Switchboard Arts brings together visual artists, musicians, writers, poets and other performers together to explore the border between art and experience and reach new audiences through collaborative practice.
In imagined worlds, we walk with Gods and Goddesses, and hear tales of warrior queens and bested beasts. We see worlds of whimsy that lift our souls and dystopias of darkness where monsters live. We may sit by a pond that has never existed or gaze into the heart of a galaxy glimpsed through a keyhole.
Through visual art, discussion and live performance, Imagined Worlds invites us to explore the space between fantasy and reality.
Exhibiting artists
Janine Healy
Making Art Happen is what motivates Janine Healy. Janine completed a Bachelor of Arts Majoring in Visual Arts (Printmaking, Painting, Drawing and Sculpture) at the Queensland College of Art and also works under the names “LeGoGirl” and “Watermark Art” as an interdisciplinary artist.
Suzie Mansley
Suzie is a visual artist based between the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, Queensland. Suzie primarily practices in ceramics working in porcelain stoneware using wheel thrown techniques to create miniature works often set in groupings that suggest relational interconnectedness.
Performing Artists
Las Chimilitas
With soaring vocals and divine harmony this female vocal trio transport you to other worlds with songs of love and justice sung in Spanish and English.
Anarchosophist
Anarchosophist is the Lofi Hip Hop alter ego of Brisbane based producer/guitarist Padraig Parkhurst. His debut album, described by New Music Weekly as 'a Neo-Noir fairytale' follows a 'Black Martyr on the Road to Salvation' through a grimy cityscape etched in Jazz and Funk.
Saturday 23 October (exhibition open from 9am)
1pm - Symposium on reality (doors open 12pm)
Tickets $10
Share a drink and convivial chat with facilitators Bernard and Matt on the topic “Do we inhabit a world we imagined?”
8pm - Late and Live (doors open 7pm)
Tickets $15
Las Chimiltas take us to Spain and South America through rich vocal harmonies and intricate arrangements of traditional folk music, original compositions and popular songs. Anarchosophist plays a live set from his multimedia installation “Into The Cage”.
Ticket cost to attend all events: $20
Sunday 24 October exhibition is open 9am-12pm