delphic - Danish Quapoor
Art exhibition - 25 to 27 October
delphic presents selected works from North Queensland based artist Danish Quapoor's ‘good grief’ series alongside complementary new works. These include illustrative biomorphic paintings on shaped, stretched paper, and an abstract animation. The exhibited fluid forms will illuminate the artist’s interrogation of shifting personal identity, familial relationships and grievances, and otherness within heteronormative regional contexts. These themes are layered with ambiguity, humour and misdirection. The works are also unified by their style, ostensible simplicity and sparse compositions.
OPENING EVENT
6-9pm Fri 25 Oct
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ARTIST TALK
Quapoor will provide insights into his processes, concepts and the works on display, along with context of his broader multidisciplinary arts practice.
10am Sat 26 Oct
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GALLERY OPENING HOURS
Fri 25 Oct -6-9pm
Sat 26 Oct - 9am-1pm
Sun 27 Oct - 9am-1pm
Free exhibition and events | Bookings are not required.
ARTIST BIO
Danish Quapoor was born 1989, Tulmur / Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. He is a visual artist, curator and writer based on Gurambilbarra / Townsville. His multidisciplinary practice predominantly spans ceramics, textiles, and illustrative painting, with forays into animation, murals, collage and photography. The artist was recently awarded the 2024 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize from Townsville City Galleries, and the inaugural 2023 School of Creative Arts Alumni Fellow from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ). He was selected for Outerspace’s online SUPERCUT project (2022), and for QAGOMA’s Art as Exchange program on Girramay Country / Cardwell, North Queensland (2021). In his 15 years of exhibiting, Quapoor has held eight major and six minor solo exhibitions, been a lead artist in six collaborative exhibitions, and participated in over 70 group exhibitions. Quapoor holds a Master of Arts and Cultural Management from the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Creative Arts), Honours from UniSQ. He has had work, reviews and writing published in the Journal of Australian Ceramics, Art Guide, Imprint and Lemonade Letters.
Danish Quapoor - ‘delphic’ is presented by Melt. Melt Development Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Image (L to R): Danish Quapoor, ‘two worlds’ and ‘undocking’, 2021-22, Acrylic and paint pen on stretched paper, 40.5 x 50.5cm each. Photograph: Amanda Galea.
‘Drawing with Drone’ by Motoko Kikkawa
Art exhibition - 6 to 22 September
Opening event: Friday 6 Sep, 5pm
Drawing with a Drone by Motoko Kikkawa showcases a unique combination of traditional drawing techniques and contemporary technology.
Japanese artist based in Ōtepote Dunedin, NZ, Motoko Kikkawa drawing practice expands through diverse materials and approaches. Using paint brushes, pencils, ballpoint pens, paper cutting, and ceramics, the artist creates abstract forms and distinctive markings.
Born in Tokyo 1968, the artist has witnessed Japan's rapid technological evolution through the advent of fax machines, personal computers, the rise of the internet and mobile phones. Nowadays, concerns about AI advancement and increased control systems are becoming prevalent, with fears of job loss. Motoko encourages embracing imperfectness and considers that new creations incorporating unpredictable elements can inspire excitement and hope for the future.
Artist bio by Anna Knight, art critic and translator
Motoko Kikkawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1968 and after obtaining a degree in Philosophy at Nihon University, moved to Dunedin over twenty years ago. Graduating from the Dunedin School of Art in 2010, she has been a vibrant part of the local and national art scene from the outset, as her myriad solo or collective shows, residencies and performances up and down the country attest, in both public and private spaces.
A prolific visual artist primarily creating highly detailed works on paper, Kikkawa is also unafraid to test boundaries, genres and new materials (including video, kirigami from old wallpaper, kelp, clay and mushroom spore tests). She is a talented violinist who regularly plays with various formations and her music-making reflects her approach to art: she listens intently, picks up moods and keys, finding harmonies and atonal notes that suggest new pathways to explore.
