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4/349 Montague Road

West End Q

Australia 4101

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info@onespacegallery.com.au

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Saturday: 11am – 5pm

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PAUSE
Sebastian Moody
7 August - 12 September 2020

Sebastian Moody is an artist known for creating so

Sebastian Moody is an artist known for creating some of Brisbane’s most memorable public artworks using text. His works, KEEP THE SUNSHINE at the Brisbane International Airport and THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT THE BIGGER IT GETS in the McLachlan Street underpass in Fortitude Valley, have become part of our city’s icons. ⠀
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Pause is an exhibition of predominantly black and white text-based artwork panels launching at Onespace in West End on 7 August, which showcases Moody’s latest suite of language-driven gallery artworks. These new pieces continue in the art history traditions of 1960’s conceptual art and ‘concrete poetry’. ⠀
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Pause also builds upon Moody’s 2019 projection artwork, Seeing, which was the inaugural Arts Queensland funded artwork commission for the ‘Belltower’ at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. ⠀
Moody’s artworks expand on our relationship with language and how it is perceived, drawing on the connotations of specific words when they are placed in certain arrangements and configurations as a painting. He seeks to incite initial reactions, confound our comparisons and effect our understandings when his chosen words are accompanied by another. ⠀
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When these words are translated onto board with paint, they become object-like and gain a sense of materiality. Are they paintings, poems, signs, or all of these things? Taking the fast-paced nature of writing, reading and seeing into account — Moody asks us to take a pause, and draw attention to our own constructed thought processes. He offers no conclusions and invites us to make sense of the words that we see in front of us.⠀
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Featured Image: BRUTAL BLONDE MUSEUM GLOBAL VICTIM From the series SEEING, 2020, Acrylic on board, 35.5 x 28cm. Photo: Louis Lim.

Haven’t had a chance to see our latest group sho

Haven’t had a chance to see our latest group show Optimistically Omnivorous curated by Martin Smith?
Pop down to the gallery and catch it before it closes on the 1 August or take a peek at our online catalogue (linked in bio).

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Images (Left to Right): Julia Scott Green,
Posthuman, Compost, 2020, Pigment print, 60 x 60cm, Edition 1 of 3+AP, unframed. Cara Coombe, Play Pretend, 2019, Pigment print, 76 x 76cm, Edition 1 of 3+AP. James Hornsby, Birds of Paradise, 2019, Digital UV print on acrylic, 90 x 90cm, Edition 1 of 1 +AP.

No plans on this rainy Brisbane day? Pop down to t

No plans on this rainy Brisbane day? Pop down to the gallery to view our recent photography group show ‘Optimistically Omnivorous’ curated by Martin Smith.

We are open Tuesday to Friday from 10am - 6pm and Saturday from 11am - 5pm. ⚡️✨

Onespace congratulates the Queensland Museum on th

Onespace congratulates the Queensland Museum on their launch of the work of Elisa Jane Carmichael in the exhibition Threads . ‘In this exhibition, Elisa demonstrates how her arts practice creates threads that gives us a pathway to creating awareness about the depth of First Nation’s Peoples textile making in Australia and symbolic of interwoven, intergenerational knowledge.’ The exhibition also includes the stunning collaborative artwork Jalo Boma (after the burn) tears from the sea (2019) between Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael.⠀
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Phil Brown states in his latest article on the exhibition within the Courier Mail:⠀
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'At a time when we are rethinking our colonial past, acclaimed Quandamooka artist Elisa Jane Carmichael is putting everything in context by drawing on millennia of weaving traditions to present a collection of hand-woven sculptural dresses and artworks.'⠀
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The Exhibition is on show from 15 June 2020 to 22 February 2021. Timed bookings are essential and can be completed online. Level 2 Exhibition Space.⠀
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Artwork: Elisa Jane Carmichael, Weaving: past, present, future, 2016 Ungaire, jersey, twine, ghostnet and digital printed materials. Image: Courtesy of Queensland Museum. Photographer: Peter Waddington, Courtesy of Queensland Museum.

We’re so delighted to be back in our gallery! We

We’re so delighted to be back in our gallery! Well, almost back.⠀
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The Queensland Premier and Queensland Government Chief Medical Officer recently announced that a range of public venues, previously closed to stem the spread of coronavirus, could now re-open with certain restrictions. Galleries such as Onespace are one of those venues. Stage 2 eased restrictions came into effect at 12 noon on Monday 1 June 2020 and venues covered by an industry COVID Safe plan will be able to access additional easing of restriction from 5 June 2020.⠀ ⠀
Onespace will now re-open its exhibition spaces and will operate under the following Stage 2 arrangements for ‘museums, art galleries and historic sites’. Upon arrival you will receive:
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• a warm welcome and a free copy of the room brochure about the exhibition⠀
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• a maximum of 15 people attending at any one time (please note that staff are not included) ⠀
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• a plan to manage entries and exits to reduce crowding, and ensure the venue is well ventilated⠀
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• general social distancing guidelines observed and seating arrangements spaced to ensure appropriate social distancing (however members of the same household may sit together) ⠀
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• good hygiene and sanitising practices throughout the gallery⠀
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• and a dated schedule at the front desk where we encourage visitors to leave their name and email address.⠀
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Staff are also available by email and telephone during usual business hours and by appointment. Please contact us on 07 3846 0642 or email on info@onespacegallery.com.au to arrange a time. We will keep you up to date on our artists’ works and activities and our exhibition planning via our website, Instagram and Facebook accounts. ⠀ ⠀
Thank you for your ongoing support and patience as we re-emerge from the former COVID-19 restrictions.⠀ ⠀
—The Onespace Team.⠀
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L to R: Tamika Grant-Iramu, Jodie Cox, John Stafford, Alicia Hollier, Taylor Hall.
Image: Louis Lim.

