Art from the Margins Gallery and Studios

Wesley Arts provides high-quality workshops, mentorship and exhibition opportunities in visual, performing and digital arts, for people of all ages and abilities.

They support and promote talented artists in Brisbane and beyond living with mental health issues, physical or intellectual disabilities or experiencing homelessness and social isolation.

Margins Gallery & Studios provides weekly workshops and a variety of specialised workshops throughout the year focusing on skills development, professional development and artist support. The exhibition program hosts a number of artists per year with opportunities for artwork sales and mentoring.

Art from the Margins Gallery and Studios

136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley QLD, Australia

07 3151 6655

artfromthemargins.org.au

Visiting hours: Monday to Friday 10am - 4pm
Gallery closed weekends and public holidays

Art from the Margins Gallery and Studios

Book Reviews

Shelf Portraits: Yhonnie Scarce’s artwork and research in print

In our ongoing series, Shelf Portraits, Art Guide writers recommend the books—recently published or deserving of more attention—that shed new light on an idea that has long simmered in the art world or has helped them see a familiar medium in a different light.

Jane O'Sullivan

In Pictures

Photos of a life

An exhibition 50 years in the making, Auto-Photo: A life in Portraits currently on display at RMIT Gallery, celebrates the life of Alan Adler, one of the oldest and longest-serving photobooth technicians in the world.

Art Guide Australia

Feature

Setting the Agenda

Artists communicate across space and time in the expansive inaugural exhibition, 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art at the newly renovated Potter Museum of Art.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Feature

Generation, making and exchange in Queer Territory

In Queer Territory at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curator Maurice O’Riordan has drawn together diverse works from the 1980s to the present day to present a snapshot of queer practice in the Territory.

Josephine Mead

Studio

Monica Rani Rudhar on (be)longing

Step inside Monica Rani Rudhar’s space at Parramatta Artists Studios, where she works across ceramics, sculpture, video, performance, and latterly, public art. Rudhar is working towards her solo exhibition at Martin Browne Contemporary, while reflecting on the value of play, how imitation leads to authenticity, and why she’d be lost without her sketchbook.

Jo Higgins

Feature

What if I am more real when I’m projecting?

Inspired by different genres of fiction and digital media, the artists in Ghost in the Machine at Outer Space, Brisbane consider avatars, ghosts, masks and levels of embodiment to ask: what if I’m more real when I’m projecting?

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Art from the Margins Gallery and Studios