WOOLSTORES
PROJECT

The Woolstores Project is a curatorial collaboration between Caroline Austin and Dr Victoria Lawson

Featured Work

LIGHT INDUSTRIAL

This iteration of the Woolstores Project: Light Industrial focuses on the environment of the Woolstores.

The Woolstores in Brisbane's Teneriffe are renovated light industrial buildings that manifest a unique environment owing to their history. The conscious decision to preserve and embed this history is evident in the contemporary living spaces' design. These spaces involve original wood flooring, beams, high ceilings, rafters, skylights, artefacts, and brickwork that reminds us of its light industrial former environment.

This project examines the movement of the body between the spaces of the Woolstores - both by residents, locals and visitors to the site and the relationship between these subjects to the materiality of the artworks and artists themselves.

A catalogue and essay by Dr Michael Fox accompanies the exhibition. Dr Fox is a resident of the Ansonia since 2016 and author of Home: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).

This year's artists include Susan Lincoln, Joseph Burgess, Del Lumanta, Joe Lodge and Lindsay Crawford. The artists in each of their own ways are dealing with Light Industrial culture and its after-effects.

Susan Lincoln - Line Iterations and Joseph Burgess - Federal Agents

Joseph Burgess - This little light of mine

Joseph Burgess - This little light of mine

Woolstores Project 2021: light industrial - Joe Lodge (mekema), Lindsay Crawford, Joseph Burgess

Joseph Burgess - It echoes out the forest the way you yell into it

Light Industrial Essay, Dr Michael Fox, 2021

BETWEEN THE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE

As part of an ongoing project within the historical Brisbane Woolstores, the second iteration of the Woolstores Project: ‘Between the Inside and the Outside’ focuses on the material palimpsest of the Woolstores themselves. Lucy Lippard,

Artist and Art Historian writes that “All places exist somewhere between the inside and the outside views of them”. This project examines the movement of the body between the spaces of the Woolstores—both by residents, locals and visitors to the site and the relationship between these subjects to the materiality of the artworks and artists themselves.

Artists included Lindsay Crawford and Joe Lodge, Charlie Donaldson, Shivanjani Lal and Naomi Oliver.

Essay by Dr Michael Fox, resident of the Ansonia since 2016 and author of Home: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Linsdsay Crawford and Joe Lodge - Evening performance (opening 7pm, 4 October, 2018) modular synth performance

Linsdsay Crawford and Joe Lodge - Evening performance (opening 7pm, 4 October, 2018) modular synth performance

Linsdsay Crawford and Joe Lodge - Evening performance (opening 7pm, 4 October, 2018) modular synth performance

TRACK AND TRACE

The exhibition, Track and Trace, reflects on the history and the institution of the Woolstores as a type of transitional urban space, creative environment and site of consumption. The history of the Teneriffe Woolstore buildings highlights the colonial history of Brisbane, one that was built on the back of the sheep industry, as well as those of mining, logging and tourism. The gentrification of the Woolstores has occurred over close to half a century and highlights the mobilities of this urban space and domestic cultural tourism along the Brisbane River, close to the Powerhouse Museum, New Farm and Fortitude Valley.

The exhibition featured an essay by Michael Allen Fox, resident of the Ansonia and Adjunct Professor, School of Humanities, University of New England, Australia, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Canada.

Artists in 2017 included Franz Ehmann, Dr Victoria Lawson, Ebony Secombe, Caroline Austin and Vincent Wozniak-O’Connor.

Franz Ehmann - Words that changed the world and influenced the weather

Franz Ehmann - Words that changed the world and influenced the weather

Franz Ehmann - Words that changed the world and influenced the weather

Vincent Wozniak O'Connor - Black Mountain

WOOLSTORES PROJECT 2021

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