Q Space + Q Space Annex
WHAT
Strategies.
WHO
IMA Director: John Nixon.
WHEN
1980-1981
WHERE
Inner city, Spring Hill [John Nixon’s flat] and in Paddington, Red Hill in artists’ homes, Brisbane.
WHY
Catalogue excerpt:
“In 1981+82 Q SPACE and Q SPACE ANNEX, directed by John Nixon, operated in Brisbane as part of a series of strategies by artists involved in the reorientation and remodelling of contemporary art practice. Over the two years that Q SPACE and Q SPACE ANNEX operated, seventy seven exhibitions were held.
Q SPACE, as with the earlier V SPACE, derived its meaning from the state in which it operated ― Q standing for Queensland. Works by the following artists and groups were shown at these spaces: Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, Imants Tillers, Hilary Boscott, John Davis, Robert MacPherson, John Nixon, John Smith and Anti-Music. This exhibition and catalogue have been compiled from the Q SPACE archives. Where possible we have attempted to maintain the original method and feeling of this documentation.”
PETER CRIPPS
Brisbane, June 1986
The Catalogue includes texts by Peter Cripps and John Nixon, as well as an interview between the two artists, alongside exhibition photography of each show by John Nixon and Robert MacPherson, and an exhibition history.
Q SPACE + Q SPACE ANNEX 1980 + 1981
1986, English
Softcover, 40 pages, 21 x 22.5 cm
Published by Institute of Modern Art / Brisbane
Publication produced by the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane on the occasion of the exhibition “Q SPACE + Q SPACE ANNEX 1980 + 1981”, curated by Peter Cripps in 1986.
Courtesy:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12512100?selectedversion=NBD27808662
https://worldfoodbooks.com/item/q-space-q-space-annex-1980-1981
Notes:
The Q Space and Q Annexe and 1986 IMA survey exhibition was an important insight for Brisbane artists working with experimental art making in the 1970s and 1980s.
The IMA exhibition curated by Director Peter Cripps was evidence about the potential of artists’ homes for establishing, organising, documenting artist-run activities and the potential for artist’s archives for retroactive exhibition making. The exhibition included examples of experimental sound art being made locally at the time. This exhibition intersected with other exhibitions curated in 1986 during Peter Cripps’s directorship. These included: ‘Recession Art and Other Strategies’ and ‘Know Your Product/ No, Your Product’ curated by Ross Harley.
The archives employed in the exhibition and catalogue publication were held in the Malcolm Enright art collection and now reside at the UQ Art Museum collEction:https://art-museum.uq.edu.au/gifted-collections
Q SPACE + Q SPACE ANNEX 1980 + 1981
PETER CRIPPS, JOHN NIXON
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