A4

A4 is a showcase exhibiting multidisciplinary artist's works which are all A4 sized. 

TIME: Doors open at 6pm.

DATE: 20th of April

LOCATION: House Conspiracy, 42 Mollison St, West End QLD 4101

TICKETS: This event is free for First Nations Peoples. Tickets will be available both online ($10*) and at the door ($15*). Please pre-purchase you ticket online as we have a limited capacity.

Featuring artists from a variety of backgrounds - poets, writers, painters, sculptures and more - we are excited to display works by the following artists: 

Alyssa Djukatana (@sourmango3s): Alyssa Djukatana is an Indonesian born, Meanjin based artist. Their work explores the relationship to ones intimacy and feminine desire. Self portraits and entangled creatures, captured on a mixed media canvas, portray her emotions towards the years of oppressed sexual desires, that came from religious, cultural and familial beliefs. They hopes to invoke the sense of warmth and liberation that they have come to embrace.

Emma Lulu (@lulutatutu): Emma/Lulu is a multidisciplinary artist originating from the Sunshine Coast (Gubbi Gubbi land). Tatu is her main art practice currently, but she also works in various other mediums, not limited to acrylic paint, mixed media drawing, sculpture and performance. She draws inspiration from a combination of anatomical flow, influenced by her background as a dancer, nature and the meditative properties of creating on the subconscious mind. Using subtle texture and delicate line, she builds surreal scapes of abstraction to ornate the body with an air of whimsy. Lulu sees tatu as a form of expressing gratitude and love for our vessels and enjoys the collaborative and giving nature of the sacred and ancient art form.

Gabby Stein (@ethicalcain): Gabby Stein (she/her) is a Magandjin based artist. Primarily a film photographer, her work has been shown by i-D and Musée Magazine. Gabby has developed her practice through transmuting photographs to other mediums. By capturing moments and revisiting them in new forms, she finds a way to play with, suspend, and ultimately appreciate their ephemeral nature.

Germ ( @__germ__): GERM is a visual artist from Meanjin Brisbane. Working on Yuggera and Turrabul Land. Their practice ranges from painting and sculpture to poetry and ani- mation. GERM’s playful approach to art encourages them to continue to push boundaries, explore new mediums and build skills in various practices. GERM's ideas and observastions about gender, adolescence and nostalgia play an intergral part within thier work. These interests are reflected within the autobiographical subject matter of thier paintings and poetry.

Indu Lily (@indu_lily): Indu Lily Abbey is a Meanjin-based artist. Her work is an exploration of identity, relationships, intimacy, and its fleeting nature. It is an ongoing dedication to immortalising people, place and object. Indu takes a diaristic approach, often capturing reality through honest portraiture, whilst also playing with constructing a narrative. All of this is done through the lens of her camera, which she considers a beloved extension of heart. Indu appreciates the camera's candidness but also its ability to play. She specifically focuses on using 35mm and 120mm film, scanning them herself to have more control over the colours she loves to emphasise. She is committed to the poetry of visual storytelling and admires the beauty and limitations of film photography.

Jack Woolrych (@jack.woolrych)

Katty Han (@lilkattyhan): Katty Han is an Indonesian-born, Lutruwita-raised visual artist currently based in Meanjin. She utilises her medium as a means of visual storytelling, weaving mystic symbolism, cultural imagery and mythical creatures into a colourful and chaotic tapestry. Her work allows her to reconnect to her south East Asian ancestry and explore themes of girlhood, faith, rage and identity. 

MAÏA (@maiasaysdope): MAÏA is an Australian, artist, art teacher and music maker in Meanjin. Her work draws upon identity, connection to spirit and lineage, being of mixed, Southern Italian and Indigenous Khoi-San/ Coloured South African heritage.

Nathan Isaac (@avant.bard): Nathan Isaac (They/Them) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Magandjin. Their current practice has been shaped by years of experimentation with media such as photography, video, sound, and painting. Their poetic approach to creating a unique visual language is imbued with musings on the internal self, and how it relates and connects to the external world. Nathan’s method of creating as an intuitive process correlates to their fascination with memories, dreams and the subconscious world. This new body of work is a foray into melding worlds of text and image, of fragments, moments, and contradictions.

