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Saturday: 11am – 5pm

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contemporary artists | valuable ideas
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Old Shields, New Ways
5 February - 13 March 2021

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Opening its doors in 2016, Onespace Gallery establ

Opening its doors in 2016, Onespace Gallery established an innovative gallery model committed to showing contemporary artists with valuable ideas. In only four years, we have presented the work of some 150 artists in either solo or group exhibitions and dedicated ourselves to program with a considered and curatorial approach. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Gallery Directors, John Stafford and Jodie Cox state:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
“Our program embraces a dialogue between gallery practice and investigations into public space and platforms. We aim to stimulate an entrepreneurial conversation between like-minded and diverse practitioners.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Featured in our current show 'Old Shields New Ways

Featured in our current show 'Old Shields New Ways' curated by Trish Barnard is Djabugay artist Napolean Phillip Oui. Oui began printmaking to present his innovative interpretations of shield designs and had conducted expensive research into museum collections. Initially he created small marketable screenprints based on historical shield designs before extending his art practice to painting where he feels freedom to reimagine a new cultural direction. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Oui was introduced to the oil stick medium during his 2012 Collaborative Print Residency in Montreal Canada and he found that it allowed him to express his art in a ‘free flowing way’. Through his art Oui tells the stories of the rainforest in his authentic style and in a way that connects him to his culture and heritage.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Image: Napolean Phillip Oui, Gabay, 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 180cm. Photo: Louis Lim. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In September of 2020 we welcomed Nicola Scott's bo

In September of 2020 we welcomed Nicola Scott's bold & playful exhibition 'Ocular Drift' into the gallery space. During times of such uncertainty, Scotts works are a visual reprieve. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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'The works in 'Ocular Drift' are luscious celebrations of colour and light, shape and texture, a harmonious cacophony of tone, form and hue' states Catalogue Essay writer Lisa Bryan-Brown. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Words: Lisa Bryan-Brown.

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Within our current exhibition 'Old Shields, New Wa

Within our current exhibition 'Old Shields, New Ways' are a series of stunning Yalma (cross boomerangs) created by Michael Boiyool Anning.

Like his ancestors, Anning insists on using only rainforest timbers and natural ochres to apply the designs. His Yalma replicate traditional size and construction to maintain the integrity of his culture.

Michael is recognised as the foremost Indigenous artist in Queensland to revive a unique tradition of making artefacts such as Big-uun (shields) that were once used as weapons by the Yidinji people and Nalan Gugal (Firemakers). He was the first Yidinji man to reinvigorate shield making when he produced two shields for a contemporary Yidinji dance group in Ravenshoe in 1989 (two of which are still displayed at the Nganyaji Interpretive Centre in Ravenshoe).

See more of Michael's work within our current exhibition or via our website online.

Image: Michael Boiyool Anning, (1. Yalma (cross boomerang) Bajigal dingal (freshwater turtle eggs) design 2. Yalma (cross boomerang) Jurrin (leech) design 3. Yalma (cross boomerang) Jellyfish design 4. Yalma (cross boomerang) Muyngga (cicatrices) design) 2020, Natural ochres and charcoal with PVA on wood with law- yer cane, 46.5 x 46.5 x 3cm. Photo: Louis Lim.

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Zoe Porter's latest 'Lockdown series' alludes to t

Zoe Porter's latest 'Lockdown series' alludes to the sense of isolation she felt within a domestic setting during lockdown. It also considers our relationship to the natural environment and the impacts of climate change. These works depict a transformation of the human into a state of ‘becoming-animal’, in order to attempt to present an experience of dislocation and highlight the destruction of non-human animals through human impact.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Zoe states: 'This series of works grew out of a reflection on the last twelve months, which has been full of unexpected change and strange events, in particular the COVID-19 pandemic and period of lockdown. During lockdown, I became much more aware of my domestic and local environment, and I began to document the suburb I live in and the roadkill that I stumbled upon on my daily walks. I had also given birth to my daughter in late 2019, which coincided with the Black Summer bushfires; when we returned home from the hospital, we entered an oddly surreal, smoke-hazed home and brutal summer heat. The recent climactic catastrophes and global pandemic have highlighted the extremes that exist in society and our need to take care of our environment and biodiversity, particularly in an Australian context.' ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Featured within our ceramics-based show 'Side Effe

Featured within our ceramics-based show 'Side Effect' in November of 2019 was Dan Elborne's series 'Ceremony'. These porcelain dipped animal skulls containing hints of gold lustre explore traditions of preservation, commemoration and honorary material use while also investigating concepts of resilience, permanence and memorialization. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Want to further explore Dan Elborne's available works? You're able to virtually view 'Ceremony' as well as a curated selection of Elborne's works via our online stockroom. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Image: Dan Elborne, Ceremony, 2018, Porcelain coated animal bone, glaze and gold lustre, 2 pieces remaining, each approx. 21.5 x 10.5 x 8.5cm. Photo: Theresa Hall.

