TRACERS RUN CLUB
DEPARTING VACANT ASSEMBLY 6.30AM
NEXT RUN SATURDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER
- FIRST AND LAST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH -
ALL WELCOME!
ZEE DOG - POP UP
The popular Brazilian owned pet brand Zee.Dog is getting a pop up store in West End!
Come by between the 16th and 30th of September to check out the uniquely printed and limited edition Farm Rio prints while they’re here!
Check out their Australian website now to get a feel for what to expect seeing in the space!
See you there!
My Second Language
Join us for the opening night of My Second Language, beginning with a warm welcome and a short introduction to the project and the ideas behind the exhibition.
Guests will be welcomed with a complimentary glass of wine and a selection of light bites while experiencing the exhibition.
A small selection of My Second Language merchandise will also be available for purchase during the evening.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Zaida Jalhk is a Colombian filmmaker and visual storyteller based in Brisbane. Her work is driven by an interest in finding different ways to tell stories. Throughout her creative practice, she has explored the combination of live-action, animation, photography and written forms, using each medium as part of the storytelling process. This experimental approach allows her to create narratives where images, words and different visual languages come together to communicate emotions, ideas and human experiences.
Portrait Painting Workshop - Dave fENOGLIO
Join multiple Archibald Portrait Prize finalist David Fenoglio for a two-day portrait painting workshop. The workshop will focus on natural and realistic representation of the live model in oils. Limited to 8 places. 9am - 3:30pm both days.
An alla prima approach will be demonstrated, including blocking in shapes, proportion, anatomy, design, value/colour relationships, colour mixing and paint handling. Foundational principles will be discussed while demonstrating a variety of technical approaches.
Day one will focus on anatomy and proportion with students creating a block-in drawing and one short alla prima painting from the live model.
Day two will focus on modelling form, colour mixing and paint application with students creating one longer alla prima painting from a live model.
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Three photographers, three perspectives, one space.
Join us from 5.30pm - Late
More info to come!
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
The Business of Art
This course can be purchased in full. Fortnightly or monthly payment plans are also available. Please pay your deposit (50% or 25%) accordingly and you will be invoiced for the remainder.
See course content below:
ADMIST THE JEWELS OF US - DAY SERIES
Amidst the Jewels of Us; day series, features the original artwork of Jane Thompson, accompanied by the poetic voice of Veda Laferne and musical soundscape by Aiko Takahashi.
Each painting is assigned to an hour of theday, 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 poems and artworks from 5am - 4pm (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.
Find out more here: EXHIBITION BROCHURE
OPENING EVENT
Friday 5pm - 9pm (ticketed event- $15)
EXHIBITION CONTINUES
Saturday 10am-4pm
Sunday 10am-2pm
Artwork by Jane Thompson
ABOUT
Jane Thompson is a professional artist based in Brisbane/Meanjin who paints to express and connect with the dualistic nature of the every-day-visible and the felt-but-not-seen.
Thompson approaches the canvas with a curious reverence for the unannounced, resulting in a spirited surrender to the way in which she uses her materials. Watered-down acrylics are invited to splash and wander rebelliously across the canvas; while oil sticks, graphite and thin lines of paint are applied in intuitive loops and iterations, resulting in abstracted bursts of energy. Her work transpires a felt desire to reconnect and nurture a relationship with the wild and natural, carrying the subtle impressions of a dreamer.
Thompson also implements a daily writing practice to inspire and elevate the themes of her paintings. Her poetic expressions and accounts (written under the alias Veda Laferne and Jane) are as essential as the artworks themselves where a resonate relationship can be felt between the two.
Natsu with OKAERI
Join us as we return to Vacant Assembly for Natsu with OKAERI—a month-long celebration of Japanese craftsmanship, thoughtful design, and the everyday beauty of objects made to last.
Explore a carefully curated collection of handcrafted Japanese homewares, traditional ceramics, paper lamps, incense, tea wares, matcha accessories, and unique gifts, sourced directly from skilled makers across Japan. Alongside returning favourites, this year's pop-up will feature a range of exciting new pieces making their Brisbane debut.
Whether you're discovering OKAERI for the first time or returning after a previous visit, we invite you to slow down, browse at your own pace, and learn the stories behind the crafts and artisans who create them.
Designed to be enjoyed for a lifetime, each piece in the collection is functional and intended for you to cherish and enjoy every day.
To celebrate the Australian summer, we'll also be serving complimentary cold-brewed Japanese green tea and iced filter coffee throughout the event.
EVENT TIMES
NOV 6 - NOV 29
OPENING HOURS
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm
Convergent Bodies: First Leap
Image Credit: Bianca Tainsh (microscopy image with Sandra Tuszynska)
Convergent Bodies is a visceral self-identification with other interspecies bodies and the emergence of a speculative posthuman future where technology is applied as ecological steward and interlocutor for entanglement with the more-than-human.
In an 11-week OCCUPY residency, artist Bianca Tainsh has been visualising this concept through experimental juxtapositions of a vast exploratory archive of organic artefacts and digital documentation, and an accumulating body of aesthetic and conceptual research exploring microscopic and subterranean realms and the relational and metaphysical entanglement of all species. Unlike Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature, Tainsh's archive seeks the wild asymmetries of decay, sexual manifestation, and symbiosis.
Convergent Bodies: First Leap is the initial manifestation of a new body of work that will take its cues from Tainsh's residency experiments.
