HEADLANDS REVISITED - PRESENTED BY ARI REMIX - JUNE 15 - AUGUST 26 2025 - ARI Remix - A Polyvocal Memory of Australian Artist-Run Culture and Heritage "Work in Progress"

HEADLANDS REVISITED – PRESENTED BY ARI REMIX – JUNE 15 – AUGUST 26 2025

Headlands Revisited Presented by ARI Remix

An exhibition to celebrate the joyful history, colourful characters, spirited activity and creative significance of the Headlands Chalet, located on Minjerribah/Stradbroke Island from 1989 – 2015. Headlands, as it was affectionately known, was an oasis for arts communities, artist-run initiatives [ARIs] and queer arts collectives.

RAG, Cleveland

SUNDAY 15 JUNE –

TUESDAY 26 AUGUST 2025

Opening Event – Sunday 15 June 12-2pm

Roundtable Readings – Sunday 22 June 12-1.30pm

Built in 1935, the Headlands Chalet was a modest 13 cabin communal complex, located on Mooloomba Drive, Point Lookout. From humble beginnings, it evolved to become a popular and affordable getaway retreat and studio space for artists.

Marshall Malouf [1952- 2015], host, community facilitator and erstwhile artist transformed this hillside artists’ retreat overlooking the Pacific Ocean into a living artwork during his 26-year custodianship.

This group exhibition is envisioned as a form of collaborative reminiscence where memory, artworks and overlapping histories co-occur. Included in this exhibition are Paul Andrew, Di Ball, Leonard Brown, Jo Fay Duncan, Easton Pearson (Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson), Lisa Iselin, Colin Millar, Simon McLean, Nick Olsen, Rosslynd Piggott, David Perry, Barbara Piscitelli, Ian Quiller Orchardson, Luke Roberts and Bronwyn Searle, but a few of the many artists who frequented this haven of culture.

Marshall Malouf passed away in 2015 and this exhibition is a fitting tribute to his vital contribution to the diversity, eloquence and queerness of creative expression in Queensland and Australian artist communities.

Visitors are invited to contribute their personal stories and memories to a timeline, to continue to capture the creative expression of Marshall’s legacy.

EXTRA special thanks to participating artists, friends, colleagues and allies with ‘stories so far’ including Wayne Jones, Stephen Jones, Julie Sisco, and the North Stradbroke Island Museum on Minjerriibah NSIMM.

For more information about the RAG public program and related community-based workshops and programs click here for What’s On

Image: Luke Roberts, Stradbroke Island (Blue pines), 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Redland Art Gallery Collection. Gift of the Artist, 2003. Photograph by Carl Warner.

https://artgallery.redland.qld.gov.au/…/headlands…/

COLLABORATIVE REMINISCENCE – A HEADLANDS CIRCLE – EXPLORING A DIY ART ZINE ANTHOLOGY

As a vital part of our new ‘Stories Which Must Be Told’ activity in 2025-26 we are growing ARI cultural heritage stories here through DIY collaborative reminiscence zine making practice;

https://ariremix.com.au/extrazine/

If you have a DIY cultural heritage story you would like to make and share about Queensland/Australian artist-run culture and heritage 1940 to NOW please contact us at : info[at]ariremix.com.au

Thank you for your interest, participation and support 2011 to Now!