ARTIST CALL OUT: DIY ZINE PAGE CONTRIBUTIONS [A4] | HEADLANDS REVISTED: TEN YEARS ON
DID YOU EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF HEADLANDS CHALET ?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE A MEMORY FOR A DIY ZINE AND COMMUNITY MEMORY WALL?
DIY queer spaces are friendly, safe spaces, places where artful and affecting transformations take place…
Hello everyone!
Many of us had the immense privilege to know dear Marshall Malouf, collector, queer artist, designer and custodian of Headlands Chalet on Minjerribah North Stradbroke Island in the 1990 – 2015 timeframe.
As many people will know Marshall died suddenly in 2015 and this group exhibition gathers together a collection of personal and collective memories, reminiscences, letters to Headlands and stories into a commemorative exhibition to celebrate Marshall and the many arts and community collaborations he facilitated over the years.
Headlands is important to me as it was a space where I started making ARI Remix. Sitting in Cabin 2 surrounded by Marshall’s sprawling sub-tropical garden, the collection of art prints, collectables and paintings on the cosy cabin walls while tapping away on my trusty laptop on the front deck. Ah, pure joy!
As part of the Headlands Revisited: Ten Years On community-based exhibition in Winter 2025 we are making a DIY ZINE with 30 artist pages [A4] to form an essential part of the exhibition. I would love you to make an A4 zine page to contribute as a vivid memory about Marshall and Headlands Chalet.
Your zine page can be a collage, a collection of photos, hand made or digital, a little story, or simply a lively and iconic image with a long caption placed onto an A4 page. Either landscape or portrait orientation, colour or B&W is OK.
Each of the 30 pages will be assembled together into an A4 Memory Zine to place in the growing EXTRA Zine Anthology we are making here along with other ARI memory Zines:
https://ariremix.com.au/extrazine
And in addtition, each of the zine pages will form an essential part of the community “Collaborative Reminiscence” memory wall – as a wall-based installation -we are making at the very heart of the celebratory exhibition.
You can kindly make and send me a digital copy of your DIY zine page with a brief cover email by the end of November 2024 here at this contact address:
Thanks for your interest, participation and memory!
info@ariremix.com.au
Thank you for kindly reading and contributing
Paul
Artist-Curator Paul Andrew
Headlands Revisited: Collaborative Reminiscence, Ten Years On.
A community-based group exhibition, DIY zine-making, exhibition publication, and memory project. Presented by ARI Remix.
Headlands Chalet located at Point Lookout, Minjerribah North Stradbroke Island was an affordable, lovable and well-known holiday destination for artists since the 1950s. It was also a friendly, queer, inclusive and accessible space for co-creatives and artist-run groupings. People working together on-site in exploratory ways.
Over many years custodian, collector and artist facilitator Marshall Malouf with his beloved partner Colin transformed the delapidated “hippy retreat” into a fecund arts and cultural precinct.
A decade after Marshall’s sudden death in 2015 this community exhibition showcases artworks, ephemeral affects and aspects of these collaborative art making experiences and collaborative artist-run activities.
Headlands Revisited Artist-Curator Paul Andrew says: “Headland Chalet had that sea spray paradise feeling, a laid back and healing vibration, inside it was a sprawling bohemian rhapsody dotted with retro artefacts, art works, trinkets and op shop treasures, outside, the grounds and vernacular architecture buildings bedazzled us as public artworks – all made by Marshall and friends – and just beyond, some of the most magnificent breathtaking ocean views, with dolphins, sea mullet, manta rays, sea eagles, humpback whale migrations, gorge walks, First Nations heritage sites and conservation areas, so many fecund places for contemplation, respect, reflecting, and making art.
For many of us it was a very queer space, and a queer artist-run space, a world away from the Brisbane city bump and grind. Perhaps most of all, as Marshall would often say to me while sashaying here and there, in his hot pink sarong; Headlands is a place for transformation, for pausing, for listening and observing closely.”
[Artist Paul Andrew, Healdands Cabin 2 regular since 1982]
Keep an eye on this Redland Art Gallery link in Summer 2024 as more information is posted:
https://artgallery.redland.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/