14 July — 7 August 2021
NOTE EXHIBITION CLOSED EARLY
DUE TO BRISBANE LOCKDOWN

Holly Anderson, Madeline Bishop, Edwina Green, and Nicholas Tossmann.

Artist talk Saturday 17 July, 1.30-2.15pm (note: gallery is open 12-4pm)

Edwina Green, SELAH, 2021 (still). Courtesy the artist.

Curated by Outer Space's programming committee, 'Snapshot' brings together the work of four emerging artists.

Holly Anderson works with painting to explore sensory experiences with light and landscape. In continual reference to the familiar bathers and sunlit subjects of romantic Australian landscape painting, various ways the body might be more strangely involved in these surroundings are tentatively explored. She has exhibited nationally with Firstdraft (Circling the Sun, 2021), Museum of Brisbane (City in the Sun, 2021), Brisbane’s Outdoor Gallery (Sunny Side Up, 2021), Innerspace Contemporary (Bikini Body, 2019), Outerspace Ari (The Oh No Sun, 2018), Metro Arts (Time and place, 2020) and STABLE (Scroll 2019). Her work is held in the collection of Museum of Brisbane.

Madeline Bishop is a photography and video artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Bishop’s work is conceptually centred around relational dynamics. Exploiting the persistent tension between distance and closeness in photographs, Bishop’s work uses a performative and constructed approach to dissecting the relationship between photography and intimacy. Bishop is a Master of Fine Arts graduate with First Class Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and has been a finalist in a number of prizes, most recently the 2021 Olive Cotton Photography Prize.

Edwina Green is a Trawlwoolway multidisciplinary artist, who lives and works in Melbourne. She works across sculpture, installation, painting, video and spoken word to encourage discourse of cultural erasure/reclamation, ecological violence, dynamic identities, commodification of practice, and the post-colonial paradigm and its effects on people and place.

Nicholas Tossmann’s practice investigates his experience of being a conceptual artist as part of his philosophical search of purpose. He explores these ideas methodically by analysing and questioning his art practice, which involves the process of researching, making and critically reflecting. Text, diagrams and mapping are utilized as a self-reflexive approach to art-making, often taking the form of performance, installation and moving image. Tossmann's work offers an insight into his oscillating sense of purpose through practice. His work invites a contemplation of the expansive potential of art to question our purpose.

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