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Amelia Gundelach is exemplary of the new crop of young freelance curators emerging in Brisbane, and her latest project for Smith + Stoneley brought together young female contemporary artists from Brisbane and Melbourne under the umbrella of the 'extraordinary'. The exhibition featured Vera Moeller, Bibi Chew, Sarah Bond, Pilar Rajas, Lisa Dittreich, Larissa Hjorth (from Melbourne), and Catherine Brown, Christine Morrow, Andrea Higgins, Janet Callinicos, Wanita Jones, Ann Louise Buck, Belinda Parslow, and Janette Schultz (from Brisbane). The title, extraordinary, was a conundrum in itself. The word describes something which is extra ordinary, and the premise for the exhibition, as developed by Gundelach, was an investigation of the beautiful within the banal, within the everyday. Indeed, while much of the work took its inspiration from the commonplace, and in many cases used manipulated found materials, the end product was on the whole intensely aesthetic.
Christine Morrow's work often explores the domain of the immediately familiar. For extraordinary, she lovingly fashioned huge band-aids which she then stuck to the wall to create interesting Sol le Wilt-like drawings. The title, Grand Mal, which describes a severe epileptic seizure, contrasted with the ineffectual, uncanny size of the bandaids. Ultimately the work was reminiscent of childhood prangs, and Mother's caring touch. In a similar manner, Melbourne artist Vera Moeller showed work from a series called Ego (relaxed. She employed latex gloves to create abundant wall hangings which were arranged in patterns to mimic, amongst other references, female underwear - or more specifically, frilly tennis underpants, flashes of which camera lenses thrill to all over the world.
In a collaboration, Melbourne artist Sarah Bond and Amelia Gundelach produced one of the stand-out