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QCA Galleries Griffith University

Locality: South Brisbane, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 3735 6106

Address: QCA South Bank Campus, 226 Grey Street, South Bank 4101 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: www.griffith.edu.au/qcagalleries

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24.01.2022 Just under 10 days to apply to exhibit with QCA Galleries for our 2021 exhibition program! Be sure to submit high-quality images of your work. The stronger your images, the stronger the proposal. Applications will be accepted until 21 October 2020. All proposals must be submitted online via the application form: https://www.griffith.edu.au//qca-ga/exhibition-application

23.01.2022 ON VIEW IN THE PROJECT GALLERY: Triangles Are Not My Genre (360 view) This exhibition has been brought together to challenge both artists and the viewing public to embrace the less serious side of the serious business of art. This set of works superimposes triangles within other significant art contexts and in doing so, uses triangles as a cultural metaphor for current contemporary art practices across a range of genres. Our group has a diverse range of artists - printmakers,... photographers, sculptors, painters, machinima and animation artists - and we have come together to explore the ways in which we may expand our practice through complex simplicity, humour and collaboration. The exclusiveness of high art genres induces an uneasiness in the general viewing public, disconnecting such art from the people by making them feel as if they cannot ever understand it. As a collaborative, it is our goal to subvert such seriousness and exclusivity, by making the subject matter easily understandable and relatable. We hope not only to "distract the masses' but also to "demand concentration' from our audience, thereby blurring the boundaries of that which is considered to be high art. Artists: Tess Baxter, Suzanne Breeze, Lisa Brummel, Dearne Dettrick, Elyse Edmonds, Catherine Gamble, Jesse Goldspink, Alison James, Patrick Lester, Jean Martin, Michelle Vine ________________________________ Where: Project Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101 Exhibition Dates: 8 - 19 September 2020 Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday QCA Galleries are practicing safe and hygienic practices throughout the gallery space and we will ensure that there are an appropriate number of attendees are in the gallery at one time to abide by the Government's social distancing guidelines. Visitors will be asked to check into the Project Gallery using a QR code.

23.01.2022 OPEN IN THE GREY STREET GALLERY: DISRUPTION Artists: Maddie Meath, Eliah Lillis, Miriam Deprez, Eri Yamaguchi, Rudiger Wasser, Caitlin Carey, Rhett Kleine, Fabiana Guerreiro, Kasun Ubayasiri, Margot Stewart, Lachlan Rhodes, Isabella Porras, Margaux Kendall, Hannah Bryce, Naikhbakht Wahidi, Madeline Begley, Theri Grogan-Yip Disruption is defined as a break of interruption in the normal course or continuation of an activity or process. There is no doubt that 2020 has been a... year filled with a record amount of uncertainty, challenge and interruption. Published through the Queensland College of Art's Blurr // QCA Photography Club in conjunction with transmedia storytelling publication The ARGUS, this exhibition seeks to unite works across a variety of mediums focusing on multiple themes and experiences of Disruption. In Greek mythology Argus Panoptes was a hundred-eyed giant, a watchful guardian. His name, ‘Panoptes’ meant ‘the all-seeing one’. This year’s edition of the ARGUS hopes to imbue the publication with this sentiment - the ARGUS is all seeing, bringing to the public impactful local and international stories not often seen in mainstream media. The Blurr Club is a student run photographic club with the aim of connecting up and coming photographers at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. The ARGUS is a non-profit, student run, multi-platform visual journalism magazine that engages Bachelor of Documentary and Photojournalism students in their third year at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. Curated by Isabella Porras, Rhett Kleine and Margot Stewart Exhibition Dates: Monday 14 September Monday 28 September Where: Grey Street Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank 4101

22.01.2022 A huge congratulations to our 2020 Queensland College of Art Academic Award Winners. The awards were presented by Professor Elisabeth Findlay, Director of the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University on Friday, 5th February _________________________________________... Peter W Beck Award Winner - Belle Kirkpatrick Palloys Award Winner - Renee Kire Morris & Watson Award Winner - Gillian Marriage Lawson Gems Award Winner - Lia Anderson CAIA Graduation Award Joint Winners: Kyra Mancktelow and Dylan Mooney Bonnie English Award. Presented to the QCA student with the highest academic achievement in third year Art Theory Studies. Winner: Kathleen O'Hagan Billie Hall Bursary. The Bursary is awarded to the Queensland College of Art Student studying full time in the Bachelor of Fine Art who has received the highest GPA in their first year of study Winner: Anna Mahon Art in Bark Bursary. The bursary is to support a student beginning their Fine Art studies at QCA with high aptitude for art (assessed through a folio of work), who is aspiring to make a career in Fine Arts, and who is coming to study at QCA from a regional or remote area of Queensland. Winner: Anna Mahon Iain Turnbull Memorial Award. Presented to the student at QCA in recognition of achievements throughout the years and future potential in the art of printmaking. Shortlisted: Sidonie Hall-Jordan and Rainer Doecke Winner: Dr Nicola Hooper

