February 22nd, 2011
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The Brisbane Emerging Art Festival aims to make a significant contribution to the development of contemporary visual art in Brisbane and engage with communities nationally and internationally. The concept and premise of the festival is to promote our local emerging talent and provide multiple artistic platforms to showcase both artist and arts worker.
!Metro Arts
1/109 Edward St
Brisbane, Australia
Emerging Art Showcase - CHECK IN
Curated by Courtney Coombs.
Artists :
Nat Koyama
Michelle Knowles
Alex Cuffe
Rebecca Smith
Timothy P. Kerr
Erika Scott
Jason Fitzgerald
Anastasia Booth
Richard Stride
Sue Beyer
CHECK IN focuses exclusively on new work and seeks to create a platform to promote the most exciting visual art being made in Brisbane. The exhibition presents artists within a dynamic and critical discourse, with a purpose of creating an arena for the public to view, study and critique new modes of art practice being developed locally.
February 15th, 2011
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As a sculptor I am interested in the convergence of everyday found materials and communication through the construction process. The materials I select for my work are collected from the streets of Brisbane suburbs where they have been discarded from domestic or renovation sites and industrial areas. I am attracted to and utilise materials that contain painterly and worn characteristics as a way of not only translating painting and drawing into real space but evoking a sense of time and place. The work itself is created spontaneously depending on the materials and objects found at the time. The composition is largely developed intuitively.
Incorporated within the use and transformational process of these materials, are various perspectives and motivations that stem from social, cultural, economical, historical and aesthetic values. These aspects coincide with the way various components of memory are used to relate and associate with everyday materials.
Through the investigation of material, construction, placement and space the dichotomies of internal and external, decay and rejuvenation, presence and absence, durability and fragility become evident. These characteristics become a device for response, imagination and memory, which correspond with the projection of one’s own experience onto the work.
February 7th, 2011
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Ross McMaster (Lismore)
My work is about space. Physical, emotional and psychological. It explores how I move around the world, what I do and what I experience. From the mundane to the extraordinary. Mainly autobiographical, it investigates history, memory, identity, construction and process.
Currently my work questions the validity of organised religion in contemporary society, the propensity towards violence that is inherent in the system and the correlation between catholic dominated countries and fascist dictatorships in the 20th century.
