Brooke Ferguson: Work-Shy

Overview

Does this sound familiar? You're an emerging creative — artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer or whatever medium takes your fancy — and you're trying to learn, improve and establish your career, all in Brisbane, and all using whatever funds you can cobble together. It's a tale many of us share, but only Brooke Ferguson has turned it into her latest exhibition.

In Work-Shy, which exhibits at Boxcopy until December 2, Ferguson contemplates her experiences in an ongoing body of work. And she has plenty to draw upon, having worked at Centrelink to support her endeavours, self-funded her studies, participated in the 2017 Maumaus Independent Study Programme in Lisbon, and held a role at the gallery she's now displaying at as well.

Gallery hours run from 2pm to 6pm on Fridays and Saturdays — but, if you're anything like the multitasking Ferguson, you'll be accustomed to fitting ace events into very tight windows in your schedule.

Image: Brooke Ferguson the respectable face of power 2017, pencil on paper (detail).