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How can artworks find renewed meaning over time? Over 20 years since the inception of Marian Drew’s renowned ‘Australiana Still Life’ series, the exhibition ‘Wild Tender Close’ has offered us the special opportunity to look closely at Drew’s photographs with transformed perspectives. @marianddrew @alikubie For the opening of ‘Wild Tender Close,’ we were lucky to be joined by Alison Kubler, Editor in Chief of VAULT, in conversation with the artist Marian Drew. They discussed Drew’s artistic process in realising the ‘Australiana’ series, highlighting the importance of collaboration in the visual arts community. ‘Wild Tender Close’ is showing until May 23. Come catch the exhibition as it enters its final weeks on display. Video: Magenta Stafford. Includes excerpts from the documentary ‘AUSTRALIANA’ by Alex Chomicz.

Onespace warmly invites you to the opening of Pause for a Human, an exhibition in the Main Gallery by Ham Darroch, and Cut the Line, an exhibition by Caroline Gasteen in the Lounge Gallery. Exhibition: 29 May - 4 July 2026 Opening Event: Saturday 30 May, 5-7pm | Artist Talk: 4 - 5pm | RSVP Via Humanitix @hamdarroch @caroline_gasteen In ‘Pause for a Human’, Ham Darroch meditates on humanness with an unfaltering sense of curiosity and colour. Darroch occupies the Main Gallery with a series of large scale paintings that are sharply abstracted yet playful; inviting viewers to explore the spaces and currents of colour within the compositions. These expansive paintings are thoughtfully balanced with vintage bats collected over the years by Darroch. For catalogue essay writer, Yvette Dal Pozzo, these bats “become a contained site where Darroch’s interest in everyday ephemera and his painting practice meet in open conversation.” Here, ‘Pause for a Human’ transforms the gallery space into an expansive site of human inquiry. ‘Cut the Line’ sees Caroline Gasteen translate provisional maquettes into a series of intriguingly sinuous oil paintings. Through movement and tonal contrast, the images transform each maquette into autonomous subjects rather than inanimate objects. Using readily available materials, the maquettes register the necessity to keep acting on a human scale under the constraints of daily life—childcare, cost of living, and the conditions for liveable work. This looming sense of precarity is brought to life by the two-metre-high painting, Gnawing at the Cord (For Amy), posing a departure from Gasteen’s often small-scale output that is grounded in a sense of utility. Cut the Line describes a practice shaped by constraint, where the impulse to keep going persists despite uncertainty, and where small gestures are set against forces that exceed them.

Onespace proudly congratulates Darren Blackman on his solo exhibition, ‘Post Truth,’ displayed at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery until 18 July 2026.   @darrenblackmanart @bundabergregionalgalleries   Darren Blackman is a proud Gureng Gureng / Gangalu man from Queensland’s central coast, with South Sea Islander heritage from Vanuatu. The exhibition “speaks to some of the issues at the centre of the Australian Government’s Close the Gap campaign, that set intent to achieve health, education and employment equality by 2030 and reduce the seventeen-year life-expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples. Touching on oral history from his Elders and reworking those messages, Darren channels personal observations and his lived experience, to witness a wide range of Aboriginal perspectives and mainstream political and media inference.” Image: Darren Blackman, Make Austraya Great Again, 2025, led-neon light with clear acrylic back board. Image Credit: Michael Marzik. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace.

It was a pleasure to have Marian Drew and collector Dr Daryl Hewson at Onespace yesterday afternoon to explore ‘Wild Tender Close.’   Their thoughtful discussion shed insight into the development and enduring relevance of Drew’s nationally and internationally significant series ‘Australiana Still Life.’ A long-time friend and collector of Marian’s, Daryl offered the audience with the opportunity to view Marian’s renowned photographs with a changed perspective. Thank you to both Marian Drew and Dr Daryl Hewson, as well as everyone who came out and contributed to such a wonderful afternoon.   Our Gallery Walk Through events are a special forum to connect with our Represented Artists and meaningfully engage with exhibitions at Onespace. Stay connected with our social media to hear about future Gallery Walk Throughs.

