Art continues to change and save the world at the same time. From our hearts and homes to the streets we walk, find the coolest creative innovations our crew happened across in May.
Find beauty in the simplicity of everyday routine, see a light split the sky and explore the freshest online marketplace to buy original art.
Daily Isoachievements with Camille Manley
Thanks to a Rage Against the V(irus) grant from HOTA, Gold Coast illustrator, Camille Manley is celebrating the simple activities we can find joy in each day. Being stuck in lockdown at home can be challenging for a lot of people, especially in a social, active, outdoor city.
Stay mentally and physically in shape while in isolation. Every day for seven days, a mixed media illustration will highlight a cheap and accessible task that can be used to add structure and fulfilment to our days.
This project was partially inspired by a New York Times article by retired astronaut Scott Kelly about isolation. We appreciate you, Camille!
Camille is multidisciplinary artist who has called the Gold Coast home for the past four years, working across digital illustration, visual art and graphic design. Through her freelance practice, she enjoys exploring and blurring the boundaries between digital and traditional mediums.
Watch Spectra via livestrem
Oh, MONA, how we love you. Imagine a tower of pure, white light, reaching fifteen kilometres into the Hobart sky above the Domain. The visual and conceptual masterpiece by Ryoji Ikeda.
At the base of the tower, forty-nine custom-made Xenon searchlights are set into the ground in a seven-by-seven grid; combined, they point a fleshless finger at the town straight down, it seems, from some sort of imagined, omniscient seat in the sky. Sine waves—the purest kind of sound wave—form invisible sonic patterns at the base; your movement alters their composition in a way that only you can specify. For now, you’ll just have to imagine this part, we certainly are.
This artwork was presented as part of Beam in Thine Own Eye at Dark Mofo 2013. See Spectra Live Stream Saturdays at MONA.
The Mint Art House Store is open!
Collect pieces from local artists residing at Mint Art House. Mint Art House is the Gold Coast’s freshest Artist-run studio and event space. Home to 20 local artists (affectionately known as ‘Minties’), ranging from ceramicists, to painters and sculptors. Mint is a collaborative studio that hosts artist-run workshops to the public. An incredible concentration of the best young artists and makers that the Gold Coast has to offer.
“Art isn’t meant to be experienced exclusively in a white-walled gallery.” – Mint Art House
Creativity is free for all - and best expressed openly. Support your local artists!
Paint the Void
We are frothing this initiative. "Paint the Void" are helping keep artists engaged and paid as guardians of hope and beauty in the wake of COVID-19. Boarded up businesses and empty trading spaces are given a face lift with original large-scale murals, turning the post-apocalyptic hellscape into one of creativity, beauty and impact.
The team (all volunteers, might we add) pair spaces with artists to deliver a curatorial vision for the benefit of the community. Paint the Void is two public art organisations joining forces: Building 180 and Art for Civil Discourse.
Surrealistic Pleasure
Download the mini ezine, Surrealistic Pleasure by Sapodia Lindley
Surrealistic Pleasure is a mini magazine that has combined content of photography, writing and graphic design. Download to enjoy articles traversing the importance of imagination and creativity in a hyper realistic era; an analysis of the recent film Portrait of a Lady on Fire, contributions from a feature artist and recommendations of film, books and music.
Sapodia is a writer, poet and filmmaker. She has been a contributing writer for magazines such as Paradiso, Byron Arts Magazine, New Story and Love Letters, and has been an editorial assistance for Accidental Discharge. She recently published her first book of poetry Notes to Jala, which was accompanied by a super 8mm short poetry film. She has exhibited at places such as the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane) and ACMI (Melbourne), and multiple times for the local emerging art exhibition Deeper than You.
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