Liam O'Brien | Shooting Blanks | Closing

Last night we held an evening reception for our current exhibition - Liam O'Brien's Shooting Blanks. Thanks to all of the wonderful art viewers who came out to see the show and share a drink with us. We had a really super evening. Here are some social images from the night mixed up with a few images of the show...

The Lion and The Unicorn | Rachel Maclean

The Lion and the Unicorn | Rachel Maclean
Opening Wednesday 4 July, 6 – 8pm
4 July - 14 July 2012

Current Projects presents a solo exhibition of video works by Glasgow artist Rachel Maclean. The exhibition examines Scottish identity in relation to history, mythology and popular culture.

Please join us for the exhibition opening on Wednesday 4 July, 6  - 8pm.

The Lion and the Unicorn is Rachel’s first Australian exhibition. The exhibition will be open for viewing from 4 - 14 July.

Image: The Lion and The Unicorn 2012, digital print, courtesy the artist.

Passages

Curated by Brooke Ferguson
Opening Wednesday 2 May, 6–8pm
2 May – 19 May 2012

Passages brings together a selection of Brisbane based artists who make text-based artworks, including zines, catalogue essays and ephemera that engage the spaces of visual art and critical writing. It will investigate how text and language have been used to open up the possibilities for making and discussing art practice. This project explores a range of the ways that text can be used as a graphic/creative form – as well as a space for critical reflection and observation in art practice. It will highlight how a range of Brisbane artists approach the relationship between language as signification, language as critical response, and the hybrid spaces between these sites of connection. This project wants to foreground how this approach to art making can be a productive and exciting space of creative and critical activity in the age of digital media. 

Image: Journal page by Alice Lang. Courtesy the artist.

Pirrin's opening night - all smiles!

Pirrin's show HE MADE THE GROUND RESOUND WITH HIS FALL finishes up this weekend, so if you haven't seen it yet, get your skates on! There are exhibition images on our website HERE. 

In the meantime, here are some images from opening night:

Lefety Levity Exhibtion

Last Wednesday evening we held the first of our one-night exhibitions with Sally Chicken and her show Lefety Levity. Here are a few social images from the night:

Thanks to those that came along! For more exhibition images visit the exhibition page on our website, HERE.

Lefety Levity

Current Projects invites you to Lefety Levity, a one-night exhibition by Sally Chicken.

Sally’s practice investigates the relationship between humans and animals and how these relationships change between cultures. Her practice is influenced by her own experiences of living in, and moving between, urban and rural environments. Lefety Levity examines the types of communication, including slippages in understanding, that occur between humans and ‘man’s best friend.’ 

One night only - Wednesday the 21st of March between 6 and 8pm.

FROM/TO (AUS)

Current Projects is excited to invite you to Katrin Ströbel's FROM/TO (AUS). 

Katrin Ströbel's (1975 in Pforzheim, Germany) drawings, installations and videos deal with semiotics, (pictorial) languages and cultural codes. Through travel grants and longer stays in Europe, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, the U.S. and Peru, her work has included increasingly more intercultural and socio-political questions, like impacts of urbanism and architecture, migration, borders and intercultural communication. In addition to the political or cultural themes, an important subject has been the basic reflections of the meaning and function of contemporary art in western and non-western contexts. Katrin Ströbel´s work as been shown in many solo and group exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Chicago, Lagos, Dakar, Paris, Zürich and Lima. 


FROM/TO [AUS] is her first show in Australia, and specifically explores links between tourism and migration and the perception of the 'unknown country' that leads both movements. 

Acknowledgements: MetroArts, Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Room 60, Institut for Auslandsbeziehungen.

  

First Test install

Current Projects recently moved into their new gallery space in Studio 3.5 on level 3 of Metro Arts. Here are some images of the installation process for our first exhibition 'First Test'. First Test opens tonight and will run for a week.

First Test

Current Projects are the Metro Arts Artist-Run Initiative in Residence for 2012. To launch their residency exhibition program they are creating a group work intended to serve as both an introduction to Current Projects and a comment on the challenges of the collaborative functioning of ARIs.

Join us for our opening event on the evening of the 29th of February.

Level 3, Metro Arts. 109 Edward Street. Brisbane.