2022
An exciting, interesting, unpredictable year ahead.
Public Art: South Bank: Temporal Gestures
January, 2022
The project was a collaborative mural project between Queensland Rail's positive pARTnerships program and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University through QCA LiveArt.
The mural was designed by Anna Weston as part of the Public Art course at Queensland College of Art. Acknowledgement to teacher, artist, and project lead Simon DeGroot, and students and artists, Amanda Laing, Colette Hogan, Shiarna Wilson and Zoe Stuart.
Photography courtesy of Cian Sanders, Queensland College of Art.
Temporal Gestures celebrates South Bank’s rich diversity through abstraction, adapting a well known psychological ink blot test to highlight both our unique and shared perspectives of place. Seeing and interpreting the world through our own lens is not unlike a unique interpretation of a Rorschach ink blot. Engaging with the multiple surfaces of the rail underpass, this design is a colourful and multidimensional work that celebrates the legacy of Expo 88 with a vibrancy that also points to the future.
Exhibition: Undergrowth
March, 2022
‘Undergrowth is an invitational exhibition dedicated to showcasing some of the most innovative and conceptually coherent work being produced by undergraduate students at the Queensland College of Art. These artists and works have been nominated for invitation by Academic Staff as exemplary of the Queensland College of Art’s high standards of material inquiry and disciplinary knowledge. Together, this exhibition presents a dynamic survey of the thinking and practice of our undergraduates, and continues to evidence the vital role of the contemporary art student in the broader sphere of the visual arts’.
Featuring Anna Weston, Arabella Walker, Katie Bourchier, Kimberley Marston, Rebecca Baker, Seren Wagstaff & Ebony Wilmott
Woman in Forest 2021
Oil on Canvas
76 x 103cm
Exhibition: The Inaugural Behlau Murakami Grant Art Prize
March, 2022
The official exhibition opening was a success, with an evening hosting sponsors Behlau Murakami Grant Lawyers, QCA artists and staff.
Winner: Skye Parra, congratulations! Highly Commended: Anna Weston & Ruth Greig.
Online Exhibition & Fundraiser: Art For Floods
March, 2022
Through the incredible efforts of the team at Art For Floods, Australian artists pulled together to donate artwork and raise over $215 000 for towards the floods appeal. Success of this was also only possibly due to the generosity of all the art loving Australians that purchased this art. Desperately needed funds have been donated to GIVIT (QLD & NSW), including food vouchers to those that need it most; Arts Northern Rivers; & Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA) organisation.
A wholehearted thank you to everyone that reached out and purchased art over the sale weekend.
Pictured: Stridin’ (2020), oil on board. By far the most popular work from the three works offered.
QCA: Portraits, distortion, realism & absurdity
May, 2022
Here We Are, 2022, Oil on canvas, 90 x 70cm
Contemporary Portraiture
August, 2022Archetypal Interiors
October, 2022
Interior 1 (2022), 90 x 70cm, Oil on canvas
Interior 2 (2022), 90 x 70cm, Oil on canvas
Interior 3 (2022), 90 x 70cm, Oil on canvas
Interior 4 (2022), 90 x 70cm, Oil on canvas