21.01.2022 ON VIEW IN THE WEBB GALLERY: and then there were seven... Natalie Cowan, Gin Sen, Evangeline Sines, Henri Cash, Renee Kire, Samantha Vines, Angelique Jenkins... This exhibition showcases the work of the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University’s final year sculpture major students giving them a platform to present their final projects in a peer curated exhibition. With an incredibly diverse range of works shown, they demonstrate the power and the possibilities of sculpture here and now. Expect to see a wide range of materials comprising of latex, bed sheets, textiles, found objects, plaster, raffia, the human body and video, that speak to ideas on minimalism, memory, the feminine, mental health, the whimsical, the human condition and cultural identity. And then there were sevenmarks the end of a journey at Griffith University, offering a glimpse into the dynamic and complex worlds created by these seven exciting emerging artists. Image: Gin Sen. 'Omelette' 2020. Plaster, resin, cardboard.

21.01.2022 If you're looking for something to do this weekend why not drop by the Grey Street Gallery and view Sean Crookes exhibition 'Generations'. This exhibition is Crookes’ first solo show at QCA Galleries and brings together a collection of works created through a sustained investigation over three years of familial domestic life. Painting persists as a highly relevant means through which we understand our own ontology and Crookes uses painting to make visible, the often overlook...ed, sometimes funny, and sometimes difficult experiences of daily life. The encounters of three generations are depicted through this project and while very much an investigation into Crookes’ own life and kin, their sensitivity and delicate tensions, invite reflection on our collective knowledge of family and home. ____________________________________________ Exhibition Dates: 18 August - 12 September 2020 Opening Times: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday Where: Grey Street Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank 4101 Image: Installation view of Generations. Image credit: Louis Lim

20.01.2022 OPEN TODAY IN THE PROECT GALLERY: Triangles Are Not My Genre This exhibition has been brought together to challenge both artists and the viewing public to embrace the less serious side of the serious business of art. This set of works superimposes triangles within other significant art contexts and in doing so, uses triangles as a cultural metaphor for current contemporary art practices across a range of genres. Our group has a diverse range of artists - printmakers, photogra...phers, sculptors, painters, machinima and animation artists - and we have come together to explore the ways in which we may expand our practice through complex simplicity, humour and collaboration. The exclusiveness of high art genres induces an uneasiness in the general viewing public, disconnecting such art from the people by making them feel as if they cannot ever understand it. As a collaborative, it is our goal to subvert such seriousness and exclusivity, by making the subject matter easily understandable and relatable. We hope not only to "distract the masses' but also to "demand concentration' from our audience, thereby blurring the boundaries of that which is considered to be high art. Artists: Tess Baxter, Suzanne Breeze, Lisa Brummel, Dearne Dettrick, Elyse Edmonds, Catherine Gamble, Jesse Goldspink, Alison James, Patrick Lester, Jean Martin, Michelle Vine ________________________________ Where: Project Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101 Exhibition Dates: 8 - 19 September 2020 Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday QCA Galleries are practicing safe and hygienic practices throughout the gallery space and we will ensure that there are an appropriate number of attendees are in the gallery at one time to abide by the Government's social distancing guidelines. Visitors will be asked to check into the Project Gallery using a QR code.

19.01.2022 ON VIEW IN THE WEBB GALLERY: Valdetta, Aaron Perkins ‘Valdetta’ is an exploration of Perkins’ genealogy that applies fiction as a method to autobiographical fact in order to examine the processes of self-narrativisation through a suite of autofictive painted, sculptural, text and video works.... Centred on a great great uncle named after his father and his father’s father, the exhibition explores themes of inheritance, recursion and individuation in the passage of a single name Joseph Valdetta across generations and across continents. _______________________________ Artist: Aaron Perkins Exhibition Dates: 22 September - 3 October Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday Where: Webb Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101

