What is it like to make art and run museums in regional communities that lack the art infrastructure of metropolitan centres? How do regional galleries manage the tension between being incubators for local practice and a distributions outlet for metropolitan product? What important art is being produced in the regions and is it different? And how might we transcend the regional/metropolitan opposition?
Four prominent regional Queensland gallerists will discuss these and other questions. Chair Megan Williams (Director, UniSC Art Gallery, Sippy Downs) will be joined by Jonathan McBurnie (Director, Rockhampton Museum of Art), Kate O’Hara (Director, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville), and Madeline Brewer (Curator, The Condensery, Somerset).
Make it a day at the IMA:
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12–1.30pm – Artist Talks | Platform 2025: Shannon Toth, Jarrod van der Ryken, and Keemon Williams
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2–3pm – Panel Discussion | Regional Realities
IMA Now You're Speakin' My Language Screening + In Conversation 28 October 2023 1.00PM–3.00PM Curated by Kate ten Buuren, the online exhibition Now You’re Speakin’ My Language is a partnership between the IMA and the streaming platform Nowness Asia. Five artists with Australian First Nations, Southeast Asian, and Asia-Pacific backgrounds present newly commissioned video works reflecting on the ways that language and story connect us across oceans, rivers, lands, imposed borders, and time. Join us for a gallery screening of the videos, followed by a discussion between the curator and artists Tiyan Baker and James Nguyen.
