EXTRA ZINE ISSUE # 69 | Headlands Revisited | 15 June-26 August 2025 | Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland | Community-Based Group Exhibition | Research & Development [ 2024-25] |
Headlands Revisited
15 June-26 August 2025
Presented by ARI Remix
A celebration of the joyful history, colourful characters, unruly activity, and creative significance of Minjerribah-based Headlands Chalet in the 1989-2015 time frame. Headlands, as it was famously known, was an oasis for arts communities, artist-run initiatives [ARIs], and queer arts collectives. For many people it was initially familiar as The Headland Chalet, a modest 13-communal cabin complex located on Mooloomba Drive and built in 1935. It is an example of vernacular architecture, art, and community. Headlands evolved to become a popular and affordable getaway retreat and studio space for artists since it opened that year.
Mistress of Ceremonies, community facilitator, and erstwhile artist Marshall Malouf [b.1952-d. 2015] transformed this sprawling hillside artists’ retreat overlooking the Pacific Ocean horizon into a living and evolving artwork during his 26-year custodianship period. This group exhibition is conceptualised as a form of collaborative reminiscence where memory, artworks, stories, and ephemeral affects co-occur. The exhibition is the first explicitly queer group exhibition staged at Redland Art Gallery. We acknowledge Marshall Malouf’s important and ongoing work before he passed away in 2015, and we recognize his vital contribution to knowledge about the diversity, ephemerality, and queerness of Queensland/Australian artist communities.
Headlands Chalet forms part of more well-known sites recognised in Australian art history, which include Montsalvat, The Yellow House, The Heide Circle, Avalon, a plethora of artist-run spaces, and many queer sites, much like Headlands, which have yet to be recast and reconsidered.
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