Digital Public Art Commission: ‘Whither Weather’ by Hailey Atkins

Howard Smith Wharves, 5 Boundary Street, Brisbane Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 6 – 11:30pm Brisbane City Council has an extensive public art collection of approximately 500 diverse objects, ranging from large-scale, contemporary sculpture to integrated bespoke elements located throughout the city and surrounding suburbs. For the first time Council has commissioned digital, site-specific, artworks for the city’s public art collection by four leading and emerging local, female artists and shown at Council’s newest Outdoor Gallery location at Howard Smith Wharves. This is the first time all four artworks are on display to the public. These four artworks are: Judy Watson artwork, ‘water under the bridge tumamun’, curated by Blaklash Projects Jenna Lee’s artwork ‘Breathing Spaces’, curated by Blaklash Projects Hailey Atkins artwork, ‘Whither Weather’, curated by Alex Holt and Sarah Thomson Phoebe Paradise artwork, ‘Subtropical Surreal’, curated by Alex Holt and Sarah Thomson About the artist: Hailey Atkins is a Brisbane based sculptural artist. A graduate of the Queensland College of Art, Atkins has exhibited in Queensland, interstate, and in the Netherlands, where she undertook an exchange and a residency with Kaus Australis in Rotterdam. Hailey was a finalist for the Churchie emerging art prize (2018) and co-founded Wreckers Artspace in Brisbane. About the artwork:Whither weather extends upon the Sunny Side Up’s curatorial theme of 'celebrating Brisbane as a subtropical city' to present a short journey through place both real and imagined – a place populated by bright, abstract, weird and wonky objects that are an ode to the South East Queensland summer. As a response to the sculptural works already commissioned for the Sunny Side Up exhibition, the animation incorporates similar forms, colours and textures to reveal new perspectives and ways of interpreting them. Forms are deconstructed and recombined to create new forms that reference things such as Brisbane's hilly suburbs, hot summer days and subtropical thunder storms. This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Event type: Art, Free Cost: Free Bookings: No bookings required. Bookings required: No