Join us for an exclusive gallery walk-through this Saturday with artist Marian Drew and prominent photography collector Daryl Hewson, as they explore the current exhibition ‘Wild Tender Close’. Event: Saturday 2 May 2026 | 2–4pm Tickets: $15 (link in bio) Afternoon tea and refreshments provided @marianddrew Alongside his medical career, Daryl is a passionate collector and patron of contemporary art, and a long-standing supporter of Queensland’s cultural community. Over many years, he has built an extensive and considered body of work known as the Daryl Hewson Collection, which has been shared publicly through institutions such as QUT Art Museum and the State Library of Queensland. He has also made generous cultural gifts to QAGOMA and HOTA. Daryl has known Marian for many years, first collecting her work in 1998. This conversation marks 21 years since their published interview and collection survey undertaken by the then Queensland Centre for Photography, titled ‘Perception’. Image: courtesy of Museum of Brisbane and Claudia Baxter.

Experience Jo Lankester’s intricate print, ‘Cutheringa - Spring,’ now on display in Rockhampton Museum of Art’s (RMOA) new exhibition, ‘Intimacy,’ open until 5 July 2026.   @jo.lankester @rockhamptonmuseumofart   ‘Cutheringa - Spring’ is a powerful expression of Jo Lankester’s sense of place and landscape. She is a printmaker who lives and works in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. For Lankester, the natural environment is a constant source of inspiration providing an endless supply of subjects including found objects, natural forming patterns, textures and colours that translate beautifully through a multitude of printmaking techniques. Lankester seeks out the many stories the landscape has to be told and expresses them in detailed and multi-textured unique state prints. She explores ideas of experience, recollections, and elements of the landscape which convert to colour, line, texture, and form. Her work is specifically inspired by her local regions’ dry and wet tropical landscape, extending west of Townsville to Charters Towers, Magnetic Island, and as far North as Weipa.   Visit ‘Intimacy’ at Rockhampton Museum of Art until 5 July 2026.     Image: Courtesy of the artist and Rockhampton Museum of Art.

Onespace congratulates Tamika-Grant Iramu on her dazzling projection, ‘Complex Ecologies: Evergreens at Dusk,’ displayed by Outerspace on the façade of the Judith Wrights Centre until 30 April 2026.   @tamikamaree.art @outerspace.brisbane   ‘Complex Ecologies: Evergreens at Dusk’ depicts native evergreens that continuously thrive in streets of Brisbane, heroing the Golden Penda, Australian Lemon Myrtle, Native Frangipani and Brisbane’s floral emblem, the Golden Wattle. Looking up at these trees as dusk fell, Tamika noticed the intricate details of these plants being illuminated by the light. These details were not static but moved with the rhythm of their surrounding landscape.   The design for this work was realised through the creation of a linocut print on paper, where Tamika used linocut carving as a tool to capture her visceral impression of place. The relationship she has with this carving process corresponds to the strength and fluidity of her natural environment, the constant randomness that arises from the directions in which she carves allows newly discovered forms to grow.   By translating the minute details of flora onto Outerspace’s Projection Façade, the small details seen in these plants will be amplified and brought to the foreground, influencing how we engage with the work; what is discovered, what is noticed.   Head out to the Valley and experience ‘Complex Ecologies: Evergreens at Dusk’ on display until 30 April✨✨   Images: Cian Sanders. Courtesy of the artist and Outerspace.

Join us for the opening of ‘Wild, Tender, Close’ by Marian Drew this evening! Artist Talk: 4-5pm Opening: 5-7pm @marianddrew Image: Flourish, 2026, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 91 x 64cm, 2AP + edition of 10. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace.

Opening this Saturday, 18 April ‘Wild Tender Close’ by Marian Drew, 5-7pm. Explore the series through a curated selection of prints, beautifully presented as Solander box sets! For all inquiries on the box sets, email [email protected]. @marianddrew Images: Louis Lim. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace.

Really looking forward to speaking with Marian Drew @marianddrew on Saturday at @onespace_au in conjunction with her beautiful new show ‘Wild Tender Close’ Please come along! Saturday 18 April 2026 4.15-4.55pm Opening 5-7pm Marking more than two decades since the inception of Marian Drew’s Australiana Still Life series, Wild Tender Close assembles 46 significant works from the collection, curated by the artist herself. Nationally and internationally acclaimed, the series recontextualises the still life genre through ornate, yet haunting, images of deceased fauna found in Australia by a community of contributors. Through intimate portraits and carefully composed arrangements, Drew conveys a deep care and reverence for these creatures—lives often dismissed as mere ‘roadkill.’ Pippa Milne eloquently states , “Drew’s images, in their stillness, offer a provocation: to consider animals not as peripheral to human life, but as central to it—as participants, as knowledge holders, as beings whose lives intersect with us but need not serve us.” The exhibition is further anchored by 12 Wishes, a major work spanning 7.5 metres, making its Brisbane debut. Although realised over a period of two decades, these works feel newly urgent amid escalating existential threats such as climate change and habitat loss.

