SUPERCUT x ARTIST BOARDRIDERS CLUB
9 May 2022 onwards
From Where You’d Rather Be
Artist Boardriders Club / From Where You’d Rather Be 2022 / collaged digital images / Images in collage courtesy of ABC, Chris Bennie and Claudio Kirac
Artist Boardriders Club (ABC) makes art that navigates spatial investigations, and ideas of impermanence and transcendence in the urban and aquatic landscapes. From Where You’d Rather Be presents a line-up of images that float across the surface of the billboard. Superimposed into the landscape in an unknown location, the artwork invites the viewer to look deeper, out to an imaginary horizon, even though the experience of the artwork is a fleeting moment. Capturing a sense of transience, temporality and fluidity as echoed by the ever shifting water and sand - the elements that make up the ABC’s primary playground - From Where You’d Rather Be pieces together past installations, surf sessions, memories and follies. The work captures the ongoing dynamic of group collaboration, with multiple perspectives presented as a collective gesture.
Bruce Highway
2km south of Isis River
South of Childers Q 4660
(map here)
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Hailing from Queensland’s Gold Coast, the Artist Boardriders Club (ABC) surf and make art on the fringes of the 8th World Surfing Reserve. Since forming in the line-up at Snapper Rocks in 2018, ABC has exhibited over thirty artists in three curated exhibitions: Surf Salon (2019) at THE WALLS and Surf Salon (2018) at THE WALLS/Maverick Artspace; as well as hosting workshops, screenings and artist talks: Dandy Savage, Fran Miller (2020); Party Wave, Tessa Bergan (2019); Smiling Bag, Shane Fitzgerald and Dion Agius (2019); Surf Salon, Tim Baker (2018). In 2021 they presented their first collaborative exhibition Dot Matrix of Humanity at Metro Arts in Brisbane with essay by Tim Baker. In 2022 they will be part of the inaugural Flotsam Festival on the Southern Gold Coast and presented at Pecha Kucha Gold Coast ‘Water’ as part of the Asia Pacific Architecture Festival APAF, and on ABC Gold Coast Radio. The ABC host monthly social surf meet-ups throughout the year.
Documentation by Alistair Brightman
SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and is presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.
Artist Boardriders Club are also supported by VISSLA.