Exhibitions
Doors Through the Ordinary by Scott Breton
20 September - 15 October 2024Doors Through the Ordinary takes as its starting point a region along the D’Aguilar Highway, west of Brisbane. This is a subject that many passing through might not even notice, the road weaving along a ridgeline between unassuming cattle properties and tired old gum trees. But for Breton this particular area has sparked fascination since childhood.
In paintings that have both soothing and agitating qualities, the question Breton offers might have to do with the tension between the anxiety of adulthood and the spirit of imaginative excitement that we subconsciously recall from childhood and still secretly long for. Both spirits exist, each arguing for their validity in a deeply uncertain world that nonetheless needs our human capacity for imagination and the call to adventure. There is both desperation and hopeful innocence to be found in these dry ridges.
Hayfever by Bronwyn Hill
18 October - 5 November 2024Bronwyn Hill (b.1989) is a Brisbane based painter. Predominantly focusing on portrait and figurative work, Hill is recognized by her photo-real oil paintings that follow a narrative, exploring self-analysis and introspection that are often inspired by moments in solitude. Hill's use of light and shadow is a recurring feature to her work along with the contrast of high detail and soft layering techniques.
Lisa Christensen
8 - 26 November 2024Redcliffe-based artist Lisa Christensen graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), majoring in painting. Lisa has exhibited in Brisbane and the South-East Corner, and her work has been selected for various prizes including the Thiess Art Prize, Gadens Top Ten, Clayton Utz Art Award and the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize.
Lisa’s paintings have evolved out of a “love for detail, colour and form, and the desire to convey something otherworldly with humble everyday objects”.
Extending on the rich history of still-life painting, Lisa is influenced by the Dutch and Spanish still-life paintings of the 17th century, that focused on themes of mortality through the depiction of flowers, fruits and other domestic objects that stand as reminders of impermanence in this life.
Jodie Wells
29th November - 21st December 2024Jodie Wells has exhibited extensively around Australia since 2007. In that time, she has held a number of solo exhibitions and her work has been selected as a finalist in many of Australia’s top art prizes, including the Duke Prize in 2011. Jodie’s paintings are held in the Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery collection, as well as in private collections around Australia and England.
Jodie manages to capture her images in what is perceived to be minimal broad strokes of paint, spread with a palette knife. Her richly textured style combined with a dramatic colour palette creates vivid interpretations of nature