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Flash Trash Award Exhibition selected works announced

This year’s Emerging Artists Award Exhibition at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery titled Flash Trash represents a novel but provocative approach to an art exhibition.

Flash Trash showcases creative artworks by 15 artists using materials collected from Toowoomba Waste Management Centre and JJ Richards and Sons recycling facility and will be on display until 22 October.
The works of a number of southeast Queensland artists were selected to feature in the Crates on Wheels travelling schools exhibition in 2007.

Toowoomba artists whose works were selected to tour were Anna Chetwynd, Ritchie Ares Doña, Jordan Hart and Amandine Rich, Maria Richardson, Cara-Ann Simpson and Jennifer Wright (Summers). Gatton artist Adrian Kraatz and Brisbane artists Fi Cameron, Cate Collopy, Kathryn McSherry and Rebecca Ward also had works selected to tour.

Exhibition curator is Brisbane-based Judith Brough who works at the Museum of Brisbane and with Museums and Gallery Services Queensland. Judith Brough said she was immensely pleased with the creative endeavours of the artists.

“The exhibition Flash Trash not only shows how recycled material can be used to produce remarkable artistic creations, but the exhibition also operates as a catalyst for thought and discussion about the ways an individual can contribute to the ecological wellbeing of their environment,” she said.

These aspects will be further developed in the exhibition’s touring component in which the award winning works together with an educational kit will travel to schools in the region.

This, the second Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artists Award Exhibition aims to provide a stimulating contemporary exhibition as part of Carnival of Flowers celebrations and an opportunity to further support emerging artists from southeast Queensland. It also provides a means to significantly extend the Gallery’s schools audience and strengthen educational links.

Council’s Environment and Health Branch helped coordinate the artists’ access to the waste facilities while the JJ Richards and Waste Management Centre staff assisted artists with obtaining their materials, which were literally scavenged from the things the community threw away.

By employing recycled material in their work, the artists promote thought and debate about the disposal of rubbish while validating this method as a legitimate contemporary art practice. For more information please phone the Art Gallery on 4688 6652.

13 Artists are involved in the exhibition, all having created works using recycled materials collected form JJ Richards recycling station in Toowoomba. From this exhibition, some artists work will be chosen to tour regional Queensland.

Ok… onto the next project.

It was a stunning piece that captured the isolation, the intense and helpless frustration of being consumed by depression. The stage was set simply with brown crunchy leaves covering the floor, a couple of casement windows, a door, a table and chairs, and a large claw foot bath. The dancers clawed, kicked,twitched, scrubbed and shyed away from the shadows haunting them, each in isolation.

A beautiful and moving piece that demonstrates how raw abstraction can bring such clarity of experience.

Winners played for 1 night at the Concert Hall, QPAC as part of the Brisbane festival. Created by Fabrica, it brought together musicians from locations around the globe, with the Queensland Orchestra and the Mighty Taikoz. Documentry style video was composited onto various screens.

Winners was an ambitious project that was well worth seeing. For the most part it was successful, however some of the video content was weak (terminally ill patients), whilst some of it was very strong ( Maralinga victims). Interesting camera angles, and concept link ups with Berlin, New York and Sharpeville were explorative and enjoyable.

Technical details were not completely finetuned, eg. synching of the projectors was out - meaning jittery moving images. But this can be forgiven as the whole project was an amazing technical feat.

Great to see some projects out there really pushing technology in interestuing directions.

This was a truly transcending experience. The constant meditative pace made me painfully aware of its opposition to my busy, short-attention-span daily existence. It was beautiful- safron yellow rice on the black stage setting.  The bodies moving without moving, then bursting forward with life. The muscular control…. I am in awe at the whole masterpiece.

We are both having a ball… with wild inspiration and clarity in abundance! Love your work Margi!

In late April all artists visited the JJ Richards recycling station to collect recycled materials to be used in the making of the artworks to be displayed in the exhibition. Naturally the exhibition is about ‘recycling’.

I have been busy in my studio creating sculptues and photographic works from the copper wire, plastic tubing, metal pipes, and other goodies I have collected. Photos will be added to the folio section soon.