Opening event: Saturday 22nd February, 6 - 8pm
Open hours:
Friday - 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm, opening 6pm - 8pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm
Monday - 10am - 4pm
Tuesday - 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
About the exhibition:
In our society we have the means to communicate with such ease, however, despite this many of us struggle to forge connections with the people around us.
Curated by The Corridor Collective, Relay is a response to this degradation of interpersonal communication and the modern issue of social and emotional connection.
The exhibit was created using a similar format to the “Telephone” game. One artist begins a dialogue through their work, responding to the above theme, and the next artist in order creates a response to their work, and so on and so forth.
Allowing for a visual dialogue, this exercise in communication embraces the ambiguities we face in interpreting and understanding the nuances of other people, and demonstrates the human desire to do so.
Jasper Trunks
Toowoomba / Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair Country
Ceramics, printmaking
Jasper Trunks fell in love with abstract art early on in her life, producing pieces that dissect fear and irrational phobia caused by OCD. Most of Trunks's work is autobiographical and tells stories that are embedded with subjects of mental health, insecurities and memory. As an emerging artist Trunks uses a range of mediums and techniques to create her work and is currently working in printmaking and ceramics.
Lulu Watson
Toowoomba / Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair Country
Oil pastels, watercolor paint and embroidery
I am Lulu Watson, an emerging visual artist based in Queensland Australia who is currently completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of Southern Queensland. I make use of oil pastels, watercolor paint and embroidery to create colourful and bright pieces on canvas, paper, and clothing. Producing art that conveys the beauty in mundanity and the ‘ugly’ parts of people and everyday life, is my way of expressing my appreciation for the influential people in my life. I further communicate this appreciation through materials that require excessive time and effort, working in many layers, or stitch by stitch to create portraits and gifts. My work has been shown in the Junior Art Expo 2021, within the Toowoomba Art Society in which I was given a certificate of commendation. I also participated in the founding and organisation of The Corridor Collective, a student artist run curative group, and our show ‘Early Work’ that featured my own works, alongside 9 other artists. I aim to be an artist that can resonate and influence an audience, an artist that has a deep technical and historical understanding in the work they produce and an artist that is unequivocally themself.
Jessica Tann
Toowoomba / Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair Country
Drawing, Painting and Ceramic
Jessica Tann is an emerging artist from Toowoomba, in Queensland, Australia, studying a Bachelor of Visual Art – Studio Practice at the University of Southern Queensland. Driven to create since childhood, and inspired by the nature surrounding us, she experiments with painting and ceramics in order to capture her subject. Tann’s primary focus is the documentation of the natural world, and drawing on the real world to create something new and fantastical.
Ebony Sullivan
Toowoomba / Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair Country
Ceramic sculpture, acrylic sculpture, acrylic painting, ink drawings
I am a contemporary artist from Queensland Australia, creating from my home studio on Jariowair and Giabl land. I am interested in pushing the boundaries of not only what is considered art, but also defying boundaries and concepts of what is expected of the body and mind during the human experience. I experiment primarily with the structure of the human body, the many shapes and forms each person comes in, and the societal expectations of generalised stereotypes placed on each individual body. I create my art through a personal and contemporary lens, often using the process of creation as a form of self-expression, allowing my practice to span across multiple art mediums, utilising the different practices as a corporeal representation of my thoughts and concepts. Though my practice is relatively young, I have been successful in promoting my art, having had my pieces displayed in the Creative Generation’s art gallery collection, and The Corridor Collective’s Early Work exhibition, and successfully selling individual pieces through personal connections. I will continue my practice with an open mind, interpreting the world and experiences around me with the intention of creating intriguing and informative pieces that expand the horizons of contemporary art.
Toph Tri Cera
Queensland
Multidisciplinary mixed media
Toph Tri Cera is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the human condition. Tri Cera leads an expedition through grief, family trauma, and generational healing. Combining her theatre and visual arts repertoire, she creates sculptural, performative, installation, and visual pieces that "blur the lines" between the arts, to achieve work that mirrors the depth, range and seemingly paradoxical nature of Tri Cera's subject of interest, people, and our discomfort in growth.
Bella Juepner
Toowoomba / Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair Country
Acrylics, Watercolour, Charcoal, Colour pencils, Ceramics
My name is Bella Juepner, and I am an emerging fine artist currently studying a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of Southern Queensland. I aim to express emotions or ideas I think many of us struggle to confront when it comes to the self by using portraiture to create colourful, cartoonish and surrealist paintings that often combine my interests of horror, theatre and mythology. My work was a part of The Corridor Collective’s Early Work Exhibition in Toowoomba, and was featured as promotional material for Brookhouse International School in Kenya from 2021 to 2022. My multicultural background as well as my many travels has allowed me to gain insight into many different personal experiences that make our lives so complex and contrasting, and I am driven to provide comfort to myself and others through the visualisation of our shared experiences.