Coveted Events

OCCURRENT AFFAIR currently showing at Artspace Mackay and touring nationally.

OCCURRENT AFFAIR is a major exhibition featuring new and recent works by Brisbane-established Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW, featuring Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Megan Cope, Jennifer Herd, Gordon Hookey and Laurie Nilsen.

Conceived as a collaborative activist gesture, OCCURRENT AFFAIR will address current socio-political, economic and environmental issues, while celebrating the strength, resilience and continuity of Aboriginal culture.

“Queensland as criminal is a key theme of OCCURRENT AFFAIR, now on at the newly reopened Artspace Mackay until October 6. The travelling retrospective of Brisbane-based Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW has come north for its penultimate stop before ending in Lismore. But if the state is a villain, the group’s six artists are the stars of the show and collectivism itself is a hero.“ - Zoe Devenport

An exhibition from The University of Queensland Art Museum touring with Museums & Galleries of NSW.

Images courtesy of Jim Cullen.

𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 solo exhibition by Svetlana Bailey

“In this work I combine alternative photographic techniques with sculpture making. I produce moulds to substitute forms made of transitional materials like water and ice to create arrangements that I photographically preserve. These materials allow contemplation of body and land and the makeup of a post-human future.” – Svetlana Bailey"

Curated by Kelly Price

Available to view at artereal.com.au from 27 October - 24 November

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Featured work: Svetlana Bailey, ‘Untitled’ series(2021), pigment print, 99 x 79cm, edition of 5 + 2AP

For enquiries, please email: [email protected]

𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 solo exhibition by Svetlana Bailey

The abstraction of the body as vessel and as medium is a constant in Svetlana Bailey’s practice. And the bodies depicted in Bailey’s work are made all the more personal as they belong to the artist herself and her family members. The metamorphic, faded, and transmuted body parts were all cast, moulded, or photographed from the bodies of her mother, her father, her partner, her daughter, and her own self. They represent what it means to inhabit the body, in our own consciousness, and what we might be without our bodies.

Curated by Kelly Price

Available to view at artereal.com.au from 27 October - 24 November

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Featured works from left to right:
Installation view, Svetlana Bailey, ‘Be in her body’, ‘She fell in love with the whole world’, Long long ago', 'On the other side', 'You only think once', ‘Healing landscapes’, Garner Art Space, New York, 2022

For enquiries, please email: [email protected]

𝘕𝘶𝘰𝘷𝘢 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘦 currently showing at Artereal Gallery featuring Rebecca Beardmore, Stevie Fieldsend & Andrew Lavery

‘Creating collages of found and made objects, or innovative combinations of materials and processes that express insights into societal and environmental concerns, light is intrinsic to the practices of all three artists in 𝘕𝘶𝘰𝘷𝘢 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘦.’

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Installation photography by Jessica Maurer

Artereal Gallery for Sydney Contemporary 2023

Featuring Ebony Russell, Patrizia Biondi, Elwira Skowronska, Ashlee Becks

Installation photography by Simon Hewson


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