Opening Event: Blooms, Beasts and Beyond | The Sacred Shared Labour

Left: Brian Robinson, Sping + sprout II (detail), 2023, vinyl cut print on paper, 100 x 200cm, 2AP + Edition of 10. Image: Michael Marzik. 

Right: Prita Tina Yeganeh, My Soil Farsh فرش (detail),  Image: Louis Lim. 

Onespace invites you to the opening of Blooms, Beasts and Beyond, an exhibition by Brian Robinson in the Main gallery and The Sacred Shared Labour, an installation by Prita Tina Yeganeh in the Lounge gallery. 

Exhibition dates: 22 November - 21 December 2024
Exhibition opening: Saturday 23 November, 5pm - 7pm
Brian Robinson | Artist in Conversation: Saturday 23 November, 4pm - 5pm 
Prita Tina Yeganeh | Artist in Conversation: Saturday 7 December, 3pm - 4pm 

MAIN GALLERY | BLOOMS, BEASTS AND BEYOND

For Blooms, Beasts and Beyond, Brian Robinson envelopes us in the early times, ‘in the beginning’, when the spirits and deities created the Islander world. A time where deities like Sida, Gelam, and Waiet created the attributes for each of the respective islands of the Torres Strait such as Moa, Mabuiag, and Mer. A time when the spirits and gods did not exist in a separate realm, they were integral to everyday life. 

After three decades of national and international exposure through exhibitions, commissions and art prizes (2024 marks 30 years since Brian first graduated from art school), he has developed a sophistication, confidence and maturity in his art practice that translates this intercultural storying into an aesthetic of generative interconnectivity.

LOUNGE GALLERY | THE SACRED SHARED LABOUR
Onespace is delighted to present The Sacred Shared Labour, the second iteration of Prita Tina Yeganeh’s ongoing series My Soil Farsh فرش. This iteration explores collective labour as a vessel for activating community kinship. In a deeply symbolic and physical act of cultural embodiment, women from Prita’s community came together over 145 hours to hand-grind 45 kilograms of discarded soil from Magan-djin (Brisbane). Through practices of stillness and rhythmic, embodied motions, this act of shared labour transformed the physical task into ceremony. The labour of energy and bodies became an offering—a space for emotional release, knowledge exchange, and cultural remembrance.

The Sacred Shared Labour emerges from a process that reclaims labour from production and commodification, returning it to its roots as a tool for ceremony, healing, and reconnection with heritage, land, and one another.