Flipside Circus is a not-for-profit community organisation, started by a group of dedicated families and circus artists who got together to run community-based circus workshops. Their first workshops were held under a tree in a West End park in 1994. Since then they have worked with over 1 million people, and been a catalyst for the development of Queensland’s circus sector. Along the way they have helped train generations of professional circus artists, worked with world-leading trainers, and became Queensland’s largest youth arts organisation along with a collaborative performance with internationally renowned CASUS CREATIONS.
www.flipsidecircus.org.auwww.casuscreations.com
Kustaa Saksi is a Finnish multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Amsterdam specialising in graphic storytelling through patterns, textile art and installation. Ideas of nature from the abstracted edge of perception pervade all of Saksi’s work. He has developed weaving techniques that he describes as “action-painting with warp and weft”. Using a traditional Jacquard weaving technique on a loom invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752–1834), he combines natural fibres - mohair, alpaca, cotton and wool with rubber, metal, acrylic and phosphorescent yarns to create his tapestries.
https://www.instagram.com/kustaasaksi/
Dale Frank is an Australian contemporary artist best known for his biomorphic abstract paintings. His practice has included found object-sculptures, performance installations, drawings and most recently paintings with sculptural elements. Frank lives and works in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. Frank’s paintings show a particular tactility of the paint itself, particularly in the luscious ‘poured’ paintings – which embody or act as a trace of the artist in the act of making the work. His signature varnish finishes, as well as perspex and mirror –reflects the viewer in the composition as part of the work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggh4Fpx6S1A
A Virtual Reality experience in five parts, a world illustrated with drawings by Jess Johnson, brought to life by Simon Ward and Kenny Smith, with soundtracks by composer Andrew Clarke. Originally commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia, TERMINUS launched in 2018 as the centrepiece of a major exhibition by Johnson and Ward at the NGA. In the original presentation, each of the five parts were housed in their own bespoke architectural structure, situated on a full-scale tessellated floor map. The TERMINUS exhibition is now touring several cities in Australasia via Steam for Vive, Valve Index, and Rift. www.jessjohnson.org