18.01.2022 Join us this Saturday, 13th February from 11am to 3pm to hear from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University graduates exhibiting in the current Graduation Showcase. You are welcome to attend individual sessions or the whole series, but you must register due to covid-19 restrictions. Register here: https://qcagraduationartisttalks2020.eventbrite.com.au _____________________________________ 11:00am: SIDONIE JORDAN-HALL (Print, Grey Street Gallery)... 11:30am: SUNDAY JEMMOTT (Jewellery and Small Objects, Project Gallery) 12:00pm: ISOBELLE TELIJEGA (Photo, Whitebox) 12:30pm: DANIEL SHERRINGTON & MEG HOLDER (Sculpture & Expanded Prac., River Studios) *BREAK* 1:30pm: KYRA MANCKTELOW (CAIA, CAIA studios) 2:00pm: TBA (Drawing, Level 6 Studios, 6.20) 2:30pm: KATHLEEN O’HAGAN (Painting, Level 6 Studios, 6.11) See more

18.01.2022 We invite you to view the 2020 online graduate showcase of work from our graduating Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Honours and Masters students. View work from Master of Arts in Visual Arts (MAVA) students, Master of Design students, Honours (Design, Digital Media, Creative and Interactive Media, Fine Art, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Photography) students. Congratulations to all students and we look forward to following your continued success! ... View the online showcase at http://www.griffith.edu.au/qca-showcase

18.01.2022 ON VIEW IN THE GREY STREET GALLERY: To have and to hold, Ashlee Becks This exhibition investigates how materiality and painting can be used as a vehicle to express and heal from childhood trauma. The series includes large painted self-portraits and smaller matching works. The smaller works are cropped, expressionist masses of paint, the compositions inspired by their larger counterparts. The paintings feature thick swipes of impasto applied by palette knife. ... While the larger works carry a narrative and can be read quite literally, the smaller works are less representational and require the viewer to focus more readily on mark making. Mark making, evident in both the small and large works, allows the viewer to distinguish an indexical sensibility that being, the artist behind the mark. _______________________________________ Exhibition Dates: 6 - 17 October Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday Where: Grey Street Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101

18.01.2022 OPEN AT POP GALLERY: VESTIGE This exhibition is part of Master of Arts in Visual Art (MAVA) graduate Jacques van der Merwe’s exploration into the relationship b...etween the fragile nature of the body and the fading of memory. These works form a connection between the figure and the trace through the duration of time. They request viewers to consider the significance of forgetting and being in the now. Some of these works draw from Marc Augé’s, the three forms of forgetting, Return, Suspense and Re-beginning. Requesting the audience to revisit to the work to experience the slow deterioration of the human form as the oscillating water in the glass containers have impact on the plaster of Paris, cottonwool, and bandages as medium. In turn, we become conscious of our transitory nature as humans and the value of forgetting. This is achieved through the trace, following theories of Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Didi-Huberman. Jacques van der Merwe's art explores the human condition through various mediums including drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Working in materials such as plaster of Paris, wax, water, and bandages, he is particularly interested in the fading of memories, traces, entropy, and the immigration process. ________________________________________________ Exhibition Dates: 10 - 19 September Opening Times: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday Where: POP Gallery, 381 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, 4006

16.01.2022 OPEN TODAY IN THE PROJECT GALLERY: Bed Bound showcases Rose Manning’s most recent exploration into feelings of comfort and discomfort. Domestic spaces and bedrooms have been heavily associated with rest and recuperation. The impact of being confined to these spaces for the larger part of 2020 has transformed them into safe havens from the dangers of the outer world, or have they become breeding grounds for anxieties and uncertainty? This series of soft works are the result of... Manning attempting to calm these anxieties and comfort herself both mentally and physically. Rose Manning is a visual artist practicing in Brisbane. Working in a text-based practice, she navigates her emotions as a queer woman inhabiting public and private spaces. These text pieces, coined ‘Love letters’, are written in a struggle to express vulnerability. She also explores simultaneous feelings of connection and disconnection to surrounding people and frequented spaces in her life. Through the process of painting, sewing and stitching these confessions of emotions, she seeks to be able to comfortably present emotionality and create a connection with the world that she has found herself in. ______________________________ Exhibition Dates: 24 November - 5 December Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday Where: Project Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101

15.01.2022 ON VIEW IN THE WEBB GALLERY: Testing Space: Going Home - Christine Ko Earlier in the year I visited Taiwan, the country of my birth, with a plan to start laying foundations for the expansion of my practice overseas. However with Covid-19-induced paranoia peaking in Taiwan, things did not go to plan. The trip evolved into a self-initiated residency when I chose to focus instead on the surges of familiarity I felt as I explored a country I had barely spent time in.... 'Testing Space: Going Home' is the first iteration of a new work exploring those feelings of 'coming home'--to a place where I felt a sense of belonging yet remained foreign; to a place that exists as a forgotten memory. ________________________________________ Exhibition Dates: 7 - 10 October 2020 Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday Where: Webb Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101'

