Contraband

Overview

Clearly I have been living under a rock because I thought White Canvas Gallery was a brand spanking new art space for Brisbane, but it turns out it has been around for well more than a year now, showing awesome works by contemporary Brisbane artists.

The latest exhibition is no exception, featuring a collection of diverse, cutting edge works by nine of Brisbane’s most promising emerging artists.

Some of the artists included in the exhibition are well known on the Brisbane art scene, while others are fairly new but are already proving that they’ve got the skills.

There is no stylistic theme to the exhibition, with a diversity of styles on display.  Some works have their foundation in street art and graffiti, while others are based on illustration and fine art practices.  There are also those that sit in-between all of these genres.

Essentially Contraband is an exhibition that is post-everything (yep all those posts- modern, colonial, feminism and so on), the works explore contemporary concepts through painting and sculpture to further the visual language and ignite discussion on contemporary ideas and issues.