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Sebastian Moody, Opinion Fatigue
22 July - 27 August 2022

Please note that Onespace Gallery will be closed t

Please note that Onespace Gallery will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday 10 August, for the Ekka Public Holiday.

So you don't miss us all too much, feast your eyes on this vivacious Ekka-adjacent print by Jackie Ryan, titled 'Reinventing the Wheel'. Would you like to see this work editioned? Comment below!

We will be back to our usual hours on Thursday 11 August with our current show 'Opinion Fatigue' by Sebastian Moody.

Artwork: Reinventing the Wheel, 2021, Jackie Ryan. Image courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

Why did the conceptual artist design a limited-edi

Why did the conceptual artist design a limited-edition yoga mat? Because it was a great idea!

To coincide with the opening of Open Studio, Sebastian Moody, Onespace Gallery and QAGOMA Store have collaborated to produce Citrus Mat (smooth ~ mammal), 2022, by Sebastian Moody.

Have the chance to backward bend to a constellation of characters. Channel the ‘smooth mammal’ within. Meditate alongside metaphorical ‘citrus steam’. Practice your Sun Salutations like your arms are a set of closed brackets (_(^_^)_)

Available now from QAGOMA Store and Onespace Gallery. As part of a limited-edition of 100, each mat comes signed and numbered.

For some time, Sebastian Moody’s words have lingered and materialised on a generous assortment of facades: in swimming pools, personal advertisements, kitchen splashbacks; on hang gliders and banners at music festivals, inner city billboards; and as multi-storey public projections. Citrus Mat (smooth ~ mammal), 2022, effortlessly slips into Moody’s practice of physically manifesting elusive ideas. As you centre and relax your body and mind, symbols and text drift under your feet for a curiously conceptual yoga experience.

Open Studio, Sebastian Moody is on show at the Queensland Art Gallery until 25 September 2022.
Opinion Fatigue by Sebastian Moody is exhibiting at Onespace Gallery until 27 August 2022.

Artwork: Sebastian Moody, Citrus Mat (smooth ~ mammal), 2022, suede microfibre yoga mat, 181 x 68 x 0.4 cm, 4–100 editions available. Photo: Joe Ruckli. Courtesy of Onespace Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and the artist.

Now up on the walls and open to the public is Seba

Now up on the walls and open to the public is Sebastian Moody's latest exhibition 'Opinion Fatigue'. Make sure to catch this stellar exhibition before it closes on the 27 August 2022.

'Opinion Fatigue' marks another turn in the wide-ranging practice of Queensland conceptual artist Sebastian Moody. In this new body of work, he fuses his love of modern painting, language, and meaning. These paintings continue in the tradition of 1960s and ‘70s Australian concrete poetry, which used mechanical and commercial applications of text to expand possibilities for artmaking. Unlike Moody’s previous text works where the meaning of the words is central to the concept, each work problematises our logical understanding of language by moving away from poetry and closer towards abstract expressionism.

Artwork: Sebastian Moody, Opinion Fatigue (rhyme smoke), 2022, Acrylic on marine plywood, 100 x 100 cm. Photography: Louis Lim. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

To commemorate the opening of 'Opinion Fatigue', w

To commemorate the opening of 'Opinion Fatigue', we thought we would take you all back to Onespace Gallery's debut show ‘The Magician' by Sebastian Moody (11 November – 26 November 2016).

We are very proud to reveal that long-term collaborator, Louise Martin-Chew wrote Onespace Gallery's very first catalogue essay for the show. She stated at the time, "Sebastian Moody is under-recognised, but destined to occupy a significant place in the contemporary Australian lexicon", which now seems like a prophecy from the art writing gods. Today we reflect upon Moody’s multifaceted career achievements that have spanned over 20 years, and his latest solo show, which highlights his arrival as an assured mid-career artist, occupying his rightful place within contemporary Australian Conceptual Art dialogue.

Martin-Chew further elaborates on ‘The Magician’:
“These new paintings conceptualise art itself as the magician. Artifice is coupled to language, with its filters – cultural, physical and optical illusion… Unpicking these works poses questions to this moment in time, with meaning in constant transition.”

