Exhibition | POSTWORLD

FREE ADMISSION | GALLERY OPEN: Wednesday to Sunday 10.30am – 3.30pm | Closed Monday, Tuesday & Public Holidays

POSTWORLD features Australian artists who create parallel universes.      

Audiences will be invited into playful, sublime, poetic, and cautionary explorations of contemporary works and installations by nationally significant artists including those based in North Queensland. Drawing on the detritus of the human epoch, these worlds have their own internal iconographies and languages existing in alternate time and space. The exhibition engages with contemporary discourse in object-oriented ontology, vegetal thinking, and the post-Anthropocene. New fictions rendered in the past, present, and future provide alternate perspectives on the environment, gender, and capitalist hegemony.

POSTWORLD is a touring initiative co-curated by Kate O’Hara and Daniel Qualischefski, developed by Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts (Umbrella), commissioned by NAFA and toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland (M&G QLD). This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program and by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Umbrella and M&G QLD are supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Both organisations are also supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receive funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.

Join us 5.30pm Friday 23 August 2024 for the Openings of the POSTWORLD, Time of the Signs by Henri van Noordenburg & Carnival Queens
Bookings are essential | Phone 131 872 or Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to book your place
RSVP Wednesday 21 August

Exhibition on display 3 August - 20 October.

Wednesday 11 September - Sunday 26 September | Gallery open daily 10.30am – 3.30pm
Usual Gallery opening hours (and for remainder of Carnival period) | 10.30am - 3.30pm Wednesday – Sunday

POSTWORLD artists Catherine and Stephen of the Cosmic Witness artists, will provide a free COSMIC WITNESS COLLABORATION WORKSHOP.
For further details and to book visit the Events Register listing.

Image: Ron McBurnie, Catherine Parker and Stephen Spurrier, The ghosts sleep beneath our feet and dance above our heads (detail), Cosmic Witness series, 2020-22, Ink, acrylic paint, paint pens, pencil, watercolour and gold leaf, 42 x 29cm.