Ollie Rudling (@or.n.ot): Oliver Rudling’s oil and acrylic painting almost exclusively focuses on portraiture. His fascination with the human face is simultaneously, a study of the structure of the particular subject , and as a study of paint itself. With heavy layering, Oliver attempts to distort familiar faces often of friends and family, in order to evoke an unsettling reaction in the viewer through a somewhat violent abstraction.

Oluwa.JPG (@oluwa.jpg): Oluwa.jpg is a photographer who mainly focuses on digital and film photography. She aspires to create soothing juxtapositions between the subjects and their environments, giving special attention to posing and movement, with color and tone being key elements of every frame she captures.

Pakahlulu (@pakalulu): Guided by her evolving exploration of ancestry and intimacy, Pakahlulu’s abstract creations capture her learning and questioning through form, language, colour, and texture. Pakahlulu aims to bridge intimate experiences of self with universal experiences of the human condition.

Sam Quyên Huỳnh (@fishsuits): Sam Quyên Huỳnh, occasionally known as Fishsuits, is a writer, artist, and community organiser. Their work has appeared with Red Room Poetry, Jacaranda Journal, Spinning Wildfire, and various other grassroots events and publications. They also self-publish zines with writing from their bleeding heart, imagining new worlds for their kith and kin, people of colour, queer and trans people of colour. They live by revolutionary love on the stolen, never ceded lands of the Turrbal and Yuggera peoples.

Sarah Dinh (@_______dinh): Sarah Dinh is a multidisciplinary artist, whose practice is rooted in her exploration of her queer, Vietnamese-Australian identity through the utilization of mixed mediums and varying art practices such as painting, sculpture, and textile. Strongly drawing on the complexity of heritage and assumed norms and stereotypes that have been shoulder by her due to the racial injustices and prejudices, Dinh creates a dialogue between her and her audience and beckons them to question their position in the grand scheme of things.

Sarah Pilbeam (@sarahshomepage): The world is a digital running race, and Sarah Pilbeam is sat at the starting line cutting up magazines and playing on her typewriter. Analogue techniques colour all spaces of Sarah’s life. Drawn to mixing the tangible with the imaginary, Sarah reaches to the things nestled away in her mind and funnels her intimate thoughts into physical form. To put words to her process, you’d find collage, type, and mixed-media reinventions of found images.

Spot Willows (@spotwillows): Spot Willows is a West End, Meanjin based Artist who is completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Griffith University. Through Willows’ decisions behind materials, canvas and methods she brings to life her feminine perspective and emphasises the natural beauty in imperfectness. She is a passionate creative working with a raw and whimsical tingle, who can be seen exploring a tension between an inanimate life yet something beyond us.

Yannis Katsiotis: I like to let the materials do what it wants. To dictate a artworks outcome— although at a glance the works seem boxed into a cartoon rational, the performance and mechanics of my movements behind the works to me gather more importance then it’s finalised showing. I let a pen fall. I let ink dance on paper haphazardly. I let esoteric paranorma persuade my hand. I try to not be present I try to be a vessel. This is the all the stupidity of my unconscious

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A4 acknowledges that it takes place on the stolen land of the Yuggera and Turbal peoples - the original custodians of the land which we now stand upon - and their ongoing battle against colonialism. We recognise that the First Nations peoples as the first storytellers, poets, and artists and wish to continue to pay respects to them. It always was and always will be Aboriginal land. 

House Keeping - 

DRINKS: House Conspiracy is a licensed venue - please drink responsibly , and do not drink and drive. 

PARKING: There is no parking at House Conspiracy for guests. There is a range of public transports available to get to the venue - bus, train, taxi - or there is some parking around Musgrave Park.

This event supports Queer, Trans People of Colour. Bigotry, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and classism will not be tolerated in any form, and you will be removed from the premise if you are exhibiting any of these behaviours. 

Hope to see you there!

*additional fees may apply.