Howard Smith Wharves, 5 Boundary Street, Brisbane Friday, April 30, 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.
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: Jenna is a Larrakia, Wardamanand Karajarriwoman whose contemporary art practice explores the acts of identification, labelling and the relationships formed between language, label and object.
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.
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