Some of her most recent shows and residencies include: suite 2023 (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2023); Engine In Nature (Dunedin Fringe Festival, 2021); Reflections of Mind (Audiofoundation, Auckland, 2020); Whakarongo Whakaraupō (Stoddart Cottage, Diamond Harbour, 2023); After Us, Everything (RM Gallery, Auckland, 2022); Presentation Layer: NFT Forms, Platforms and Transference and Material Sense (Ilam Campus Gallery, Christchurch, 2022) and Shrinking Violet (Play_station Gallery, Wellington, 2020). Her recent violin and voice performances include: Whakarongo Whakaraupō – Festival of Sound (Christchurch, 2023); Pyramid Club (Wellington, 2021); Nowhere Festival (Audiofoundation, Whanganui, 2021) and Lines of Flight Festival (Dunedin, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013).
Opening event: Friday 6 Sep, 5pm
Closing event TBC
Exhibition on view September 6-22, opening hours TBC
Reflective Exchanges - Edoardo Hines
Art exhibition - 10 to 24 August
‘Reflective Exchanges’ showcases a selection of Edoardo Hines paintings and poems.
Edoardo explores the themes of self-perception and identity. Their work depicts abstracted self-reflective figures in the evolving nature of personal environments. “A portion of the paintings will represent the intimate nature of the studio space they practice in and the varied objects that hold metaphorical significance to them. The simplicity in the thought of finding beauty from commodities that are sometimes overlooked in day-to-day life as they believe a part of them is represented in the objects that exist and surround them as vessels of service.”
Edoardo’s visual and written body of work captures the artist’s psychological journey over the past six months, including moments of uncertainty, rebirth and personal growth.
Exhibition opening - Saturday 10 August, 5pm
'Wannabe a foodie' by Mary Alburry
Art exhibition - Saturday December 8th - 10th
Mary Albury, is Adult Fan Of LEGO (AFOL) who lives with Cerebral Palsy. Her solo exhibition will present an impressive body of work of LEGO 2D artworks. Join us for the exhibition opening event on Friday, December 8, 6pm.
“Over the past four years, I have been able to both discover and delight in my passion and the endless possibilities and creativity that brick building offers. My obsession with the humble plastic brick began innocently enough, with a visit to the first certified LEGO store at Dreamworld. I couldn’t believe just how much could be built with LEGO. Something sparked a fire in me. I didn’t even know then if I would be able to manipulate the bricks effectively enough to build anything except a massive mess!! After all, my hands don’t always work great and often fail to grip and hold things. My life has been forever changed through LEGO building and this business idea grew out of a desire to showcase and share my creative talents My goal to fully self-fund my once in a lifetime holiday to Billund in Denmark - the birthplace of LEGO.”
Opening night: Friday, December 8th, 6pm
Exhibition on view: Saturday & Sunday, 10am - 4pm
‘Become’ by Jeanette Stok
Art exhibition - Saturday October 19th - 25th
Jeanette Stok’s solo exhibition Become, visualises how we create barriers between ourselves and others. The exhibition showcases a comprehensive display of works, including a wearable art piece constructed from black plastic gutter guard, photographs, varieties of sculptures, and hand-drawn black and white animation that analyses the embodied knowledge within embroidery. Visitors are invited to contribute to an evolving artwork which will be facilitated by the artist during a series of workshops.
Opening Event: Saturday 21 st
Exhibition on view from October 19th to 25th
Suburban Abstract
Art exhibition - Saturday August 19 - Sunday September 3rd
"Suburban Abstract," is a group showcase that explores the practice of contemporary abstract painting in a local suburban context. Featuring eleven artists located in Brisbane and surrounds as far as the Northern Rivers, the exhibition demonstrates the multifaceted approaches to abstraction.
ARTISTS:
Leighton Craig
Yuki Crawford
Lindsay Crawford
Shari Elise Dillon
Michael Donnelly
Philippa Ellis
Sam Eyles
Caroline Gasteen
Lachlan Groves
Kahl Monticone
Jfa Hynd
Exhibition on view from Aug 19th to Sept 3rd
Opening Event:
Saturday August 19th, 5pm to 9pm
Closing Artist argument/panel with accompanying musical performances.
