Outer Space

2025 Façade Exhibition Program

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Outer Space’s 2025-26 Facade Projection Program. In addition to the main gallery exhibitions, Outer Space is also introducing an exciting Façade Exhibition Program, running from 2025 to 2026, set to transform the building’s exterior with the vibrant work of 10 emerging, early, and mid-career artists from Queensland.

This program will transform the Judith Wright Arts Centre exterior, of which houses Outer Space’s Main Gallery, into a vibrant public space showcasing large-scale works that engage with the broader community. It will illuminate a rich variety of digital and 2D art forms—from illustration and painting to collage, animation, photography, film, 3D modelling, and beyond! Prepare for an immersive celebration of creativity that pushes boundaries and lights up our city.

Designed to break down the walls between the gallery and the public, the Façade Exhibitions will light up when the sun dips beneath the horizon and feature works by both emerging artists and seasoned mid-career artists from Meanjin (Brisbane). The Façade will serve as a platform for public art, making contemporary practices accessible to all, and inviting conversation and collaboration beyond the gallery’s interior.

Outer Space is pleased to unveil the artists featured in the 2025-2025 Façade Exhibition Program, including:

Dylan Bolger (Maiawali, Karuwali, Pitta-Pitta and Gomeroi) presents

Yet to be revealed

1-May - 5-Jun 2025

Dylan Bolger is a proud Maiawali, Karuwali, Pitta-Pitta and Gomeroi artist. Bold in his experimentation, he works across a variety of mediums and techniques. Most of his works are hand-drawn and exceptionally detailed, reflecting his background in architecture.

Katherine Palella (Meanjin/Brisbane) and Sirena Varma (Meanjin/Brisbane) present

Blatt & Matonelli - Mosaic Morphologies

6-Jun - 11-Jul 2025

In a series of intricate tile designs, our artwork calls back notions of ancestral home and its endurance despite geographic displacement. Exploring how design motifs span time and place in collective memory, this work celebrates and reimagines cultural heritage, merging tradition with digital artistry into an evolving visual experience.

Uncle Noel Blair (Jinibara) presents

Guess Who's Coming to the Corroboree: Late Night Sketches

12-Jul - 16-Aug 2025

Guess Who's Coming to the Corroboree: Late Night Sketches by Uncle Noel Blair showcases intimate sketches, love notes, and humour filled reflections from Uncle Noel's life. Collaborating with curator Libby Harward, the exhibition explores historical narratives, personal challenges, and Black love. Works will be animated and projected on the Judith Wright Centre façade.

Chealsea Carkeet (Wagiman Larrakia and Yanyuwa) presents

Home Away from Home

17-Aug - 21-Sep 2025

Home Away from Home is an animation that responds to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2. It connects the histories between the Northern Territory and Queensland, and what was to come of the communities who were displaced because of the war and the direct threats against Darwin. The narrative behind the work is based on the artists research into their family history.

Paean Sarker (Meanjin/Brisbane) presents

Untitled

22-Sep - 27-Oct 2025

Throughout her practice, Paean has been interested in the aesthetics and politics of ‘absence’. The medium of a public facade projection provides her the opportunity to tease out many ideas of absence through a new material dimension.

Juniper Errey (Meanjin/Brisbane) presents

Sorites Paradox

28-Oct - 2-Dec 2025

Sorites Paradox uses sand as both a medium and a metaphor, transforming the Judith Wright Arts Centre into an alternate time and space. Inspired by antiquities and architectural motifs, the projection blends symbolism and mysticism to explore the transient nature of buildings and history.

Pamela See (Meanjin/Brisbane) presents

Chop Chop

3-Dec - 7-Jan 2025

Chop Chop embraces the cosmopolitan culture of the Fortitude Valley, which evolved during the Second World War. The sequence is constructed using a fusion of traditional craft techniques and contemporary digital animation. This reflects a culmination of technological developments in image-making over the past millennia.

Ben Tupas (Jarowair/Toowoomba)

In The Bag

8-Jan - 12-Feb 2026

“In The Bag” explores the experience of relocation through video projection. The distinctive chequered pattern of mass-produced storage bags becomes a frame where landscapes, objects, and human figures drift and merge. Between departure and arrival, this moving imagery reflects the uncertain journey of leaving one place for another.

Col Mac (Meanjin/Brisbane)

A palace of not being bored

13-Feb - 20- Mar 2026

Drawing inspiration from the frescoes of the Palazzo Schifanoia “a palace of not being bored” explores our relationship with mortality and how aesthetic practices link and blur the boundaries of time, place, biography, and the poetic ways in which these subjects overlap.

Tamika Grant-Iramu (Meanjin/Brisbane).

Complex Ecologies

21-Mar - 30-Apr 2026

Tamika’s projected artwork, Complex Ecologies will be realised through the development of a new relief-print on paper, inspired by native and introduced plant-life that permeates the streets surrounding the Outer Space precinct. The change and growth seen in the patterns formed in her work reflect the perpetual change of people and nature within a singular environment.

We extend our congratulations to the selected artists and are thrilled to collaborate with them in bringing their projects to life at Outer Space in the months ahead.

This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and The Edge, State Library Queensland.