Sonja Carmichael | 400 George St Onespace congratulates Sonja Carmichael on ‘Talwalpin durenma dutta,’ - her first major public art commission centrally located at 400 George Street, Brisbane (Meanjin/Magandjin) City. @sonniecarmichael @uapcompany @shape_aus @woodsbagot Commissioned by Cromwell Property Group and developed in close collaboration with the architectural firm Woods Bagot, Sonja Carmichael’s ‘Talwalpin durenma dutta’ was realised under the curatorial guidance of Urban Art Projects (UAP) curator Tess Bakharia. UAP Associate, Benjamin Clay, writes that “At 400 George Street, Carmichael honours human and non-human kin by tracing thousands of years of First Nations knowledge and connection to Country... The artwork unfolds across multiple elements including the primary tree-like sculpture, a scattering of fallen Talwalpin leaves cut from sheet brass and inlaid into the ground plane, and a singular dilly bag positioned within a mezzanine-level communal space.” The remarkable bronze sculpture, standing at over 10 metres high, significantly foregrounds First Nations knowledge systems that have endured for tens of thousands of years and extends Carmichael’s regenerative Quandamooka weaving practices on a large-scale. Tess Bakharia, eloquently states “What I found profound was Sonja’s ability to not only encapsulate the curatorial ideas but to expand upon these with her own perspectives on the continued strength of First Nations cultures and her personal experiences of George Street’s evolution over the years. As a result, her artwork is not only a compelling artistic statement but has redefined the architecture and the way it is experienced daily.” We proudly congratulate Carmichael and extend our gratitude to Cromwell Property Group, Woods Bagot, Shape and UAP for their impressive work in realising ‘Talwalpin durenma dutta.’ Event Images: Courtesy of Woods Bagot. Artwork Images: Courtesy of Urban Art Projects.

SAM HARRISON | RESONANCE—A CIAF + BLAKLASH ART COMMISSIONING PROJECT   Onespace is thrilled to announce that represented artist, Sam Harrison, is the selected artist for Resonance– A Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) + Blaklash Commissioning Project, supported by Arts Queensland. Harrison will deliver a new large-scale artwork that will be premiered at CIAF in July 2026, held in the Courthouse Gallery. @samharrison.art @cairnsindigenousartfair @blaklash_ Based in Brisbane, Sam Harrison has cultural connections to the Kamilaroi and Wiradjuri peoples of Central New South Wales. This significant commission will see Harrison create a major artwork in response to CIAF’s 2026 theme, Reclamation and Regeneration, that “explores remembrance, renewal, and the transformative power of art to reclaim and reimagine cultural narratives.” Harrison’s artwork will extend on his established visual language where he employs diverse mediums such as drawing as well as printmaking to explore cultural identity and memory—fostering continued connections to First Nations knowledge and sovereignty.   CIAF is Australia’s premier First Nations-led art fair and cultural celebration, held annually in Gimuy/Cairns, Queensland. In congratulating Harrison, CIAF Artistic Director Teho Ropeyarn states that “Resonance is a project designed to celebrate First Nations creativity on the grand scale it deserves. We are proud to work with Blaklash to support and artist in creating an installation that will engage audiences, create pathways beyond the fair, and resonate as a cultural landmark for CIAF 2026.”   Onespace congratulates Harrison and is excited to see the outcome of Resonance. We would like to thank the judging panel, the CIAF team, CIAF Artistic Director Teho Ropeyarn, Arts Queensland and Blaklash for their contribution to realising this significant project.   Image 1: Shannon Brett. Courtesy of proppaNOW. Sam Harrison pictured in front of his drawing part of the ProppaNOW residency exhibition, ‘Baluwaa.’ Image 2: Courtesy of the artist and Onespace. CIAF Artistic Director, Teho Ropeyarn, pictured with Sam Harrison in front of his mural at Queensland Children’s Hospital.