artwork’s signifying function to what the artwork sets in motion or its performative aspect.

@sharna.a.barker

12 HRS DRONEFEST

May 22nd 2021 - 12 pm to 12 am

12 hours of long form ambient-grind and bliss in equal measure. Featuring a range of artists from across the spectrum of electroacoustic, sound-collage, lo-fi doom, sonic theatre, and free improvisation. BYO pillows, blankets, beanbags, and comfort items are recommended.

Set times

12:00 Sonny O'Brien
12:45 Timothy Fairless
13:30 Lindsay Crawford
14:15 Andrew Gibbs
15:00 Lou Jansson
15:45 Mekema
16:30 Dr Thom Ryan
17:00 Unregistered Master Builder
17:45 sum
18:00 Ghost Bird
19:00 Amber and Orthotyp-a
19:30 Tess King
20:30 Flickachu
21:00 Romantic Insects
22:00 Orthotyp-a
23:00 Dracopede

Collected: responses to nature

May 7-9th 2021

New work, site-specific experimentations, works in progress by ceramic artist Fiona Haynes and photographer Lisa Kurtz @_lkurtz_

Kindred: Longing and Belonging

Kate Chadwick

Saturday May 1st 2021

For one night only local artist Kate Chadwick will be presenting her body of work, ’Kindred: Longing and Belonging’, at KEPK.

This special pop up show will be held on Saturday 1st of May at 5 pm and will be the first time the artist has exhibited her work in Australia since repatriating from Italy in 2014. Originally a student of Film & TV production, she draws on many years’ experience as a dreamworker practitioner, exploring colour & form as a direct and playful self-expression.

@katechadwick.art

www.artkate.blogspot.com

The Best Antipodean Photobooks + Australia & New Zealand Photobook Awards

Saturday April 24th

We are excited to present The Best Antipodean Photobooks, as well as the finalists of the recent Australia & New Zealand Photobook Awards (presented by Momento Pro) this Saturday the 24th of April 2-5pm!

- The Best Antipodean Photobook list each year provides a commentary on photobook authors, designers and publishers from Australia & New Zealand and the stories their books contain. The collection connects the local photobook scene with a worldwide audience.

- Included is a showing of the finalists and winner of the latest Australian and New Zealand Photobook Awards on loan from MomentoPro.

- This is a free event! However, donations are warmly appreciated and will help cover costs related to hosting this event. Your wonderful donations can be made here: https://tinyurl.com/yh7vf5va

Antipodean Photobooks:
www.theantipodeanphotobook.com

ANZ Photobook Awards: www.anzphotobookaward.com/anzphotobookawards-results-2019

What Matters

Exhibition: 7th-21st April
‘What Matters’ is a collection of work by multi-disciplined artists that - engages, implicates, or involves the audience in interactive or physical work, or, sensory experiences. A response to the online/virtual exhibition forums. Curated by artists Perrin Millard and Mark du Potiers.

The last 12 months has caused a universal re-evaluation of inter-connectedness, individual self-reflections, as well as, our social structures in the broader context. With isolation either physical or emotional, interconnectivity between the individual and the community has been altered. Human innovation quickly established alternatives to the disconnection of touch, physical engagements, and physical experiences, relying more than ever on the virtual world to connect with one another. Innovation and necessity saw the experience of art becoming relegated to online forums. These forums were desperately needed to provide the opportunity to continue to be a part of the broader art community, while at the same time, exacerbated feelings of isolation. Introspection flourished. While we have returned to a resemblance of normality, many individuals are still struggling with sense of re-connection within their communities.

Contributing artists:
Mark du Potiers
Perrin Millard
Sharna Barker
Ruby Yu-Lu Yeh
Timothy Fairless
Matt Page
Michael Louttit
Michelle Vine
Renee Kire
Sunday Jemmott
Ruaa Al-Rikabi
Mary Duong
Genevieve Memory

'NRA'

With a warm welcome, the National Rug Association @national_rug_association is hosting its inaugural altercation at KEPK. ⁠
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On March 13th 5-9PM⁠
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Weaponizing the tufting gun to render imagery of violence into a medium that is commonplace, the NRA is producing work that has a comforting quality to it. The use of a carpet gun has a direct corollary to a symbol of power at the root of intense political and social debate in the USA, not only with regard to the 2nd Amendment but the reported abuses of power leveraged at the Police. Drawing on lived experience with police brutality artist Joseph Burgess (USA) is addressing grief through a personal connection to his native Portland, Oregon as it has become the canvas for overt scenes of violence in 2020. ⁠
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In Burgess’ words: ‘For me getting into these tufted carpets off the ground has been a way to deal with the compressed and anti-linear nature of my upbringing. I have found the carpet gun to be a timely symbol of peaceful protest and a way to vocalise the complex sentiments of looking on from afar as the United States has frayed over 2020. Through reflecting on this from afar I’ve discovered that the medium has rich history and a beguiling connection to home’. The tufting machine was invented in Dalton, Georgia in the 1930’s. ⁠

@national_rug_association

@unregistered_master_builder