Our final young artist program for 2017, ArtizPUBLIC, saw a talented group of 9 young artists from across Queensland and Melbourne create their biggest work yet.
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Artist Feature: Allan Tulloch – SWAY
Sway reaches back into Queensland’s coal mining history. This work resulted from a RADF supported project that engaged with retired coal miners and sought to develop ways to use coal as an art material. In this work, I reflect on experiences of retired miners who felt that their work contributed to the state’s growing […]
Artist Feature: Christopher Trotter – Foreign Body
The Recycler by Christopher Trotter The Recycler sees life – life everywhere, Lying in rack and ruin. He dreams of injecting old hearts with diesel, So they to can breath again. He says they are not dead, but merely misunderstood. Old and Worn, Flogged out, rusted and buggered. He says with time – shapes change, […]
Artist Feature: Christopher Trotter
Using words to create movement inspires me. Objects, like words in a poem, can come to life. They can evoke memories. Their meanings can be new. They can create a sense of movement without there actually being any. They can create humour through the juxtaposition of words around them. So often, as an artist, I’m […]
News: October
The Queensland Regional Art Award winners have been announced, and you have the opportunity to tour Queensland to teach your art! Check out what’s happening in October.
Touring Team Journal: Cherie Lynch
Flying Arts Touring Team member Cherie Lynch recently delivered a Graphic Marker Illustration workshop at a school in Far North Queensland. We asked them a few questions about their experiences there! What workshop did you facilitate? I taught the basics of using graphic markers – colouring, blending, shading and how to mix media with them. I […]
News: September
I don’t know about you, but the team at Flying Arts welcomes spring with open arms after the topsy-turvy month that was August. The year is not over by a long shot! We have a full program jam-packed with choices for you again this month. You be the judge – have your say! Voting […]
Artist Feature: Jennifer Long – Tower 1, 2, Ground Zero
I am drawn to the disparate – the obscure and familiar, the real and imagined, the macro and minuscule landscape. Often calm and turbulence lie side by side with ideas of absence and presence in my work. Miranda Beeson’s poem Flight inspired the new works Tower 1, Tower 2 and Ground Zero, where images of […]