Outer Space

Outer Space is a Meanjin [Brisbane] based not-for-profit contemporary art space. Contemporary Art Space

22/12/2023

Do you dream of perfectly executed promotional campaigns and have those jaw-dropping graphic design stills? Outer Space wants you! ⁠
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We're looking for a promotions officer to join our team, and implement our promotional strategy, grow our audience and digital engagement, and work closely with our General Manager to deliver Outer Space's diverse exhibition and engagement programs. ⁠
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You'll need: ⁠
👉 graphic design skills & knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud software⁠
👉 excellent communication skills ⁠
👉 experience in web design and management⁠
👉 to prioritise and meet deadlines⁠
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This is a part-time position, working 3 days a week. Applications close 5pm Tuesday 16 January 2024. ⁠
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For more information and to apply, visit www.outerspacebrisbane.org/promotions-officer-callout-2024
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📸 Documentation by Markus Ravik.

22/12/2023

In the coming weeks we will bid farewell to our incredible Promotions Officer, Tess Bakharia, as they step into a new role as Assistant Curator at UAP. ⁠
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Tess has been involved in the background of Outer Space since 2020 as a volunteer, and more recently joining our team as our first Promotions Officer in 2022. Across this time, Tess has brought enthusiasm, care and a generous spirit to all aspects of her role. We are deeply grateful for Tess's dedication to Outer Space and our arts community. ⁠
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We will miss Tess dearly and wish her every success in this exciting next chapter ✨️⁠
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📸 Documentation by Cian Sanders

19/12/2023

END OF YEAR GALLERY CLOSURE
Saturday 23 December until Friday 9 February

As our current exhibition comes to an end, we’re closing our gallery this Saturday for the holiday break and exhibition changeover.

You can still visit Savannah’s ‘Surgical Fantasies’ from 10-5pm, Wednesday - Friday this week!

We’ll be reopening in February with our first exhibition of 2024 opening at 6pm on Friday 9 February 2024. Keep you eyes out for our exhibition announcement 👀

Thank you for all your support this year and enjoy the holiday season!

Image: Amy Claire Mills, 'This will only hurt for a second' Exhibition Opening (2023). Photo: Louis Lim

18/12/2023

It’s the last week to see our final exhibition of the year: ‘Surgical Fantasies’ by Savannah Jarvis, on show until Friday 22 December!
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“We have to tell our pain. It is a compulsion. Also, arguably, a moral duty. Sontag again: “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.” To say: I will out something that is wholly within. I will scream the unsayable. I will invite you to stand and look at this smashed and reassembled mirror. I will undouble and rise above the noise of pain and show you truths refracted in every facet fragment fracture, and maybe whisper my fantasies too.”⁠
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- Excerpt from ‘Surgical Fantasies’ exhibition essay by Michael Winkler, head to our website to read the full text 🔗⁠
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Savannah Jarvis is an emerging Brisbane/Meanjin based artist whose work explores concerns surrounding linguistic expressions of pain, and the difficulties that historically arise in articulations of phenomenological experiences of the body. Underpinned by the belief that images may succeed in the realms that language has failed, her works, one step removed from reality as they are, often avoid didactic and literal imagery; promoting humour and discursive visuals as alternatives ways of communicating the complexity of pain, language and chronic conditions to the exterior world. ⁠
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You can drop by from 10-5pm Wednesday to Friday this week!⁠ For more info on the exhibition, head to the link below 🔗⁠
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https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/surgical-fantasies

Documentation by Louis Lim
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Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

17/12/2023

We're excited to announce that Outer Space has been recognised as a National Leadership Organisation for Queensland and will receive support from Creative Australia through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy funding stream from 2025 - 2028.

This is a significant milestone for the organisation and our local arts community. This funding will allow Outer Space to continue supporting emerging, early and mid-career artists in QLD and Australia wide. To be nationally recognised in Outer Space’s 6th year of operation is testament to the dedication of everyone who has contributed to our growth since our inception in 2016.

We also acknowledge the incredible work that occurs across our local arts ecology and the many organisations that play an important role in sustaining the ambitious development of visual arts practices.

Thank you Creative Australia for the invaluable support.

We look forward to rolling out an exciting program in 2024, keep an eye out for updates!⁠

Image: Sarah Poulgrain and Dana Lawrie, ‘DREAMBOAT: sunlight and leadlight’ exhibition opening (2022). Photo by Phoenix Potoi

08/12/2023

Have you stopped by to see our current main gallery exhibition, ‘Surgical Fantasies’ by Savannah Jarvis?
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If you missed the opening, be sure to visit on Saturday 16 December for a Pearling Workshop with artist Savannah Jarvis!

