QCA Graduates - Spray Tan Spread

 

 

 

The easy sunless option of a spray tan is now the preferred option to achieve that bronzed look, yet carries with it a stigma of fakery and pretence. The Gold Coast as a city has been unkindly also characterised in this way, however the artists represented in this exhibition (all graduating students of Queensland College of Art at the Gold Coast) defy such stereotypical impressions and present a range of thoughtful and engaging art works.

 

Works by Raynor Kirkbride (such as Happily Never After) are drawn from intense personal experience and are a subtle subversion of the Mills and Boon perfect romance.

 

Emma Stamp constructs two life size sculptures of herself covered in images about her past and her future, David Bower bares the frustrations and hopelessness with his digital drawing series I think we are both suffering from the same crushing metaphysical crisis and creates a triangle of characters, the unicorn, a squid in a bear suit, and a toad to ramble through a loose narrative of stages along life’s quest.

 

Other artists exhibiting are Karl Phelan, Catharina van der Walt, Lucy Clark, Jenna Macintosh, Jude Alitja Ferrier and Lis Di Bartoto. Four honours students also present their new works - Anna Carey constructed photographs, and sculptures by Dale Collier, Emma Hill and Travers Nash.