Hope Street Studio
The Hope Street Studio is a joint initiative between ARIA Developments and Griffith University Art Museum. Located within the Fish Lane Arts Precinct at 58 Hope Street, Brisbane, the project is designed to activate a street level tenancy as a studio space for Queensland College of Art and Design alumni. Invited artists are selected from a shortlist to undertake a residency, during which time they are supported to create a new body of work.
The Hope Street Studio continues Griffith University Art Museum’s long history of supporting artists through residency programs.
Current Artist in Residence
Sunday Jemmott
Sunday Jemmott (she/they) is a Meanjin-based artist concerned with the expression of play. Their work examines how the mobilisation of trivialised aesthetics can reframe the devaluing of play in art history and contemporary culture. She graduated from the Queensland College of Art with First Class Honours 2021.
In their studio method, abstraction, multi-disciplinary painting, and sculpture are activated through high key colour and immersive installation to manifest joyful affect and the unfixed and unspecific nature of play. Jemmott’s work illustrates how the nature of play can be mobilised in expanded painting to reclaim experiences of joy.
To see more of Sunday’s work, visit @sundaysartclub on Instagram
Previous Artists in Residence
Darren Blackman
Darren Blackman is a proud Gureng Gureng\Gangalu man with maternal South Sea [Vanuatu] heritage. With a range of practical skills and approaches to art making, Blackman generally specialises in printmaking and ceramics but also undertakes improvisational performance, music and painting. He has wide experience in the arts, as a musician as well as stage manager and sound technician for cultural festivals from Woodford to Winds of Zenadth Kes Festival on Thursday Island.
In addition to his own art practice and studies through the Queensland College of Art and Design’s Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art Program, Blackman has assisted students as studio technician at Cairns TAFE and is currently working for the senior artists at the Wik and Kugu Art Centre in Aurukun, Far North Queensland.
To see more of Darren’s work, please visit his Instagram @darrenblackmanart
View images of the works Darren made during his residency here
Zoe Porter
Zoe Porter is a Meanjin-based interdisciplinary artist working across the areas of drawing, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video. Her work is largely process based and playful, frequently depicting animal-human and plant-human hybrid forms reflecting both real and imaginary states, chaos and order. Much of her work explores a personal mythology that presents the human form undergoing transformation, suggestive of the possibilities for other ways of being or existing.
To see more of Zoe’s work, please visit her Instagram @zoe_zo or website.
Tiana Jefferies
Tiana Jefferies is a Meanjin based spatial practitioner using casting, digital modelling, projection, and installation processes. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art and Design, during which she completed a study exchange at Edinburgh College of Art. Upon completing a Master of Philosophy in Experimental Creative Practice at QUT, Jefferies received the Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize for experimental practice. Recent exhibitions include those at Outer Space, Metro Arts, The Walls Artspace and the accompanying exhibition to Sydney College of Arts’ Birds and Language conference.
To see more of Tiana’s work, please visit her Instagram @tianajefferies or website.
Shannon Brett
Shannon Brett is an artist and PhD candidate who is of the Wakka Wakka, Butchulla and Gurang Gurang clans of southern Queensland, who also celebrates their German and Sri Lankan heritage. Brett is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on methodologies of decolonisation and the enduring social, political, and judicial impact of a white, patriarchal, constitutionally validated system of colonisation, and its effects upon First Nations peoples’ rights to sovereignty, safety and justice.
To see more of Shannon’s work, please visit her Instagram @shannonbrettartistcurator or website.
Mandy Quadrio
Mandy Quadrio is an Indigenous palawa artist and researcher who is currently a Doctoral candidate in Visual Arts, at Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University. Quadrio works to expose holes and myths in Australian colonialist histories and to consolidate contemporary lived experiences.
To see more of Mandy’s work, please visit her Instagram @mandyquadrio or website.
Julie-Anne Milinski
Dr Julie-Anne Milinski was the inaugural Hope Street Studio Artist in Residence from 2019-20.
A multidisciplinary artist, Milinski made works in diverse media including installation, weaving, horticulture, digital media and drawing to explore relationships between humans and the environment.
To see more of Julie-Anne’s work, please visit her Instagram @julieannemilinski or website.