Sunday September 3rd, 1pm
Sidney Herbst - But... I'm not a doctor
Exhibition - May 23 to June 2
Colouring within the lines of absurdity.
Interweaving and blurring the lines between surrealism, poetry, and the absurdity of life. You will see only what your heart permits.
Each line, embalmed with hope and desolation beckons you to dive in deep. Will you explore or be transfixed by the myriad of fine details? Charcoal and graphite has never looked so colourful, capturing the human form and the esoteric ideas that transcend society.
Viewing with an open mind and a curious soul is sure to evoke the big questions, or the smiling lines.
Step inside the open studio and mind of Sidney where you are invited to engage with or witness Sid working on his grandest piece yet. Peruse the walls at your own pace. Seating is also available.
This event is part of BRISBANE ART DESIGN 2023
Grand opening night Friday 26 May 5-9pm
Gallery opening hours:
Monday and Tuesday: 12-5pm (gallery only)
Wednesday - Friday: 9am-5pm
Saturday: 10am-2pm
Sunday: 9am-5pm
Riot Collective Presents: (RE)DEFINE
Exhibition, Live performance - Saturday May 20
An immersive exhibition showcasing femme, non-binary and genderqueer creatives.
(RE)DEFINE is an immersive exhibition featuring the work of 15 emerging femme, non binary and genderqueer creatives, who explore the disparity in the acceptance of identity, belonging and queerness.
Founded by multi-disciplinary artist and curator A(TOM)ICX in late 2021, Riot Collective has built a community for femme, non binary and genderqueer creatives to share their work and experiences. We strive to create opportunities for queer people, along with challenging heteronormative ideas, perspectives and misconceptions through a variety of immersive events.
(RE)DEFINE features a selection of multimedia installations, interactive performance art, photography and canvas works, each dissecting the concept of identity and “queerness” from the artist’s personal experiences.
This event is part of BRISBANE ART DESIGN 2023
5pm – 10pm
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Leanne Stewart-Haugh - It is About Time
Exhibition - March 17th - 26th
‘It is About Time’ presents a solo exhibition of paintings by Leanne Stewart.
Leanne’s current preoccupation is in the examination of thoughts surrounding the passage of time. The artist’s paintings depict colourful Australian landscapes with multiple curved horizons and lost perspective.
“There is no stillness in these works, as the Earth itself is never still; the paintings pulse with light and colour. Each work is an exploration of that still point of perspective around our own existence. One we tenuously share with all other life forms. Like space itself the horizons curve through the artworks and morph into organic, flowing forms that resemble trees, or animals. Light, shadow and sound reference the ways in which time gathers all life, to spin us all out toward that eternity we chase.”
Leanne Stewart-Haugh
Opening event Friday March 17th - 6-9pm
Gallery opening hours:
Tuesday - 11am-5pm
Wednesday - 2-5pm
Thursday, Friday: 11am-5pm
Saturday, Sunday: 9am-12pm
KEPK gallery - J2/241 Station Rd, Yeerongpilly 4105 QLD
TONDI//TONDO
Exhibition - February 25th - March 4th
A group exhibition of circular forms, curated by Claire Grant. Tondo (plural tondi) is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art. Challenging tradition, these thirteen artists dare to break outside the square. The exhibition features an assortment of material explorations, including sculptural installation, ceramics, experimental photography, found objects, digital projection, and sound performance.
ARTISTS:
Aaron Butt Amanda Bennetts
Claire Grant
Jordan Azcune
Julie Smeros
Justine Wake
Karl de Waal
Keemon Williams + Lyle Duncan
Kirralee Robinson
Kuweni Dias Mendis
Lee Wilkes
Rachael Wellisch
Saturday 25th February
7pm to 10pm – Exhibition Opening Event
TONDI ( ) TONDO Closing Party Line-Up:
Abstract Human Radio (vinyl DJ set)
Timothy Fairless (crash cymbal / crystal wine glasses)
Yvette Ofa Apagow (gong / experimental percussion)
Never Sometimes Now - Lucks
Exhibition - December 9th - December 21st
‘Never Sometimes Now’ presents a solo exhibition of recent works by visual arts practitioner lucks/Wade Schaare.