OPENING EVENT :
5-8 pm, Friday 18th September
EXHIBITION CONTINUES:
10am–3pm, Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
Also on show and for sale will be a series of reflective works, created through Tainsh's explorations of the more-than-human landscape of Lake Weyba, Kabi Kabi Country. Many of these works have not been exhibited in Queensland.
Peruse a mini library of books that will open your mind to the alternative and inspiring views that art, radical research, and Indigenous cosmology offer in the face of our polycrisis and detachment from the more-than-human world to which we belong. Bianca will be on site if you'd like to explore the concepts that are interlaced through her works.
Photo by Bianca Tainsh
LETTERS WORKSHOP - WITH TWO CLAY HEARTS
Create a personalised keepsake in this beginner-friendly Polymer Clay Letter Workshop!
Learn the basics of working with polymer clay as you design and create the letters of your name (or a word of your choice). Once your pieces are complete, choose to turn them into a set of magnets or a framed artwork that's ready to display in your home.
Perfect for all skill levels, this relaxed and welcoming workshop includes everything you need:
All polymer clay, tools and equipment
Step-by-step guided instruction
A fun, friendly and welcoming atmosphere
Take-home baking and finishing instructions
Your choice of finishing materials, including frames, magnets and glue, so you can complete your project at home
Come along, get creative, and leave with a personalised piece that's uniquely yours.
UQ Society of Fine Arts Exhibition
Welcome back to SoFA’s fourth instalment of A Very Big Giant Party! Prepare yourself for another incredible night of art, featuring the works of 20+ artists from our local region here in Magandjin and Southeast Queensland surrounds. Grab a drink and have a boogie, cause we're amping up the party vibes this year with a night of DJ tunes.
A Very Big Giant Party presents the perfect evening of culture and community, a one-night-a-year showcase of Brisbane's hottest artistic offering. The SoFA team has curated the works of early and mid career creatives, highlighting a variety of media and thematic explorations in this this open call exhibition. By celebrating the feats of these artists, we encourage their prospective careers through this community focused event.
Join us as we celebrate another round of your favourite annual art night!
LIANA DUO
From the sun-drenched streets of Rio de Janeiro to the smoky cafés of Buenos Aires, Liana Duo invites you on an intimate journey through the vivid landscapes of Latin America.
The evening unfolds like a collection of musical postcards, each revealing a different corner of the continent. Wander through the colourful laneways of Havana, where Cuban melodies drift between old buildings and lively plazas; be swept away by the sophisticated spirit of Brazilian choro, where dialogue and spontaneity intertwine; and enter the shadowy world of the tango — from the bustling brothels of its origins to the dimly lit nightclubs where its tales of longing, desire, and nostalgia came to life.
Across Colombia, Cuba, Argentina, and Brazil, these works reveal music that is both outwardly vibrant and deeply personal. Through song and dance, and through the resonance of their instruments, Liana Duo invites you to experience Latin America not only as a collection of places, but as a tapestry of memories, emotions, and stories carried through generations.
Flute / Alto flute: Jenna Choi
Guitar: Karen Arango
FIVE- COMMUNARTY’S 5TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
5 years of creativity, community and collaboration!
We look forward to sharing with you the works of our diverse group of talented artists, expressing views of their worlds through a variety of media.
Always a highlight, this year our documentary film will give insights into our artists' 'Top 5'.
OPENING EVENT
Saturday August 29: 4PM - 7PM
EXHIBITION CONTINUES
SAT/SUN: 10AM - 2PM
SLOW SESSION 2
Share a slow afternoon at Vacant Assembly during a Meditation, Ink and Tea Workshop led by Form/Empty.
ART ADJACENT - FOOD TIES
Join Hannah Elias, Ned Bowden and Lauren Deakin [home cooks and creatives] for a conversation about how food keeps us connected to people, places, and cultures. You’re invited to bring a dish with ties to someone or somewhere that matters to you.
DATES + TIMES:
SAT 15TH AUG: 4:30M - 6:00PM
Tix $15 (proceeds go to VA + speakers)
FLAEX POP UP
Flaex is a small, slow fashion brand with a strong moral conscience built by Sally Kelso. Sally is a mother of 4 and lives in the country town of Inverell on the slopes of northern NSW, working with her partner Tony.Each flaex garment is individually handmade and therefore a personal approach to selling her pieces is central to Sally’s ethos.
While Sally usually sells her work directly out of her home studio or online, this is a special opportunity to see Flaex garments in Brisbane over three days August 6-8.
kin 03
Four artists, a mother and daughter, and two sisters, come together to consider aspects of kin and kinship. Silvia Watt, Rose Moxham, Margaret Pascoe & Laura Pascoe.
THE BAT CAVE - OPENING EVENT
Jay Musk and James Briody invite you to the official opening party of the Bat Cave (Located in the heart of Vacant Assembly). Kicking off from 6pm July 24th.
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
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.
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
An Artist led Community Conversation: Translation of Practice
Sun 12th July 10 - 11am (buy tix on below link)
Eclipse II
A facilitated workshop enabling participants to explore making their own light work using recycled materials
Sun 12th July 11.30 - 1pm (buy tix on below link)
Eclipse III
Sat 25th July 4pm - till late (no tix required)
Closing event drinks /showcase of month-long exploration + exhibition (BYO Welcome)
Open Hours for Month:
Tues 1 - 3pm & 5.30 - 7.30pm
Thurs 1 - 3pm & 5.30 - 7.30pm
Friday 10th & 24th, 10am - 3pm
Sat 8am - 2pm
Sun 9am - 1pm
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
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.