WHEN: Saturday 16 December 2023, 10am-12pm
WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley⁠

Bring along a small object, textile surface or something that can be adorned with pearls. Explore the therapeutic nature of pearling and spend time with the exhibition while adorning an object of your choice. All other materials will be provided!

RSVP via the link below 🔗

https://events.humanitix.com/pearling-workshop-surgical-fantasies

⁠You can visit ‘Surgical Fantasies’ from 10-5pm Wednesday - Saturday until Friday 22 December. For more info on the exhibition, head to the link below 🔗⁠
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https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/surgical-fantasies

Documentation by Louis Lim

Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

05/12/2023

It’s the last week to see our final Window Gallery of the year: ‘Numbuh’ by Bindimu Currie, on show until Sunday 10 December!

Numbuh is a series of wearable artworks by Bindimu Currie. Numbuh is a fusion of ancient stories and Blak futurism, an ongoing collection of wearable artworks reconnecting Indigenous artists to Country, culture and kin and traditional methods of storytelling.

To learn more about ‘Numbuh’ head to the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/window-gallery-bindimu-currie
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Documentation by Louis Lim

03/12/2023

A special IN-FORM episode is live! 📢⁠
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If you missed our Up Late with Archie Moore guest artist talk, you can now listen back to Archie’s talk via our Spotify. ⁠
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Tune in via the link below 🔗 to learn about the early stages of Archie’s career and the opportunities that expanded his practice ahead of his major exhibition at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5P78i11ZCRBMfadJW39yrk?si=e480c3c8632b43c4

23/11/2023

PEARLING WORKSHOP
with Savannah Jarvis

Join us on Saturday 16 December from 10am-12pm for a Pearling Workshop with artist Savannah Jarvis for her new exhibition: ‘Surgical Fantasies’.

WHEN: Saturday 16 December 2023, 10am-12pm
WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley⁠

Bring along a small object, textile surface or something that can be adorned with pearls. Explore the therapeutic nature of pearling and spend time with the exhibition while adorning an object of your choice. All other materials will be provided!

RSVP via the link below 🔗⁠

https://events.humanitix.com/pearling-workshop-surgical-fantasies

Savannah Jarvis is an emerging Brisbane/Meanjin based artist whose work explores concerns surrounding linguistic expressions of pain, and the difficulties that historically arise in articulations of phenomenological experiences of the body.

For more info about the exhibition head to the link below🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/surgical-fantasies

Image credit: Savannah Jarvis, Surgical Fantasies, detail, 2023. Image courtesy the artist.

Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

22/11/2023

Have you dropped by yet to see Bindimu Currie’s ‘Numbuh’ in the Outer Space Window Gallery?

Numbuh is a series of performance attire made largely from sustainable/ethically sourced natural materials and fiber processing methods. The collection is made for Indigenous performers and traditional dance troupes.

Entirely created with natural and raw fibers, natural dye pigments using traditional fiber harvesting and processing, the collection is described as ‘Blak Futurism’, an Indigenous perspective on western ideologies of a post-apocalyptic world. It is a collection of works that aims to redirect away from assimilationism and reconnect Indigenous performers to Country, culture and kin.

To learn more about ‘Numbuh’ head to the link below🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/window-gallery-bindimu-currie
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Documentation by Louis Lim

21/11/2023

It’s the last week to see ‘This will only hurt for a second’ by Amy Claire Mills, on show until 25 November! ⁠
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You can drop in to see the exhibition from 10-5pm Wednesday to Saturday this week!⁠ For more info head to the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/this-will-only-hurt-for-a-second
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“Although absurd, Mills’ refashioned tools and phrases provide a glimpse into an accessible cosmopolitan future. While not a literal representation of the future they, through their softness, offer an alternate reflection of the world and medical systems we currently exist within. ‘This will only hurt for a second’ is not a definitive refashioning of the master’s tools. In the same way this text is but a glimpse at the provocations proposed to us in ‘This will only hurt for a second’. It is a work in progress, an expose on the process, as Mills leads the way into a cosmopolitan future we should have already reached.”

Excerpt from ‘This will only hurt for a second’ exhibition essay by Kieran Butler, head to our website to read the full text 🔗⁠

Documentation by Louis Lim

15/11/2023

Have you stopped by yet to see (and touch!) our current main gallery exhibition, ‘This will only hurt for a second’ by Amy Claire Mills?
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“I often find that you go into art galleries and institutions and there’s this reverence for the art, you can’t touch it, it’s over there, it’s of high value. And the more and more I learnt about access, I learnt that art was not reaching all of its audiences, that not everyone actually had access and could play and touch and explore... If you can’t interact with art, who is art for?”