OPENING EVENT - Friday Dec 9th, 6 pm
Gallery opening hours:
Dec 10th - 11th: 10am-5pm
Dec 12th-21st: By appointment
Image design: lucks
KEPK Open Studios
Event - Sunday Dec 4th - 9 am- 1 pm
The resident artists in KEPK are opening “doors” of their studios, kindly inviting people to climb the 13+3 stairs to visit them. Our gallery will also be open, with Victoria Lawson’s current exhibition “Wanderlust” on view, as well as stalls with crochet works by Dordy Studio and ceramics works by Anoosh de Broc. This event is paired with The Plant Empire market which includes 70 local artisan stalls, plus live music, food and coffee.
Sidney Herbst
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. @sidneyherbstart
Leanne Stewart Haugh
Leanne Stewart-Haugh is a visual artist researching concepts associated with the nexus between art and the brain. Some thoughts arise: what does it mean to be alive and living on an ever-changing Earth? Why do we depict time in linear fashion, when it exists in a curved space-time continuum? Stewart-Haugh's current preoccupation is in the examination of thoughts surrounding art and the passage of time, when mediated by geo-morphological terms such as 'continental drift'. Whilst approaching this from new directions, with new questions about inhabiting spaces, the artist contemplates the speed at which she is moving, as the Earth hurtles across an ever expanding Universe. Stewart-Haugh lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. @artbrainnexus
Dordy Studio
Dordy Studio by fibre artist Georgia creates freehand crochet and knit pieces. With an emphasis on living and celebrating expression of any form, Gerogia give the same amount of love and care to every piece that I believe the beautiful people wearing them deserve. @dordy.studio
Victoria Lawson - Wanderlust
Exhibition - November 21th - December 4th
Victoria Lawson’s visual practice investigates the possibilities for an artist’s embodied actions to intervene within the amorphous, technological field of tourism. Her artwork draws upon the expanse of tourism’s history and contemporary theories of its globalised politics to perform a deconstruction of the power of this contemporary field. Her recent paintings and sketches draw upon the wider field of billionaire leisure and its connections to the paradigms of power inherent in tourism’s construction. Unwittingly Covid 19 has given all of us the opportunity to rethink the damaging habit of long haul tourism and its ecologically disastrous future. Yachts and private planes are now contested sites at the forefront of the war in Ukraine as unimaginable Russian wealth for the few rather than the many though it's not just Russian wealth that is contested here. Neoliberal cultural tourism is also questioned via her work. Lawson’s 10, 29 x 21.5 pencil drawings of private planes, sourced from the internet, are pinned to the wall in a grouping and 15, 30 x 39.5 cm oil paintings on linen (six horizontal, 9 vertical are hung in a mixed line according to the overall larger image of a yacht they originally made up). The image was also sourced from the Internet.
OPENING EVENT - Saturday Nov 26th, 6-9 pm
A discussion with Caroline Austin will be held at 5 pm.
CommunARTy 1st Annual Group Exhibition - Life in Art
Exhibition - November 11th - 18th
Life in Art represents the works of a diverse group of artists, Deaf and hearing, sharing stories of their lives and views on the world through a range of visual media.
OPENING event Friday, Nov 11th, 5:30 pm
Our Beloved Summer
Exhibition - October 22th - 26th
Inspired by Bryan Adam’s famous verse in ‘Summer of 69’
”But when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had a choice
Ya, I’d always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life”!
‘Our Beloved Summer’ reminisces over 2000-2010 Asian Popular Culture, within an Australian context. Through the lens of Instagram Our Beloved Summer reflects on illustration, pastel colours, acoustic and indie vibes, gatherings, familial ties, and the enduring friendships of never-ending summers.
