Events for 27 November, 2022

Riffing on themes in Blade Runner, local artist Luke Pellen’s exhibition Electric Sheep features a collaboration with a twist… Luke’s collaborator recently celebrated her first birthday. She has studied the techniques of the “old masters” – Da Vinci, Raphael, Rembrandt; she has developed her imagination from surrealists – Ernst, Dali, Magritte; she can emulate Lichtenstein, Picasso or Warhol. This remarkable collaborator is an Artificial Intelligence (AI), and together she and Luke create new, imagined worlds. Electric [...]

Naomi Hobson is a Southern Kaantju/Umpila woman who lives in Coen, a small town of 360 people in the centre of Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland. A multidisciplinary artist, she regularly works across the mediums of painting, ceramics and photography. Inspired by her immediate environment, Hobson’s works express her ongoing connection to Country and her ancestors’ ties and relationships with their traditional lands. Through her work, she references her family’s political and social [...]

A Pretty Folly, an exhibition by Kate Rohde, sees the exhibition space transformed into an installation brimming with bold colour and life.    Rohde will present a selection of her functional sculptural pieces which celebrate everything animal, vegetable and mineral in their creation. Setting the stage for her object based works the gallery walls will be adorned in several elaborate wallpaper designs. Cultivated from Rohde’s object based practice, these uniquely developed designs of luminescent zoological animal motifs, and [...]