- Excerpt from Amy Claire Mills' Artist Talk & Tactile Tour

Amy Claire Mills is an artist, curator, and producer who resides in Sydney and works on the unceded Gadigal and Wangal land. Her art practice focuses on advocacy, identity, and resistance, which is influenced by her experiences as a disabled woman. Since graduating with a Fine Arts Degree from UNSW, Amy has collaborated with community and art organisations, local councils, and national institutions to curate and produce exhibitions and community events focusing on embedding access and greater representation for disabled artists. Amy has exhibited in different artist-run initiatives (ARIs) across Australia.

You can visit ‘This will only hurt for a second’ from 10-5pm Wednesday - Saturday until 25 November. For more info on the exhibition, head to the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/this-will-only-hurt-for-a-second
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Documentation by Louis Lim
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Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

10/11/2023

SPECIAL EVENT: Up Late with Archie Moore

Join us next Thursday 16 November at 6pm at Slingshot (next to Judith Wright Arts Centre) for an artist talk by guest artist Archie Moore.

WHEN: Thursday 16 November, 6-8pm
WHERE: Slingshot, Judith Wright Arts Centre, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley

At this professional development event, hear from Archie about the early stages of his career and the opportunities that expanded his practice ahead of his major exhibition at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

RSVP via link below 🔗

https://events.humanitix.com/up-late-with-archie-moore

Archie Moore (b. 1970, Toowoomba, l. Redland, Queensland. Kamilaroi/Bigambul) works across media in conceptual, research-based portrayals of self and national histories. His ongoing interests include key signifiers of identity (skin, language, smell, home, genealogy, flags), the borders of intercultural understanding and misunderstanding and the wider concerns of racism.

Archie Moore will represent Australia at the 2024 Venice Biennale, with the exhibition to be curated by Ellie Buttrose, Curator of Contemporary Australian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.
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Image courtesy of Archie Moore.

10/11/2023

EXHIBITION OPENING ⁠⁠- Surgical Fantasies

Join us on Friday 1 December for the opening of our final exhibition of the year: ‘Surgical Fantasies’ by Savannah Jarvis!

EXHIBITION OPENING ⁠
WHEN: 6-8pm, Friday 1 December 2023
WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley

As always, there will be wines and beers from our friends at Half Moon Wine Store! 🍷 ⁠
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RSVP via link below 🔗⁠

https://events.humanitix.com/surgical-fantasies-exhibition-opening

Surgical Fantasies gives form to fantasies of control and autonomy for those with bodies burdened by chronic pain, specifically endometriosis. Exploring desires to intervene with one’s own circumstances against the inability to do so, Jarvis expands upon historical artistic representations of medical bodies and female objectification, creating a fantastical ‘surgical suite’.

For more info about the exhibition head to the link below 🔗

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/surgical-fantasies
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Image: Savannah Jarvis, 3am appeal to Hygieia, (2023), Detail. Photo: James Caswell

Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

08/11/2023

We’re so excited to welcome Bindimu Currie to the Outer Space Window Gallery this week with her work ‘Numbuh'!

'Numbuh' is a fusion of ancient stories and Blak futurism, an ongoing collection of wearable artworks reconnecting Indigenous artists to Country, culture and kin and traditional methods of storytelling.

⁠Bindimu is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator. Her practice includes fiber/wearable art and sand painting to DJing, soundscape and cultural dance, prioritizing the preservation of traditional arts practices, such as fiber harvesting and processing, while living in a colonial landscape. Connection to Country is the foundation of Bindimu’s career as a practicing artist. Building on mastering her practice as a fiber artist, Bindimu was the recipient of a 2023 Create NSW Arts and Cultural funding which financed the creation of the 'Numbuh' collection that exhibited at her first solo at Boomalli Aboriginal Art Gallery.

You can view Bindimu’s window until 10 December. Head to the link below to find out more 🔗⁠

⁠https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/window-gallery-bindimu-currie

Image: Bindimu Currie, Numbuh (2023). Photo: Sharon Hickey, model: Angela Wurramara

07/11/2023

We’re holding an online Q&A Session for our current 2024 Exhibition Callout!

WHEN: Tuesday 14 November, 1:00pm-1:45pm
WHERE: via Google Meet, link below 🔗⁠

https://meet.google.com/isx-hjay-pnz

Feel free to drop in for answers to all your questions about uploading your application, the best way to format your proposal, key things to consider about the gallery space and more details about the Writers EOI.

If you can’t make it on Tuesday, a recording will be available after the session via the application page on our website!

Applications close at 11:59pm on Thursday 30 November, 2023. For more info and to apply head to the link in our bio 🔗⁠
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Image: Rebecca Ross, Greater Sunrise (2023). Photo:

05/11/2023

We're joining the IMA for their Market Day this Saturday 11 November! ⁠
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You can catch us there alongside other wonderful local makers from 10-4pm to grab all your Outer Space goodies. ⁠
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Our galley will also be open from 10-5pm with Amy Claire Mills' new exhibition 'This will only hurt for a second'. See you on Saturday!