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Onespace Gallery prides itself on curating an exhi

Onespace Gallery prides itself on curating an exhibition program that explores diverse themes and media whilst showing emerging, mid-career and established artists whose works inform, stimulate and challenge. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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During March, 2020 we were lucky enough to present

During March, 2020 we were lucky enough to present an array of prints in ‘Mind’s Eye: Mapping the Landscape’ by Jo Lankester. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Lankester employs a range of techniques including intaglio and relief combined with collage and hand stitching to create a suite of unique state prints. The imagery depicted in these prints is created from memories associated with the physicality of experiencing the landscape. It tells stories of the journey, both in the landscape and through the act of printmaking in the studio.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Our 2020 end of year show DEPART has now concluded

Our 2020 end of year show DEPART has now concluded, so we thought we would take this chance to reflect upon its bustling opening (that we were lucky enough to have).

If you missed out on the exhibition, we urge you to take a peek at all included works and exhibition text online via our website.

Images: Funky Munky. Courtesy of the artists and Onespace Gallery.

Old Shields New Ways will feature artworks by four

Old Shields New Ways will feature artworks by four Indigenous artists from Tropical North Queensland; Michael Boiyool Anning (Dulgu-barra Yidinji), Paul Bong Bindur-Billin (Yidinji), Abe Muriata (Girramay) and Napolean Phillip Oui (Djabugay). Curated by Trish Barnard, the exhibition presents contemporary artefacts and interpretations of the elaborate traditional historical shields that are decorated with important totemic designs. Each artist is associated with Aboriginal cultural groups who inhabited the rainforest region of Tropical North Queensland.

Historical shields and artefacts held in museum collections have powerful agency for transmitting cultural and social knowledge. Contemporary artists have re-engaged with artefacts that were once traded and collected for museums since the 1890s and reimagined the designs through the creation of fine art works while maintaining respect for ancestral precedent.

Abstract designs on shields that represented both animal and plant totems of importance, have been interpreted for innovative paintings and smaller marketable cultural objects evoking a ‘cultural renaissance’. Each artist has discussed the meaning of each design with Elders and gained approval to utilise totemic designs to demonstrate cultural continuity.

Old shield designs are not merely enabling source communities to reconnect with their past and reimagine the future of their artistic practice – artists have great respect for the ‘old people’, their ancestors who created the original designs and the transformation of the original purpose of a cultural design. Those ancestors are still considered to be present in the designs and the reinterpretation for contemporary art is negotiated according to cultural protocols.

Feature Image: Michael Boiyool Anning, Dumbun (scorpion) (detail), 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 90cm x 45cm. Photo: Michael Marzik. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

NAIDOC week celebrates the history, culture and ac

NAIDOC week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year NAIDOC week promotes the theme ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’. Recognising that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this land for over 65,000 years. We encourage you to acknowledge and remain conscious of the intrinsic contribution that indigenous artists provide to our industry.

We are proud to be presenting Ayuva Meenha, by Teho Ropeyarn during this year’s NAIDOC week. Teho is an artist and curator from the community of Injinoo, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.

Reflecting on his exhibition, Teho’s states: “Ayuva Meenha is a cross-reference of a huge project spanning three years of research and stories recorded on country and stories that have been passed on since primary school…The idea was to record old stories both traditional and historical so it is there for future generation and am proud that I had the opportunity to work closely with my elder the late Rev Ama Mary Eseli who held a significant amount of knowledge along with many other senior elders; Papa Rusty Williams and other community elders and leaders.”

Onespace Gallery stands with our represented and presented First Nations artists, and people of colour globally as we collectively seek to eliminate the systematic injustices imposed upon them. We recognise and respect the Traditional Custodians of the lands, winds and waters on which our gallery stands.

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Photos: Funky Munky. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

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