This event shares elements of Asian Pop culture, integral to the cultural upbringing for many Asian millennial and generation Z. These nostalgic popular cultural experiences have since become recognisable irrespective of ethnicity, being shared across geographical borders. Indeed, the sentimental ‘longing’ embraced in this exhibition is universal – and seeing the artists embody the passion and nostalgia of youth leaves us wistfully longing for our own individual pasts, becoming lost in our own assorted memories of hazy summer days.
Presented by Utopia & Fringe Brisbane Festival, curated by Gemma Truong and Perrin Millard, this nostalgic-themed exhibition showcases the work of 12 local creative artists: Damon Ting, Georgia Richards, Jessica Rainier-Pope, Makiko Ramsay, Melody Parade, Michael Develos, Michelle Seo, Perrin Millard, Ruei-Ching Chen, Siluni Kumarapperuma, Tran Lam Ha and Yin Lu.
PROGRAM (see also Facebook event)
Saturday 22nd - gallery opens 11 am to 5 pm
4 pm - Korean Book Club presented in partnership with the Korean Cultural Centre Australia. A conversation with Choi EunYoung will be moderated by Dr Sung-Ae Lee (International Studies lecturer, Macquarie University) and Courtney Stewart (Artistic Director, La Boite Theatre). This event is inclusive and is suitable for people who have not read the book before.
Book of the month: Shoko’s Smile by Choi EunYoung. A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea’s most prominent young writers. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows them from adolescence to adulthood.5:30-9:30 pm - Uplate Beat Sessions, hosted by Shoku, the artist collective behind Beat Sessions/Retreat.
Sunday 23rd - gallery opens 11 am to 5 pm
4 pm: Meet & Greet with Melody Parade - Brisbane-based J-Pop idols group.
Monday 24th to Wednesday 26th - gallery opens 4 pm to 8 pm
John Langton Salmond - Problems and their containers
Exhibition - September 30th - October 7th
An abstract representation of societies’ problems, satirically represented in personified sculptures.
John Langton Salmond
John is a very capable and skilled artist and Sculptor. With many years of experience in both commissioned and commercial work. Though John himself would say this alone is insufficient reason to create A body of work and hold an exhibition. John is in his late 50s and has had a very rich and full life of experiences. Everything from fundamentalist preaching, drug addiction and abuse, to architecture, teaching, and environmentalism. It is John’s very personal insight into the human condition combined with his eye as an artist that enables him to express in this work what mere words cannot.
Each piece in this collection depicts the very nature of the contents the box is designed to contain.
FINALE event Friday, Oct 7th, 6 pm - Artist talk at 7 pm
Perfect Imperfection - Beyond Symmetry
Exhibition - September 2-7th
‘Perfect Imperfection’ showcases in conversation-ceramic works and still-life paintings by Sandra Harrison @harrison_ceramics and Kelly Southee @kellysoutheeartist
Sandra Harrison
Sandra Harrison splits her time between Brisbane and Melbourne as a potter who works in stoneware and earthenware. Well known for her large white symmetrical bowls and more recently for her body of work called Perfect Imperfection Slump Neck Vases. Sandra first started to practice ceramics in 2019 and took a ceramic gap year to study at the Brisbane Institute of Art, Clay School (West End), and Mas & Miek Ceramic House. Dedicated to learning all things clay, she developed a firm grounding in wheel throwing, hand building, slip casting, alternative firing techniques and glaze development. Sandra recently returned to ceramics full-time and is developing her practice by combining wheel throwing and hand building. She is currently creating a new body of work inspired by Scandinavian Design.
Kelly Southee
Kelly Southee is a visual artist based in Salisbury. Born in New Zealand to parents who enjoyed building many homes, selling and then moving on, Kelly grew up with an eye for detail; and an awareness that no matter where you might move to, the objects that move with you are the ones that create a home and provide a grounding and appreciation of life. Kelly has a keen interest in honouring all that is special about our places and our lives: homes, still life objects, and the pieces we love to treasure. Enjoyed daily, Kelly's paintings and drawings can be found in private and corporate collections around the world.
OPENING EVENT 3pm-5pm, Saturday September 3rd
Gallery opening hours 10am to 2pm