02/11/2023

💥 Outer Space 2024 Exhibition Callout 💥

We're excited to announce our Exhibition Callout for 2024!

From February to November 2024, Outer Space will present new exhibitions in our main gallery at the Judith Wright Arts Centre, selected from the callout, in addition to projects by invitation.

We are also taking EOIs for writers, for more info head to the link below 🔗

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/2024-writers-eoi

Successful applicants will receive:

👉️ Artist fees for solo and group exhibitions, and curator fees for curated exhibitions
👉️ Production fees
👉️ Opening event & public program event
👉️ Accompanying text by a writer
👉️ Consultation and feedback on work in development
👉️ Installation assistance
👉️ Promotion via Outer Space's channels
👉️ Professional documentation

Applications close at 11:59pm on Thursday 30 November, 2023. For more info and to apply head to the link below 🔗

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/2024-exhibition-callout

Image: Rebecca Ross, Greater Sunrise (2023). Photo: Louis Lim.

27/10/2023

Have you dropped by yet to see Tessa Began’s ‘Love Suit’ in the Outer Space Window Gallery? This week is your last chance to see it before it swaps over on 6 November!

Tessa Bergan is a visual artist working and playing respectfully on the lands of the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh language region (Gold Coast). Her multi-modal practice has taken the form of sculpture, performance, digital media, and most recently text-based art. Her work has explored the character of her local city, as well as her personal narrative, often with self-reflexive humour.

To learn more about ‘Love Suit’ head to the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/window-gallery-tessa-bergan
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Documentation by Louis Lim

24/10/2023

We’re so excited to welcome Amy Claire Mills to the OS main gallery next week with her exhibition ‘This will only hurt for a second’.

For many disabled people, touch and intimacy are often associated with invasive medical procedures and pain, making it difficult to differentiate between comfort and therapy. However, touch goes beyond physical sensation and offers profound social and emotional significance.

OPENING ⁠
WHEN: 6-8pm, Friday 3 November 2023
WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley

RSVP via link below 🔗

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/this-will-only-hurt-for-a-second-exhibition-opening-tickets-735244635497?aff=oddtdtcreator

ARTIST TALK & TACTILE TOUR
with Auslan interpretation

WHEN: Saturday 4 November, 11am-1pm
WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley⁠

Gain unique insights into the artist's creative process, inspirations, and stories behind her squishy soft sculptures and engage in a tactile tour to connect with the art through sensory exploration.

The artist talk and tactile tour will be a relaxed session and Auslan interpreted.

RSVP via link below 🔗

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/artist-talk-tactile-tour-with-auslan-interpretation-amy-claire-mills-tickets-738292100547?aff=oddtdtcreator

Amy Claire Mills is an artist, curator, and producer who resides in Sydney and works on the unceded Gadigal and Wangal land. Her art practice focuses on advocacy, identity, and resistance, which is influenced by her experiences as a disabled woman. Through her work, Amy explores disability culture and its social and political impacts, taking on both the role of an artist and subject. Her artworks serve as a form of protest, introducing new vocabularies such as softness, tactility, empathy, and care.

For more info about the exhibition head to the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/this-will-only-hurt-for-a-second

Image credit: Amy Claire Mills, Noninvasive, 2023, detailed artwork image, image courtesy the artist

Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

23/10/2023

It’s the last week to see ‘Intimate Organisms’ by Bianca Tainsh, on show until this Saturday 28 October! ⁠
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You can drop in to see ‘Intimate Organisms’ from 10-5pm Wednesday to Saturday this week!⁠
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“The reciprocity of mycorrhizal networks, like the mushroom negating the circle, showcases the limits of our social networks. Often built with centralised power and to benefit one at the cost of the other, our networks are fraught with limitations. This is especially true of social media, which is a barren landscape of advertisements, data mining, morbid scrolling and marketised ideologies. The comparison must be insulting to plants, whose connection is unmodulated by market interests. This makes me wonder what are the kind of messages that trees exchange with each other: like, imagine if they drop sick memes. Climate justice themed, kinda funny but not really. Or thirst traps...because it hasn’t rained lately. Ha. Ha.”

Excerpt from ‘Suggested Friend’ exhibition essay by Diego Ramírez, head to our website to read the full text 🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/intimate-organisms

Documentation by Louis Lim

Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.⁠

This project was supported by The Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF), a partnership between Government through Queensland and Coast Council through .

20/10/2023

ARTIST TALK & TACTILE TOUR
with Auslan interpretation

Join us on Saturday 4 November at 11am for an Artist Talk & Tactile Tour with artist Amy Claire Mills for her new exhibition: ‘This will only hurt for a second’.