It is this constant transition of meaning which continues to unfold, evolve, and grow in new and curious ways within all of Moody’s work. We are excited to present latest exhibition, and we hope the ever-increasing Onespace community, will enjoy another turn in the wide-ranging practice of this Queensland conceptual artist

Photography: Mick Richards. Courtesy of the artist and Onspace Gallery.

Join Onespace Gallery and Sebastian Moody in celeb

Join Onespace Gallery and Sebastian Moody in celebrating the opening of 'Opinion Fatigue' on this Friday 22 July from 6-8pm. RSVP to the opening via the link in our bio for one of our hourly opening sessions. If you aren't able to attend the opening, do not fret! The exhibition is on show for all your viewing pleasure from 22 July - 27 August 2022.

Opinion Fatigue marks another turn in the wide-ranging practice of Queensland conceptual artist Sebastian Moody. In this new body of work, he fuses his love of modern painting, language, and meaning. These paintings continue in the tradition of 1960s and ‘70s Australian concrete poetry, which used mechanical and commercial applications of text to expand possibilities for artmaking. Unlike Moody’s previous text works where the meaning of the words is central to the concept, each work problematises our logical understanding of language by moving away from poetry and closer towards abstract expressionism.

Image: Louis Lim. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

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We are obsessed with the gorgeous, deep blues of E

We are obsessed with the gorgeous, deep blues of Elisa Jane Carmichael's cyanotypes. Sand, foliage and nets flow and splash across the surface of 'Dabiyil wunjayi (water today)', 2020 like the ocean's waves.

Curator, Indigenous Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Katina Davidson (Kullilli/Yuggera) describes the work as 'an intoxicating rich blue ultrasound of the ocean, capturing life and debris in a swarming mass.'

Dive into a selection of Elisa's cyanotypes via onespacegallery.com.au

Image: Louis Lim. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery. Artwork:Elisa Jane Carmichael, Dabiyil wunjayi (water today), 2020 Cyanotype on cotton, 278.5 x 276.5cm.

Today is the last day to see 'Minaral' by Fiona El

Today is the last day to see 'Minaral' by Fiona Elisala Mosby & Paula Savage, so get in quick to peruse a gorgeous selection of works!

Mosby & Savage's colour lino cuts and pochoir prints, paintings and woven works explore the materiality of their lived experience; a world of tropical gardens and island reefs, of wind and currents, deep water and calm, elements woven together as colour, form, and light.

Artwork: Fiona Elisala Mosby, Kutau kulkan na-than Dawabau nisal, 2022, pochoir print and acrylic on canvas, 113 x 72.5cm. Image: Louis Lim. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

Happy Shark Awareness Day! As indicated by our sha

Happy Shark Awareness Day! As indicated by our shark themed exhibition ‘Shiver’ in 2019, it is no secret that we are big ‘fins’ of this majestic creature. Australia’s indigenous sharks hold a unique place in our national psyche, evoking a strong emotional response. As sharks make headlines in the news, we realise just how little we understand them and how we fear them disproportionately. As professional surfer Mick Fanning stated after his shark attack in 2015, “I’ve always considered myself a visitor to the ocean. We are aware of the dangers when we paddle out and make the choice to enter their realm.”

Torres Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson spiritually associates with the shark as a part of his cultural cosmology. During Curiocity 2022, Robinson featured his large-scale installation Baidam Tithuyil around the façade of the Queensland Museum, referencing the Great Shark constellation. ‘Baidamu’ (the constellation) first appears in the north over New Guinea during kuki (April). When these stars are seen, Islanders know the mating season of the shark is starting and that they should prepare their gardens with crops of banana, sugar cane, and sweet potato. Skill in gardening was dependant on understanding the seasons and the constellations including knowledge of tides, and the migration of animals. In this artwork Robinson shares with audiences the importance of knowing and learning about these wonderous and unique aspects of Queensland’s cultural knowledge.

First Image: Brian Robinson, A path in the sky, 2022, Vinyl cut print on paper from one block, 97 x 202cm, 2AP + Edition of 10 (Editions 1-10 now available).
Second Image: Documentation of ‘Baidam Tithuyil’ window application. Courtesy of the Queensland Museum and the artist.

