WALLPAPER12 Nov – 24 Dec 2009
Seven leading Australian contemporary artists have produced bold new wallpaper designs. The artists were chosen for their common interest in the figure and make a significant nod to the arts and crafts movement. These artists are part of the current flipside of contemporary art; that which is not focused on new technologies but is interested in the subtle meanings and intimacy of the handmade but without ‘the hand’ being deified.
ARTISTS Rob McHaffie, Anne Wallace, Lisa Radford, Simon Mee, Tiffany Shafran, Sadie Chandler, Megan Keating PARTNERS USQ, HEARTSONG CURATORS SIMON MEE & WILLIAM WILDING Image: Wallpaper design by Simon Mee DOWNLOAD EXHIBITION CATALOGUE PDF | 
| NICK MOUNT : RECENT WORK IN GLASS
24 Sept – 7 Nov 2009
Drawing upon Venetian glass traditions and designs, whilst simultaneously exploiting the freedom inherent in the lack of a glass history in this country, Nick Mount produces extraordinary sculptural works. In an ongoing series investigating the scent bottle, a small functional object is dissembled and transformed into towering forms breathtaking in their scale, virtuosity and beauty. Running contrary to the current movement towards minimalism in this medium, Mount’s work flamboyantly celebrates the artistic possibilities of hot glass. His technical excellence matched with conceptual sophistication, transforms craft into art. CURATOR KIRSTEN FITZPATRICK Image: Nick Mount, Scent Bottles (detail)
|  | MARIAN HOSKING : LIVING TREASURES6 August – 5 Sept 2009
For more than forty years Marian Hosking has consistently produced some of the most refined, beautiful and evocative work in contemporary Australian jewellery and silversmithing. Preferring silver as her medium and engaging with environmental concerns as well as an interest in the meaning of place, Hosking has developed a distinctive body of work. The forms and motifs found in nature or elements of the built environment are captured in jewellery and containers that feature her characteristic use of patterning techniques including saw-piercing and drilling. This survey exhibition celebrates Hosking’s considerable aesthetic achievements.
PARTNERS OBJECT GALLERY
Image: Marian Hosking, Cushion Bush Neckpiece, photograph by Julian Hutchens.  AV Equipment provided by MAAP Media Bank
|  | TAKEN BY STORM – STORM THORGERSON 4 June – 1 August 2009
Building enormous sculptures, devising underwater ballets, setting stuntmen on fire and making land art across fields and deserts are just some of the performances orchestrated by the artist Storm Thorgerson in the process of creating album covers for bands including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Muse, Anthrax, 10CC, The Cranberries, The Mars Volta, Genesis and Ian Dury. Thorgerson, creator of the most iconic album cover of the 20th century, Pink Floyds Dark Side of The Moon, is one of the most significant album-cover art designers of the 20th century. This exhibition showcases some of his best known works. Occasionally obscure, often atmospheric and typically ambiguous, these distinctive images possess a narrative surreal quality and cross boundaries between art and commercial design.
PARTNERS GLOBAL GALLERY
Image: Dark Side of the Moon, Album cover design by Storm Thorgerson |  | DESERT PSYCHEDELIC : JIMMY PIKE8 April – 30 May 2009
Produced at the height of the Indigenous cultural renaissance, Jimmy Pike’s designs were vivid, dynamic and groundbreaking in their use of non-traditional colours. Due to his collaboration with the company, Desert Designs, they exploded onto an international stage via high-fashion garments, textiles and furnishings, and represented one of the most successful forays into the intersecting territories of Indigenous art, craft and commercial design to date. This exhibition, featuring Pike’s original prints, textile lengths and the garments produced from his fabric designs, offers a chance to celebrate Jimmy Pike’s unique talent and to revisit some spectacular fashion from the eighties and nineties.
PARTNER DESERT DESIGNS
CURATOR KIRSTEN FITZPATRICK Image: Jimmy Pike, My Country, 1994, print on paper. |  | UNLEASHED 2009: HAND MADE STRANGE5 February – 4 April 2009
Artisan’s annual Unleashed exhibition showcases the work of promising emerging practitioners in Queensland. This year, the participants in Hand Made Strange, whether making objects under the banner of artist, designer or craftsperson approach their material of choice with a willingness to reinterpret and each successfully finds new potential amongst common objects and materials. As a result we are challenged to broaden the way we attribute value within the fields of craft and design, and concurrently the way we understand a world full of seemingly dispensable things.
ARTISTS Elizabeth Willing, Catherine Sagin, Hannah Cripps, Helen Rogers, Mila Vasikic, Shane Brazier CURATOR TIM WOODWARD Image: Hannah Cripps, Pinned Down (detail), 2007, photograph courtesy of USQ EXHIBITION CATALOGUE PDF |  |
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