WHEN: Saturday 4 November, 11am-1pm
WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley⁠

Explore Amy Claire Mills’ whimsical exhibition. Gain unique insights into the artist's creative process, inspirations, and stories behind her squishy soft sculptures. Engage in a tactile tour to connect with the art through sensory exploration and discover the hidden symbolism and personal narratives behind each piece through the artist's talk.

The artist talk and tactile tour will be a relaxed session and Auslan interpreted.

RSVP via the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/artist-talk-tactile-tour-with-auslan-interpretation-amy-claire-mills-tickets-738292100547?aff=oddtdtcreator

Amy Claire Mills is an artist, curator, and producer who resides in Sydney and works on the unceded Gadigal and Wangal land. Her art practice focuses on advocacy, identity, and resistance, which is influenced by her experiences as a disabled woman. Through her work, Amy explores disability culture and its social and political impacts, taking on both the role of an artist and subject. Her artworks serve as a form of protest, introducing new vocabularies such as softness, tactility, empathy, and care.

For more info about the exhibition head to the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/this-will-only-hurt-for-a-second

Image credit: Amy Claire Mills, ‘Isolation isn’t comfortable’, 2022, cotton, linen, polyester, wool, wadding, glitter, fusible interfacing, soft sculpture fruit, installation view, Pari, Parramatta, Sydney. Photo: Document Photography.

Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

17/10/2023

Have you stopped by to see our current Main Gallery exhibition, ‘Intimate Organisms’ by Bianca Tainsh?
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If you’ve been curious about the processes, ideas or contexts behind the show, join us this Saturday 21 October at 11am for The Personhood of Biomes, a conversation expanding on the themes of ‘Intimate Organisms’ by Bianca Tainsh.

Artist Bianca Tainsh and researcher Dr Karin Sellberg will bring their shared interests of eco-feminism, embodiment, and fungi into a conversational space for cultural excavation.

RSVP via the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-personhood-of-biomes-intimate-organisms-in-conversation-tickets-738264668497?aff=oddtdtcreator

Bianca Tainsh is an open-disciplinary artist, based on Lake Weyba, Gubbi Gubbi country. Through a hybrid practice of contemporary art, ecofeminism and fluid forms of ecological and documentary activities she explores issues such as the cyber-saturated human’s disconnect from the natural world, mass consumerism, and the search for autonomy and spirituality in the epoch of digital culture.

You can visit ‘Intimate Organisms’ from 10-5pm Wednesday - Saturday until 28 October. For more info on the exhibition, head to the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/intimate-organisms
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Documentation by Louis Lim
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Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.⁠

This project was supported by The Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF), a partnership between Government through Queensland and Coast Council through .

16/10/2023

There’s no new episode of IN-FORM this month because our superstar exhibiting artist Tessa just became a mum! 📢⁠

Congratulations Tessa on your beautiful baby girl and your Window Gallery exhibition.

‘Love Suit’ aptly explores Tessa’s fantasies (both hopes and fears) about impending motherhood; the imagined shifts in body, mind, identity, labour, and desire. We’re excited to see what new works and ideas emerge out of this new phase of Tessa’s life!
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You can catch Tessa’s window for three more weeks until 6 November. For more info on the exhibition, head to the link below 🔗

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/window-gallery-tessa-bergan
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Documentation by Louis Lim

15/10/2023

The Personhood of Biomes – disentangling human individualism

Join us this Saturday 21 October at 11am for The Personhood of Biomes, a conversation expanding on the themes of our current exhibition: 'Intimate Organisms' by Bianca Tainsh.

Artist Bianca Tainsh and researcher Dr Karin Sellberg will bring their shared interests of eco-feminism, embodiment, and fungi into a conversational space for cultural excavation.

WHEN: Saturday 21 October, 11am
WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley⁠

RSVP via the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-personhood-of-biomes-intimate-organisms-in-conversation-tickets-738264668497?aff=oddtdtcreator

Considering the reality of the multi-species being destabilises our cultural ideals of individualism and self-identity.⁠ In this epoch of ego and self-entitlement, how does the human species embrace the synergy and collectivism that comes with being a biome of intimate organisms?

Bianca Tainsh is an open-disciplinary artist, based on Lake Weyba, Gubbi Gubbi country. Through a hybrid practice of contemporary art, ecofeminism and fluid forms of ecological and documentary activities she explores issues such as the cyber-saturated human’s disconnect from the natural world, mass consumerism, and the search for autonomy and spirituality in the epoch of digital culture.

Karin Sellberg specialises in feminist and q***r historiography, contemporary fiction and theories of gender, sexuality, embodiment and time. She is particularly interested in convergences and communication between feminist and q***r fiction, and the intellectual history of science and medicine. She is currently working on evolutionary tropes, and ideas of transcendence/progress in new materialist feminist philosophy and the fiction of Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter and Gore Vidal.

