Shannon Brett
Shannon Brett is a Wakka Wakka/Butchulla/Gooreng Gooreng artist and experienced researcher/writer/educator who is skilled in various areas of Research, Arts management, Curatorial (Museums and Galleries), Arts writing, Fashion design, Graphic design, Public speaking, Photography and Arts mentorship. They are currently a PhD Candidate at the Queensland University of Technology, interrogating the construction of racial whiteness in Australia and responding to systemic racism and patriarchy from decolonial and black feminist perspectives. Brett holds a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art; Photography and Fine Art via the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, and has exhibited internationally whilst working in numerous arts institutions throughout Australia, maintaining their position as a curator and educator.
Courtesy of the artist, 2023
Mia Boe
Mia Boe is a painter from Brisbane with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. The inheritance and disinheritance of both cultures is the focus of her practice. Boe’s paintings respond, sometimes obliquely, to historical and contemporary acts of violence perpetrated on the people and lands of Burma and Australia. The artist received a Bachelor of Art, majoring in Art History from the University of Queensland in 2020. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship and is a current Gertrude Contemporary Studio artist. Selected forthcoming exhibitions include Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Portrait23: Identity at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
Courtesy of the artist & Sutton Gallery, 2023
Carol McGregor
Carol McGregor is of Wadawurrung (Kulin Nation) and Scottish descent and is a possum skin cloak maker, painter, printmaker and sculptor. McGregor engages with cultural practitioners, archives, and material collections to visually activate memories and sustain intergenerational transmission of Indigenous knowledge systems.
McGregor has exhibited widely and her work features in national and international collections, including the National Gallery of Australia and QAGOMA. She is currently Senior Lecturer and Program Director of the Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art unit at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
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Situ (Kevin Leong/ Elizabeth Woods)
Elizabeth Woods and Kevin Leong are socially-engaged artists who develop large-scale projects around compelling ideas that invite and structure creative responses. These ideas enable intentional communities to grow from the new relationships formed between artists, writers, designers, activists, community groups, organisations, institutions and government. Developed across Australia and Europe over 20 years, their practice builds sympathetic, collaborative relationships with hosting environments while producing content that is socially-active, challenging and engaging to non-participating audiences.
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Sally Molloy
Sally Molloy is a Meanjin/Brisbane based artist. Her paintings and other creative outputs utilise visual cues and clues from her white suburban everyday life to explore ongoing contexts of colonisation. Often awkwardly humorous and infused with uneasy reverence, her work attempts to deliver what she currently conceptualises as a “backyard critique” that uses humour, crummy techniques, and the detritus of everyday life to undermine postures and processes of distanced criticality. Molloy is a recent PhD graduate from the Queensland College of Art where she currently teaches in the painting department. Her work has been exhibited widely in South East Queensland, as well as in Melbourne and Tokyo.
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Susan Hawkins
Susan Hawkins is a Gunnedah NSW (Kamilaroi) born artist who currently works in Brisbane. Hawkins completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art in 2014 with a double major in Sculpture, and Jewellery and Small Objects. She has presented five major solo exhibitions: Make of Me, Blindside (Melbourne, 2016); The Remainder, Metro Arts Residency Program (Brisbane, 2017); The Speaker, Outer Space Artist Run Initiative (Brisbane, 2019); and Considering Space, Milani Gallery (Brisbane, 2019) and The Perceiving of Sound, Firstdraft (Sydney 2021). Hawkins interactive sculptural and object-based practice has generated public outcomes through Brisbane’s People+Artist+Place at Howard Smith Wharfs (Brisbane, 2019) and Brisbane City Councils Temporary Public Art program. In 2020 she received funding from Arts Queensland and was awarded the New South Wales Art Gallery two-month residency at the Moya Dyring Studio at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris. 2023 commitments will see a solo show Kuiper Projects, Brisbane and a 3 person exhibition at Sunshine Coast University Gallery with artists Mandy Quadrio and Jan Oliver curated by Hamish Sawyer.
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Visaya Hoffie
Visaya Hoffie is a Queensland based artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art at Queensland College of Art in 2017. Trained as a painter, her work often engages a range of
different media including sculpture, painting, printmaking, embroidery and assemblage. Blurring the boundaries traditionally used to define and separate cultural production, her
work challenges hierarchies and the authority of ‘taste’. Visaya’s work merges high art references to those of popular culture—her imagery grabs advertising clickbait and shoves it
together with naive drawing styles, or stitches together craftwork skills with often unsettlingly cute imagery.
Her artistic practice seamlessly extends her collaborative small business ventures with the more familiar roles of a visual artist. Her imagery brings together the observations made
during her extensive experiences in other cities, and her love of the incidental, the everyday, the local, the overlooked, the rejected, the dejected, and the downright stupid.
Courtesy of the artist, 2023
Anthony Vanghoua Vue
Vanghoua Anthony Vue harnesses the frictions and tensions of cultural difference from his transcultural Hmong-Australian experience to develop works that offer more inclusive, diverse, and hybrid tropes of belonging. These works often include everyday materials, objects, and processes that are based on his upbringing in Cairns, the resourcefulness of family members, and the influence of Hmong artistic traditions. Such works are playful, recognizable, and excessively ornamental, and often incorporate humour and satire to blur the lines and definitions that reinforce Othering. Vue’s work also embraces the potential of repurposing private and historical archives, together with Hmong oral stories and collective memories to reinterpret and retell past narratives of Hmong experiences of war and migration, which have been largely overlooked and erased. Additionally, his practice creates transcultural spaces for viewing, art making, and social interaction by diverse audiences within and outside of traditional art exhibiting spaces—often working with the wider public and Hmong community members in Australia and elsewhere.
The artist completed his PhD in 2019 at the Queensland College of Art and has exhibited in Australia and overseas, including as an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Brisbane, Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art at QAGOMA, and at the 6th Singapore Biennale: EveryStep in the Right Direction.
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