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CRISIS OR SIMPLY CHANGE?
BRISBANE'S EXHIBITION SPACES
With the closure of a number of galleries and exhibition spaces in Brisbane over the past twelve months it has seemed that options for local artists are narrowing to the point of crisis. This kind of infrastructural support for artists, being so dependent on individual initiative and resources, is always fragile, and particularly so in a small art community and in the current economic climate. Every gallery has a particular character and aesthetic/political emphasis and caters to a different group of artists and audience, so that loss of even one space means that artists have less choice as to the context in which they show their work and, as an audience, we have an increasingly more one dimensional view of local art activity. A closer examination of the current situation, however, suggests that what we have been witnessing is change not crisis.
Among the galleries to have dosed are MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Ray Hughes (Brisbane gallery), Arch Lane and the Roz macAllan Gallery, however, of these, both MOCA and Roz macAllan will continue operating on a different basis. Until mid 1991 Roz macAllan will work from home and, while she is not running a continuous exhibition programme, she rents gallery space for specific exhibitions, where possible allowing the type of work to dictate the type of space she negotiates. So, for example, she recently organised an exhibition of Mona Ryder's large sculptures in Lyndall Milani's ample studio space at Spring Hill, and will hold a show of paintings by Sebastian Di Mauro and Wayne Smith at Central Plaza One, the centre of Brisbane's legal and corporate worlds. In this... The rest of this article is available to subscribers of Eyeline