For more info about the exhibition head to the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/intimate-organisms

Intimate Organisms Exhibition Opening documentation by Louis Lim

Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

13/10/2023

EXHIBITION OPENING ⁠⁠- This will only hurt for a second

Join us on Friday 3 November for the opening of our new exhibition: ‘This will only hurt for a second’ by Amy Claire Mills.

EXHIBITION OPENING ⁠
WHEN: 6-8pm, Friday 3 November 2023
WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley

As always, there will be wines and beers from our friends at Half Moon Wine Store! 🍷 ⁠
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RSVP via link below 🔗⁠

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/this-will-only-hurt-for-a-second-exhibition-opening-tickets-735244635497?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1

'This will only hurt for a second' delves into the transformative power of softness as a means to reclaim body autonomy. Through an immersive and playful installation, the exhibition challenges the medicalisation of intimacy and touch within the realm of disability experience, offering a unique perspective on the profound social and emotional significance of touch.

For more info about the exhibition head to the link below 🔗⁠

https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/this-will-only-hurt-for-a-second

Image credit: Amy Claire Mills, Open Wide, 2023. Detailed artwork image, courtesy of the artist

Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

09/10/2023

SPECIAL EVENT: Up Late with Leni Hoffmann

Join us next Tuesday 17 October at 6pm at Slingshot (next to Judith Wright Arts Centre) for an artist talk by guest international artist Leni Hoffmann.

WHEN: Tuesday 17 October, 6-8pm
WHERE: Slingshot, Judith Wright Arts Centre, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley

At this professional development event, hear about Leni’s radical approach to painterly artistic practice, her in-situ interventions and her key influences.

RSVP via link below 🔗

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/up-late-with-leni-hoffmann-tickets-733243901247?aff=oddtdtcreator

This event is facilitated in collaboration with Total Collective.

Leni Hoffmann’s expanded practice redefines painting, be it in public, private or institutional space. Taking influence from the everyday, her interventions open up an unperceived reality, creating a dialectical relationship between the autonomous artwork and co-creative viewer. Her artwork focuses upon the cognitive process of the viewer meeting with the artwork on the site of its creation, honouring the moment of discovery when seeing turns into looking.

You can view Leni Hoffmann’s work at Pestorius Sweeney House, currently on show from 14 October - 4 November.
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Image courtesy of Leni Hoffmann.

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We’re so excited to welcome Savannah Jarvis to the OS main gallery next week with her exhibition ‘Surgical Fantasies’, our final exhibition of 2023! EXHIBITION OPENING⁠ WHEN: 6-8pm, Friday 1 December 2023 WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley RSVP via link below 🔗 https://events.humanitix.com/surgical-fantasies-exhibition-opening PEARLING WORKSHOP with Savannah Jarvis WHEN: 10am-12pm, Saturday 16 December 2023 WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley⁠ Bring along a small object, textile surface or something that can be adorned with pearls. Explore the therapeutic nature of pearling and spend time with the exhibition while adorning an object of your choice. All other materials will be provided! RSVP via link below 🔗 https://events.humanitix.com/pearling-workshop-surgical-fantasies Savannah Jarvis is an emerging Brisbane/Meanjin based artist whose work explores concerns surrounding linguistic expressions of pain, and the difficulties that historically arise in articulations of phenomenological experiences of the body. Underpinned by the belief that images may succeed in the realms that language has failed, her works, one step removed from reality as they are, often avoid didactic and literal imagery; promoting humour and discursive visuals as alternatives ways of communicating the complexity of pain, language and chronic conditions to the exterior world. In 2020 she completed a BFA with Honours at the Queensland College of Art. For more info about the exhibition head to the link below 🔗⁠ https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/surgical-fantasies Video of Savannah’s work in progress for Surgical Fantasies, taken in her studio. Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

