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Outer Space, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley (2025)

14/08/2025

We are delighted to welcome South Australian-based artist and filmmaker Allison Chhorn to our main gallery, as her new exhibition 'Reflections in the Water' opens this week.

Nikki Lam, writer for the exhibition beautifully captures its essence:

Allison Chhorn’s Reflections in the Water (2025) is a video installation work with a house structure built with tea-stained muslin. Shot on Super 8 film, we are invited to join Chhorn on a meditation of diasporic return through the artist’s lens: village life alongside the river, coconut trees, farm animals and untranslated dialogues. Working with stories told by families and those before them, this is a work that recalls its own past and present. The structure, the artist noted, came from the many elements inspired by an ancestral home on the riverbank of Mekong, a home she has never seen before it was destroyed by erosion. Inspired by life along the stream, the temporary structure in the exhibition houses Chhorn’s filmic observations of her homeland in Cambodia in its present and haunting forms.

You can visit 'Reflections in the Water' from 10-5pm, Wednesday-Saturday until 6 September. Read the full exhibition text 'Over the river, from a few lifetimes away' and more about the themes via https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/reflectionsinthewater-allisonchhorn 🔗⁠

📸 Documentation by Louis Lim

01/08/2025

We’re proud to share that Outer Space has secured Arts Queensland Organisations multi-year funding for 2026–2029 🌟

This vital investment ensures not only the longevity of the organisation, but also the continued growth of a thriving, artist-led ecosystem in Magandjin (Brisbane). It affirms the importance of independent contemporary arts spaces and the essential role they play in nurturing artists, building community, and expanding access to critical, experimental practice.
With this support, we can provide ongoing, sustainable opportunities for artists at pivotal stages of their career, from accessible studios to urgent exhibitions and public programs, while deepening our capacity to serve the creative communities that shape and sustain us.

We are deeply grateful to Arts Queensland for recognising the impact and potential of our work. This multi-year funding empowers us to think long-term, dream big, and continue supporting artists and audiences in meaningful, future-facing ways.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Outer Space journey so far, this is a shared win among us all.

Image: Outer Space Open Day 2022, photograph by Louis Lim

30/07/2025

Wind moves through the space like memory. Native Eucalyptus lingers. Country speaks in whispers. Watch the story breathe into form. ⁠
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Echoed Ground by Arabella Walker closes Saturday 2 August → Final Week⁠
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Public Program | Arabella Walker in conversation w/ Rachael Saara⁠
🗓️ WHEN: 6-7pm, Thursday 31 July 2025⁠
📍 WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley⁠
🔗 FREE: All Welcome, RSVP⁠ via https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/events-1
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Main gallery open Wednesday - Saturday | 10am - 5pm ⁠
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Documentation by Louis Lim

29/07/2025

In this quietly powerful new work, Allison Chhorn, Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist traces memory through water. We invite you to join us on Friday 8 August for the opening of her new exhibition, followed by an artist talk on Saturday 9 August within the Outer Space main gallery. ⁠

Drawing on the story of her great-grandparents’ home, once nestled along the banks of the Mekong River and now lost to erosion, Chhorn reimagines a life remembered only in fragments. Through a docu-fictional lens, she assembles ghostly traces of daily ritual, rice planting, coconut cutting, cooking, washing, captured in textured, archival-like Super 8 film. These fleeting images are projected onto a floating house form, built from tea-stained muslin cloth, the colour of sedimented floodwaters.

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RSVP via https://events.humanitix.com/reflections-in-the-water-allison-chhorn-exhibition-opening?token=undefined

Free entry, all welcome | Bar with beers from Felons Brewing Co, wine Lofi Wines & non-alcoholic Non World 🍷

This project is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia.

24/07/2025

Take a leafy stroll through Fish Lane Arts Precinct and admire Blatt & Matonelli. In this public art display, two bodies of work by Blatt & Matonelli - Mosaic Morphologies and Tile Topographies, embed cultural memory into the local urban landscape, where traditional tile-making practices are reimagined to explore history, identity, and belonging.

On show now, and throughout August! Don't let this exhibit pass you by.

📍 Fish Lane Art Precinct Vitrines | 59 Melbourne St, South Brisbane QLD, 4101

If you think Blatt & Matonelli sounds familiar, you'd be right! A collaboration between artist Katherine Palella and multidisciplinary designer Sirena Varma, the duo opened our Facade Projection season featuring images of the tiles they'd designed and hand crafted.

