A BOLD series of new exhibitions will be launched at Logan Art Gallery this week, with artist Vanghoua Anthony Vue set to discuss his latest series of artworks on Friday.
City Lifestyle and Customer Services Committee chairperson councillor Steve Swenson said Mr Vue’s exhibition Fading Marks opens on July 28 at the gallery.
“Mr Vue will present a free artist’s talk from 5.30pm before we officially open the exhibitions at 6.30pm and we encourage the community to come along and listen,” Cr Swenson said.
“Mr Vue’s work is eye-catching and thought provoking and is sure to leave a lasting impression on visitors to the gallery.”
Mr Vue’s latest exhibition investigates the memories of upheaval, trauma and violence which came as a consequence of Hmong involvement in the Second Indochina War.
Although a generation removed from these events, Mr Vue uses digitised historical films and oral accounts from family and community members to consider how the past can continue to inform and affect the present.
More on show
Other exhibitions to be launched on Friday include the Logan Art Group show The Sun Still Shines, in which a group of artists with varied backgrounds come together to celebrate life in their twilight years.
According to a Logan City Council statement, the artists express their struggles and their love of life by painting and interpreting the plant, animal and human lives around them. For them, life does not stop at 60, the sun still shines.
Bethania artist Joan Macnaught also presents a series of pen, ink and watercolour works depicting nostalgic scenes from her childhood growing up in rural Queensland in the mid-twentieth century.
Another exhibition is Ripple effect: out of Artwaves (part two), the outcome of a mentorship program led by Logan Art Gallery.
Each year, Logan Art Gallery selects one of the outstanding young artists who exhibited in the annual Artwaves: Logan and adjacent areas secondary schools art exhibition to mentor in developing their own solo exhibition for the Young Peoples Gallery.
Due to the outstanding field of applicants, two young students were offered mentorships. As a result, Logan Art Gallery will this year feature two exhibitions. Ripple effect: out of Artwaves (part two) features an exhibition by Arabella Kajewski.
Curated by Sandra Conte around the theme of artistic mindfulness and presence with nature, Bee-mindful is a further new exhibition, an extension of outcomes from workshops Sandra facilitated during her Creative-in-Residence at Logan Art Gallery in 2016.
All exhibitions continue until September 2 at the gallery, located on the corner of Wembley Rd and Jacaranda Ave, Logan Central, open from 10am to 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday. For more information visit logan.qld.gov.au/artgallery.