Onespace Gallery stands with our represented First

Onespace Gallery stands with our represented First Nations artists and people of colour globally as we collectively seek to eliminate the systemic injustices imposed upon them. ⠀
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As collaborators, it is our job to listen to the voices of Indigenous artists and colleagues and remain conscious of their intrinsic contribution to our industry and society. We all have a responsibility to listen, to act, to educate. We need to stand together to reject all inequalities imposed on our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.⠀
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We recognise and respect the Traditional Custodians of the lands, winds and waters on which our gallery stands. We express our faith that Australia can, and will change.⠀
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- The Onespace Team

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RSVP via link in our bio 🔺🔺 Optimistically O

RSVP via link in our bio 🔺🔺 Optimistically Omnivorous is a small yet potent survey exhibition of photographic artists who were either born in or later moved to, and are influenced by or critical of, the locale of Queensland. This exhibition is part of Onespace Gallery’s ongoing commitment to the photographic community of Queensland. It seeks to present new work from diverse voices on a unique place. With a line-up of established and several impressive emerging artists, Optimistically Omnivorous includes works by Cara Coombe, Peter Fischmann, Teresa Fornataro, Julia Scott Green, Christopher Handran and James Hornsby.⠀
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We are delighted to have the opportunity to invite a smaller number of guests to our new space to explore the exhibition and hear more about the artists and their works. We will be offering refreshments as part of each hourly session. Unfortunately spaces will be limited, so RSVPs will be taken until capacity is reach for each session. Link via bio. ⠀
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Image:James Hornsby, Don’t get your hopes up, 2019, Digital UV print on acrylic, AP + Edition of 1, 120 x 90cm. ⠀
Image: Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

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A fabulous time lapse of artist Fintan Magee creat

A fabulous time lapse of artist Fintan Magee creating his recent ‘Potplant Series.’ 🌱

Works from this poignant series are still available via our website or by contacting the gallery on info@onespacegallery.com.au —————————————————————— Repost from @fintan_magee : ‘Colouring with @selinamiles’

We are delighted that work by represented artists

We are delighted that work by represented artists Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael has been featured on the front and back covers of Art Guide Australia’s May/June 2020 issue. ⠀⠀
Jalo Boma (After the Burn) Tears from the Sea, 2019 (front cover) is a mother and daughter collaborative piece, which speaks of the artists’ interconnected techniques and intergenerational continuity. Through the combination of traditional fibres (ungaire) and reclaimed ghost net materials, the artists are fusing past, present and future. Writing about this work in 2019, Sally Butler suggests:⠀ ⠀⠀
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‘Jalo Boma (After the Burn) Tears from the Sea, 2019, is a woven sculpture combining ungaire (water reeds) used in traditional weaving along with the ‘ghostnet’ fibres, which are retrieved marine debris fishing line that pollute Minjerribah’s coastal waters. The merging of these two fibres symbolises weaving practices as nurturing and healing. Connecting both kinds of fibres is an expression of caring for country and maintaining links with inherited responsibilities for the wellbeing of people and place. The sculpture’s two pieces merge through the cascading iridescent red emperor fish scales that suggest the dynamic sparkle of life in Quandamooka saltwater country.’ ⠀⠀
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Featured artwork detail (front cover): Jalo Boma (after the burn) tears from the sea, 2019, Ungaire, ghost net, discarded wire, silk covered wire, synthetic fibres, fishing line, discarded plastics, fish scales, Lomandra and raffia, hanging vessel: 122cm x 40cm diameter, lower basket: 13cm x 40cm diameter.

Here at Onespace we are very excited to be digital

Here at Onespace we are very excited to be digitally ‘showing’ a selection of works from Fintan Magee’s latest ‘Potplant’ series. Make sure to view all works via our website, and to follow the series’ progress on @fintan_magee’s Instagram page.⠀
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‘These works have been created in my studio during the Covid lockdowns. My inability to work with models or organise photoshoots during this period forced me to experiment with different subject matter. I came up with the concept of painting the same two potplants everyday for the entirety of the lockdowns. With each piece representing a day in isolation. My work is about story telling and my plan is create a narrative around me keeping these plants alive during isolation. Each work has also become like a meditation, the repetition of image and subject matter has allowed me to step away from building a concept for each piece and focus purely on the act of painting. This process means that each work becomes a 5-7 hour meditation. Helping my mental health during isolation while allowing me to tell a story of the human condition during the mundane reality of quarantine.’⠀
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— Fintan Magee⠀
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Images: Courtesy of the artist.⠀
Artwork: Potplant (Left to right, series number: 12, 13, 11, 14) 2020, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 55 x 50cm.

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