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Mia Boe at the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane
Mia Boe is presenting a immersive installation entitled Was Satellite Progressive at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (IMA). Responding to the poetry of Murri activist, artist and writer Lionel Fogarty, the painting consists of six panels and is embedded within the space by a wall drawing that traces the circumference of the gallery hall. The installation has been commissioned for the inaugural Platform group show at the IMA, a new exhibition series that showcases commissioned work by emerging artists under forty, who were born, live, or lived in Queensland.
Platform Institute of Modern Art Brisbane 20 April – 16 June 2024
Laresa Kosloff in ‘The same crowd never gathers twice’ at Buxton Contemporary
A series of Laresa Kosloff’s Super 8 film works will be on show as a part of the Buxton Contemporary group exhibition, Crowd Theory. Spanning over a decade, this presentation will feature Office skate (2011), St Kilda Rd (2010), Trapeze (2009), Jogathon (2006) and Fountain (1998).
Spanning moving image, sound, sculptural intervention and performance, The same crowd never gathers twice tests the limits of the arena, highlighting artists’ practices which consider the social and structural architectures that bind these spaces, and by extension, the elastic relationship between performance and reality, audience and participant, public and private. The exhibition invites visitors to consider their presence and agency inside this space, and the potential for more active forms of engagement. Throughout the exhibition, the physical gallery is offered as a site for critical discussion and performance responses.
The same crowd never gathers twice Buxton Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne 10 May – 13 October 2024
John Meade and Nusra Latif Qureshi in ‘Hair Pieces’ at Heide Museum of Modern Art
John Meade’s sculpture Self Portrait as Mary Magdalene (2003-2009) will be featured alongside Nusra Latif Qureshi’s painting Medusa’s Respite Room (2017, on loan from the Art Gallery of Western Australia) in the new group exhibition at Heide, Hair Pieces.
Curated by Melissa Keys, the exhibition explores the evocative and complex significance of hair in contemporary culture through a selection of recent Australian and international works of art. The show will further examine the myriad ways in which artists utilise hair to investigate and conjure generative and even magical possibilities encompassing growth, empowerment and transformation.
Hair Pieces Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen 4 May – 6 October 2024
Nusra Latif Qureshi and Elizabeth Gower at Montsalvat
The forthcoming exhibition Local Remix: Still Life will feature significant still life works from the Nillumbik Shire Art Collection at Montsalvat Barn Gallery. Elizabeth Gower’s Cycles (2015) series from the Nillumbik Shire Art Collection will be on show, in addition to a newly commissioned installation by Nillumbik artist Nusra Latif Qureshi.
Complementing the exhibition, Nusra Latif Qureshi will present free workshops at Montsalvat, wherein children and adults will be able to produce their own still life artworks in response to the exhibition’s offerings. Qureshi was awarded the Nillumbik Local Prize for Contemporary Art in 2019.
Local Remix: Still Life Montsalvat Barn Gallery, Eltham 3 May – 23 June 2024
