Opening Event: Elisa Jane Carmichael | Tamika Grant-Iramu

Exhibition dates: 20 June - 19 July 2025
Exhibition opening event: Saturday 21 June, 4 - 6pm

Onespace warmly invites you to the opening of floating with mangrove kin, an exhibition by Elisa Jane Carmichael in the Main gallery and Fragments of Torino, an exhibition by Tamika Grant-Iramu in the Lounge gallery. We’re delighted that Professor Wesley Enoch AM will kindly open both exhibitions.

Delicately placed within Elisa Jane Carmichael’s exhibition floating with mangrove kin are moments of radical care of self and of Country.  The exhibition warmly embraces prints, woven forms, and textiles that represent Carmichael’s relationship with Country and the way it nurtures human and non-human kin. Made on Minjerribah, Quandamooka Country, and Jagera and Turrbal Country, the works were created throughout times of recovery, healing, a gathering of strength, as well as the moments of intense joy and love that come with motherhood and family life. In this season of life, the artist ground herself and these works alongside the trees of Quandamooka, thinking of their guardianship over Country for thousands of years and appreciating their strength and grand beauty.

- Jocelyn Flynn

Artist residencies take people out of their own environment and community into the unfamiliar. As it is for all travellers, these new places offer artists different perspectives and potential freshness. Yet, artists within a residency have a level of embedding; they spend time, engendering more familiarity. In a residency, an artist is also pushed up against the work—its thinking, doing or both—often amid a level of loneliness and potential hardship that compels self-reflection. It’s an experience not for the faint-hearted; it can be lonely and alienating, requiring high levels of self-sufficiency. In the work for this exhibition, Tamika Grant-Iramu makes evident the portability—her ‘values and affiliations and friendships’ that Pico Iyer describes; wherever she goes, she takes her heritage and perspectives with her. Through Fragments of Torino, we experience an exotic place through her eyes, understanding something of what shapes her explorations of landscape and culture within her psyche. 

- Louis Martin-Chew