Opinion Fatigue, Sebastian Moody, 22 July - 27 Aug

Opinion Fatigue, Sebastian Moody, 22 July - 27 August 2022

Opening Event: Friday 22 July 2022, 6-8pm (RSVP via bio link)

Opinion Fatigue marks another turn in the wide-ranging practice of Queensland conceptual artist Sebastian Moody. In this new body of work, he fuses his love of modern painting, language, and meaning. These paintings continue in the tradition of 1960s and ‘70s Australian concrete poetry, which used mechanical and commercial applications of text to expand possibilities for artmaking. Unlike Moody’s previous text works where the meaning of the words is central to the concept, each work problematises our logical understanding of language by moving away from poetry and closer towards abstract expressionism.

Exhibition Catalogue Essay Writer Tara Heffernan states: “In Opinion Fatigue, Moody has largely abandoned words for typographical symbols and punctuation marks—marks that give order to written language. They help shape meaning, provide context, and order ideas. In internet speak, which favours directness and sloganistic simplicity, these details have been gradually jettisoned, though they return in the chaos of coding, password fodder, or emoticons created via typographic approximations of iconic signs. Even in the most inelegant font, these free-floating symbols possess an alluring minimal aesthetic and degree of ambiguous creative potential, liberated from the rigidity of didactic meaning-making.”

Exhibition Opening: Friday 22 July 2022
Our opening event model comprises 'hourly opening sessions' - RSVPs are encouraged to attend the event. Refreshments will be offered during each session.

Artwork Image Details: Sebastian Moody, Opinion Fatigue (soft australia), 2022, Acrylic on Marine Plywood, 180 x 120 cm. Sebastian Moody, Opinion Fatigue (flower mooooon), 2022 Acrylic on marine plywood, 120 x 120 cm. Sebastian Moody, Opinion Fatigue (rhyme smoke), 2022 Acrylic on marine plywood, 100 x 100 cm. Photography: Louis Lim. Image courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

Featured at the Tanks Art Centre is an exhibition

Featured at the Tanks Art Centre is an exhibition by Sonja and Elisa Jane Carmichael titled Dabiyil Bajara (water footprints), spread across the entirety of Tank 4. The exhibition features the artists’ most ambitious installation to date, a series of six cyanotypes, each measuring 5.5 x 2.8m, recently commissioned by Glenn Iseger-Pilkington for the Fremantle Art Centre as part of Perth Festival 2021. The epic-scaled cyanotypes are draped from the ceiling, delicately touching sand on the floor and enveloping audiences into a deep ocean of ancient Minjerribah stories, plants and animals. Accompanying this series of large-scale works is a collection of woven pieces, and two significant video works, one showing the process of creating the cyanotype pieces and the other submerging the audience in the beautiful Quandamooka ocean.

EXHIBITION: Tanks Art Centre (Tank 4), 46 Collins Ave, Edge Hill Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael
Dabiyil Bajara (Water footprints), 25 June - 24 July 2022

Photo: Michael Marzik. Courtesy of the artists and Onespace Gallery.

Fresh from the walls of the Onespace Gallery CIAF

Fresh from the walls of the Onespace Gallery CIAF Booth 24 are stunning works by Teho Ropeyarn and Tamika Grant-Iramu. Works like ‘This one Cape York Lily flower’, 2022 and ‘Interior Landscape: changing seasons’, 2021 are available to purchase for your very own walls!

If you are interested in obtaining a catalogue of works, or if you would like to purchase any of the works featured in our CIAF booth email info@onespacegallery.com.au

Artwork: Teho Ropeyarn, This one Cape York Lily flower, 2022 Vinyl-cut print on paper, Edition of 20
100 x 62cm (unframed) | 103.5 x 61.5cm (framed) Editions 1-10/10 available. Image: Michael Marzik. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

Artwork: Tamika Grant-Iramu Interior Landscape: changing seasons, 2021 Vinyl-cut on Hahnemühle paper with hand coloured watercolour Paper: 74 x 50cm | Framed: 82 x 56cm 2AP + Edition of 30 available. Image: Louis Lim. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

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