TRACERS RUN CLUB
DEPARTING VACANT ASSEMBLY 6.30AM
NEXT RUN SATURDAY 27TH JUNE
- FIRST AND LAST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH -
ALL WELCOME!
Between Breaking and Breathing
Between Breaking and Breathing is a textile exhibition about feeling like you’re constantly coming apart and rebuilding yourself at the same time.
Using stitched fabrics, torn layers, hanging textiles and quiet empty spaces, the works explore identity, vulnerability, growth, and what it means to keep going through change.
OPENING NIGHT
FRIDAY 6-9PM
- Artist Talk 7pm -
EXHIBITION CONTINUES
SATURDAY 10 - 4PM
SUNDAY 10 - 2PM
MOTH
An unknown eclipse
Gather thirty days and nights
To revel in light
MOTH brings together eight multi-disciplinary practitioners, delving into illumination. Conducting experiments, laying open the creative process + creating assemblage to uncover new forms and knowledge using light as their guide.
You are invited to join the investigation during a month long open studio, with special programs hosted throughout the duration of this occurrence.
Practitioners:
Daniel Clifford @mrdclifford
Jamie Grohman @j.grmn_
Jo Isabel Klima @joisabelklima
Khosrow Farahmand @k.fa___
Black Tulip Projects @blacktulipprojects
Sarah Manderson @s_k_manderson
Studio Flek @studioflek
Tim Wilson @tim.wilson.art
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Events over July:
Eclipse I
Sun 12th July 10 - 11am
An Artist led Community Conversation: Translation of Practice (tix info coming)
Eclipse II
Sun 12th July 11.30 - 1pm
A facilitated workshop enabling participants to explore making their own light work using recycled materials (materials provided - tix info coming)
Eclipse III
Sat 25th July 3pm - till late
Closing event drinks /showcase of month-long exploration + exhibition (BYO Welcome)
RAW MARKS TO SACRED STORY
Raw Marks to Sacred Story invites participants into a creative process shaped by sensation, movement, materials and attention. Beginning with large-scale mark-making and evolving across two days, the workshop offers an opportunity to engage with expression in a tangible and embodied way.
The canvas becomes both process and artefact, carrying traces of experience, reflection and personal meaning. On Day 2, participants return to their canvas and shape it into a journal, vessel, stitched form or meaningful object, allowing the raw marks to find form as a personal story.
ABOUT
Ren Jeske is an artist, psychotherapist and creator of Body of WorkTM. She works at the intersection of creativity, embodiment and human development, creating spaces where expression becomes a way of paying attention to what is taking shape within us and through us.
Through movement, mark-making, materials and reflective practice, participants engage with process, relationship and meaning-making through their own creative experience.
Based on the Sunshine Coast, Ren facilitates workshops, therapeutic programs and immersive experiences throughout Australia.
SLIDE NIGHT - DOMESTICITY
This interactive discussion invites an open dialogue around our domestic experience of home. A home can be a place to dwell and it can take on many forms and appearances. Three Artists, @itsthomr, @blacktulipprojects + @clallery will share a slide show of photographic work relating to domesticity and the way they inhabit a place.
We warmly invite you to be part of the experience by contributing your own domestic images for viewing and discussion. Please submit up to 5 images as JPEG files (Approx. 2MB each) to vaslidenight@gmail.com by Monday 13th July
Event: Saturday July 18th 4:30 - 6.30pm Vacant Assembly. 266 Montague Rd. West End
ADMIST THE JEWELS OF US - NIGHT SERIES
Amidst the jewels of us; night series, features the original artwork of Jane Thompson, accompanied by the poetic voice of Veda Laferne and musical soundscape by Aiko Takahashi.
This exhibition asks us to consider the timing and order of our world; the timing and order of our day. Each painting is assigned to an hour of the day, inviting us to journey beyond what we know and what we think we can expect within the confines of our clock-driven day.
Featuring 12 corresponding poems and artworks (extracted from the 24 hour concept and publication ~Amidst the jewels of us~) the exhibition seeks to guide you towards the hidden trails and teachings of our days, inviting you to linger, expand, and connect to a more natural pace of being.
Part of the exhibition will be dedicated to raising funds for the Second Chance Program - a charity in support of women and children at risk or experiencing homelessness and DV. Thompsons artwork, ‘Enough Is What’s Left’ (featured below), will be up for auction throughout the event.
Find out more here: EXHIBITION BROCHURE
OPENING EVENT
Friday 5pm - 9pm (ticketed event)
EXHIBITION CONTINUES
Saturday 10am-4pm
Sunday 10am-2pm
Artwork by Jane Thompson - ‘Enough Is What’s Left’
“When I paint, I like to capture a moment where anything feels possible; where the unexpected demands us to consider the answers we don’t yet know. This is the feeling I relish most, when I am relieved from the predictable and alive with possibilities… Both writing and painting allow me to indulge in this space”
Traces - By sarah Philips
Brisbane artist Sarah Philips focuses on themes of connection, memory and transience in her painted works. Philips’ subject matter is heavily influenced by her time spent on the ocean and the coasts growing up. Her upcoming solo show opens October 8th with special opportunities to learn how to paint still life and seascapes with the artist.
Gilt (2022), Watercolours and Gouche
Photo by Artist
Artist Sarah Philips in her Studio
pop-up
We warmly invite you to join us for Pop-Up, an exhibition of new, recent and selected earlier works by Chris Allery and Samir Hamaiel.
Bringing together works developed over the past several years, the exhibition celebrates two distinct practices connected through a shared interest in place, memory, atmosphere and visual storytelling. While working in different mediums, Chris focused on photography and Samir's practice spanning painting, drawing and digital modes of making. The two artists have long recognised a natural dialogue between their works, making this exhibition a unique opportunity to present them together within the intimate setting of The Lab 266 space at Vacant Assembly.
Please join us for the opening evening with drinks on arrival.
Opening Night
Friday 19 June, 5:00pm–8:00pm
Exhibition Continues
Saturday 20 June, 8:00am–4:00pm
Sunday 21 June, 9:00am–3:00pm
We look forward to sharing the work with you.
Gore Junction
Gore Junction is a loosely medieval inspired pop-up store curated by local artist Nikhita Taylor AKA Mother Gore. It involves 15 of Brisbane's finest artists, providing an intimate experience stocked full of sustainably and locally made pieces. On top of that, it serves as community spot with a variety of accompanying workshops and events.
The shop will be open from 10am until 5pm daily, in conjunction to a free opening event, a paid closing event and a total of 5 workshops.
Further details on these events can be found on Instagram at @goremotherbrand
TALK N TWINE KieRON ANDERSON
Join us for Talk n Twine, an open studio session with current Vacant Assembly resident artist Kieron Anderson, presented in partnership with Aboriginal Art Co and Vacant Assembly as part of his 12-week Occupy Residency.