14.01.2022 QCA Galleries are now accepting proposals to exhibit in the Webb Gallery, Project Gallery and Grey Street Gallery in 2021. We accept proposals from Queensland College of Art students, staff and external applicants. Please take the time to read through the information listed on the QCA Galleries website, including the QCA Galleries Terms and Conditions prior to applying.... Successful applicants will be notified within two weeks of the application closing date. Applications will be accepted until 21 October 2020. All proposals must be submitted online via the application form. Apply here: https://www.griffith.edu.au//qca-ga/exhibition-application

14.01.2022 REMINDER: Our Graduate Artist Talks are taking place tomorrow, Saturday, 13th February from 11am to 3pm at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Southbank. You are welcome to attend individual sessions or the whole series, but you must register due to covid-19 restrictions. Register here: https://qcagraduationartisttalks2020.eventbrite.com.au _____________________________________ 11:00am: SIDONIE JORDAN-HALL (Print, Grey Street Gallery)... 11:30am: SUNDAY JEMMOTT (Jewellery and Small Objects, Project Gallery) 12:00pm: ISOBELLE TELIJEGA (Photo, Whitebox) 12:30pm: DANIEL SHERRINGTON & MEG HOLDER (Sculpture & Expanded Prac., River Studios) *BREAK* 1:30pm: KYRA MANCKTELOW (CAIA, CAIA studios) 2:00pm: FRANCES POWELL (Drawing, Level 6 Studios, 6.20) 2:30pm: KATHLEEN O’HAGAN (Painting, Level 6 Studios, 6.11)

08.01.2022 DISRUPTION has been extended to Saturday, 3rd October! Published through the Queensland College of Art's Blurr // QCA Photography Club in conjunction with transmedia storytelling publication The ARGUS, this exhibition seeks to unite works across a variety of mediums focusing on multiple themes and experiences of Disruption. In Greek mythology Argus Panoptes was a hundred-eyed giant, a watchful guardian. His name, ‘Panoptes’ meant ‘the all-seeing one’. This year’s edition of t...he ARGUS hopes to imbue the publication with this sentiment - the ARGUS is all seeing, bringing to the public impactful local and international stories not often seen in mainstream media. Blurr // QCA Photography Club is a student run photographic club with the aim of connecting up and coming photographers at the QCA. The ARGUS is a non-profit, student run, multi-platform visual journalism magazine that engages Bachelor of Documentary and Photojournalism students in their third year at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Curated by Isabella Porras, Rhett Kleine and Margot Stewart. Artists: Maddie Meath, Eliah Lillis, Miriam Deprez, Eri Yamaguchi, Rudiger Wasser, Caitlin Carey, Rhett Kleine, Fabiana Guerreiro, Kasun Ubayasiri, Margot Stewart, Lachlan Rhodes, Isabella Porras, Margaux Kendall, Hannah Bryce, Naikhbakht Wahidi, Madeline Begley, Theri Grogan-Yip ___________________________________ Where: Grey Street Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101

08.01.2022 ON VIEW IN THE WEBB GALLERY: Valdetta, Aaron Perkins ‘Valdetta’ is an exploration of Perkins’ genealogy that applies fiction as a method to autobiographical fact in order to examine the processes of self-narrativisation through a suite of autofictive painted, sculptural, text and video works. Centred on a great great uncle named after his father and his father’s father, the exhibition explores themes of inheritance, recursion and individuation in the passage of a single name ... Joseph Valdetta across generations and across continents. _______________________________ Artist: Aaron Perkins Exhibition Dates: 22 September - 3 October Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday Where: Webb Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101 See more

05.01.2022 OPEN TODAY IN THE GREY STREET GALLERY: To have and to hold, Ashlee Becks This exhibition investigates how materiality and painting can be used as a vehicle to express and heal from childhood trauma. The series includes large painted self-portraits and smaller matching works. The smaller works are cropped, expressionist masses of paint, the compositions inspired by their larger counterparts. The paintings feature thick swipes of impasto applied by palette knife. While the lar...ger works carry a narrative and can be read quite literally, the smaller works are less representational and require the viewer to focus more readily on mark making. Mark making, evident in both the small and large works, allows the viewer to distinguish an indexical sensibility that being, the artist behind the mark. _______________________________________ Exhibition Dates: 6 - 17 October Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday Where: Grey Street Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101

05.01.2022 Are you thinking of exhibiting with QCA Galleries? We strongly recommend you visit the space you're interested in beforehand to see if your work will suit it. Submissions will close on October 21st. All application information, including floorplans, can be found at griffith.edu.au/qcagalleries. Alternatively you can email [email protected] if you have any questions relating to your application.