Perspective the 2023 QRAA Touring Exhibition - Cairns
08mar(mar 8)9:00 am22apr(apr 22)4:00 pm
Event Details
Perspective is the touring exhibition of Flying Arts Alliance’s signature art prize, the Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA).
Opening hours: 10am-4pm Tuesday-Saturday
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
In 2023, the QRAA invited artists to enter work which considers the concept of ‘Perspective’ in its many facets, viewpoints, and nuances. The theme plays on a term known in the visual arts and relevant to our modern society.
Perspective features the winners’, highly commended and finalists’ works, selected by judges Jonathan McBurnie and Fiona Foley. The exhibition is comprised of 36 works, featuring a diverse range of mediums selected across nine award categories, showcasing the immense talent that exists throughout regional Queensland.
Accompanying Perspective is the Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Exhibition. The exhibition is comprised of a selection landscape artwork in any medium, in homage to Mervyn’s penchant for ‘en plein air’ landscape painting.
Image: Lincoln Austin, i saw myself, in you, wondering, how did i get here, 2023. synthetic polymer paint on aluminium composite board.
Excess baggage,
Artist: Clare Jaque Vasquez
Artist Location: Jensen
Medium: Acrylic and impast on stretched canvas, 2023
Dimensions: 100.0 x 3.0 x 100.0 cm
Artist Statement:
To me, woven bags from my grandmother are what we would see as the modern-day handbag. I’ve captured three woven linked bag motifs in my work to demonstrate the unseen things we carry with us each day, the load and the journey it takes us on. The three woven layers symbolises and pays homage to being surrounded by three generations of Gomeroi/Kamilaroi women who helped grow and refine my perspective in life.
I want viewers to move and shuffle in the space, view the work from different angles and from a close proximity. The artwork morphs and shifts depending on what perspective the viewer approaches the artwork from. The subtle raised impasto woven linked motifs shift and intertwine. There’s almost a dance that happens when viewers experience my work. They double-back for more and try to touch and connect. The artwork appears different, when a viewer is ready to see.
Photographer: Clare Jaque Vasquez
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Athamu Ulwung – Picinini Belong Me,
Artist: Colina Wymarra
Artist Location: Seisia
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, 2023
Dimensions: 50.5 x 4.5 x 40.5 cm
Artist Statement:
For centuries women have experienced Violence in many forms. Wandinu was a Gudang woman from Somerset Cape-York who experienced Violence not only through unwelcome settlements, but also in the form of being raped by a white man as a 13year old child which resulted in the birth of a Son – My Grandfather. She was originally “promised” to King Billy Wymarra and was now “spoiled” and exiled from the tribe. A perspective of the ill treatment of Women is depicted here. Wandinu experienced violence in many ways – Invasion of her country, Invasion of her body, Judgement and Isolation. Throughout all of this, Wandinu survived, but tragically died from a snake bite a few months after giving birth and my grandfather was raised by the tribe. I have never met Wandinu, but my view of her is a hurting but strong woman of whom I am a proud descendant of.
Photographer: Colina Wymarra
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Red Kangaroo and Little River Rock Cod 2023,
Artist: Naomi Hobson
Artist Location: Coen
Medium: ceramic installation, 2023
Dimensions: 50.0 x 11.0 x 17.0 cm
Artist Statement:
This work belongs to the series The love story of the little River Rock Cod and the Red Kangaroo. It addresses the powerful links between Country and Identity
Photographer: National Portrait Gallery Canberra
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Where We Meet,
Artist: Naomi McKenzie
Artist Location: Toogoolawah
Medium: Silver Gelatin Photograph on Metallic Paper, 2023
Dimensions: 51.0 x 0.3 x 51.0 cm
Artist Statement:
This image photographed on medium format Silver Gelatin film and hand processed explores perspective from psychological view point. It tussles with the different personas often harboured within us. In my case, it’s the mother verses the artist. We experience the world from totally different perspectives yet there is a sweet point, and calculated consolidation where those identities create something extraordinary.
Using texture, shadow and reflection the image invites the viewer to contemplate perspective both from a personal and universal point of view. The inverted image, coupled with the amalgamating shadow and reflections creates a sense of whimsical wonder throughout the scene. ‘Where We Meet’ creatively cerebrates the diverse tapestry of internal perspective, amongst the reality of an external environment.
Photographer: Naomi Mckenzie
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Homes in Perspective,
Artist: The Phuong Ly
Artist Location: Loganholme
Medium: Watercolour on 300gsm paper, 2023
Dimensions: 42.0 x 0.2 x 30.0 cm
Artist Statement:
“Homes in Perspective” is a watercolour painting that captures the essence of home amidst a socio-economic crisis. The aerial view of Queensland homes, rendered in monochrome, reflects the stark reality of high inflation and scarce supplies. Yet, the homes stand resilient, symbolizing happiness and sanctuary for all. The yellow ochre sunlight piercing through the black and white landscape signifies hope amidst adversity. This painting is not merely an artistic representation but a commentary on our times. It urges viewers to appreciate the importance of home and the strength it provides during challenging times. “Homes in Perspective” is a tribute to our collective resilience and the comforting embrace of home.
Photographer: The Phuong Ly
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Night Body, | View Video Work
Artist: Fiona Harding and Elijah Huckel
Artist Location: Nambour
Medium: Video Work, 2023
Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm
Artist Statement:
Night Body is a video performance work, combining spoken word, costume design, sound, and
movement. The title makes reference to the fruiting body of the luminous Mycena Chlorophos, a species of agaric fungus, only visible at night.
Flipping the perspective of the familiar, the artist, as performer, is seen as a free-floating figure edited in multiple configurations; upside-down, sideways, layered, and reversed.
Requiring darkness to glow, the hand-constructed, mushroom-shaped costume (made from 660 hand-rolled ceramic beads, and a cap painted in layers of glow-in-the-dark paint) leaves the work void of a horizon line, to further remove the familiar.
An otherworldly soundscape, by Elijah Huckel, disrupts the ordinary, whilst the luminosity of the mushroom becomes an emblem of the inherent magic within our more-than-human world.
Photographer: Fiona Harding
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Portal to Nothingness,
Artist: Barbara Cheshire
Artist Location: Gulliver
Medium: Oil on Canvas, 2023
Dimensions: 77.0 x 2.5 x 77.0 cm
Artist Statement:
The Perspective of life as I know it has both positive and negative happenings and as the saying goes, it is our reaction to the experience of each happening that becomes important in the environmental challenges we face during life. However, the understanding and helplessness through the cause of destruction often defies comprehension although the affects and memories become part of life. This artwork, therefore, represents the calm of acceptance that eventually arises after a storm of destruction when the difficult experience of seeing the forest environment you grew up in and loved destroyed into a Portal of Nothingness.
Photographer: Barbara Cheshire
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