One of the region’s most talented families are preparing for a special exhibition at Logan Art Gallery next year.
Greenbank’s Jessica Skeen-McKinnon will lead the Skeen family exhibition, which will be part of a diverse program of works by local and visiting artists and touring exhibitions at the gallery.
Many Skeen family members are artists and craftspeople having learnt skills from their renowned artist father Joseph Skeen, who is a second-generation Aboriginal artefact maker.
He makes many things, including clapping sticks and didgeridoos, but his main focus now is making boomerangs and passing on his knowledge.
Jessica is the artist behind the eye-catching designs featured at the Logan Gardens water play area.
The Skeen family exhibition will feature new paintings, photography and wood craft focused on how Aboriginal culture and knowledge is passed down through family connections.
Other highlights of the 2022 program include:
• The 20th annual Workshop wonders exhibition highlighting student works from the gallery’s practical art workshop program.
• A touring exhibition of works from the last 30 years of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.
• Rochedale South artist Christina Lowry’s first solo photography exhibition Remember to live drawing parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and plague outbreaks which influenced the still-life paintings of 17th century Dutch artists.
• Young Boronia Heights artist Oliver Murdoch exhibiting illustrations of his superhero characters.
• The Queensland Wildlife Artists Society Inc’s return exhibition of wildlife-themed paintings, pastel works, drawings and sculptures.
• Established fashion designer Helen Miller’s series of textiles, theatrical masks, costumes and digital prints highlighting themes like multiculturalism, cultural identity and sustainability.
