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DECEMBER NEWSLETTER
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
HAPPY XMAS & GALLERY CLOSURE 
 
After this strange & challenging year we would like to thank everyone for supporting the gallery in 2020 and wish everyone a very safe & happy holidays.

We will be closed from 6pm Thursday 24th December 2020 until 10am Wednesday 27th January 2021.
(During this closing period, the gallery will be open Friday 15 January 10-6pm)

Urgent enquiries: Michael Eather via email at michael@fireworksgallery.com.au 

Image: Ian Waldron  Black cockatoo (Christmas 2020)  2020  acrylic on canvas   32x32cm   FW19851 

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

on show until Saturday 6 February 2021

Install images by Mick Richards
VALE JAGAMARA 1946 - 2020
It is with profound sadness that I share with you my reflections on the recent passing of Kumantye Nelson Jagamara. Not only was he an internationally acclaimed artist and cherished family member, he was also a truly revered friend and inspiration to many.

Read more about his life and achievements here 

Image: Michael Nelson (top left) as a boy near Yuendumu. Image courtesy Mrs. Pat Jennings. 

RIVER TOTEM REVIVAL
- a collaboration by
Joanne Currie Nalingu + Ian Waldron.


In October FireWorks Gallery was proud be part of a public art installation ‘River Totem Revival’ at the new STARS Herston facility of Royal Brisbane Hospital, commissioned through Australian Unity.

Joanne Currie Nalingu and Ian Waldron created these artworks in their respective studios, forming a dynamic collaborative installation in a large courtyard garden on the 4th floor of the facility.

Yungaburra-based Ian Waldron created seven 3.5m Bloodwood Totems, hand painted with a variety of colourfully striped markings and textured patterns. These are complimented in the adjacent garden spaces by three clusters of Joanne Currie Nalingu’s River Markers, sprouting from the undergrowth. Joanne’s hand painted aluminium and fibreglass forms echo her birthplace, the Maranoa River in Mitchell, and reference shield designs and her river lines works.

Together, this combination of sculptural forms also provide vibrant colour and an overwhelming enchantment to the courtyard garden spaces.

All parties are thrilled to have a contemporary Indigenous presence in the garden spaces, echoing a magical yet wholly natural environment.

“The concept of incorporating a contemporary expression of the Bloodwood Totems into the courtyard garden derives from the empowering nature of the Totem in my life. Having been a positive source of energy for growth, healing and comfort in my own life’s journey, the Totems are the most personal and potent symbol I could offer to the patients, staff, interns and visitors spending time at the Herston facility”
Ian Waldon 2020
 
 
 
2021 PROGRAM
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Pat Hoffie: Prediction Proposal
+
 Jennifer Herd: New works

 EXHIBITION OPENING
Saturday 13 February 2021 2 - 4pm


Exhibition dates:  12 February - 20 March 2021

View the 2021 program here

 

Left: Pat Hoffie Countdown to Midnight 2020 archival inkjet print on paper 120x86cm
Right: Jennifer Herd   North Queensland shield III  2017  pin holes in Arches paper    32x24cm   

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Michael Nelson Jagamara  East & west kangaroo  2019  acrylic on canvas   120 x120cm   FW19131


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9/31 Thompson Street,
Bowen Hills, QLD, 4006
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