Monday 15 December 2008

Brisbane Art: Jugglers Art Space X-Show Opening Photos, Fri Dec 12

I went to the opening of the X-Show at Juggler's Art Space last Friday night, saw some fine-looking art, and took pictures of the crowd.



People at Jugglers Art Space X-Show Opening, Friday December 12th 2008, 103 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia-15


There's work from over 40 artists displayed at the X-Show. The ones that stood out most to me were by Shaun Campbell, Mark Zeidler, Merv1! and Kate Geck



People at Jugglers Art Space X-Show Opening, Friday December 12th 2008, 103 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia-25


Shaun Campbell has a really cute style of working. The piece I liked most of his was called "Making The Best Of A Bad Environment - Turtle".




People at Jugglers Art Space X-Show Opening, Friday December 12th 2008, 103 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia-16


Kate Geck had a studio installation in a small room on the upper floor. It had furry white carpet and two large, furry, vaguely alien-looking-beings each with television screens in their torsos. No, not like Teletubbies, these furry things had no arms, legs or faces, and just sat on the floor on their large bases. Weird and fun. This piece got a lot of people looking at it. You can click here to listen to an interview she did for 4ZZZ-FM in July this year about her work on the Big Square Eye project at the Brisbane Festival.




People at Jugglers Art Space X-Show Opening, Friday December 12th 2008, 103 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia-10


Mark Zeidler's piece, "Mi Goreng Long Time" was a stenciled face of a woman onto a piece of carton from the very best junk food that has ever been invented in time and space, Indo-Mie Mi Goreng. If you click here, you can see what the Mi Goreng cartons look like.




People at Jugglers Art Space X-Show Opening, Friday December 12th 2008, 103 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia-32

Merv1! had a wide, short piece called "Charles Whitman" that was full of intricate designs that looked like they took ages and ages to get right. This piece is on the top floor, in the room near the back door.

If you'd like to see the other 35 photos I took, just click here to see them at Zoom, the photo-sharing site.

The X-show is on until January 31st. Click here for a Google Map showing the location of Juggler's Art Space at 103 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley.



People at Jugglers Art Space X-Show Opening, Friday December 12th 2008, 103 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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