Naomi Evans — I AM — Textiles by the Cairns-based emerging artist, serving as a powerful meditation on individual agency in reshaping our own narrative. Exhibition Opening — Season 2. Workshop — Painting an experience of place with Annika Harding. Arts is only a week away. This session will focus on personal branding and raising your profile with seasoned industry professionals. Director of Photography, Russell Milledge, was instrumental in establishing the studio and location footage with Geoff Dixon, Arone Meeks and Euan Macleod over the two years of research and film production on this feature documentary.
Book your tickets today and be transported into the intimate portrait of the life, love, and friendships of Artist Geoff Dixon. Part 1: Saturday 16th March. The Ironing Maidens , led by Cairns-based Artists Melania Jack and Patty Preece, is an experimental art duo turning domestic objects into electronic instruments to explore themes of gender, domestic labour and technology.
This multi-media installation of projection, sculpture, digital collage, video and sound was a low fi wonderland that smashed pink, Pop and the industrial into a new and playful aesthetic. The work disrupts the ideal proposition of the perfect housewife or the perfect domestic worker and aims to elevate and confront historical and ongoing contemporary issues of discrimination in the domestic labour force.
A non-binary, de-capitalised, de-colonised, de-extinction future imagining. Fish traps are central to Kaiadilt, Lardil, Yangkaal and Gangalidda culture, story and very identity.
The artwork is a collaboration between ten Kaiadilt, Lardil and Gangalidda artists working together across a massive metre-long by 2-metre-wide canvas. Each artist painted multiple sections of the canvas, with artists negotiating with each other to ensure continuity of story across contiguous elements of the canvas. Between them, the artists are custodians of intimate knowledge of Country.