We’re so excited to welcome Bianca Tainsh to the OS main gallery next week with her exhibition ‘Intimate Organisms’. In its role as an ecological steward, can fungi become our mediator for a return to the gestalt of nature? Through a collaboration at the nexus of art and science, an artist and a mycologist practiced conscientious connection in a quest to explore this abstract ideal and cultivate sentient biomes. Through the procreation of Myc-a, a new body of symbiotic organisms, interspecies synergy and a path to ecological citizenship is revealed. OPENING ⁠ WHEN: 6-8pm, Friday 6 October 2023 WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley RSVP via the link below 🔗⁠ https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/intimate-organisms-exhibition-opening-tickets-716433821847?aff=oddtdtcreator PUBLIC PROGRAM WHEN: 11am, Saturday 21 October WHERE: JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley Bianca Tainsh is an open-disciplinary artist, based on Lake Weyba, Gubbi Gubbi country. Through a hybrid practice of contemporary art, ecofeminism and fluid forms of ecological and documentary activities she explores issues such as the cyber-saturated human’s disconnect from the natural world, mass consumerism, and the search for autonomy and spirituality in the epoch of digital culture. In her current work, Neo-animism forms the trope for artefacts and rituals that unveil new forms of coexistence and being. Archives of self-generated, foraged, and cyber-sourced material, saturated with semiotic rhetoric become the provenance for video, digital and traditional media, assemblages and live art. For more info about the exhibition head to the link below 🔗 https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/intimate-organisms⁠ Video excerpt from 'Intimate Organisms' (2023), narration by mycologist/microbiologist Dr Sandra Tuszynska, courtesy of the artist⁠. ⁠ Our 2023 Outer Space Exhibition Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Are you an install wizard with impeccable art-handling skills and a “get it done” personality? Outer Space wants you! ⁠ ⁠ We're looking for a Casual Installation Assistant to work closely with our Exhibitions Assistant to support the delivery of Outer Space’s gallery program.⁠ ⁠ You'll need: ⁠ 👉 a passion for supporting contemporary arts practices⁠ 👉 knowledge of installation practices and exhibition install experience ⁠ 👉 excellent multitasking ability and flexible schedule⁠ 👉 ability to work in a small but agile team⁠ ⁠ This is a casual role with approximately 24 hrs work per exhibition period, during a Monday-Friday 9am-5pm week, starting the week of 10 July 2023.⁠ ⁠ Applications close 11:59 pm Wednesday 28 June 2023.⁠ ⁠ For more information and to apply, head to the link below 🔗 https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/install-assistant-callout

We’re in BAD 2023! Outer Space is hosting an Open Studio Up Late on Thursday 18 May from 5-8pm at our Wickham St Studios! WHEN: Thursday 18 May, 5-8pm WHERE: 161 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley Spend time exploring our suite of six studio spaces, chat with the artists about their experiences as practitioners, catch exclusive previews of works-in-progress and dive deeper into the processes behind the final product! For more info on Outer Space Up Late, and all the other BAD Festival events, head to the BAD Website or link below 🔗 https://brisbaneartdesign.com.au/events/open-studio-outer-space-up-late/ #BAD2023 #BRISBANEARTDESIGN

The Outer Space 2023 Auction is live! 🥂 You can now browse all the works, bid, grab a raffle ticket or donate via our online platform, link in bio 🔗 You can also view every artwork in-person in our gallery in the Judith Wright Arts Centre, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, 10-5pm every day while the auction is live! This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

🤩 SAVE THE DATE 🤩 Outer Space 2023 Auction Closing Party⁠ ⁠ Join us at 6pm on Friday 17 March to celebrate our 2023 fundraising auction!⁠ ⁠ For the final night of the auction, our gallery will be up late to count down the final moments of the auction, with bidding closing live on the night at 8pm. It’s sure to be a fun night, so come by, kick back, relax and enjoy the artworks - and maybe take home one of your own!⁠ ⁠ ⁠For more info on the auction, head to the link below and subscribe to be notified as soon as the auction goes live!⁠ ⁠ https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/program/outer-space-2023-auction⁠ ⁠ The project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.⁠ ⁠ @artsqueensland @judithwrightcentre

📢 Calling all emerging artists! 📢 We’re delighted to announce our 2023 Window Gallery callout! From February to December 2023, our Window Gallery in the Judith Wright Arts Centre will showcase emerging artists at the start of their careers! Successful applicants will receive:⁠ 👉 $500 artist fee 👉 Consultation and feedback on work in development 👉 Installation assistance and equipment 👉 Promotion via Outer Space’s channels⁠ 👉 Professional documentation⁠ ⁠ This callout is open to all artists who are at the start of their careers. First Nations, people of colour, people with disability, queer, and gender diverse artists are strongly encouraged to apply. For more info and to apply, visit the link below 🔗 https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/window-gallery-applications-2023 Applications close at midnight Sunday 29 January 2023.⁠ Please note: due to the resources available through tertiary studies, current undergraduate students are not eligible for this program.

We are so excited to announce that we are relaunching the Outer Space Shop! It is your one-stop-online-shop for all things Outer Space. 🪐 If you missed the chance to get your hands on some of our cool, new merch at our Enter Outer Space Open Day, now you can shop online 24/7 from wherever you are in Australia 😎 It’s also the perfect time to get your favourite Outer Space fan the coolest Xmas pressie! Be quick, our merch is a limited run! 👕 💫 If you can’t wait to pick up some merch, we will also be selling it tomorrow night at PROJECT / REFLECT, our end-of-year party exhibition. Some more exciting things are coming to the Outer Space shop soon so keep an eye out! In the meantime, head to the link below to shop, shop, shop! 🔗 https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/shop All designs by the super cool Gabrielle White.