Inspired by the landscapes of ancestral homes, along with architectural forms, textures, and patterns, the works reflect an experimental ceramic tile-making process, brought together through hand-crafted frames and tiled compositions.

To learn more, head to www.sirenavarma.com/blatt-matonelli or jump onto www.outerspacebrisbane.org to view Varma and Palella's Facade projection work from earlier this year.

22/07/2025

As the sun descends, the Judith Wright Arts Centre façade becomes a canvas for shifting light, image, and story.

From 11 July to 16 August 2025, explore Uncle Noel (Gulla) Blair's Late Night Sketches: Guess Who's Coming to the Corroboree, unfolding each evening from 5:30pm to 11:30pm 🌙

This exhibition showcases intimate sketches, love notes, and humour filled reflections from Uncle Noel's life. Collaborating with curator Libby Harward, the exhibition explores historical narratives, personal challenges, and Black love. Works have been animated and are projected on the Judy's Belltower 🦎

We are honoured to welcome Uncle Noe, in-conversation with Vernon Ah Kee this Friday evening, 25 July from 5:00pm - 6:00pm 💬 Seating is limited, so please RSVP https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/events-1

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Born 1947, Wondai Hospital near Cherbourg, Uncle Noel (Gulla) Blair is a Jinibara artist celebrated for his witty, political, and humorous works that offer a sharp lens on the world around him. Taught to draw and paint by his elders in Cherbourg, Noel developed an artistic practice deeply rooted in cultural knowledge and storytelling, shaped by his upbringing under the restrictions of the Aboriginal Protection Act, where art became a vital tool for resilience and self-expression.

To read more about Uncle Noel and collaborator Libby Harward, head to www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/unclenoelblair 🔗

❕Accessibility: The gallery is wheelchair accessible from the Brunswick St entrance. Due to current building works at the Judith Wright Arts Centre, the passenger lift is not usable. Bathrooms can be accessed from the Level 1 courtyard entrance of the Judith Wright Arts Centre.

📸 Image 1-3: Cian Sanders/ ⁠
📸 Image 4: Courtesy of Uncle Noel, photograph by Sarah Osborne
📸 Image 5: Courtesy of Milani Gallery, photograph by Joe Rucklirn

17/07/2025

We are delighted to award the 2025 Outer Space and Composite Moving Image Commission to Prita Tina Yeganeh, an artist whose practice spans installation, print, textile, and socially engaged methods to explore the emotional and physical geographies of forced migration. Grounded in her lived experience as a refugee-migrant settler and informed by research into heritage crafts and environmental systems, Yeganeh’s work is characterised by sensitivity, rigour, and a profound sense of care. This commission offers a timely opportunity to support the development of her moving image practice through the creation of a deeply personal and politically resonant project that uses the act of learning a Persian recipe as a lens to examine diasporic grief, transgenerational knowledge, and the fractured intimacies of life lived across borders.

Photograph Thomas Oliver

10/07/2025

Our new main gallery exhibition, ‘Echoed Ground’ by Arabella Walker opened this week!

This installation breathes with life, a choreographed interplay of movement, image, sound, and scent. Together, these elements offer a glimpse into the memory and identity of a place that lives within Walker. Auburn Station is not simply a location - it is a lived history, an emotional terrain, and an enduring presence within the artist.
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If you missed the opening, be sure to drop by and into this sensory exhibition Wed-Sat 10- 5pm OR join artists Arabella Walker and Rachael Sarra ‘in-conversation’ as they share how their practices challenge societal perceptions of Aboriginal identity and reframe dominant narratives through bold, contemporary expression grounded in culture, story, and lived experience.

In Conversation
WHEN: 6-7pm, Thursday 31 July
WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley⁠

RSVP via https://shorturl.at/v2aKo 🔗⁠

Arabella Walker is from a maternal line of Wulli Wulli, Auburn Hawkwood people. She is an early career contemporary Aboriginal artist. Walker's practice conveys significant topics of First Nations histories with a focus on the challenge of being an Aboriginal woman living in the Colony. Walker deals with this challenge by weaving Indigenous ways of knowing and being into knowledge of culture and protocols, connections, and traditions, through a variety of media.

Rachael Sarra’s vibrant creative practice embodies her experience as a proud mixed race First Nations woman from Goreng Goreng Country. Driven by a belief that art and design are vital to communication, connection and culture, Rachael invites us to see the world through her eyes with bold colours and dynamic contours. Her distinct contemporary style is resonating around the world, and challenging societal perceptions of Aboriginal art and identity.

Documentation by Louis Lim
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This project is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia.

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