Outdoor Gallery: Howard Smith Wharves art projection - Jenna Lee's 'Breathing Spaces'

Monday, May 27 – Tuesday, June 11, 2024 Jenna Lee’s artwork 'Breathing Spaces' will be projected nightly at Howard Smith Wharves from 27 May to 11 June 2024, 5.30pm-11.30pm. The Howard Smith art projections are part of Council's Outdoor Gallery program.About the artist: Jenna LeeJenna is a Larrakia, Wardamanand Karajarriwoman whose contemporary art practice explores the acts of identification, labelling and the relationships formed between language, label and object. Being a Queer, Mixed Race, Asian, Aboriginal Woman, Jenna’s practice is strongly influenced by her overlapping identities, childhood memory and maternal teachings on subjectivity and process.Lee won the prestigious Telstra NATSIAA for WandjukMarika Memorial 3D Award; was the recipient of the 2019 Australia Council Young and Emerging Dreaming Award; presented at the National Indigenous Arts Awards in 2019; as well as one of 10 finalists in the prestigious John Fries Award for emerging and early career Australian and New Zealander artists. In 2018 Jenna was a finalist in the 35th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) as well a finalist in the 2018 Blacktown Art Prize. In 2018, Jenna won the tertiary category in the Libris Artist Book Prize for her the loose-leaf artist book ‘A Plant in the Wrong Place’.About the artwork: Breathing SpacesBreathing Spaces is a poem using historic words from the ‘Breathing Spaces’ chapter of Greater Brisbane Scheme 1929 that describes the importance of breathing spaces within Brisbane. Nearly 100 years on, Council is still committed to increasing Green Spaces around the city.This work aims to contribute towards an appreciation of our collective past through the mixing of words based on the location of the wharves and the surrounding area, with knowledge of First Nations peoples. Venue: Howard Smith Wharves Precinct, Brisbane City Venue address: Howard Smith Wharves Precinct, 5 Boundary Street, Brisbane City Parent event: Outdoor Gallery Event type: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Art, Creative, Culture, Exhibitions, Free Cost: Free Age: Suitable for all ages Bookings: No bookings required. Bookings required: No