💻️ SUPERCUT - Project 5 💻️⁠ ⁠ ⁠Has Joined the Room is a participatory video work that invites the viewer into a teleconference with nature. The scheduled ‘conversation’ is part reflection, part site activation allowing participants to consider the purpose and value of their relationships and connections to each other human - and to the natural world. 🌿 Ben Tupas is a Filipino Australian artist based in Toowoomba, Queensland. His arts practice explores ideas of identity, storytelling and place using a mix of video, photography and sound. His current work explores the nuances of the migrant experience within the lens of the Filipino diaspora, and the relationship between the moving and painted image. ⁠You can find Ben’s work, as well as works by Tay Haggarty, Laurie Oxenford, Sha Sarwari and Veople online in SUPERCUT - Project 5 🔎⁠ ⁠ View these works that explore crossings, connections and place online now via the link below 🔗⁠ https://www.supercutouterspace.org/project-5 ⁠ Image: Ben TUPAS / Has Joined The Room 2022 / digital image / dimensions variable ⁠ ⁠ SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and is presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.

Ruth Cho is an emerging printmaker/ artist based in Meanjin who explores themes of cultural identity and hybridity in her art practice. Her practice fuses elements from Western and East-Asian culture to broaden our cultural mindset and comment on prevalent issues in society. 💫⁠ ⁠ Animals are a frequent motif in Cho’s works, used for their cultural significance and to reflect on humanity’s relationship to the natural world. Not my first rodeo is a linocut triptych based on the old Chinese proverb ‘he who rides the tiger is afraid to dismount’ used to describe a risky situation where it is safer for someone to continue rather than stop. The proverb was translated into the popular Western sport of rodeo to comment on the recurring human exploitation of nature.⁠ Listen to Ruth’s full artist talk online at www.outerspacebrisbane.org/in-addition/ruth-cho-artist-talk⁠ ⁠ 📹️ Videography by Cian Sanders ⁠ Ruth Cho is represented by Onespace Gallery.⁠ ⁠ This work was supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.

💻️ SUPERCUT - Project 4 💻️ Anita Holtsclaw’s work Neap Tide contemplates what is revealed when water ebbs – the residue of salt, the marking of time on sand and organisms that thrive when both submerged and exposed. Made from digitally collaged 16mm hand held film Neap Tide abstracts the familiar imagery of the coastline to textures, shapes and tones that draw upon concepts of memory. ⁠You can find Anita’s work, as well as works by Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi, Danish Quapoor, Anna Litwinowicz and Cara-Ann Simpson, online in SUPERCUT - Project 4 🔎⁠ View these works that explore environments simulated through the computer screen online now via the link below 🔗⁠ www.supercutouterspace.org/project-4 ⁠ Image: Anita HOLTSCLAW / Neap Tide 2022 / digital image / dimensions variable ⁠ SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and is presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.

Last chance to check out our SUPERCUT - Project 3! Hop online to explore the works by Bella Deary, Tiana Jefferies, Daniel Sherington, Emma Wilson and Marilena Hewitt before the exhibition ends on September 4! 🌐 ⁠ View the exhibition online now via the link below 🔗⁠ https://www.supercutouterspace.org ⁠ ⁠ SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and is presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.

This week we said goodbye to Louis Lim and Christine Ko’s collaborative work ‘Departure’ which was on show in our Window Gallery for SUPERCUT🪁 Watch their artist talk online now to learn more about their experiences of immigrating to Australia and how this informed their installation. Find the full video via the link https://www.outerspacebrisbane.org/in-addition/louis-lim-christine-ko-artist-talk Videography by Cian Sanders You can now find Peta Berghofer’s ceramic work on view in the Window Gallery until September 18 🥣 SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and is presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.

Amelia McLeish is an emerging contemporary visual and sound artist, administrator and researcher based in Meanjin. Her work examines the visual art community of Meanjin, primarily focusing on Artist-Run Initiatives ⭐ The resulting work utilises the artwork of other artists and placing them in a pop cultural framework or participatory projects. She has an extensive archival practice which utilises ephemera collected at exhibitions and actively collates data related to the visual arts ecology of Meanjin to produce new work. Listen to Amelia's full artist talk online at www.outerspacebrisbane.org 📹Videography by Cian Sanders

Petalia Humphreys creates what might be considered three-dimensional paintings – reductive abstract paintings that reveal a concern for location, colour, light and space. Site-specific works reveal concern for the physical mapping of spaces, of spatial and perceptual shifts. Humphreys’ hard-edge, geometric forms encourage an interactive approach, inviting the audience to engage in playful ways, considering ways of looking, perceiving and viewing 👀 Watch Petalia’s full artist talk online now at www.outerspacebrisbane.org 📹Videography by Cian Sanders SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and is presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.