Outer Space Brisbane

Outer space is a not-for-profit contemporary arts organisation, collaborating with artists and arts workers to develop, make, and present critically engaged creative practice in a supportive professional environment. The exhibitions, events, and programs welcome those involved in, and curious about the arts. Outer space is committed to fostering a sustainable creative community in brisbane that engages local, regional, national and global contexts.

Outer Space Brisbane

Judith Wright Arts Centre, Berwick Street, Fortitude Valley QLD, Australia

outerspacebrisbane.org

Weds to Sat 10am–5pm.

Exhibitions

Surgical Fantasies

Savannah Jarvis

2 Dec - 22 Dec

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John Nixon: A Poet of Prints

Known as a great avant-garde painter, the late John Nixon also created hundreds of prints—which, as those who knew Nixon can attest, exemplify his minimalism, experimentalism, and his interlacing of life and art. John Nixon—Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints is currently on display at Geelong Gallery.

Autumn Royal

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The art books we loved in 2023

Whether scouting the perfect gift or searching for a summer read, our editors have picked their top art books of 2023—spanning everything from a history of ceramics, women and spiritualism, and First Nations practices.

Art Guide Editors

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Tacita Dean’s strange fortune

Since the early 1990s, British artist Tacita Dean has gifted us myriad artworks on the intimacy, unexpectedness, and materiality of film and image making. With a new survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, we look at Dean’s tracing of history and chance.

Isabella Trimboli

In Pictures

Kungka Kuṉpu celebrates the strength of the Anangu women

A new exhibition at Geelong Gallery, in partnership with the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Tarnanthi program, tells the stories of the women artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.

Art Guide Australia

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The women raised by wolves

From crones to witches to grandmothers, the feminine monstrosity offered by fairy tales is an antidote to our current, unsatisfying forms of female transgression—as a new exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art reveals.

Neha Kale

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Kandinsky makes the abstract emotional

The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s Kandinsky is the largest showcase of the modernist’s work ever to be exhibited in Australia. What makes his abstract expressionism endure?

Outer Space Brisbane

Outer Space Brisbane

Exhibitions